October 25, 2010 will be the day of Milton's next municipal election. Due to recent ward boundary changes, this election will be significantly different. If you look at the old ward map for Milton the new residential development had less than 1/4th representation on town council. The areas comprising Hawthorne Village were in the old ward 1 which also included rural areas of Milton.

Old ward map


In the new ward map system Hawthorne Village is now spread out along wards 1, 6, 7 and 8. Hawthorne Villagers will be voting in wards that will end up comprising almost 50% of the new town council. Keep in mind I'm including the Hollybank, Jasper Village & Coscorp communities in my definition of "Hawthorne Village". Basically the part of town where people commonly refer to themselves as living within the Hawthorne Village area.

New ward map



There will be a good chance that this time councillors will be elected who actually live within Hawthorne Village.

Map of where town councillors currently live <-- Thanks to Zeeshan Hamid for creating this map.

Milton does have some excellent local and regional councillors who have helped people in Hawthorne Village (Colin Best is a good example). But it would better to have representation on council of people who actually live in the newly developed areas of Milton. The perspective of someone living in Hawthorne Village will be different than a person living in older parts of Milton.