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Kanata South Councillor Peggy Feltmate introduced her proposed development moratorium Tuesday at city council’s planning and environment committee, but it got a cool reception from west-side councillors.
Councillors welcomed a separate motion to focus the city’s sewer budget for next year on sewer improvements for the west side to ease the flooding that’s hit the area. Most recently, on July 24, an intense rainstorm resulted in approximately 1,000 homes being flooded.
But councillors said throwing a stop-development blanket on the growth areas of Kanata and Stittsville, as suggested by Feltmate, is too much.
“She’s gone a little bit too far,” Kanata North Councillor Marianne Wilkinson said. “It’s actually not needed.”
Feltmate’s growth-moratorium motion will be debated in two weeks. She told reporters it’s needed because Kanata residents have lost faith in the city’s ability to guide development and prevent flooding after being hit with three floods, in 1996, 2002 and last month.
“People shouldn’t have to live in a disaster situation,” Feltmate said, noting that residents were assured after the 2002 flood that the situation was being fixed.
“My people don’t trust the city, and why should they?”
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