Region expanding
Posted Feb 7, 2011 02:20:49 PM.
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Waterloo Region has cracked the top ten on the list of biggest urban areas in the country.
Our municipality now has a population of more than 492,000 people, almost a few hundred more than London and Regional Chair Ken Seiling says our place on this list reinforces the growth projections that have been made over the past decade.
“We know growth is coming, we know we’re an attractive community, with a high quality of life, but to maintain that we have to plan for the future, and this region has a long history of doing forward-looking planning,” Seiling told 570’s Gary Doyle show on Monday.
He points to the region’s strategic plan, which involved using greenbelts to stop rural sprawl and planning a roadway and transit system that can cope with growth.
Seiling says the growth we are now seeing here is being driven by the region’s ability to move forward with the times and he says the key to accommodating growth in the future will be rapid transit.
