Woolwich Healthy Communities: Work Group & Guiding Principles

I was googling around the internet this evening, looking for information on how citizens can initiate re-zoning of public lands (so far, no luck). I did, however, run across these interesting bits on the Woolwich Healthy Communities website:

1) On the Woolwich Trails working group site, the "Volunteer Work Parties" schedule included "Work Party at Victoria Glen Park, Elmira; Saturday, October 16." Not sure what this means in the great scheme of things, but there is contact information listed at www.healthywoolwich.org/trails_group.htm

2) Looking around the Healthy Communities site even more, I found a list of "Guiding Principles" that have been developed for the healthy community initiative. There was a link on that page to a chart that included those principles to be used by community groups making "large decisions" (gee, is the township council a community group?). It was tempting to limit my attention to the "Improvement of the Environment" principle -- but looking closer, preserving the Victoria Glen Park woods would mean positive marks in ALL 9 principles.

Maybe this chart is something we can use -- take a look at www.healthywoolwich.org/principles.htm

Everywhere I look -- in our township and region official plans, at initiatives by great numbers of community leaders, at our local history -- developing even part of this woods makes absolutely no sense at all!