www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\nMayor Georges Bourelle provided a breakdown of how much Beaconsfield has thus far spent it its bid to buy up land in Angell Woods, during the June 16 council meeting. <\/p>\n
He read part of an itemized breakdown in reply to Beaconsfield resident Gilles Perron during question period. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2007, we acquired a portion of land for $148,700,\u201d responded Mayor Bourelle. \u201cLater in 2007, we made another purchase worth about $200,000 and in 2008 we spent another $200,000 on an acquisition.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, we have made a series of smaller acquisitions, worth about $43,000, $18,000, $6,000, $5,000 and so forth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Perron expressed concern that \u201cto purchase about 25 per cent of Angell Woods the city has spent $750,000 and will possibly spend another $800,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wants other West Islanders to kick in money <\/b><\/p>\n
He asked Bourelle to pass a resolution to ask neighbouring cities like Pointe Claire, Kirkland and Baie d\u2019Urfe to contribute to the purchase the green space, which would be turned into a regional park. <\/p>\n
\u201cI will certainly ask and see what their reaction is,\u201d promised Mayor Bourelle, \u201cparticularly to take the necessary initiative at [an upcoming] agglomeration council meeting.\u201d <\/p>\n
Last month, The Suburban reported that Beaconsfield had voted to add another $250,000 to its war chest to buy Angell Woods land from its current owners. <\/p>\n
In addition to the earmarks for eventual property purchases, the city has forgone considerable tax revenue since it passed an interim bylaw that prevents owners from building on the land, which is zoned for development similar to the city\u2019s leafy Beacon Hill district. <\/p>\n
Beaconsfield has also had to pay for legal fees to defend its stance in court, which would bring the total cost to the city so far over $1 million, not counting the hundreds of thousands of dollars that it has already allocated to discretionary Angell Woods war chest for future acquisitions.<\/p>\n
Councilor Pierre Demers, who voted against last month\u2019s quarter-million dollar earmark, said that while campaigning door-to-door during last year\u2019s municipal election campaign, the overwhelming majority citizens whom he met favoured preserving Angell Woods as green space but were unwilling to shoulder the eyewatering cost of buying the development land from its longtime owners. <\/p>\n
The previous, Pollack city administration had favoured a compromise that would have saved at least 80 per cent of Angell Woods, with eco-friendly transit-oriented development limited to a small footprint surrounding the Woodland commuter station\u2014a proposal that Mayor Bourelle endorsed during the election campaign.
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