[GREN-Exec] support for Greenbelt document

[Susan Bryant]

APT Environment will sign on, and I'm enquiring whether Woolwich Healthy Communities will too. They won't meet for a while and have some constraints re: their mandate, but we'll see.


Susan B

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From: Executive <executive-bounces at gren.ca> on behalf of Susan Koswan <susankoswan at execulink.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 4:26:30 PM
To: Greg Michalenko; GREN Executive
Subject: Re: [GREN-Exec] support for Greenbelt document


Also Save Our Water in Elora.


And Stephanie Goertz texted me recently about Citizens for Safe  Groundwater Inc but I don't really know anything about them.


My last column was about "daylighting" urban streams (as well as about Waterloo Park reno) https://www.therecord.com/opinion/2021/01/20/work-in-waterloo-park-highlights-the-importance-and-vulnerability-of-our-urban-streams.html


 I spoke for a bit with Luna Khirfan at U Waterloo. She's doing lots of work with importance of blue and green natural capital https://uwaterloo.ca/stream-daylighting/publications-0

if that's of any use.


Susan K


On 1/26/2021 11:51 AM, Greg Michalenko wrote:

Dear Grenxecutives,


Re: Greenbelt document.


I've gone through the document and think GREN should back it.  In some places I think it strays too much into being a publicity document, but it's not productive to quibble at this time.  I wish it mentioned the issue of aggregate development as well as residential or industrial issues.


What GREN might comment on as matters develop about expansion proposals is some detailed considerations about how the map of "blue" areas in Waterloo and Wellington was decided and how it could be amended.  For instance, there is an east-west strip to the west of KW that is left out  of the surrounding blue, and I'm surprised that a blue corridor wasn't proposed along the Grand River upstream of the City of Waterloo. Such a strip would be logical from a scenic/ecological point of view, as well as signifying the original extent of the Six Nations land grant.  As this document heads to the next stage as a proposal, perhaps we could suggest some fine tuning to take such issues into account.


The Paris-Guelph moraine act is linked, but it doesn't include a map.  I'd like to see one.


Re: getting other groups to back it.  Have Waterloo Region Nature, the Nith Valley Ecoboosters, rare Land Trust, Gravel Watch, Six Nations, Wellington Water Watchers, and KW chapter of the Council of Canadians (which seems to be getting very active) signed on or been approached?  Also, is the group in Paris that opposed gravel development a possibility?


- Greg





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