LFP | Urban Growth Battle Back

Urban growth battle back
Thu, August 14, 2008
Sun Life Financial wants to build industrial park — on wrong side of boundary
By JONATHAN SHER
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/08/14/6445401-sun.html
A year after Deputy Mayor Tom Gosnell accused a “whining socialist cabal” on city council of impeding growth, the issue that sparked his anger has returned.
Insurance and [...]

Today | LFP | Developers challenge OMB

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:42:25 -0500

Developers challenge OMB

They don’t like a decision that’s aimed at protecting the city’s remaining woodlands
By KRISTA SEGGEWISS

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2008/08/15/6458201-sun.html

A who’s who of London’s biggest developers is challenging an Ontario Municipal Board decision that protects the city’s [...]

Development Application OZ-7430 – 168 Meadowlily Road South

On Tuesday July 29, 2008, a neighbourhood meeting was held at the Summerside Community Church to discuss the development application by Ivan and Anna Kovac and Louisa Golf (Agent: Peter Nikolakakos – Commissioners Centres Limited) to permit a possible land use change which would permit the development of 25,500 square [...]

London Retailers at Risk – Sept. 27th, 2003 | Reflection

London retailers at risk
Storekeepers in Sherwood Forest Mall and other smaller shopping centres are feeling the effects of the city’s big-box building boom.

NORMAN DE BONO, Free Press Business Reporter
2003-09-27 03:31:58

Merle Henshaw gestures toward the wide, empty interior that is Sherwood Forest Mall and just shakes her head. “They killed downtown by [...]

Publication | Getting Tough on Urban Sprawl

Solutions to meet Ontario climate change targets

Published: Mar 19, 2008
By: Cherise Burda
This report, the sixth in a series of Ontario progress reports stresses the need for Ontario to integrate its fairly ambitious climate change targets into planning policy. Ontario has shown leadership in its land use planning [...]

Driven to Action | Stopping Sprawl in Your Community

Sprawl consumes large quantities of land, segregates houses from shops and workplaces, depends on cars, and has little regard for the natural environment. In some parts of
Canada sprawl is the largest driver of greenhouse gas emissions.
Of course, most Canadians do not personally build the houses, streets, schools, parks or water lines that [...]