Save the 150 year old Fairgrounds in Beamsville,ON

To stop the Building of 550 homes on the Land where kids play soccer, and people run the track and their dogs everyday! Where people come to Strawberry fest and the Fair! There are actions held there and also wedding events. Plus the Hockeyville of Linclon and the areana where there hold many practices,games,free skate! We need to stop the rezoning! MISSION To bring together a group of concerned citizens and other parties dedicated to preserving the fairgrounds as open space and as a community gathering place which pays tribute to Lincoln's agricultural heritage and celebrates its future

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marcia bertrand, Canada
4 years ago Comments: -
Brenda Lee, Canada
4 years ago Comments: Keep the Beamsville Fair in Beamsville.... It's what the town needs, a place for the community to gather.
Laura Tizzard, Canada
4 years ago Comments: I purchased my home in Beamsville to get away from the urban sprawl, traffic and noise of larger cities and DO NOT want to see the fairgrounds developed. Laura Tizzard 5130 Mulberry Drive Beamsville

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marcia bertrand, Canada
4 years ago Comments: -
Brenda Lee, Canada
4 years ago Comments: Keep the Beamsville Fair in Beamsville.... It's what the town needs, a place for the community to gather.
Laura Tizzard, Canada
4 years ago Comments: I purchased my home in Beamsville to get away from the urban sprawl, traffic and noise of larger cities and DO NOT want to see the fairgrounds developed. Laura Tizzard 5130 Mulberry Drive Beamsville
Mechal Lavender, Canada
5 years ago Comments: -
Ted Procyshyn, Canada
5 years ago Comments: To lose the fairgrounds in Beamsville to urban development is, clearly, contributing to the demise of small town culture in Southern Ontario. The same culture that people from the city consider when they purchase their new homes in small towns like Beamsville. Ironically, these same people who are moving from city to country in an effort to live the "small town life" are contributing to said demise of the very culture that they wish to enjoy. A similar situation happened years ago when the QEW was built along the south shore of Lake Ontario right through The Niagara Peninsula. The land in the Niagara Peninsula between the Niagara Escarpment & Lake Ontario is truly a rare piece of geography. It is one of only three places in Canada that possesses the specific geographic & climatic conditions that are required for the successful production of peaches. The other two regions is the Okanagan valley in B.C. & the Annapolis valley in Nova Scotia. Alert people may have noticed that peaches do not grow above the escarpment. Would it not have been wiser to build the QEW up there in the clay? Can you imagine how much more beautiful our peninsula would be below the escarpment with country roads winding through family owned tender fruit farms as opposed to the ugly & noisy highway that so intrusively wounds thus scarce piece of land? One must also consider the loss of the valued food production for forthcoming generations in the already stressed agricultural future. The proposed urban development in Beamsville on our historic & valuable fairgrounds is a tragedy not unlike the QEW. If urban sprawl is inevitable, why not change the Green Belt zonings on key parcels of land that are not cultural & historic landmarks. I'm sure that the owners of the unkempt farms in Beamsville on the east side of Bartlett Rd. between Highway 8 & Greenlane would happily agree to such a change. They are obviously not farming the land & are without a doubt are anxiously waiting for such a change. This is much wiser than the current plan. There is an old native platitude that comes to mind; A man who destroys the old to make way for the new, is not to be honoured. Please politicians & developers, WAKE UP!
Scott McCowan, Canada
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Alexis Mann, Canada
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Louise Sudac, Canada
5 years ago Comments: Beamsville
bjcwcllx, Latvia
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Ralph Van Dorsten, Canada
5 years ago Comments: This must be stopped. The only access road (Ontario St.) will not be able to handle the traffic. There are many other reasons we must stop it from happening.

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