The Globe and Mail

Residents of Canada's largest urban region, the Greater Toronto Area, will find it increasingly difficult to obtain single-family homes and instead are expected to turn to condominiums and townhouses under plans to control urban sprawl that were released by the Ontario government yesterday. Key to the strategy is the creation of a 1.8-million-acre greenbelt where farms, small communities, lakes and forests will be protected from development, Premier Dalton McGuinty said yesterday. "This means no new subdivisions paving over our valuable farmland. It means no new shopping malls carved out of our forests," he told reporters at Queen's Park.