Save Ottawa's wildlife, recreation areas, trees and parkland.

As I mentioned before, there was opposition to stripping Greenbelt protection from the Nepean Sportsplex and Eagleson Park and Ride:

• Potential removal of Greenbelt designation from the Nepean Sportsplex.
• Potential removal of Greenbelt designation from the Eagleson Park and Ride. ("There is concern that potential 'removal' will see increased development.") (From: Greenbelt Master Plan Review-Phase 1-Step C-Land Use Concept January 2012). Page 16 and page 17 out of 124 pages. 

House of Commons Ottawa October 26, 2009---TRAN (40-2) No. 32-Bill C-37: "The Commission has the power to reclassify downward any land it deems necessary, including Greenbelt lands...Our concern is that the ecologically less significant lands, although part of the whole, may lose their Greenbelt designation to satisfy some development proposal."

Greenbelt Master Plan Review-Government of Canada Publications, October 2013. Comments from the public:

• Keep Pinhey Forest as it is, not developed. (The Nepean Sportsplex and athletic field should always be on the Pinhey Forest. Development refers to the installation of new highways and roads, subdivisions, etc.)
• No new roads or built facilities should be allowed in the Greenbelt.
• No new development, no new roads.
• The Greenbelt is supposed to be a green and undeveloped belt of land within Ottawa. We rely on the National Capital Commission to maintain and protect it that way. Non-federal facilities and operations (meaning commercial and residential infrastructure and development) is NOT acceptable on Greenbelt lands. There should be no question about that. Ottawa's Greenbelt has been whittled away too much already, and everything that goes into it further damages the quality and fragments the continuity of natural habitats that are essential for the physical and mental health of all inhabitants of Ottawa, and for its visitors as well. Land, wetlands and watercourses that are removed or suppressed in the Greenbelt are never returned.

Part of an August 24,2019 letter to the Ottawa Citizen, regarding residential expansion into the National Interest Land Mass: "The City of Ottawa recently released its discussion paper '5 Big Moves' as part of its Official Plan Review. Much of it is laudable, but Policy 3 under Growth Management is not. The policy states: 'Where urban expansion may be required in the future...consider the potential to expand into the Greenbelt.' 

"Whoa! Ottawa is already  at one million people and expected to grow, but nowhere are they manufacturing any more greenspace. Once you permit urban development of the Greenbelt that greenspace is lost forever. In short, don't bother considering this option." Alex Cullen, Ottawa