General Sports and Recreation News

[jeffster]

Schlegel Urban Developments Corp is requesting a zoning change in their subdivision planned for the Fischer-Hallman/Plains/Huron area (page 163).

One of the proposals is for Privately Owned and Maintained Publicly Accessible (POMPA) Parks where the "park ownership and maintenance model for this subdivision where by parks may be retained in private ownership, maintained jointly by property owners through condominium corporations, and which would remain fully publicly accessible..."





I'm not sure what I think about this concept yet, but I can't put my finger on why just yet.

I guess statements like this make it feel as though we are going to start creating different classes of parks based on who can afford to live near them:
"They wish to create a series of enhanced parks and landscape features throughout the Becker Estates neighbourhood which will contain features that are beyond the capacity of City Operations to maintain in perpetuity."

I'm wondering why sort of development you could have that allows for the public to use it that has private ownership and private maintenance, paid for by a condo corp.

Open to the public as in 'paid' entrance?

My other thought though, it could be entirely public, but with the neighbours of park benefiting the most (hence private ownership/maintenance) and inability for the city to properly maintain the grounds in a TIMELY fashion. Not that the city couldn't maintain it, they can. However, the city can't provide services for 1 park, like more regular lawn maintenance, vs other parks. That is what I think of when I hear "perpetuity". Very few area's of the city are taken care of in such fashion, perhaps city hall, and the DTK core, but that's about it.