Caledon rezoned land for 35,000 homes. Is it still Caledon?

Caledon is the top third of Peel: Bolton, Caledon East, the Forks of the Credit, the Albion Hills and a great deal of farmland the Greenbelt runs through. It has about 80,000 people. The province’s forecast has it at roughly 300,000 by 2051.

Council’s answer to that number was to get ahead of it. It asked the province for Minister’s Zoning Orders on twelve parcels, 35,000 homes in all, and for an order establishing a transit station area at Humber Station Road and King Street, where it wants a Bolton GO station badly enough to have made rail service a strategic priority. The new official plan, which the province approved, adds more than 4,000 hectares of urban land in the south of the town over thirty years. The Bolton secondary plan work begins this year.

The people who moved to Caledon for what it is not are, understandably, unconvinced. The people who cannot afford to live in Brampton are the argument on the other side. And across the whole thing runs the alignment of the 413.

Sources: Town of Caledon, the official plan approved · Town of Caledon, the GO train commitment · Town of Caledon, the Bolton residential expansion study · Have Your Say Caledon, the official plan review