City buys more land for western park
It was only a couple of weeks ago the city bought some land for its big western park, but it has now added another 140 hectares to the collection. The map is still a little patchworky but it’s coming together.
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Kate
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qatzelok 10:39 on 2019-12-13 Permalink
Most of the waterfront of this new park – like the rest of the West Island – is covered in McMansions and bungalows, and this is the most beautiful part of most partks – their waterfront. Perhaps flooding will eventually remedy this.
mk 15:21 on 2019-12-13 Permalink
@qatzelok jeez that’s dark…
Faiz Imam 18:56 on 2019-12-13 Permalink
But not wrong, we should expect a repeat of the recent floods quite regularly in the years ahead. I think many of those folks will be ready to sell to the city before too long.
That issue aside, I’m really shocked this happened as fast as it did. I figured this would take years of negotiations and litigation. But after only a few months à enormous area of nature on this island has been preserved for good.
We can’t control the exurbs, but the efforts the core is doing to limit suburban sprawl is real and admirable.