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- 2065
As I was one of the presenters on behalf of ACO C&EN asking for the Town to designate the Brookside property at last Wednesday's Council meeting, I would like to personally respond to some of the points raised in your post and to some of the comments made by the Mayor and by Planning Director Cristal Laanstra at that meeting.
A note on accuracy: Your report states that three options were presented to Council to vote on, which is not quite true. Only the recommended option 3 was given in the agenda, and that option as written made no reference to designation, only to "engage the landowners...to consider protection of cultural heritage significance on the subject lands". In other words, to ask the landowners to think about it. Designation was only mentioned as a possible goal in the executive summary of the accompanying Staff Report, not in the motion itself. As you will recall, Councillor Mutton had to ask for an amendment to move Option 2 back on to the Agenda.