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Kanata Kourier-Standard 48 Pages
44th Year, Issue 40 October 14, 2010
Ride & Glide: Alfredsson kicks off fundraiser for mental health. P13
Chinese celebrations: Castlefrank ES welcomes 28 Beijing students. P3
Who will you vote for? What you need to know about the upcoming election. P19
Land trust proposal for Beaver Pond Council candidate offers alternative JESSICA CUNHA KOURIER-STANDARD Kanata North councillor candidate Jeff Seeton said he will be asking city council to consider an alternative approach in preventing development of the Beaver Pond lands. He said he wants to establish a land trust to purchase the section of the South March Highlands from KNL Developments Inc. “We’ve seen how effective our council has been up to this point,” said the 40-year-old business man. “We haven’t been able to establish any kind of hold on the property so I started researching alternate solutions.” However, Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson said she can’t see the city deeding property to another land authority. ‘CITY IS A HORRIBLE MANAGER OF LAND’ The non-profit charitable land trust would be governed by an elected board of directors.
“We would take it completely out of city hands,” said Seeton. “(The board) would be people who live in the community, who care about this property. No city officials.” He said the land would be purchased by the trust at fair market price. “There are two key points here: the first is that we will pay a fair market price that the developers could agree on and the second point is that we will not be using property taxes to pay for the purchase of the property,” said Seeton. A land trust for the Rideau Water Way works much in the same way, he said. A volunteer board of directors controls the land. Seeton said he wants to ensure the 29 hectares of land north of the Beaver Pond is kept as it is. “The city is a horrible manager of land sometimes; the Beaver Pond is an example of that,” said Seeton. BEAVER POND, SEE 4
JESSICA CUNHA PHOTO
A.Y. Jackson Secondary School took on Ridgemont High School in their first round-robin ultimate Frisbee game during the eighth annual Ridgemont Ultimate Tournament (RUT) on Thursday, Oct. 7. The tournament was held at Walter Baker Park in Kanata with students participating from from all over Ottawa. See page 11 for more photos.
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