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Land owners ‘devastated’ with Waterloo Region’s plans to purchase properties

The Region of Waterloo wants to purchase land in Wilmot Township for, what it calls, future “shovel-ready projects.”

According to Alfred Lowrick, they’re trying to purchase 770 aces of land across from six different farm properties – between Nafziger Road, Bleams Road and Wilmot Center Road.

Lowrick said those farm owners are feeling blindsided by the potential sale.

“They’re devastated,” he explained to CTV News. “It’s terrible.”

While Lowrick is not directly impacted by the plan, his mother-in-law is. On March 9, she found out the region wants to purchase her 85 acres.

“My wife was at home and she was given a letter and it said someone will come back and will want to talk about the expropriation of my mother-in-law’s land,” Lowrick said.

According to Lowrick, the owners have not received official expropriation documents. So far, it’s an offer for purchase.

“We’ve had some legal counsel already on this and everyone we’ve talked to seems to indicate that it would be very, very difficult to stop the process if it was expropriation,” he explained.

Lowrick wouldn’t share what the offers are, but said each property has a different value. Local newspaper, the Waterloo Region Record, previously reported that

Sinar Mas Land: Making decarbonization of the building sector a reality requires collaboration

Tangerang (ANTARA) – Managing Director of the President Office of Sinar Mas Land, Dony Martadisata, said that collaboration between stakeholders is very necessary to make the decarbonization of the building sector a success with the aim of identifying policies, solutions and best practices to achieve the Net Zero Emission goal.

“Implementing the concept of sustainable development in the company’s business lines is one of Sinar Mas Land’s focuses in presenting environmentally friendly property products while providing a sustainable life,” said Dony in his statement in Tangerang, Thursday.

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Advisor to the President of Sinar Mas Land Office, Ignesjz Kemalawarta, said that the efforts and programs implemented by the company in developing residential areas and office areas that are environmentally friendly and low in carbon emissions include green building, low carbon emissions, energy saving, water resource management, green waste management, less plastic. , to green habits.

He added that the BSD Green Office Park area is the first office district in Indonesia to have received Gold Green District certification from the Building Construction Authority (BCA) Singapore.

“A number of office buildings in the area have also received Green Building