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Originally Posted by coalminecanary
There are lots of different industries out there for us to attract. It doesn't have to be high acreage low job density factory and warehouse use.
That aside, there is clearly a ton of underutilized land in the north end. It's not "a couple of acres here and there". The sooner city hall makes it a priority to do a serious inventory and start using zoning bylaws to drive usage there, the better for all of us. We are squeezed between a great lake and farmland, we can't just keep spreading out forever.
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The city doesn't really have much recourse when it comes to some of these brownfields. Zoning bylaws can only go so far and if the property owners stay within the bylaws the city can't do anything. The city can't expropriate unless it's for their own use so expropriating and then selling the land is not an option.
As for not being able to spread out, sure we can, thats how cities grow, out then up. There are very few farms South of this city actually doing any farming. Most are just waiting for the right price to sell out to a developer so they can retire rich.
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