Summer has indeed crept up on us… we hope you are enjoying some of these long, lazy, hazy days with your family and friends!
We have been busy since the December announcement by ClubLink of its plan to redevelop our shared Kanata Golf Club land and we want to bring you up to date on what we have been doing.Continue reading
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City of Ottawa Solicitor issues memo to Council outlining the next legal steps
We have reached a milestone today. The City of Ottawa has indicated they will to move quickly to court should ClubLink come forward with a development and/or rezoning application. Continue reading
1000 Lawn Signs snapped up in days to protest ClubLink
Beaverbrook and Kanata Lakes streets are awash in SAVE OUR KANATA GREENSPACE lawn signs as the community begins its push back against the ClubLink proposal to redevelop the Kanata Golf Club. Continue reading
Kanata Golf Club Members learn about ClubLink Development
CTV Ottawa was on hand this evening when we showed our support for Kanata Golf Club members and Kanata residents More >>>Continue reading
City would ask court to confirm agreement to protect Kanata golf course land
The City of Ottawa would stick up for the “40 per cent agreement” protecting green space in the Kanata Lakes area, according to the city’s legal department.Continue reading
Redevelopment of Ottawa-area golf course takes a slice into the woods
A decades-old agreement between the City of Ottawa and a golf course might be the only thing stopping a development proposal from replacing holes with homes.
An article by Adam Stanley, special to the Globe and Mail.Continue reading
Kanata residents feeling left in the dark about future of the Kanata Lakes Golf and Country Club
Residents living around the Kanata Lakes Golf and Country Club are asking what is happening to the golf course, after witnessing Clublink chopping down trees and digging up soil.Continue reading
Hundreds Fight For Kanata Golf And Country Club
Nearly 500 people braved the frigid cold to fight for the Kanata Golf and Country Club. Kanata-North Councillor Jenna Sudds held a community meeting Monday evening at the John Mlacak Centre. “This has come as a big shock to the community,” said Sudds.
Kanata golf course redevelopment plan draws crowd of worried residents
Close to 500 Kanata residents braved arctic conditions Monday night to get information and voice their concerns over proposed plans to redevelop the Kanata Golf and Country Club into new homes. The meeting, hosted at the John Mlacak Centre by Kanata North Coun. Jenna Sudds and featuring area community association presidents Neil Thomson and Lianne Zhou, served as a show of strength in the community, with calls to action and fundraising for whatever battles may lie ahead.Continue reading
City takeover of Kanata golf course should be a legitimate option
The City of Ottawa should consider taking over the operations of the Kanata Golf and Country Club in the same way it has created other arm’s-length organizations to oversee its assets, according to the former municipal politician who signed an agreement 37 years ago to protect the Kanata green space. Marianne Wilkinson has only been out of politics for about two weeks and she’s already back in the thick of it, educating Coun. Jenna Sudds, her successor in Kanata North, about the governance history of the golf course, now that owner ClubLink wants to tear up the land.Continue reading