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Pickerings city council prepares to vote on a significant housing plan, aiming to house over seventy thousand people east of Toronto over twenty-five years. The plan, championed by Mayor Kevin Ashe, covers seventeen square kilometers of farmland, currently growing wheat, corn, and soybeans. The population is expected to reach one hundred fifty thousand in the next decade, and the Durham region could double to one point three million by twenty fifty-one. However, the plan faces opposition from the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation and anti-sprawl advocates, who argue for more consultation and intensification of existing areas. The vote is set for May twentieth, marking the beginning of a ten-to-twenty-year process, with environmental, fiscal, and wastewater studies still years out.

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