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Originally Posted by Mille Sabords
, and today's op-ed on rural growth also has an interesting angle: free up some Greenbelt land to protect the true rural character of the rural area. Have you guys noticed how much Ottawa's rural area is just lower-density suburbia? Greely-Manotick is an almost continuous blob of supersized lots along crescents that wind their way through forest land. North of Kanata, same thing: one subdivision after another.
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That fellow who does the op-ed on rural growth (Joe Banks) is very biassed against any semblance of the 'city' coming into his piece of paradise (Osgoode). Your analogies of Greely and Manotick are spot on. My experience of Greely residents is that they want to be left alone out in the country yet still want the City nearby (i.e hospital, doctors, specialized services) but don't want to have to pay for it. And they definately don't want to have to pay for public transit in their tax bills.
West Carleton (north of Kanata) is very similar.
If you were to look at maps at the City Hall of the approved yet unbuilt rural estate subdivisions in some parts of the new City, you would shudder.