In a Sudbury.com article from August of 2015, Mayor Bigger, and Ron Arnold of Dalron Construction unveiled the Villages of Montrose Development.
In the article:
“The developer purchased around 130 acres of land at the north end of Montrose Avenue in the mid-1980s.”
Dalron partner Phil Arnold is quoted as saying. “It will be developed into single-family homes, garden home-type condominiums, semi-detached housing, and beyond that we’re not quite sure yet.”
“Dalron is currently building 34 garden-type condominiums in the subdivision, aimed primarily at seniors who intend to downsize from larger homes.”
“Dalron president Ron Arnold said that while developers are required to set aside at least five per cent of residential land for parks, they opted to set aside 20 per cent instead, for Villages of Montrose.”
“The development will include walking trails, ponds and several parks.”
“Our goal is to get a quality neighbourhood that everybody will enjoy,” he said.
OK. That was said, and real promises were made to the buyers of the Villages of Montrose that the trail would remain, and that there would be this greenspace, and more than required.
So we understand why they wanted to market the development with the slogan ‘Welcome Home to Nature’, but now we look at the Sept 2021 development re-draft and it’s like these things were not said, and promises were not made.
Promises were made.
People were sold on this being an exceptionally well integrated community that integrates more nature, more trails, more parkland, and “a quality neighbourhood that everybody will enjoy“.
The current plan that is before Council has none of this.
Broken promises, oversight, or out right lies. Which is it?
Hopefully an oversight, but now, let’s ‘see’ those promises kept.
Re-draft the re-draft. It seems you missed some thing. We can’t approve this.
Put the trail, and parks back in the plan, and let’s re-design this subdivision to be the quality neighbourhood that everybody will enjoy, and the quality neighborhood you promised.