As a member of the Lake…

As a member of the Lake Simcoe Conservation Foundation and having spent all of my life at a cottage on Lake Simcoe at DeGrassi Point, which is on Innisfil’s third line I have to write to say how vastly important it is to consider this area part of the Greenbelt.

We have on both sides of the 3rd line protected environmental areas but of course everyone thinks the only way to survive is to expand and develop.

I am afraid that some of that conservation land which is up for safe will be voted for change as more development means more money in the door to the councilors

I have noticed the change in the quality of the water, the disappearance of the clams in the lake and the disappearance of the shad flies, because they breed in the water not beside the water.  The reduction of the fish stocks and the increase of invasive species and weeds of the wrong kind which causes slime all over our beach.

Lake Simcoe is the largest lake in Ontario after the Great Lakes and it needs to be protected by protecting it from more sprawling development and saving the land with wild species such as the deer and the little red foxes and rabbits that we have, not to mention the birds and the variety of native bugs such as the praying mantis. This year was the first year that wild turkeys appeared on the 3rd line.

These are also wet lands which help to clean the water that runs off the highways and roads before reaching the lake.

As cottagers we only use this place for two months of the year, but we still all pay full taxes and so hope to have a say to help protect something that has been in our family for 7 generations.

Please seriously consider this area as a Greenbelt addition, many of us would be delighted to help in any way possible.

Thank You,

Speaking for many DeGrassi Pointers

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