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Oakville Beaver THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 2022 $2.00 | CONNECTED TO YOUR COMMUNITY | INSIDEHALTON.COM Where should growth go? Midtown or your street? Julia Hanna wants to open up all the streets where we live for density and intensification, she says, to prevent towers around the Oakville GO station. But Provincial legislation requires towers at GO stations to fit all the people the legislation has assigned to GO station areas - the law doesn't let a mayor and council move them to another part of town. Under Ontario rules, we can provide be- tween 5 ha and 17 ha of parkland in the 103 ha at the Oakville GO station. From the ground the height of the buildings will be less noticeable than the amount of parkland. The more parkland we want, the higher the buildings will have to be to fit the minimum 20,600 people and jobs assigned by the Province. Building permits have ‘holds’ put on them until the infrastructure is ready. The more we intensify Midtown, the longer we keep our established neigh- bourhood streets as we want them. Cities that say no to high-rise devel- ] Secondary Plan Boundary BEFORE: What Richmond Hill planned, with well-spaced towers and a few up to 70 storeys. opment in growth centres learn a tough lesson: “In April, all of us in the GTA got a wake- up call when councils in York Region said no to provincial plans for high density around a GO station in Richmond Hill. Ontario ordered zoning with taller build- ings and twice the population. The prov- ince has spoken: you can’t say no to high-rises in Midtown,” Mayor Burton says. “Claims to the contrary are false and foolish.” AFTER: What Richmond Hill is getting - twice as many towers, up to 80 storeys, and twice as many people, Vote for a more livable future. Re-elect Mayor ROB BURTON on Oct. 24