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The Greely Winter Carnival is just around the corner. Come on out on Jan. 22-26. -Page 12
YEAR IN REVIEW
Rideau-Goulbourn Coun. Scott Moffatt looks back on challenges and triumphs in 2013. -Page 14-15
News - Residents may add a set of bathrooms to their wish list for a planned community park beside the Water’s Edge residential development south of Parkway Road. Residents met with the Greely Community Association on Jan.8 to get the results of a survey designed to garner public opinion on different elements of the park, such as: tennis courts, a soccer field and an eventual skateboard or BMX park. Bruce Brayman, the president of the Greely Community Association, said the survey had 180 respondents before the deadline of Jan. 15. “You can still make your comments after that, but we have to present the findings for the first phase of the project,” he said. Brayman said, based on the results of the survey, residents are pretty happy with planned uses for the first phase of the park – which is bordered by Parkway and Water’s Edge Way. “The contentious part is still a skateboard or BMX park,” Brayman said, adding 60
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per cent of respondents were against a BMX park as one of the uses for the 6.5-hectare space. A skate park didn’t fair much better, Brayman said, with 53 per cent of respondents naming it as an undesirable use. A playground, one of the uses proposed for the first phase that also promises tennis courts, a soccer field and green space was found to be favourable by 97 per cent of the people that responded to the survey. Although one resident on Water’s Edge said he didn’t want a soccer field backing onto his backyard. “That means we will lose (the) use of our backyard in the summer months,” he said. The majority of residents were in favour of a hockey arena as well, with 74 per cent of respondents marking that as one of the desired uses. But missing from the list of amenities was a washroom, something Brayman said residents would horse trade with the city to have in the park. “Because of the Power Play arena, we may be able to work out something in five years,” he said. But in the meantime, if you’re playing a game of soccer, it’s going to take 20 minutes each way to go to the bathroom, you’ll be gone an hour.” But Brayman said he wasn’t sure if bathrooms would be possible because Greely is on well and septic. The park has a budget of $2 million. The reason the project is separated into phases was to allow for more discussion of the more contentious part of the park. See RESIDENTS, page 2
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