City planning staff have completed a
draft Lands Needs Assessment study for Council and it confirms that some land will need to be brought into the Urban Growth Boundary to meet demand within the next couple decades for residential use and possibly industrial.
https://london.ca/sites/default/files/20...ssessment%20-%20O-9595%20%28JL_BC%29.pdf
For reference, the UGB is a boundary within city limits where development can occur. Lands outside the UGB are to remain for farming use.
The current UGB can be seen here as a red line:
https://london.ca/sites/default/files/2023-06/Map1_PlaceTypes_CONSOLIDATED_2023_esize.pdf
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I actually believe this may be the first UGB expansion since it was first put in place in the late 1990s after the city annexed lands from the surrounding townships. From what I can remember (and the articles I can find online) there were talks during the Joe Fontana years about potentially expanding the UGB, but that never actually did happen.
Regardless, this is just a draft study and the final land needs study will be presented to Council in the fall.
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