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Here's what you need to know about that site, from its environmental importance, to what developers are planning to build there, where those plans stand, to the potential pushback from the City of Pickering and federal government.
A prominent Toronto-area developer is asking a court to block or delay a provincial watchdog from interviewing him as part of its investigation into the Ontario government's decision to open formerly protected land for housing development, CBC News has learned.
Days after reporting a family of prominent Ontario developers are primary owners of protected Greenbelt land that could soon be opened for housing development, CBC Toronto has linked additional properties to the De Gasperis family.
Silvio De Gasperis of the Tacc Group was prevented from building homes on farmland in the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve in Pickering, Ont., when it was included in the Greenbelt in 2005. Now, the Ford government is proposing to open the land for housing development.
PLANS to build nearly 100 flats in Slough town centre have been deemed “too heavy” and “awkward” by planning officers.