Category: Zoning of Phase 2 of Findlay Creek Approved

26 September 2006 To: All Members of Council Re: Council Agenda 65, for September, 27, 2006, Planning and Environment Report #54A, Item #1 Leitrim – Tartan lands rezoning – Phase 2 Dear Councillors: The Greenspace Alliance of Canada has on numerous previous occasions expressed objections to proposals regarding development around and in the Leitrim Wetlands, most recently when a Plan of Subdivision was before Planning and Environment Committee on June

In September 2006, City Council approved a zoning change to allow residential development in phase 2 of Findlay Creek Village that would destroy a significant portion of the wetland in an area that the City itself has rated an important natural area by including it in its Urban Natural Areas Environmental Evaluation Study (UNAEES). This area, # 106 in the UNAEES, has not been properly ecologically evaluated because the developers