The Blue Mountain Watershed took participant status at the OLT (Ontario Land Tribunal) hearing (May 17th – 19th, 2023) regarding the town’s “lack of decision” on the increased density request by the developer. This development had previously been approved by the OMB in 2007 with concessions made to the Trust regarding [...]
Huntingwood Trails, virtually on the banks of Silver Creek, and surrounded by provincially significant wetlands, is a development for which the Town of Collingwood had closed the file due to failure to fulfill conditions for Draft Plan of Subdivision. The proponent appealed to the OLT and Watershed Trust members took party [...]
The Watershed Trust plays a central role in this article by Erika Engel in Collingwood Today. 'If there’s a time and a place for you to step up and spend more time and energy trying to coordinate with other similar-minded people, to put some of your money where your mouth is, [...]
February 6, 2023 This Article is prepared by George Powell of the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust (BMWT) regarding the proposed closing of former Simcoe County Road 91 (Cty Rd 91), now owned by the Township of Clearview (Clearview), and its replacement by the reconstruction of Nottawasaga Sideroad 26/27 to a rural township [...]
The Ontario government passed Bill 23, a piece of legislation that purports to solve the housing crisis, when in fact it does the opposite. At the same time, it diminishes environmental protections and guts the ability of Conservation Authorities to correct bad development ideas. The Watershed Trust believes that legal recourse [...]
The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust continues our fight against Bill 23 and its plan to bulldoze our wetlands and green spaces, joining the Protest Rally in Stayner on Saturday Nov 26th outside MPP Brian Saunderson's office. Together with our sister environmental groups, we marched against Bill 23's plan to develop the Greenbelt and strip Nottawasaga Conservation Authority of the [...]
The Blue Mountain Watershed Trust (BMWT), concerned area residents, and sister organizations have united to support the Niagara Escarpment Commission’s (NEC) denial of the Township of Clearview’s Application Permit to reconstruct Nottawasaga Side Road 26/27 and close a section of former Simcoe County Road 91 abutting the Walker Aggregate existing and [...]
Castle Glen has long been a massive proposed development in The Blue Mountains on County Road 19 near Osler Bluff Ski Club. The development has been on the books since 2006, when the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) gave approval for the development proposal on the 620-hectare property, which could include up [...]
This is a long-standing application and one in which the Trust has been extremely active over many years, based on its direct adjacency to the Provincially Significant Silver Creek Wetlands. The 37.16-hectare Bridgewater development lies to the north of Highway 26 West and to the south and west of Bartlett Boulevard [...]
The Huntingwood Trail (West Lands) are the 21-hectare portion of the larger 5 Silver Creek Drive property, which lies to the south of Highway 26 West between the Silver Glen Preserve condominium development on the east and the Forest Subdivision on the west (as seen below, number 37). This residential development [...]
