Aerotropolis PLANS CLOUDY

It’s now been four years since a city council decision to convert 3.000 acres of farmland to an aerotropolis. The June 29 2005 move was opposed by the provincial government and by a new citizens group called Hamiltonians for Progressive Development, and together they convinced the Ontario Municipal Board to require more study before any expansion of the urban boundary.
The projected completion date for those studies has been repeatedly delayed. Consultants are continuing to examine an 8,000 acre study area centred on the airport where they’ve calculated that 3,000 acres can be utilized for industrial development.
The most recent promised delivery is a December presentation to the planning committee of the consultants’ “airport employment district servicing studies, environmental assessment and secondary plan”. That schedule was distributed early last month, and also called for a “land use options” report to be presented at Monday’s planning committee meeting by Guy Paparella, the city’s director of industrial and airport development.

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[Capt. John Swallow]

Speaking of "air", what ever happened to the air power initiative? There were supposed to be two "wind farms" being built to power Hamilton - one in Flamborough and one on Lake Erie. I haven't noticed any shortage of wind...