Here it is: report recommends development

At 9:13 a.m., the email from Woolwich Township's Economic Development & Tourism Officer, Laurel Davies-Snyder, came through with the staff report on surplussing Victoria Glen Park attached.

Here's the report in pdf format: http://www.woolwich.ca/en/newsevents/resources/A6-2009-VictoriaGlen.pdf
Here's the link to the Township page, with the meeting announcements and other links:
http://www.woolwich.ca/en/newsevents/public_notices.asp

In my naive optimism, I had thought they were listening to the community. In fact, the report recommends what they call "balanced development" - which looks like it means they're going to put big houses on both sides of the trail at the top of the woods and leave the rest. (the rest?)

I urge everyone to read the whole report, contact the Township Council with your reactions (the link to the right has their email addresses and telephone numbers, as well as the town hall address to which you can send letters.) and get ready to work together to stop this.

Also consider writing to the local newspapers -- the Elmira Independent, the Woolwich Observer, even the Record. Next weekend's papers would be the only local ones before the meeting, so letters should be in by midweek.

Note on the procedure:
They will be considering this report at the November 3rd council meeting (starts at 6 pm), but won't be voting until the next week, on November 10th (that meeting starts at 7 pm).

PLEASE attend both meetings.
And if you want to speak, remember to register by the Thursday before the meeting.

More later.