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Draft Email to Province to Request Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO)

Please send the below email to:

Premier@ontario.ca; minister.mah@ontario.ca; attorneygeneral@ontario.ca; minister.mrtr@ontario.ca;

cc. effie.triantafilopoulos@pc.ola.org; Natalie.Pierre@pc.ola.org

Subject: Millcroft Greenspace MZO Request

Premier, Hon. Paul Calandra, Hon. Doug Downey and Hon. Parm Gill

The City of Burlington, after a thorough planning process and stormwater peer review, unanimously opposes development on the Millcroft Greenspace and supports the issuance of an MZO to protect the current uses of Major Parks and Open Space. Appropriate housing can be accommodated on parcel E consistent with zoning of that parcel.

The Millcroft greenspace in areas A-D are “critically important to the management of storm water and flood prevention in the Millcroft neighbourhood.”, and, “Collectively, these are vital pockets of greenspace for residents of the City” to provide improved air quality, heat mitigation and recreation, erosion control and flood mitigation. Protection of this greenspace is for our lives and livelihoods!  

We look forward to your immediate issuance of an MZO to protect a critical piece of Burlington’s green infrastructure and halt the Ontario Land Tribunal process, a costly endeavour for the City of Burlington, its residents, and the Province.