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Letter to Council, opposing Phase 2 rezoning – Sep 2006

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

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DevAdmin September 26, 2006 December 3, 2024

Rezoning for Phase 2 of Findlay Creek approved

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

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DevAdmin September 1, 2006 December 3, 2024

Highlights of concerns about development in Leitrim Wetlands

– The proposed development will adversely affect the Leitrim Wetlands and have a significantly negative effect on Findlay Creek and the local water table. – The area to be re-zoned for development includes a major part of an identified Urban Natural Area, the loss of which would result in significant decline in wildlife, especially birds, and would be contrary to Ottawa’s Official Plan objective to increase forest cover. – There

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Claudia Ruiz May 14, 2006 December 3, 2024

Letter to Anne McLellan, P.C., M.P.

The Honourable Anne McLellan, P.C., M.P. Minister of Health House of Commons Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6 Dear Minister: RE: Canadian Environmental Assessment Act Screening by Fisheries and Oceans Canada for Findlay Creek/Leitrim wetlands and Transport Canada’s Area-Wide Risk Assessment of Gloucester landfill. We write to you because of our concern about the health aspects of leachate from a closed landfill owned by Transport Canada south of the Macdonald-Cartier

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DevAdmin January 1, 2006 December 3, 2024

A Natural Treasure in Peril

by Albert Dugal, published in the Dec. 1999-Jan. 2000 issue of PEN Leitrim Wetland, one of Ottawa-Carleton’s most outstanding natural areas, is threatened by proposed urban development. This provincially significant Class 1 wetland straddles Albion Road southeast of the Macdonald-Cartier Airport. One-fifth of Leitrim is federally owned by Transport Canada. The remainder belongs to individuals and developers. This 400-hectare wetland is home to over 200 species of regionally significant plants,

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DevAdmin January 1, 2000 December 3, 2024