This story originally published 10 years ago, but what has changed? It’s worse now than then, reputed to be the busiest intersection in the Region. It is dangerous. An Amica development of 170 units filled with seniors, many having cognitive and mobility problems, living at possibly the busiest intersection in the City, on the side of a long, fairly steep hill? Is that good planning? The developer needs to stick to the Ancaster Wilson Street Secondary Plan bylaws and zoning.
Some still call it Olde Ancaster, with the extra ‘e’. Most call it the village. After exiting off Highway 403, you drive into town, past a throwback wooden welcome sign, on a street named after Jean Baptiste Rousseaux, who bought the saw mill in 1794 where Ancaster was founded.