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Business World Magazine |
June - July 2016
“If you want to raise a family, or if you simply
want to get fair enough away from the rat race
to live in peace and tranquility without straying
too far from the city, then Caledon is the place
for you,” says Mayor Allan Thompson.
There are many reasons to love living in
Caledon. To start, it offers the perfect blend of
urban and country living, Roughly 80 per cent
of the town’s land area consists of breathtak-
ing greenery that’s protected under the Gov-
ernment of Ontario’s Greenbelt Act, ensuring
that Caledon will forever remain one of the
province’s environmental treasures. Large
sections of both the Niagara Escarpment and
the Oak Ridges Moraine – two ecologically-
vital geological landforms in southern Ontario
– cross through that protected green space,
which helped Caledon secure the ‘Greenest
Town in Ontario’ award in 2003.
The 20 per cent of Caledon that isn’t pro-
tected green space has been deemed by the
town council as its future growth area. Much
of that growth is projected to take place in the
town’s major urban centre, Bolton, as well as
its newest residential community, Mayfield
West.
“How big is that 20 per cent? You can put
the entire City of Brampton’s population as it is