Start: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT

End: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM EDT

This is a virtual event

Host Contact Info: info@democracycaledon.org

Protecting Caledon from Dirty Dirt: New Fill By-Law – Why Now?

This webinar will help us prepare for the Town’s upcoming September 29th Open House on the draft site alteration by-law.

The Town of Caledon is proposing to replace the existing fill by-law, which regulates where and how fill can be dumped, with what they’re calling a Site Alteration By-law.

What’s the Town’s agenda? What’s wrong with the fill by-law we have now?

Rural Ontario is overrun with trucks of urban construction fill looking for a forever home. It’s often dirty dirt, contaminated with toxins that risk our drinking water when it leaches into groundwater, streams and rivers.

We need to protect our Caledon countryside – most of it in the Greenbelt – from becoming one big construction fill project! This is about way more than “Swan Lake”, the property that we suspect prompted this bylaw revision – it’s about every mined-out aggregate pit and quarry across Caledon and beyond.

We will hear from:

Ian McLaurin, Ontario Soil Regulation Task Force (a coalition of community groups)

Victor Doyle, former senior Ontario government land use planner and key architect of the Greenbelt Plan

Cheryl Connors, Caledon resident who actively participated in previous Caledon fill by-law consultations

The public has an important role to play in deciding Caledon's future, and yet we are being excluded from opportunities to participate. Come to the webinar with questions and share with others how you have been affected by the eroding democracy at Town Hall.