The neighbours and friends of Victoria Glen Park will be getting together again this Wednesday, September 9th, at 7:30, at Trinity United Church.We have two very basic agenda items:
1) We need to plan a strategy for what to do if the Township decides to go ahead with their plan to surplus the forest to pay for the township hall renovations and the new arena.
2) We need to figure out how we can, as a public group, put in a formal request that the park be rezoned.
Anyone who is interested in helping to keep the effort to preserve Victoria Glen Park as parkland is welcome! Please pass to word to others.
We don't have a firm date yet for when the township staff report will be presented to council -- sometime in late September or early October is the closest suggestion. Anyone at the public meeting last spring who signed in is supposed to get a copy of the report ahead of time. In any event, we're keeping in contact with the township as much as we can and will let people know as soon as we know when the report will be submitted and when the next council meeting that will deal with this is scheduled.
It's been a lovely summer in the woods -- more birds than I ever remember! (and all of them waking up before 5 a.m., of course, in full song.)
Posts
Had we known about the meeting earlier we would have been there. I've been involved in a couple land struggles over the last few years and would really like to help out here at home. If it has not already been done I cannot stress how important it is that we ally ourselves with Six Nations and other local native groups. Any development project that has been halted or delayed in ontario this year has been led or supported by these groups.
ReplyDelete