In the early 2000s, the proposed Gan Eden subdivision galvanized Uxbridge residents and local governments to defend the Oak Ridges Moraine, helping build momentum for the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan. Now marketed as the “Trail Capital of Canada,” Moraine protection supports a growing recreation economy, even as pressures continue from aggregate extraction, fill disposal, and estate residential development. With limited “white lands” and major investments in municipal services and wastewater capacity, concerns are rising about future settlement boundary expansion at the Moraine’s edge.