Smart rural growth
Wainfleet spreads a township-sized bill across 3,100 dwellings. A few hundred more, over a decade, would change who pays for the roads without changing what Wainfleet feels like.
The arithmetic
A new home in Wainfleet assessed around $400,000 on MPAC's 2016 basis pays about $3,600 a year to the Township. Three hundred of them is about $1.1 million, roughly 11 percent of the current levy, plus development charges up front. For scale, the Township's entire assessment growth in 2026 was 0.94 percent, about $90,000.
Those dollars land on the functions that do not grow with population: administration, fire, the library, the roads crew. That is the whole reason our per-resident cost is double West Lincoln's.
The traffic
Wainfleet has 272 km of road across 217 square kilometres. A few hundred homes spread over that is about one additional house per kilometre. Nobody will notice it on a concession road. I moved here from Burlington to get away from crowded. I am not proposing a subdivision.
The contrast
Some candidates propose raising rural lot minimums. That guarantees fewer homes on more land, which guarantees the per-resident tax burden stays where it is. That is a legitimate choice, but voters should know it is a choice with a price.
My commitment
Support modest, rural-scale growth on lots that make sense, within provincial rules, with the Township as a partner. Publish the arithmetic every year so residents can see what growth is doing to the levy.