Development in the Greenbelt

By: William Davis

From Wikipedia - "The Greenbelt is a permanently protected area of green space, farmland, forests, wetlands, and watersheds, located in Southern Ontario, Canada. It surrounds a significant portion of Canada's most populated and fastest-growing area—the Golden Horseshoe."

Using Intercensal road network data from Statistics Canada the map below compares the extent of roadways within the Greenbelt between 2005 and 2016.

Click the circles below to zoom to the areas where the most development has occured.

Areas with the most change

2005 roadway

2016 roadway

See 2016

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