{"id":439,"date":"2010-06-20T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apls.tech-mentor.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2010-09-07T06:57:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T10:57:54","slug":"moratorium-development-of-canard-blanc-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/archives\/439","title":{"rendered":"Moratorium on Development of l\u2019\u00cele du Canard Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Jessy Laflamme - Info 07\" href=\"http:\/\/www.info07.com\/?controllerName=author&amp;id=2268&amp;siteId=100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-272\" title=\"Jessy Laflamme\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/JessyLaflamme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The citizens of Lac-Simon want to protect their island<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project to build a permanent dock at l\u2019\u00cele du Canard Blanc is put on hold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a special information meeting held on Saturday, the Municipality undertook an obligation to perform a study on the capacity of Lac Simon to support further development, in the current year*. Following this decision, the developer has committed to await the results of this study** before continuing his efforts to obtain a permit to build the permanent dock on l\u2019\u00cele du Canard Blanc. He also pledged to respect the moratorium of one year for his proposed development of non-lakeside land lots.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Almost 100 people attended the meeting Saturday. \u201cThe developer bought many lots in order to undertake residential development on the island and that is where we have a problem,\u201d said President of the Lac Simon Property-owners\u2018 Association (LSPA), Lise Villeneuve. \u201cThis island is a gem, we must protect it because it\u2019s a fragile ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A petition containing nearly 100 names is currently circulating. It will be presented to council on July 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAcceptance of a moratorium and the Mayor\u2019s commitment to the study of the capacity of Lac Simon to support further development, satisfy some of the demands that the Association submitted to council\u201d, said Ms. Villeneuve. \u201cWe are very satisfied with the outcome of the meeting. The atmosphere was very cordial and the results have exceeded our expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Ms. Villeneuve, this meeting is a first step towards developing a vision of sustainable development and for protection of the environment of the entire ecosystem that is Lac Simon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">N.B. -This article was originally written in French by Jessy Laflamme of the weekly newspaper, La Petite-Nation, and the translation may contain slight differences due to your humble editor\u2019s interpretation of the original text.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*(editor\u2019s note: the actual resolution that the council passed was to allocate a budget for the study in the 2011 fiscal year)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">**(editor\u2019s note: if it is done within one year)<\/p>\n\n<!-- FB Like Button Starbit IT Solutions BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/archives\/439\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-width=\"450\" data-share=\"1\" ><\/div>\n<!-- FB Like Button Starbit IT Solutions END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The citizens of Lac-Simon want to protect their island The project to build a permanent dock at l\u2019\u00cele du Canard Blanc is put on hold. At a special information meeting held on Saturday, the Municipality undertook an obligation to perform &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/archives\/439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}