Whitchurch-Stouffville ON

he maintains. “And that makes us unique. So, I think we’re going to have a lot of people who are going to want to come and live here, and who will love the work/life balance that our community provides.” “We’re pretty much a bedroom community; a lot of people leave our town to work, whether that’s into Toronto or adjacent communities. I hope we will have a very active public transportation network, going forward, that will get people to and from the town.” to settle in our community. And we need to have homes for them to live in. It all feeds into the housing affordability crisis and our ability to deliver 1.5 million homes, which is the goal for the province of Ontario in the next ten years. “So, while we’re an active and willing participant in the provincial goal to build housing, we’re going to hit some roadblocks because it’s the Region of York that oversees the implementation of sewage treatment and the big trunk sewers and everything that we want to build in Stouffville that it’s going to connect to. If that doesn’t happen in a timely fashion and a cost-effective manner, everything is going to come to a screeching halt. So, that’s my biggest worry.” On the opportunity side, Lovatt believes that “people are waking up to the fact that Stouffville is probably one of the best-kept secrets in the GTA. We’re 20 minutes north of Toronto and we’re not going to have the urban sprawl that many municipalities surrounding us currently have and are going to have,” Watch video Discover Teva’s Uncompromising Quality Like you, we share a commitment to uncompromising quality! TevaCanada.com 9 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 01 WHI TCHURCH-STOUFFVI LLE , ONTARIO