<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Excellent Susan. I will reach out to the other groups that people have suggested so far and see what sort of support we can get from Southwestern Ontario.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Keep me posted on others you can think of.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 26, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Susan Bryant <<a href="mailto:shbryant@uwaterloo.ca" class="">shbryant@uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Susan B<br class=""></div></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; width: 853.578125px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Executive <<a href="mailto:executive-bounces@gren.ca" class="">executive-bounces@gren.ca</a>> on behalf of Susan Koswan <<a href="mailto:susankoswan@execulink.com" class="">susankoswan@execulink.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, January 26, 2021 4:26:30 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Greg Michalenko; GREN Executive<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [GREN-Exec] support for Greenbelt document</font><div class=""> </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Also Save Our Water in Elora.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">And Stephanie Goertz texted me recently about Citizens for Safe Groundwater Inc but I don't really know anything about them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">My last column was about "daylighting" urban streams (as well as about Waterloo Park reno)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.therecord.com/opinion/2021/01/20/work-in-waterloo-park-highlights-the-importance-and-vulnerability-of-our-urban-streams.html">https://www.therecord.com/opinion/2021/01/20/work-in-waterloo-park-highlights-the-importance-and-vulnerability-of-our-urban-streams.html</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> 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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://uwaterloo.ca/stream-daylighting/publications-0">https://uwaterloo.ca/stream-daylighting/publications-0</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">if that's of any use.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Susan K</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/26/2021 11:51 AM, Greg Michalenko wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:60d546f6e64f485596d222137f3ee83d@uwaterloo.ca" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear Grenxecutives,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Re: Greenbelt document.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The Paris-Guelph moraine act is linked, but it doesn't include a map. I'd like to see one.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Greg</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">_______________________________________________
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