[GREN-Exec] Fw: Cambridge West Community Development MESP

[Theo Negoita]

FYI

--- On Tue, 12/7/10, S Stubley <scstubley at yahoo.ca> wrote:


From: S Stubley <scstubley at yahoo.ca>
Subject: Cambridge West Community Development MESP
To: info at gren.ca
Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 2:47 PM






















Good afternoon,
 
I have just learned about your organization from a friend at the University of Waterloo. I am writing to you to increase public awareness of the proposed Cambridge West Community Development and to seek your expertise. My family is very concerned about the affect this development will have on Barrie's Lake, ESPA 57, a provincially significant wetland, Devil's Creek and the surrounding wetlands and rural areas. I have attached the map of the Cambridge West Community MESP that we received from the City of Cambridge.
 
We have been told that a notice for the first public meeting will be placed in the Cambridge Times. This meeting may be in December and we are afraid that few people will attend so close to Christmas and sign the mailing list. If anyone from your organization is interested in being placed on the mailing list for meetings about the Cambridge West Community MESP please contact "Jim Kirchin" KirchinJ at cambridge.ca "Elaine Brunn Shaw" BrunnShawE at cambridge.ca and Dave Aston daston at mhbcplan.com 
 
My family purchased land that Barrie's Lake is on over 20 years ago and we have fought battles against gravel pits, the spreading of sludge and pesticides and a plan to build a road through the wetlands. My mother Bernice Beal, purchased unusable, landlocked land from the gravel pits as a last resort to stop gravel extraction beside the lake that would have destroyed Barrie's Lake and Gilholm Marsh. We own about 80 acres in North Dumfries and would rightly never be allowed to build more than one dwelling on our property because of the Barrie's Lake wetlands, however, Cambridge may be allowed to build an entire subdivision at the east end of the lake. We are very concerned about groundwater issues and the lack of government controls and inspection and how this will affect the wetlands and wildlife.
 
Also, drilling for soil samples is taking place directly north of Barrie's Lake, across Roseville Road. There may be gravel extraction plans for this area.
 
Please let me know if you would like any other information. If there is anything you can suggest to protect this rare and fragile wetland and its wildlife, we would be very thankful. It will not survive being surrounded by subdivisions and gravel pits. Please let us know if there is anyone else we can contact or if you have any suggestions.

 
Thank you,
 
Sue Stubley
Bernice Beal
1145 Roseville Road
Cambridge, ON
N1R 5S3
519-623-4583
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