Laurentian Valley’s Community Development Officer, Chris Neff, announced the township has surpassed
$1.1 million in total grant funding with the recent approval of a record-breaking $580,000 housing project.

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Laurentian Valley – Nearly $580,000 in funding from the provincial government will help fund future infrastructure projects in Laurentian Valley (LV) Township.

LV recently learned it had secured the provincial grant funding to go towards infrastructure initiatives. The investment aims to support the development of new housing including water and sewer services as well as road and sidewalk improvements.

Community Development Officer Chris Neff broke the news to council last Tuesday when he reported LV was one of 58 successful applications for a program that will go on to contribute nearly 160,000 new homes across Ontario. The provincial government’s approval means it will provide $579,687 in funding through the Municipal Housing Infrastructure Program. Mr. Neff said the project will connect roughly 1,700 new homes to existing infrastructure and accelerate development in the area.

He went on to casually inform the council it had set a new record for its lifetime fundraising total and smashed a record that had never previously been touched. Mr. Neff said they have officially surpassed the $1 million mark in funding achieved by donations and successful grants. Although securing half of said funding this year alone, the township has received more money recently than ever before in its history spanning the past two decades.

CAO/Clerk Dean Sauriol elaborated on Mr. Neff’s report, highlighting some of the project’s formalities and what it means to the township.

“It’s addressed to the Robinson Main area in the back field there,” he said. “There’s a lot of stormwater issues in that scenario and it will help address that. We haven’t set the actual scope as to how far that’s going to go, but that amount of money will certainly help. It’s not going to pay for it all by any stretch but it will certainly help entice the developers to move forward with some work back through there.”