Huge piece of south Nanaimo land to be protected as park
NANAIMO — More than 250-acres of forested land in Nanaimo’s south end will soon be protected as parkland.
Council directed staff to place an official park designation on nearly all of the Greater Nanaimo Water District land — a 252-acre piece south of Colliery Dam Park between Harewood Mines Rd. and Nanaimo Lakes Rd.
“That is a phenomenal asset in any community, to have parks of this size,” coun. Gord Fuller said, also referencing Linley Valley Park in the north end.
A bylaw will be prepared to dedicate the area as parkland and the official community plan amended to apply a parks and open space designation. Once passed, approval of the electorate is required to use it for another purpose or sell it.