City expresses interest to purchase surplus land from WRDSB
Posted Jun 29, 2017 12:02:39 PM.
Last Updated Jun 29, 2017 12:25:05 PM.
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The city will be making an offer to purchase approximately 35 acres of land from the Waterloo Region District School Board.
These lands are located west of Fischer-Hallman Road and immediately south of the city’s future South Kitchener District Park. Development on that park will begin later this fall.
Offers are subject to a number of conditions and all offers received by the school board by July 31, 2017 will be considered in a priority sequence under provincial legislation.
More details, including purchase price, will be available should the city’s offer be accepted by the board.
If the city’s offer is accepted, these additional lands would complement the existing plans for the South Kitchener District Park. This land could also be considered as part of the replacement strategy for the current sports fields located on the Budd Park property, as that land is intended for industrial development.
The reason for buying the land is because at some point Budd Park on Homer Watson will be converted into industrial space.
They want to move everything that was at Budd Park to the new piece of land at some point in time.
Budd Park is some of the last available land that can be used for industrial purposes and was always meant to be industrial.
No timeline on when Budd park will need to shut it down.
Budd park is 40 ares — WRDSB land is 35 acres.
New parcel of land will hopefully have six soccer fields, two lit diamonds, court surfaces, indoor soccer, and maybe get artificial turf fields.
South Kitchener District Park (41 acres) will contain water features, a court area, multi-use playing fields, a soccer field, a football field, possibly a pool and arena, or an indoor playing surface.
