Save Hudson's Como Gardens Bog
Sauver la tourbière "Como Gardens" de Hudson
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Save Como Gardens Peat Bog
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There are other considerations to keep in mind. Take a drive up Como Gardens by the Palliative Care Residence to see the blanketed folks who sit in all kinds of weather absorbing the sights and sounds of this fine wetland. Remembering. Watching. A place where life starts. There is the chance the scene will ,for those who follow, change in the ill- planned future. Years of construction clamor: beeping trucks, pounding hammers, johnny-on-the spots. Lack of parking on this narrow corridor. . .Marvin Gaye sang it 40 years ago. Mercy, mercy me.
Delevoping in this wetland may very well destroy the conserved zone by drastically changing the water level. Saving the 60% of the bog on paper seems simple. Just draw it on Autocad and hit save.
The realities when you stick the shovel in are different. At present the trees and shrubs in the bog don’t have to send their roots out far or deep to get the water they need to survive. Drop that water level and they are left high and dry, unable to adapt quickly enough .The flora is dead and the fauna on the move. Eight inches of drop is enough. Simple. Bog on paper saved. Bog in reality, adios. Unstable soil conditions, blown ecosystems, poor drainage. Do we really need to create our very own, down the road ,residential nightmare in the interests of a few dollars in tax revenues?
6000 years old. . . classified by the 2008 Technica Greenspace Audit as the most ecologically sensistive peat bog in the entire town of Hudson.
At present aprox. 60% of the bog has been preserved thanks to the Ministry of Transport Enviroment land swap deal that was necessitated by the construction of Highway 30.
However, the adjacent wetland is still privately owner by a developer who would like to have the land re-zoned to allow for multi unit housing (strip housing) along the frontage of the bog.
If modifications of by-law 527 are passed this will allow development of as many as 18 units (see yellow) along this narrow corridor, almost facing the Palliative Care Center.
The residents of Hudsons have now twice petitioned the town council to not allow development and to not re-zone these lots