Infastructure in Port Dover

I have been reading about alliance homes wanting to take over the marina as well as build over a thousand new homes, a hotel and maybe some condos. This is in addition to the new homes that are being built in the new surveys at both ends of highway 6 coming into town and the new development off of the Cockshut road. Port Dover is already bursting at the seams, traffic on the Main street especially in the summer months is a nightmare, parking is a huge issue everywhere in the core and beach area. We will soon have no grocery store for a few months anyway, and who knows if our water and sewage system can handle this additional load. I wish that our council and mayor would look at the big picture instead of looking at tax dollars being generated. They are not being spent on anything in Port Dover anyway. We have yet to see a pool, ( yes we have the beach with Simcoe's sewage in it), we don't have a skateboard park , a movie theater actually very little ( I mean no entertainment) for the younger crowd. The local teens and 20somethings cannot afford to live here as the retirees from the city have pushed real estate prices out of reach of most young familes starting out. Port Dover has fast become a retiree town, most new homes purchased are retirees from the city, but this new growth is too much too fast for every native doverite, why can't some of the new development be shared with other lakeside towns...Port Ryerse, Turkey Point, Port Rowan, St. Williams, this would prevent one town from growing too fast and kind of spread out new development. I think Port Dover is big enough now. We can't handle anymore homes being built at this point.

"Port Dover is already bursting at the seams"
It's called growth. There are no seams - just an almost endless universe to expand into.

"traffic on the Main street especially in the summer months is a nightmare"
LOL ... I assume you've never been to a city. I'd hardly call two short blocks of stop n go traffic a nightmare. And the only cause of that is old people watching tourists and window shopping from their car.

"who knows if our water and sewage system can handle this additional load"
It can't. I would expect there are plans to expand it.

"The local teens and 20somethings cannot afford to live here as the retirees from the city have pushed real estate prices out of reach of most young familes starting out."
Have you seen prices in the cities?!? Thank gawd our real estate prices are going up at least a little. As it is right now, if you want to sell your home in Dover to move to the city, you are still going to end up with a HUGE mortgage.

"we have yet to see ... a movie theater"
What I call the "mystical entity syndrome". As in someone or something, often referred to as "they" (ex; "why don't 'they' build a shopping mall here") who is somehow responsible for the whim of some random citizen somewhere.

"why can't some of the new development be shared with other lakeside towns"
Because a business did market research and decided Port Dover was the best place to invest. You can't tell them to go somewhere else and expect them to actually do that just because you said so.

"I think Port Dover is big enough now. We can't handle anymore homes being built at this point."
This is the natural evolution of the area. You can't change that. If you're no longer happy in Dover, I don't see why can't move to one of the other lakeside towns...Port Ryerse, Turkey Point, Port Rowan, St. Williams.

I think Port Dover will develop into another Niagara on the Lake. Beach, theatre, retirement accommodations, tourist attractions and high prices!

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"I think Port Dover is big enough now. We can't handle anymore homes being built at this point."
This is the natural evolution of the area. You can't change that. If you're no longer happy in Dover, I don't see why can't move to one of the other lakeside towns...Port Ryerse, Turkey Point, Port Rowan, St. Williams.[/quote]

Where are they going to build in T.P. In the water??