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Originally Posted by Architype
I just realized that Mississauga has about 8 miles (13 km) of coastline (or is it lakeline?), so why isn't that area the main built up focus of the city??
Do people just want to live near the airport?
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Part of the reason is that the majority of it is older subdivisions that are now primal "yellowbelt", meaning they're incredibly hard to redevelop because they
re seen as a stable "neighbourhood". Port Credit used to be an old village and is thereby more intensively developed, although it lost almost all of it's older stock due to suburban expansion and "urban renewal" (Even then, Port Credit was rather small by the time the post war period came and suburbs began crpping up closer and closer to the old town)
Also, the road network toward the lake is haphazard and prone to traffic issues as a result of there not being enough road capacity in the area.
I lived in Mississauga for 7 years and I think I only went down to the lake about 8 times at most. It's very difficult to get there from the west end, by anything except a car at the very least.
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