Huntingwood Trails East Update: BMWT At OLT Again!
Bridgewater OLT Hearing (May 17th – 19th, 2023)
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 – Success! For now…
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 [...]
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Bill 23 ‘eroding’ protections we rely on GalleryBill 23 ‘eroding’ protections we rely on
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Bill 23 ‘eroding’ protections we rely on
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, [...]
Bridgewater (Consulate East)-Another Development Threat
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 [...]
Proposed Huntingwood Trails Development a Danger to Silver Creek Wetland?!!
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 [...]
Letter Sent to Collingwood Council/Planning re: Bridgewater Increased Density Proposal
https://watershedtrust.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Bridgewater_BMWT-Request-for-Reconsideration-Jan-11_2022.pdf Bridgewater area PSW (Provincially Significant Wetlands) Current Bridgewater Development proposal overlaid on PSW map
Silver for the Silver Creek
COVID-19 has resulted in the cancellation of any number of significant celebrations and events, not the least of which is the 25th Anniversary of the formation of the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust. The roots of the Trust center around the Silver Creek Wetland, first designated as a provincially significant wetland in [...]
It’s hardly the place for a boat channel – George Powell speaks out in defense of our Wetlands
Click on the Link below for the Simcoe.com article: ‘It’s hardly the place for a boat channel’: Collingwood environmental group critical of committee decision (simcoe.com)
Developer Wants to Double the Density Within the Silver Creek Wetland
We made a submission to the Public Meeting in Collingwood on March 25, 2019, regarding the proposed zoning by-law amendment for Bridgewater on Georgian Bay. The essence of the submission follows. The new proposal is essentially the same as the plan approved by Ontario Municipal Board in 2007 commonly known as [...]