This brief, filed under Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights, responds to the February 2003 report of the Ontario government's central region smart growth panel. The brief states that the panel fails to articulate a meaningful smart growth vision for the region, and that its key recommendations, particularly those related to transportation, may actually encourage and facilitate further urban sprawl in the region. This will have serious consequences for air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and the protection of ecologically significant areas, prime agricultural lands and source waters in the region. The central region is defined for the purposes of the province's smart growth initiatives as the Greater Toronto and Niagara Regions.
Comments on Shape the Future: The Report of the Central Ontario Smart Growth Panel
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