Friends of Jackson Park, Peterborough, Ontario
739 Weller Street K9J4X4 Peterborough, ON, Canada

URGENT ACTION NEEDED! (by Monday!): Get Parkway OUT of our new Official Plan! The City of Peterborough’s draft Official Plan to plan our city’s future to 2041 is out for review -- and unfortunately that draft includes a sneaky place-holder for the Parkway road extension. ... We at Friends of Jackson Park and Peterborough Greenspace Coalition say that the place-holder for the Parkway in the draft Official Plan (OP) is inappropriate and problematic. It presumes the outcome of the Transportation Master Plan update, which has not been completed and is at odds with public will and modern, sustainable urban planning principles. We request the City to: Remove reference to a Future High Capacity Arterial in the Schedule D map, including the cross-referenced box text stating Alignment to be determined through Master Transportation Planning Process. We don't want it, it is too costly, it doesn't fit the new OP, and it presumes that a road is needed and the best/only option. Make alternatives plus safety the stated transportation priorities, and do these first before considering any Parkway. These alternatives include: walking, cycling, transit, demand management, signals, smart traffic management systems and intersection improvements. Others may include ring roads to the east and/or west of the city. Make the Parkway extension route a greenway, designated as Open Space. Make sure that other policies do not support the Parkway extension in the background. NOW is the most important stage of the OP to give comments and make this change.We urge you to submit your concernsto the City, using the above points, or others. Due by this coming Monday, September 23 at the latest, please send your comments to [email protected] or fill out the online feedback form https://forms.peterborough.ca/Planni/Official-Plan-Feedback. Be sure to send a copy us, too, at: [email protected] so we can help track Parkway comments: Peterborough residents have repeatedly and emphatically rejected the Parkway. It is too expensive, it will harm Jackson Park, decimate the Rotary Greenway trail, and slice through our family neighbourhoods. It is an ugly relic of 20th century car-focused planning that has no place in our 21st century reality and Plan. And, it was halted under an Order from the Ministry of the Environment. Thanks for taking this critical action by THIS Monday September 23! Rob Steinman, Friends of Jackson Park Cam Douglas, Peterborough Greenspace Coalition

New signage want up on the Jackson Creek Trail recently. The trail will be closed starting September 17th to allow for construction of the sewer line from the n...ew Lily Lake subdivision to be buried under the trail to the new pumping station on Parkhill Road. See photos of signs posted below for further details. See more

I am currently reading "The Hidden Life of Trees" by a German Forester. He talks about the amazing ways trees communicate, but I wasn't quite prepared for what I found on in the Jackson Park woods a couple of days ago:

Trilliums were abundant this morning on the Forest Loop Trail in Jackson Park