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<www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://globalnews.ca/news/450593 4/former-bowmanville-zoo-public-park/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTQ2ODc2NzE1NzMyNTQ0O TczMzEyGjIwNjUwZjIzNGRmYjE0NmI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNErqRZLCpN6XT71D9mAn80N hItV1g> Former Bowmanville Zoo to become public park
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It was a staple in Bowmanville for almost a century. The Bowmanville Zoo has been closed now for a couple of years with the vast majority of the land …

There has been a plan in the works now for the past year, with the municipally working on a deal to purchase the former Bowmanville Zoo.

Residents of Bowmanville have been wondering what changes Bowmanville Zoo has been undergoing and what the future plans are for the zoo.

The former Bowmanville Zoo property will open to the public again as a new green space parkland in the east-end of Bowmanville. At no cost, Clarington will acquire nearly 34 acres of land along the Soper Creek Valley while plans are underway for new housing on 1.5 acres of the former zoo property.

“This is a legacy item,” said Clarington Mayor Adrian Foster. “We’ve got a significant park, which in the not-too-distant future is — I’m not going to say in the middle of town, but it’s going to be right smack in town … What a great benefit to the municipality.”

Under the new agreement, Savannah Land Corporation (the owners of the Bowmanville Zoo land) will transfer the land to Clarington without any buildings, and the property will be cleaned up in accordance with regulations set out by the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks. The redevelopment potential of the zoo lands is “extremely limited” because of its location in the floodplain, according to the Clarington staff report.

So the land will be given to Clarington to open up a public green space for the community. The parkland will stretch from King Street along Mearns Avenue and north (behind the existing subdivision) up to Concession Street. There will be an extra three kilometres of trails, connecting to already existing trails that stretch from the Visual Arts Centre to the south, through the Soper Creek Valley, all the way north of Sprucewood Avenue.

“It was top secret. Because it was so quiet, people thought that developments were going in here, condos going in, which makes it that much sweeter. Houses aren’t being built on the zoo lands. Condos aren’t being built. It’s green space,” said Foster.

That means the property will once again be open to the public.

“Fast forward 50 years to when more development is here and we’re going to have an amazing green swath of land that is going to be, I’m not going to say in the middle of Bowmanville but pretty much in the middle,” said Foster.

While turning the 34-acre former zoo into a public park is in the early stages, the hope is that it will be open late next year.

“There will be pathways because we’re connecting with Soper Creek to the south, we’re connecting to Camp 30 on the north but we’re going to have some public consultation to get some vision as to what we can do with it,” said Foster.

People who live in Bowmanville are excited to see the vast green-space stay that way.

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New developments are underway at the very eastern edge of Durham Region, 28 luxury homes are being built with a futuristic new process. These massive, modern homes are built with steel pieces manufactured off-site.

“It allows us to assemble homes, not build homes,” said Marc A. Bovet, CEO of Bone Structure.

The home frames are made of all-Canadian steel, 89 per cent of which is recycled steel. No wood cutting on-site, means no wood scrap. That’s estimated to save approximately 10 dumpsters of waste per home during the construction process, according to Bovet.

“There’s no garbage, no garbage containers here,” said Bovet. “It’s like if you get kids to play with playdough, there’s a mess. You get them playing with Lego and they’re all little Einsteins.”

The Newtonville neighbourhood, on Jones Avenue close to the Highway 401 on-ramp, is being built by local developer Fourteen Estates (headquartered in Scugog) and uses the steel construction design of Bone Structure, a Quebec company.

Homebuyers can choose one of the six possible Bone Structure models, ranging from 1,800 square foot to 3,500 square feet. Prices start at $1.3 million. Five of the models are two storeys and one is a bungalow.

<www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.durhamregion.com/news -story/8762091-clarington-s-residential-construction-boom-2017-growth-report -released/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNzkyMjQyNjE1NjQ3NjkyNjM0MDIaZjUzZTk1MGVmOWViYmIy MTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH9cLWkve2bIUuSAGB7KISpTp6-QQ> Clarington’s residential construction boom, 2017 growth report released
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In 2017, more than half of the residential growth was within the Clarington’s built boundary areas of Bowmanville, Courtice and Newcastle. Clarington …