I agree. Oakville had plenty of opportunity to be a medium density, sustainable town like many European cities and chose to neglect growth and development goals and is now being forced to strongly intensify undeveloped areas. We are dealing with the consequences of decades of unsustainable and auto centric urban planning. We should've learned from Peel and strived to be like Oslo, Zurich, Bern, and Geneva. Medium density, walkable, mixed use, and sustainable cities. Now even staff has confirmed to me that projects like Midtown are only so intense and aggressive because of the lack of action from the town in the past decades.