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Originally Posted by Taeolas
shale gas would probably help NB, but we do need a strong government willing to take a stand and bring the cities in line when needed. Moncton's tri-cities should have been merged long ago, as should SJ's bunch of cities. Even Freddy's getting near the point where it should be forced to gobble up Lincoln, Hanwell, Maryland, etc... When (if) the cities are merged, then there should probably be a green zone set up around them to limit sprawl and force it to be within the current boundaries (if not smaller)
And on top of that, as mentioned the rural aspect needs to be rolled back. Don't try to save every little village; save the hubs. In that respect, we've been seeing that happen more and more, with those smaller communities merging together in the past few years.
As for the northern cities, I'm not sure what could be done for them; they are between a rock and a hard place as far as future potential goes.
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There would be serious push back... Not only that. But where does it stop? Lets use Moncton as an example Moncton would take Riverview, Dieppe, and Possibly Coverdale to the South/South East then in the North East we take Tankville, Irishtown, Saint- Philippe, Evangeline, Scotch Settlement, Then there are still communities to the North West, and South West I din't name.
Not only that if Communities/Cities start joining together to expand, and become urbanized as we are talking about. We will be shrinking are farming communities drastically unless we start doing commercial farming like they do in some Countries where most if not all farming is done indoors in simulated landscapes... There are a lot of steps we would have to look at for this to work...
As a person who has lived, and worked in cities, and Rural communities/towns this is always on my mind...
Specially when I see cities that have different rules, and regulations for different areas. Toronto comes to mind as it's been talked about every time they talked about housing...