The Deep River Cross Country Ski Club (DRXC) is encouraging people to speak out against a proposed Official Plan amendment that’s on this week’s agenda of town council.
Council will be holding a public meeting to garner input on the proposed amendment, put forth by a property owner seeking to re-designate 3.6 hectares of land from “Rural” to “Rural – Exception 3” in order to create five new residential lots.
The property has 95 metres of frontage on Balmer Bay Road and 63 metres on Wintergreen Lane, and it also has water frontage on the Ottawa River.
Four of the new lots would front on Wintergreen Lane while another, along with the retained lot, would front on Balmer Bay Road.
A post on the DRXC’s Facebook page by its vice president, Lindsay Arthur-Dooh, cautions the proposed rezoning “greatly impacts trails C and P of the club’s Four Seasons trail system,” and is encouraging its members to send objections to town council.
“Although this lot was purchased privately, it was done in concert with the donor-community’s 1995 acquisition of the neighbouring land – the Deep River Community Woods,” says the club’s Facebook post, which the club wants its members to share in emails to the town.
“With the community and town council agreeing that this area would be used for low-impact recreation and nature preservation, the private landowners agreed to allow portions of their land to function in harmony with the neighbouring Deep River Community Woods.
“The well-maintained trails, in use long before 1995, are vital to our community’s health, well-being and identity…
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