Do not hand over/sell Wasaga…

Do not hand over/sell Wasaga Beach Provincial Park to the Town of Wasaga Beach. Such a transfer sets a dangerous precedent for public access to park land and for the protection of natural spaces and species in the province of Ontario! We find our public spaces have more and more usage. We should be protecting more spaces, not less.
The eastern end of Beach 1 is now fenced off and humans are prohibited from entering that area to protect the habitat for plants and species, including plovers. Humans already enter that area and it will only get worse if the land is handed over to the Town. The areas proposed for transfer are habitat for the endangered piping plover, which is monitored by Ministry of Natural Resources staff. Such monitoring is necessary for the plovers to nest on the beach.
My biggest objection is the mayor of Wasaga Beach seems determined to develop the western beach areas (1, 2, Allenwood and New Wasaga beaches), which will destroy the natural habitat and the calming experience in nature these areas now offer. This is not the way to treat a rare natural space. Why should one developer benefit to the exclusion of people in the community? You should be envisioning the future not thinking about development for one developer. This is a community space not just the mayor’s personal project.