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,” the ORM area supports a growing recreation economy, even as pressures continue from aggregate extraction, fill disposal, and estate residential development. With limited “white lands” and new investments in municipal services and wastewater capacity, there is growing concern that Uxbridge will begin requesting settlement area expansions.