Regional District Parks Plan Open For Comment
By 250 News
Thursday, May 20, 2010 05:34 PM
Prince George, B.C.- The Regional District of Fraser Fort George draft plan for its regional parks has been approved by the Board of Directors and will now go back to the public for comment and refinement.
The comments gathered last fall identified two main goals:
· To provide residents and visitors with a range of outdoor opportunities within developed park areas that are designed primarily for day use
· To create or complete trail-based linkages among regional, provincial and municipal parks.
The draft plan provides a framework for the operation and management of Regional Parks for the next ten years as well as guidance for the development and land acquisition for future parks .
Priorities include:
· Road signs,
· facility improvements at all sites,
· restoration of a steep bank at Cedarside Park,
· renovations at Koeneman Park,
· development of the north portion of McMillan Creek and
· mitigate lakeshore erosion at Ness Lake Park.
Future potential parks have been identified in Tabor Lake, Hixon, Horseshoe Lake near McBride and McKirdy Road near Valemount
The overall cost of implementing the plan has been estimated at $1.33 million.
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Posted by: Denaljo on May 20 2010 8:56 PM
Unfortunately those activities are almost banned everywhere now it seems and soon they will have all the back country gated up to prevent people from enjoying the outdoors.
In a more responsive city they would look at what people enjoy doing and try at least in a small way to provide a location for that activity to take place unhindered by gates and nimby's that force the activity into becoming illegal and a potential menace to those that don't generally agree with people having fun.
Will we ever see a dedicated area of dirt biking and ATV'ing where people can enjoy nature, the trails, and have unhindered access? Not as far as the local planners see things even if its the top recreational activity in the region.
I see no reason why North Nechako past the Indian Cut Banks all the way out to Isle Pierre couldn't be set aside for just such a dedicated regional park... unhindered presently by no land owners and only provincial planners for multinationals that would put the gates up themselves to protect the nebulous notion of future potential resource revenue for government. I was told by the planners for Crown that if even a picnic table was set up out that way, and they found out about it, they would send someone out there to burn it down... hows that for cooperation.....