Just got off the phone with Mr. Cochrane. He has confirmed with me that he will be at the AGM on Wednesday. He will be ready to answer any questions you may have about the process and the land use re-designations. A couple of clarifications from my previous post that he would like to see:
1) No decisions have been made at any level about what to do with the land. The process itself hasn't even been approved yet (though it likely will be). The process will call for new legislation on land use details and standards, so there is no way that decisions could be made yet.
2) The proposed process calls for a look at 'open space' use for the land first. There are rumours abounding that the City has already declared for 'affordable housing' on the sites and that's simply not true - see point number 1.
3) In general, the land in speculation will be about 3 acres in a 10 acre area. This land was originally assigned for a school building and its immediately surrounding area (the 'envelope'). It was assigned decades ago during the development of the community. Since there is no school going onto that land - the CBE has 'returned' it to the city for its use. Those possible uses are varied and it has been proposed that the first look for use be for 'open space' - see point number 2. For more on possible uses see page 10 point 5a,21 of this document. Also in this document is a template for the probable proportions that the land use re-allocation will take, see page three of the same document.
In other words - it appears that under no circumstance is the entire green space going to be re-assigned.
The bottom line is that Mr. Cochrane will be at the meeting and will be able to answer and clarify all the points that have been brought up and give you an idea of what the short and long-term future holds for the our parks.
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