The council voted no. They listened to us and protected the wetland. We won.
November 30, 2015
Final supporters
The Beaubassin-Est Rural Town Council (BERC) is proposing to create a custom-designed new zoning category to allow 12 trailers and accompanying structures to be placed on a lot in Cap Brûlé adjacent to Parlee Beach in a Provincially Significant Wetland. We ask the BERC to VOTE NO to the proposed bylaw. The proposed change gives unfair, preferential treatment for a corporately-owned parcel to the detriment of the larger community and the environment. Everyone should obey the same set of rules – the rules should not be custom-tailored for those who seem to have undue influence! The planned development would harm the coastal environmental ecosystem and increase traffic, noise and pollution. This would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier for the BERC to enact such changes for any property within Beaubassin-Est, or to easily increase the number of allowed trailers on the property well beyond the proposed 12 trailers. This change would give preferential treatment to one developer to the detriment of the larger community and should be stopped!
Some questions:
Why the special treatment for the developer?
What impact will this have on the Provincially Significant Wetlands on the property?
Why the rush to pass this change without evaluating the effects on well water in the area?
Who will pay for the extra wear and tear on the roads with the extra traffic?
Why are there no environmental impact studies for the development?
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 20, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
August 31, 2015
August 29, 2015
We are approaching one hundred signatures. Keep pushing until we hit this first milestone.
151 Comments
I am sick of those with undue influence being able to pass whatever changes suit them at the moment. There are significant and detrimental effects on wetlands on this property. Why are there no environmental impact studies for the development?
Trailers do not provide adequate tax base returns for this demands. They are never a capital growth asset, and can only serve to profit the developer, NOT the community. A blight on the landscape, a detriment to the community.
People in the community are entitled to equal treatment by government. There is no justification for changing bylaws that were put in place to protect everyone so that one property developer can exceed the limits that everyone else has to live by.
Why does this community have to continually take this person/family to court to protect our community and the wet lands. He has filled in and blocked our access to the beach, he has filled in wet lands and now wants rezoning, will it ever stop!!!
Government depts should work together much more than they appear to in this situation. Taxpayers are paying for one level of government to allow trailers on a wetland buffer zone that another govt dept has declared protected!
Nope!
Wetlands are vital to certain animal and plant life and it's time to stop destroying no EXCEPTIONS WHAT SO EVER ARE ACCEPTABLE
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The council voted no. They listened to us and protected the wetland. We won.
November 30, 2015
Final supporters
The Beaubassin-Est Rural Town Council (BERC) is proposing to create a custom-designed new zoning category to allow 12 trailers and accompanying structures to be placed on a lot in Cap Brûlé adjacent to Parlee Beach in a Provincially Significant Wetland. We ask the BERC to VOTE NO to the proposed bylaw. The proposed change gives unfair, preferential treatment for a corporately-owned parcel to the detriment of the larger community and the environment. Everyone should obey the same set of rules – the rules should not be custom-tailored for those who seem to have undue influence! The planned development would harm the coastal environmental ecosystem and increase traffic, noise and pollution. This would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier for the BERC to enact such changes for any property within Beaubassin-Est, or to easily increase the number of allowed trailers on the property well beyond the proposed 12 trailers. This change would give preferential treatment to one developer to the detriment of the larger community and should be stopped!
Some questions:
Why the special treatment for the developer?
What impact will this have on the Provincially Significant Wetlands on the property?
Why the rush to pass this change without evaluating the effects on well water in the area?
Who will pay for the extra wear and tear on the roads with the extra traffic?
Why are there no environmental impact studies for the development?
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 20, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
August 31, 2015
August 29, 2015
We are approaching one hundred signatures. Keep pushing until we hit this first milestone.
151 Comments
We have pheasants, sand pipers, hawks, osprey, ducks, geese, blue heron, fox, and all sorts of other wild life living there. This is protected wetland and should thus be protected. I do not support this "custom" zoning.
I am sick of those with undue influence being able to pass whatever changes suit them at the moment. There are significant and detrimental effects on wetlands on this property. Why are there no environmental impact studies for the development?
Trailers do not provide adequate tax base returns for this demands. They are never a capital growth asset, and can only serve to profit the developer, NOT the community. A blight on the landscape, a detriment to the community.
People in the community are entitled to equal treatment by government. There is no justification for changing bylaws that were put in place to protect everyone so that one property developer can exceed the limits that everyone else has to live by.
Why does this community have to continually take this person/family to court to protect our community and the wet lands. He has filled in and blocked our access to the beach, he has filled in wet lands and now wants rezoning, will it ever stop!!!
Government depts should work together much more than they appear to in this situation. Taxpayers are paying for one level of government to allow trailers on a wetland buffer zone that another govt dept has declared protected!
Nope!
Wetlands are vital to certain animal and plant life and it's time to stop destroying no EXCEPTIONS WHAT SO EVER ARE ACCEPTABLE
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We have pheasants, sand pipers, hawks, osprey, ducks, geese, blue heron, fox, and all sorts of other wild life living there. This is protected wetland and should thus be protected. I do not support this "custom" zoning.