Councils at the two municipalities, as well as those in Peel Region and the City of Mississauga, last week approved Mississauga’s annexation of close to 1,000 acres of land along the Ninth Line in Milton. The four municipalities will now submit the boundary realignment to the Province’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing for final approval.

If approved, the Milton- Mississauga border would be moved west to the middle of Hwy. 407 from the middle of Ninth Line. The land to be annexed is commonly called the Ninth Line Corridor, and is generally bounded by Hwy. 401 to the north, Ninth Line to the east, Lower Base Line to the south and Hwy. 407 to the west.

Mississauga would assume ownership of the lands on January 1, 2010. The four municipalities have already agreed to the amount of compensation: Milton would receive $2 million and Halton $1.29 million. Peel would pay about 62 per cent of that amount with Mississauga picking up the remainder.