City buying lands for conservation

Regional Council has directed staff to go ahead with negotiations to buy lands for an urban wilderness park in the Purcell’s Cove backlands.

Staff will negotiate to buy 379 acres in the area of Williams Lake and Colpitt Lake as part of a partnership with the Nature Conservancy of Canada. It has been in talks with the Shaw Group for the land it owns in the area and proposed the city buy the land for park purposes.