The Conroy Pit is being sold.

 I have mentioned this before: The Ottawa Greenbelt is untouchable---Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Jacques Greber dedicated 900 square miles of land in the National Capital Region to Canadian soldiers. And the designation National Interest Land Mass prohibits the sale of Greenbelt land.

"The Conroy Pit (110 ha. or 276 acres) is an abandoned sand pit, with recreational integration and development potential." (NCC Greenbelt Master Plan Background-1996, PDF page 4.) As of September 2022 the land mass is 98 acres.

Greenbelt properties that may be privatized in the future:

1. Lands east of Conroy Road and south of Hunt Club.
2. Isolated parcel bounded by Highway 416, Richmond and Baseline Roads.
3. Site at southwest corner of West Hunt Club and Woodroffe Avenue.
4. Isolated parcel on west side of 417; open field with scattered shrubs and small trees.

The study team was also requested to consider a fifth parcel for other uses, that consists of the lands located at the southeast corner of Carling and Moodie, extending south from Carling to Highway 417 and west from Moodie Drive to the Greenbelt boundary bordering the Crystal Bay community.

House of Commons Ottawa November 3, 1981- INQUIRY WHETHER POLICY RELATED TO GREENBELT IN OTTAWA-CARLETON HAS BEEN MODIFIED.

Mr. Jean-Robert Gauthier (Ottawa-Vanier) Liberal: "Madame Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Public Works who is responsible for the National Capital Commission. Last week, Ottawa newspapers headlined that the NCC was prepared to give up NCC land located in the Greenbelt, the untouchable zone surrounding the National Capital. more...

House of Commons Ottawa June 22, 1992 - Mrs. Beryl Gaffney (Nepean) Liberal: "Mr. Speaker, in the 1960's the federal government had the foresight to protect environmentally sensitive land in the nation's capital with the establishment of the greenbelt lands. The greenbelt was established to control urban sprawl, provide beauty to the nation's capital, assist municipalities in local improvements such as the cycling paths, the Stoney Swamp, Pinhey Forest and the Log Farm. They have all added to the enhancement and beauty of the nation's capital."

"The people of Nepean are most concerned that the NCC is moving away from that premise. Does this government plan on continuing the status quo with the Nepean greenbelt lands or does the government plan on putting these lands up for sale? The majority of us in Nepean clearly do not want the greenbelt chipped away for residential or commercial development."