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(?) by the Toronto Industrial Commission. Participation by the Commission is particularly noteworthy, indicating the regional scope of its interests as well as the metropolitan significance attached to the Ajax Development Project. THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOODS The Wartime Housing village north of the Highway will remain much as it is. All Crown land in this area is fully developed and no further expansion can take place within the boundaries of the Improvement District. Fringe growth in the surrounding Township is a difficult problem, as we have noted. "Neighbourhood Number One", east of the Central Business District, is in a state of transition. It includes the Administration Building, the Post Office, Recreation Hall, Hotel and Cafeteria. Some of these may well remain, being conveniently adjacent to future business. The Hospital will shortly be moved to a permanent site. During the past two years three hundred houses have been built in this Neighbourhood under the Veterans' Housing Program. These are standardized houses giving layout problems peculiar to this type of development. We attempted to avoid excessive monotony by judicious variation in house plans and colour schemes. Too much variation creates a restlessness which in the final analysis is just another and worse kind of monotony. Lying (so)mewhere between the two extremes is a middle path which we have tried to find. The north-east portion is at present being provided with roads and services in accordance with our plan of subdivision. This area will soon be available for the construction of houses by private owners. Completion of the subdivision will round out the present development of the neighbourhood, except for the area reserved for high density housing. A number of the original dormitory buildings still remain in the middle of Neighbourhood Number One. These have been in use for some time by the Federal Department of Labour, as a dispersal centre for immigrants. Eventually the dormitories will be demolished, and the space thus freed of buildings will become the neighbourhood park and school site. Our recent projects have made use of existing roads and services as far as practicable and this has influenced to some extent the plan of Neighbourhood No. 1. Because of existing buildings and roads in this area, it was not feasible to apply planning theory as consistently as we would wish. As a general principle, we believe that local traffic is best handled by a ring road serving single loops extending inward to a central park area. This simple pattern is indicated on the General Plan in the case of Neighbourhoods Nos. 2, 3 and 4 where we have ignored many existing roads and adapted the circulation to topography. No doubt some modification in detail will be necessary after engineering problems have been explored in connection with detailed layout of these areas. Picture: Perspective of Ajax Town Centre from northeast. Photo: Vue en perspective du centre commercial d'Ajax, d'un point situe au nord-est.