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Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
Letters to the Editor
Last fall, Ladco agreed to sell the last 15 acres of the
Bois-des-esprits forest to the city for $969,150. Despite this, the
endangered forest was rezoned from PR-1 parkland to RM-2 condominium in
January.
Ladco says "that it is not prepared to amend the Option to Purchase in
order to provide for a purchase by the city of anything less than the full
14.91-acre parcel." If the public does not raise another million dollars,
Ladco and the province will build hundreds of condominiums in the forest.
In 1996, Ladco spokesman Ken Oblik told the Winnipeg Free
Press that "the bush will be left entirely untouched so as not to
disturb the wildlife in the area." Doesn't bulldozing down almost 15 acres
of forest to build condominiums qualify as a disturbance to wildlife?
The province preserved St. Norbert's Trappist Monastery Provincial Park
in 2002, preserving both nature and history. Don't St. Boniface and St.
Vital deserve new public parks as well?
Royalwood's waiting game will soon be over. Waverley West is the next
big event. Ken Oblik will present Ladco's plans to preserve Waverley
West's forests at the Plan Winnipeg hearings this fall. Sound familiar?
DAVID WATSON
Winnipeg
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