Condensing complex topics (like London’s sprawl and its Urban Growth Boundary expansion) into easily understandable and easily digestible videos isn’t easy, but it is what I’m good at.
So below, you’ll find out why, if I’m elected for Ward 3 City Council in October 2026, I’ll vote to keep our farmland, vote against urban sprawl, and increase affordability for all.
This is your city. It’s toast. I mean, your city is toast.
I mean, this piece of toast represents your city’s boundaries. And watching this to the very end could save you money.
See, this jam represents property taxes, the money you pay, whether you rent or own.
As you can see, we have just enough money to cover the toast, your [clears throat] city.
But we’re spread pretty thin. Oh, actually, wait, no, we can’t cover everything.
Will ya look at that! Instead of doing a fantastic job of servicing the area that we already have here within our urban growth boundary, we do something really weird and unnatural: we spread our boundaries outwards, forcing us to spread our jam, so the taxes that we pay, more thinly by bulldozing the most productive farmland in North America while grocery prices freaking sore!
Make that make sense. Oh, you can’t because it doesn’t.
We need to protect our land and fix the affordability crisis, not by continuing to sprawl for so many reasons.
If I’m elected for W 3 city council in October of this year, I’ll vote to keep our farmland, vote against urban sprawl, and increase affordability for all.
I’m Ben Durham, running for Ward 3 here in London, Ontario. Follow for more.