Park envisioned by Moncton councillors as city updates Vision Land plans
City, major landowners reach agreement to fund new plan for 500 acre-area
Shane Magee · CBC News · Posted: Sep 09, 2022 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-vision-lands-park-1.6575715
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Revisions to Moncton's urban planning document for a vast area of the city's northwest known as the Vision Lands are prompting councillors to propose creating parkland.
Several councillors raised the idea during a council meeting Tuesday.
"My vision is a central park right in the middle of it, a huge chunk of land right in the middle," Coun. Daniel Bourgeois said.
He suggested the city set aside 500 metres on both sides of the North Branch of Halls Creek, which runs through the Vision Lands.
Mayor Dawn Arnold suggested the city look at a federal (urban) parks program.
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The Vision Lands cover a largely undeveloped track of about 1,400 acres bounded by Mapleton Road, the Trans-Canada Highway, McLaughlin Road and Wheeler Boulevard.
Longstanding planning documents have called for developing the area with new homes and businesses. City staff have described it as one of the last readily developable areas within existing municipal limits.
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There is some heavy duty cognitive dissonance going on here. City planning and the Mayor strongly oppose the Vineyard and Eastgate developments off of Elmwood Drive because they fall outside the municipal service boundary, and the city supposed has enough developable land within the boundary (especially within the Vision Lands) to last at least 30 years. Yet, at the same time, city council is approving a study to look at converting up ti 50% of the Vision Lands into parkland! What gives here!!! If they are going to lop off a huge portion of the land available for development within the service boundary, shouldn't they be looking at replacing this lost land elsewhere (like with Eastgate & Vineyard)???
Something is not right here. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
I mean, make a choice. If you are going to vote against these new subdivisions, then you need to take a pro development stance with the Vision Lands. It's just that simple. You can't have it both ways...........