The Ontario government is preparing to revoke protection from the Durham Rouge Agricultural Preserve (DRAP). The lands shown in the map below will be re-designated as an urban growth area. 

 

 

Call the Premiere and your MPP to protest this egregious land grab, and then submit comments via the links below: 

 

 

 

How can these lands be at risk again? What's the history of DRAP? Catch up on the LOOOOOOOONG story of the Ag Preserve from page 5 HERE.

 

As part of the ongoing Envision Durham project, proposed settlement area boundary expansion maps and reports have now been released. Comments on the proposed expansion areas are now being received - HERE. 

 

The planning team acknowledges that these proposals were drafted prior to the recent provincial announcements related to Bill 23 and the erosion of the Greenbelt. The provincial announcements effectively add new land to the current supply but the impact on Envision Durham is unclear at this time. 

 

The map below illustrates urban expansion into the Carruthers Headwaters which citizen groups have been working hard to protect as the Greenbelt. 

 

 

Is your head spinning from the tornado of threats in Ontario? Ours too! Our favourite digest of risks from Bill 23 can be found HERE via Ontario Nature. 

 

When in doubt, call your MPP and say: Ontario is on the wrong path! Cuts to our natural places and prime farmland undermine our collective wellbeing and do little to address true housing affordability.