Really concern about using…

Really concern about using the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve in Pickering for housing (re: map #6):

(1)

There is a large nesting site of Great Blue Herons in the woodland trees within this parcel of land...

(location is on the north side of Taunton Rd.; between the York-Durham Line and Altona Rd-RR 27.).

The Great Blue Heron is a protected species under the international Migratory Bird Convection Act of 1917 (updated 1994)
and the embedded Migratory Bird Regulations 2022 (SOR/2022-105).

This species is sensitive to human encroachment & disturbance.

(2)

Since more hard surfaces-stormwater runoff will go into the West Duffin Creek...
Such a large development of this land (2000+ acres) will FURTHER exacerbate flooding of this creek & downstream land. The existing Seaton development is already putting such stress on the creek.