Toronto Star

It's a cluster of tumbledown barns and rotting farmhouses that nosedive into fields that are fighting a losing battle to encroaching scrub brush. Boarded up, overgrown and neglected for more than 30 years, Seaton looks like a giant B-movie set. But that's not what Pickering's Mayor Dave Ryan sees when he looks out over those softly rolling hills. What Ryan sees is his city's future, a town with thousands of neatly laid-out, energy-efficient homes and families scurrying off to nearby jobs and schools. A place where Seaton's 70,000 residents can walk to the corner store or bike along paths meandering over streams and through lush green spaces. The first shovel isn't in the ground yet and it likely won't happen soon; there is still a lawsuit with a local developer and native groups to satisfy before work can start.