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URGENT BULLETIN
from CARS
www.forteriecars.org

The Motor Speedway is NOT a done deal!

PLEASE attend Council on September 7th at 6pm and let your dissatisfaction be known.

The Citizens Coalition of Greater Fort Erie and FOUR other parties have appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board in an attempt to stop the building of the speedway in the current location at Sunset and Bowen roads in Fort Erie. Currently a fifth citizen has come forward and is seeking party status at OMB as well. The date for that meeting is Sept. 24th.
The date for the full hearing at OMB is not set yet.

Fort Erie Council in Committee will meet on Sept 7, 2010 at 6pm in Chambers to hear the draft for the zoning and bylaw changes with regard to the Canadian Motor Speedway. To access the Town of Fort Erie web site with the draft bylaws and zoning changes, click here. (if it does not open go to www.forterie.on.ca home page, right side, click on Motorsports Complex, scroll almost to bottom and there is a “click here” for Sept 7 bylaws).

To view highlights of that draft or for more information CLICK HERE

Fort Erie has a rich, natural heritage. Our beautiful landscapes and the wildlife that inhabits them, make this a special place in which to live, work and relax. Our natural heritage is also a key asset supporting many sectors of the region's economy and quality of life.

The Citizens’ Coalition of Greater Fort Erie (CCGFE) was incorporated in 2010.
Our primary area of focus includes Fort Erie, Stevensville, Crystal Beach, Ridgeway and the adjoining lands which form Greater Fort Erie.

CCGFE’s objective is to support development which will enhance the town’s natural and man-made character and provide meaningful long-term employment possibilities while protecting the culturally and ecologically valuable lands and waters of the area. Greater Fort Erie is home to one of the most diverse and endangered ecosystems in the country, the Carolinian life zone. This unique landscape; which extends south of a line running from Grand Bend to Toronto, contains 25% of Canada’s population but less than one percent of its land area. It is one of the most ecologically diverse landscapes in the province and the most threatened. Combined with the fact that many of its species are near the northern limit of their distribution, the Carolinian life zone has the greatest number and concentration of species at risk in Canada. CCGFE intends to help conserve this valuable land while at the same time supporting development which respects the environmental and residents’ concerns.

Join with CCGFE in our efforts to lobby against one of the most dangerous assaults on the mosaic of farmlands and forests of Carolinian Canada; a proposed NASCAR-style speedway development on 821 acres in Fort Erie. We object to the re-classification of “Good General Agricultural Land” through a provincial planning loop-hole called a “Special Policy Area”, in order to make way for this project and its inherent threats to our landscape and lifestyle. We have filed our objection with the Ontario Municipal Board Appeals Court, and are in urgent need of donations to support this process.

PROPERTY VALUES
WILL LIKELY CRASH!

FORT ERIE SPEEDWAY LIKELY TO BRING PROPERTY VALUES CRASHING DOWN

September 7th Council Meeting
Will Discuss Rezoning to Allow Development

Property values in Fort Erie will likely plummet due to the effect of a speedway on the local environment, according to staff at the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation's Toronto Office.

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URGENT ACTION BULLETIN

BAND TOGETHER AND STOP
THE SPEEDWAY FROM DESTROYING THE QUIET ENJOYMENT OF OUR PROPERTIES

Call on Provincial Government to Stop Fort Erie Speedway !!!

One of the most dangerous assault’s on the mosaic of farmlands and forests of Carolinian Canada is underway in Fort Erie to facilitate the approval of the proposed Canadian Motor Speedway, a NASCAR-like amusement racing track.

This would involve the re-designation of 821 acres of land in the Fort Erie and Niagara Region Official Plans which are currently designated "Good General Agricultural Land", to a new designation of "Special Policy Area."

Unless the province appeals this re-designation of agricultural land to the Ontario Municipal Board it is likely to be approved. As a community we must show solidarity and fight for our quality of life.

In opposing the motorway there are three points to stress.

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