Residents looking for certainties about the potential negatives from growth – from financial to quality of life – got no assurances from a Woolwich council that this week approved a growth strategy for Breslau.
The township is allocating a build-out to accommodate 550 new residents annually among the new subdivisions – Thomasfield Homes, Empire Communities and the Madison Group – along with another 140 residents as part of any infilling developments in the village, where the population is expected to grow to 32,000 in the next 25 years.
In response to concerns raised in the process of building the plan, councillors meeting Tuesday night tweaked some of the language to reflect the vagaries of financing the infrastructure needed to allow future development, particularly millions needed to extend water and sewer services.
