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What Mississauga is getting done
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Mississauga was built as a city of arterials. Most of it went up after 1970 in subdivisions hung off six-lane roads, so two addresses three kilometres apart can be twenty minutes and two left turns from each other. The exceptions are Port Credit and Streetsville, village main streets the city grew around rather than over.
What Mississauga is made of
The country’s largest airport is inside the city limits
Toronto Pearson sits in Mississauga, not in Toronto, and the employment lands wrapped around it — the Airport Corporate Centre, the Dixie and Britannia corridors — are warehouses, hotels and offices rather than houses. Work there means a loading bay, a freight lift and a security desk, on a site that runs shifts. It is a different day from a residential call in Erin Mills, and no other municipality here has that inside its boundary.
Two of its neighbourhoods are older than the city
Port Credit and Streetsville were villages long before Mississauga was incorporated as a city in 1974, and they kept the housing that goes with it: narrow lots, detached garages down a shared drive, and main streets where a vehicle has to stop on the road. Across the rest of the city the driveway is wide, the garage is attached and the access question never comes up.
The bins answer to the Region, the by-law answers to the City
Mississauga is a lower-tier city inside the Region of Peel, so waste collection and the water service belong to the Region while the building permit and the noise by-law belong to the City. A clearance, a renovation or anything that runs past the quiet hours here involves two levels of local government. In Toronto or Hamilton it would involve one.
Tasks come from City Centre, Port Credit, Streetsville, Erin Mills, Meadowvale and Cooksville.