Caledon’s mayor tried to fast-track a massive development. Then the province stepped in

A GTA mayor’s attempt to use “strong mayor” powers to fast-track thousands of hectares of development in her municipality was cut short after the province warned that half the proposed rezoning approvals lay along the future route of hwy.413.

Caledon Mayor Annette Groves had planned this week to force council to vote to rezone 12 parcels of land at once along the interchanges of the contentious 60-km highway — also referred to as GTA West — that will connect Vaughan to Milton via Caledon. 

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A map of Caledon showing the proposed route for hwy. 413, and the 12 parcels of land that the mayor of Caledon had pushed to have rezoned using her “strong mayor” powers. 

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