Guidelines pertaining to Greenbelt properties, including the Nepean Sportsplex.

•  Limit buildings and parking lots to existing area in accordance with Chapters 5 and 6.
• Recognize this facility (the former Confederation High School) as an edge facility and permit future continued intensive use and re-use of the site, including maintenance of existing sports fields and use of the school's existing site for recreational uses.
• Encourage integration of educational and promotional messages about the Greenbelt and Pinhey Forest at the Nepean Sportsplex. (Canada's Capital Greenbelt Master Plan 2013, page 120/196.)

Allowable Activities and Uses

• Non-intensive or linear recreational uses, such as nature interpretation, walking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing.
• Geo-caching and orienteering events in designated areas.
• Cycling and horseback riding on designated trails.
• Ecological research
• Federal activities that support facility operations without causing permanent ecosystem damage.
• Existing houses
• Existing interpretive or training facilities.
• Existing off-leash dog areas. (Greenbelt Master Plan 2013, page 74/196.)

Prohibited Activities and Uses

• New facility area
• New stormwater management facilities.
• Motorized access along recreational trails.
• Any other uses that would degrade natural features or undermine ecosystems. Seasonal restrictions may occur for some of the listed Allowable Activities and Uses. (Greenbelt Master Plan 2013, page 73/196.)

Organizations that were part of the Greenbelt Advisory Committee

• Gloucester Allotment Gardens
• Ottawa Rural Council
• Farm Tenant
• Farm Tenant/Just Food
• Citizens for Safe Cycling
• La route verte
• Velo Service
• Responsible Dog Owners of Canada
• Crystal Bay Community Association
• Crystal Beach/Lakeview Community Association
• Riverside Community Association
• Country Place Community Association
• Glens Community Association
• Convent Glen Community Association
• Qualicum-Graham Park Community Association
• Navan Community Association
• Friends of Mer Bleue
• Greenbelt Coalition of Canada's Capital
• Transport 2000
• Heritage Canada
•  (For information Google: "Greenbelt Phase 1, Step A. Government of Canada Publication; crystal." pages 35 and 36 of 107.)

House of Commons Ottawa May 25, 2010 MP Marcel Proulx (Hull-Aylmer, Liberal): "...The Liberal members from the National Capital Region, the member for Ottawa South, the member for Ottawa-Vanier and myself as Liberal Members of Parliament, are calling for better protection of the Greenbelt. There are no serious regulations protecting the Greenbelt. Together the City of Ottawa and the NCC could do what they like with it."

A front page article in the Ottawa Citizen, October 8, 1974.

Family members on the Pinhey Forest Trail and cross-country skiing on the Greenbelt:

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