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Keep Collingwood, Collingwood.

READ
THE
PLANS.

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 Short summaries can be wrong or out of date.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

Find the
passage.

Type a word and see every place it shows up in the Town’s papers. If you type “sewer” it will also find “wastewater”, because they mean the same thing. It only shows you what the papers actually say. It never makes anything up.

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.

1. Homes and water2. Downtown height3. Land for jobs

Protecting land for jobs

What the Town’s own papers say

  • The County says Collingwood needs about 94.1 more hectares of employment land by 2051 County Plan p.29.
  • Jobs are planned to grow from 12,260 (2021) to 18,540 by 2051 Official Plan p.44.
  • Provincial rules say towns must protect employment areas for current and future uses Provincial Statement p.17.
  • In 2026 the Town proposed a zoning change to stop new stand-alone shops, offices and similar uses in industrial zones (M1, M2, M4, M5), because of the "Employment Land deficit facing the Town" Employment Lands p.1.6.

People who want to build more say

Jobs keep young families here. Protect industrial land, make it ready to build on (servicing included), and speed up approvals for manufacturing, warehouses and research.

People who want to go slower say

Agreed on protecting it. But new industry has to fit with nearby homes: noise, dust and truck traffic Official Plan p.112. Don't turn new natural areas into industrial land to make up the shortfall.

A fair way through

This is the easiest one. Both sides agree.

  • Industrial/Employment: Support the 2026 change that keeps industrial land for jobs. Then make a short list of sites that are ready to build on.
  • Commercial: Send shops and offices to downtown and main corridors instead.
  • Residential: Keep buffers between new homes and industry.
  • Still unknown: Where the 94.1 ha would come from, and the result of the August 10, 2026 public meeting. (Not in our sources.)

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

ASK A QUESTION

Ask it
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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