In that sense, it repeats a pattern from several years back, when a new location was chosen for Moncton High School. There is one neighbourhood within 2.4 kilometres of the school, but it's across a busy highway with no sidewalks. (Jennifer Sweet/CBC)The planners association has been asking the province for decades, said Burke, to adopt provincial planning policies to guide development and address the problem of urban sprawl. (Jennifer Sweet/CBC)As with the recent decision about the Moncton school, there were also complaints in Fredericton when the Hanwell school site was selected. "That's part of the way urban development works when you have population growth," he said.

Source: CBC News October 12, 2020 09:56 UTC