Editing Urban growth boundary (section)

===Canada===
In [[Canada]], [[Vancouver]], [[Toronto]], [[Ottawa]] (the "[[Greenbelt (Ottawa)|Greenbelt]]"), [[London, Ontario|London]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Newcombe |first=Daryl |date=2024-06-12 |title=Should developers have greater influence planning city’s future land needs? |url=https://london.ctvnews.ca/should-developers-have-greater-influence-planning-city-s-future-land-needs-1.6923157 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240716132304/https://london.ctvnews.ca/should-developers-have-greater-influence-planning-city-s-future-land-needs-1.6923157 |archive-date=2024-07-16 |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=CTV News |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Moulton |first=Jack |date=December 4, 2024 |title=Arguments for, against expanding London's urban growth boundary |url=https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/arguments-for-against-expanding-londons-urban-growth-boundary |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241204143754/https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/arguments-for-against-expanding-londons-urban-growth-boundary |archive-date=2024-12-04 |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=London Free Press |language=en}}</ref>  and [[Waterloo, Ontario]] have boundaries to restrict growth and preserve greenspace. In [[Montreal]] and in the rest of [[Quebec]], an agricultural protection law serves a similar purpose by restricting urban development to white zones and forbidding it on green zones.

Such boundaries are notably absent from cities such as [[Calgary]], [[Edmonton]], and [[Winnipeg]] that lie on flat plains and have expanded outwardly on former agricultural land. In [[British Columbia]], the [[Agricultural Land Reserve]] serves a similar purpose adjacent to urban areas.