Innisfil Annexation Approved

Innisfil residents worse fear has officially come to fruition with Ontario's approval for Barrie to annex the town. The Province's decision which was rumored to be in the works for this week has granted Barrie almost 2,300 hectares of Innisfil land.

The land will be transferred into the hands of Barrie on January first 2010 and will increase the size of Barrie by thirty percent.

The decision isn't as bad as first anticipated and has only affected about 300 people. Those people will be living in the city of Barrie starting in early 2010, ironically, Innisfil mayor Brian Jackson will be one of those affected people.