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 Short summaries can be wrong or out of date.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
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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.
Homes are needed, but is there enough water?
What the Town’s own papers say
- Collingwood is planned to grow from 25,470 people (2021) to 42,690 by 2051 Official Plan p.44.
- The Town wants half of all new homes built inside the existing town, not on new land Official Plan p.46.
- For moderate incomes, affordable rent is about $1,200 to $1,700 a month Housing Needs p.7.1. In 2024 average rent was $2,279 and the average sale price was $837,624 Housing Workplan p.1.
- At the end of 2025, spare drinking water was about 892 m³/day, or about 670 single homes. Spare wastewater was about 4,636 homes Servicing Report p.1.
- A plant upgrade is expected to add about 1,391 homes' worth of water, with start-up planned for summer 2026. A study of the wastewater plant was set to start in 2026 Servicing Report p.1.
People who want to build more say
Rents are far above what middle-income families can pay, so we need many more homes, fast. The plan already says growth numbers are a minimum, not a cap Official Plan p.44. Once the water upgrade comes online, put the new capacity toward homes people can afford.
People who want to go slower say
Water is the hard limit. 670 homes of spare water is small next to 17,000 new people. Big approvals without pipes and plants just create waiting lists and broken promises. Safety margins should stay Servicing Report p.1.
A fair way through
Water is the bottleneck. Wastewater is not, at least for now. So use every drop wisely.
- Residential: When new water capacity opens up, give first place to projects with smaller and lower-cost homes, and to homes inside the existing town. They use less water per family and pipes are already there.
- Commercial: No change needed.
- Industrial/Employment: Hold back some water for job-creating businesses, so homes don't use it all.
- Still unknown: Did the summer 2026 water upgrade actually open on time? (Not in our sources. Check the next capacity report.)
The Build and Protect columns are arguments. The cited sentences above are the part that comes from a document.
ASK A QUESTION
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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.
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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