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Urban Growth In London

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I believe that the city of London, Ontario should utilize compact growth and land use intensification to successfully incorporate the almost two hundred thousand people it expects to add to its population over the next fifty years. My confidence in the use of this city planning policy is on account of the fact that it increases the sustainability of the city, through encouraging the reuse of under-utilized lands instead of expanding the city into vacant outlying areas, which may be harboring delicate ecosystems that may be irreparably affected by human augmentation of the environment. Another aspect of compact growth that justifies my support is the fact that this scheme for urban growth will preserve more than 6 400 hectares of Canada's best

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