Development Projects Around the County
About 400 concerned residents attend standing-room-only town meeting in Wellington
That a crew of placemakers, designers, and developers are intent on reviving the old Camp Picton, turning it into the centrepiece of a series of villages offering multiple new ways of living here, is an unprecedented turn of events.
The Gazette examines the claims made at the Wellington Community Association event held at Highline Hall on August 12.
An Open Letter to Minister Calandra, and worries about park space in new development
Recent development proposals from Sterling in Wellington's village, Kaitlin for Cork and Vine, PEC Community Partners for Base31, and now Port Picton Homes' Cold Creek prioritize affordability, which means higher densities. But they also offer innovative new designs, such as laneway houses and garden suites. Cold Creek's stacked townhouses marry townhouse design to apartment efficiency at entry-level prices.
A preferred solution has emerged for water infrastructure from Wellington to Picton: one water treatment plant to serve Picton and Bloomfield as well as the village.
There’s a fortuitous overlap between livability — “healthy, complete communities” — and good design that is well worth attention.
The ambitious new 54-acre plan could add five new streets to the neighbourhood off Owen Street in East Picton. At least 200 houses are coming, as well as a large 2.5 acre park.
Residents of Fawcettville, a small neighbourhood just east of the Picton core, are looking forward to getting some new neighbours.
Developers return to tried and true models for living: the village and the campus
The vote came despite strenuous objections from the neighbours at Wellington on the Lake
My favourite editorial this past year was about the history of tourism in the County. We called it, fancifully, “This Pleasured Isle, this Green and Storied Place,” (Aug. 10, 2023). We were trying to give a sense of summers long past. I asked Chris if we could do a Part II — more steamboats, more stories of picknicking in the grass, maybe some parasols. “There isn’t any more,” he said. “After the steamboats, it’s all about the cars.”
Prince Edward Learning Centre and Thrive PEC collaborate on a Community Benefit Network
Residents noted the incongruity of a resort and wedding venue in a peaceful rural location where the largest outdoor gatherings are of sheep.
Rep Devon Daniell stressed Kaitlin's desire to get underway as soon as possible. “All we are waiting for in order to proceed is these pipes in the ground,” he said. “We cannot wait to get started. We just need that infrastructure.”
“For his visionary leadership that has left an indelible mark on the arts landscape in Toronto and beyond.”
Sterling asks for first right to existing water services in Wellington, offers to enter into the same up-front financing agreement.
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