“Traitors! Traitors!”

The angry voices of some Haldimand County residents rang out inside council chambers in Cayuga on Tuesday after council voted not to withdraw Haldimand’s support for a controversial application to the province from housing developer Empire Communities.

Empire has asked the Ford government for a minister’s zoning order (MZO) to change the zoning of the provincially designated “significant employment zone” beside Stelco’s Lake Erie steelworks.

The developer wants to turn 4,200 acres of industrial land into a mix of housing and light industry, including some 15,000 new homes inside the Nanticoke Industrial Park.

There has been fierce opposition in some corners to the notion of nearly doubling Haldimand’s population by eventually bringing in 40,000 people to the enl

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