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Three things in one place: what is being dug up on your street, where the big projects actually stand, and a search of the Town’s own planning papers. Every fact here links back to the page it came from, in the Town’s words, so you can check it yourself.

Read this first. This is my campaign’s tool, not the Town’s, and it is not legal advice. The two “sides” below are meant to be one-sided — that is the point of them. Short summaries can be wrong or out of date. Before you rely on anything here, click through and read the real page it came from.

LOOK IT UP YOURSELF

ON THIS SITE

The water plant: about $270 million, the largest build in the town's history, and the reason there is a limit on new homes.

Where the big projects stand →

That is my own page, in my words. Everything below this is the Town’s wording, quoted and linked.

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY ABOUT “water capacity”
  • “This Water and Wastewater Capacity Allocation Policy ( Allocation Policy ) has been developed to ensure that the remaining and future uncommitted hydraulic reserve capacity in the Raymond A.”

    Servicing Policy, page 2
  • “As such this report has not included the additional water capacity.”

    Servicing Report, page 1

Those sentences are copied word for word out of the documents. Nothing here was written by a computer.

5 DOCUMENTS TO DIVE INTO
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Town of Collingwood Official Plan

PDF page 186

…Plan, and shall be consistent with the requirements and guidelines in the Town’s Master Servicing Plan. The Town’s Master Servicing Plan provides requirements and guidelines with respect to: i. Wastewater servicing infrastructure; and ii. Water servicing infrastructure. c) All development shall be provided with full municipal servicing infrastructure, unless otherwise exempted by this Plan. d) Hi…

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Provincial Planning Statement, 2024

PDF page 54

Provincial Planning Statement, 2024 Reserve sewage system capacity: means design Sensitive: in regard to surface water features and or planned capacity in a waste water treatment ground water features, means features that are facility, within municipal sewag…

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Servicing capacity update (IN2026-03)

PDF page 1Excerpt

…be bot protection. URL: https://pub-collingwood.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=9079] Staff Report IN2026-03, Standing Committee 2026-04-08, Council 2026-04-20. Subject: 2025 Year End: Water and Wastewater Uncommitted Hydraulic Reserve Capacity Update. As of December 31, 2025, the uncommitted hydraulic reserve capacity including the safety factor for the drinking water system is app…

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Servicing Capacity Allocation Policy

PDF page 6

which has not yet been issued a building permit, for the period of one (1) year from the date this Policy comes into force and effect. A7 TIMING AND EXPIRY OF WATER AND WASTEWATER CAPACITY ALLOCATION A7.1 APPLICABILITY OF THIS SECTION This section applies to decisions on applications for Draft Plan of Subdivision/Vacant Land Condominium Description Approval…

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BIG QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK

Three questions
the documents
already answer.

I wrote these three by hand, straight out of the papers — no computer wrote them. The box above searches all 2,158 bits of those papers.

How tall should downtown be?

What the Town’s own papers say

  • Most downtown heritage district lots are zoned C1, which allows up to 12 m, about 3 to 4 storeys Downtown Plan p.26.2 Downtown Plan p.26.
  • The new Official Plan says the general maximum height is 6 storeys or 20 m, with step-backs above the 3rd storey on key streets Official Plan p.89.1.
  • The Downtown Master Plan says there are "conflicting opinions on growth and height", plus too little affordable housing downtown and a weak link between downtown and the waterfront Downtown Plan p.14.
  • Its first action item is a study of where more height could work downtown, with a heritage architect on the team Downtown Plan p.26 Downtown Plan p.26.2.

People who want to build more say

The plan already allows 6 storeys, but the zoning still says 12 m. That gap scares off builders. Fix the zoning so apartments above shops can be built downtown, near jobs and transit.

People who want to go slower say

Downtown is a heritage district, and that is why people come. Height should follow the heritage study, protect views like the one to Town Hall, and use step-backs so the street still feels low Downtown Plan p.26.2 Official Plan p.89.1.

A fair way through

Both sides agree the rules don't match each other right now.

  • Commercial / mixed use: Finish the downtown height study first. Then update zoning so it matches the plan. Keep 3 storeys at the street, with taller parts stepped back.
  • Residential: Allow homes above shops, so there are more downtown homes without tearing down heritage buildings.
  • Industrial: No change needed.
  • Still unknown: The study's timeline and results. (Not in our sources.)

The Build and Protect columns are arguments. The cited sentences above are the part that comes from a document.

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like you would
ask a neighbour.

Type a question in your own words. You get three answers: someone arguing to build more, someone arguing to go slower, and then a plain summary of what makes sense — split into homes, shops and jobs. Every fact links back to the page it came from.

One question goes to three readers of the same passages: a case for building, a case for holding back, and a plain-language recommendation. It usually takes under a minute.

WHERE THIS COMES FROM

Where this comes from.

Town of Collingwood, Simcoe County and Province of Ontario public documents. Page numbers are PDF pages, not the number printed on the page. An excerpt is a short capture of a report whose full file could not be downloaded, and the link still goes to the original.

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