91原创 Township will use the proceeds of South Brookswood development to fund most of a $7.9 million upgrade to Noel Booth Community Park.

The funding approved at July鈥檚 last council meeting will go towards installing new LED lighting on several baseball diamonds, upgrading backstops and fences, repairing and enhancing trails and pedestrian bridges, and decommissioning a septic field.

An even $6 million was to have come from the Brookswood community amenity contribution (CAC) fund, but Mayor Eric Woodward suggested entirely cleaning out that fund, using up all $6.386 million in that account.

鈥淭hat came from the so-called 鈥榮pecial 13鈥� developments that were allowed to proceed before the neighbourhood plans were approved,鈥� Woodward said.

Those developments were built after the Brookswood Official Community Plan (OCP) was adopted in 2017, but before more detailed neighbourhood plans were approved by council in July.

Now that the neighbourhood plans are approved, there won鈥檛 be a specific Brookswood CAC fund. Money from developments across the community will be going into a wider CAC reserve fund.

The council voted shortly after the last election to increase CAC rates. CACs go towards local priorities like parks, libraries, and rec centres.

Council voted unanimously in favour of the project.

The Noel Booth Community Park project was the second major park upgrade decision at the July 24 meeting, after the council approved another $20 million to build a new spray park, sports fields, and picnic areas at Yorkson Creek Community Park.

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