1,162 more homes for Stouffville. Is the infrastructure there?

Whitchurch-Stouffville is Main Street, a GO station, the Stouffville line’s namesake and a great deal of moraine and countryside north of it. It has grown from a village to a town of around 50,000 inside a generation, and the new official plan, approved with modifications by the province last September, plans it out to 2051.

The immediate test is one application: 1,162 residential units in a single development. A councillor’s public worry was traffic and whether the town can provide the community centres, pools and parks a development that size needs. A new fire station is due to open late this year. The rest of the list is longer.

This is the question every GO-station town in York and Durham is answering at once, and Stouffville’s version is unusually specific: is the town ready for eleven hundred families, or does it get ready after they arrive?

Sources: Stouffville Review, a large development will stress existing infrastructure · Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, the official plan