OCP Concerns

Douglas Crumback's recent letter to the local paper outlines some of the main concerns of the stakeholders group:

"The first draft of the OCP, produced by the engineering firm, hired by the town, attempted to incorporate the input provided by our group fairly closely.

Our group was then disbanded and at council's direction, Draft 2 was produced with astonishing changes. Draft 2 differed from Draft 1 in the following key areas: it increased the amount of ALR land desired for removal for development from 149 to 440 acres; and it increased the projected population figures (over the next 20 years) from the stakeholder's suggested maximum of 17,000 to 28,000 people.
This is a difference of 11,000 people; our current population."