Key Submission I support the…

Key Submission

I support the proposal in ERO 019-8289 to amend the Rondeau Park Management Plan to allow cottages to remain in Rondeau Park until at least 2038.

Heritage, Diversity, Community Values, Economic Impact and Welcome Variance in Ontario's Provincial Park Features

- Ontario is a diverse environment where recreational values founded in Rondeau's original charter still have value today - and should be enhanced

- Ontario's Provincial Parks have the capacity given their location and connection with environment, culture, history and values - including long standing communities to be diverse. Part of this diversity includes heritage features like cottages at Rondeau

- Rondeau's cottages enhance the cultural values of the region, existing in harmony with other recreational features, enhancing visitor experiences and providing a vital peak into Ontario's unique past

- Rondeau's cottage community economic impact is well known and documented - given Ontario's commitment to prosperous, thriving remote and rural communities, maintaining, enhancing and securing the environmentally compatible Cottage Community at Rondeau ensures and assists local businesses, services and economies to grow across Chatham-Kent

- Cottages enhance, support and reflect the heritage, cultural and recreational values embedded within Ontario's Parks features and aspirations, maintaining and ensuring this community demonstrates a commitment and ability to value what Ontario residents and visitors have loved for generations

Be reasonable, consider Red Tape Reduction and ensure a positive experience for Cottage Lease Clients

- We want to emphasize and ensure that new leases or extensions as part of this initiative must have reasonable terms and conditions and not be driven to achieve eviction by punitive economic terms.

- Ontario's commitment to reducing the cost of living for Ontario residents must be carried over into this new phase with the Rondeau - and given Ontario's commitment to Red Tape Reduction - must be created in good faith, with a commitment to keeping costs reasonable and the process straightforward

- New lease agreements must be developed in consultation with the Rondeau Cottagers Association.

- I encourage you to consider a longer term lease extension for all the reasons listed above and a request to further consider the administrative burden lease extensions impose on cottage lease holders and the wider community

Thank you
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