CORRECTION. !

I just thought of a correction to the previous post.

I said new home buyers pay for parks and playgrounds in their own neighbourhood  through development charges. 

But the last Council added a twist to that. 

A six acre site for a Separate School was determined not to be necessary. 

Despite the Neighbourhood already having and paid for adequate park facilities, the town decided to litigate to compel the developer to sell the  site to the town for a fraction of developable value. 

The process has been ongoing for a couple of years now. Legal fees coming out of tax revenues. 

If successful in litigation  the price for the land  will likely come out of the cash-in-lieu of parkland reserve, revenues collected from development that did not create a need for parks, like the last expansion of Canadian Tire. 

Funds  taken because no park was needed  would be used to buy land where no park is required. 

Of course the land could be used for other public purposes like multiple affordable housing. 

But that's not likely. 

The purpose of buying it is to satisfy neighbour demands 

to prevent development. 

The same idea  has been put forward for the Highlands Golf Club.

We may not have heard the last of that idea.The Neighbours there have retained legal counsel. 

The bottomless pockets of taxpayers is better than having a mint to print money in the basement of the town hall basement.