r/durham • u/Karma_Canuck • 1d ago
Pickering inching closer to acquiring Frenchman’s Bay
https://www.durhamradionews.com/archives/218786-20
u/Comfortable-Bench497 1d ago
The bay looks like crap to be honest. I don't think the government managing it will make it better. I'm sure some developer would happily pay to clean things if they let them build a couple things along the water.
Durham region is so weird about the waterfront.
Residential housing units on the water? NO!
Factories, empty brownfield lots and dilapidated warehouses on the water? YES!
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u/Status-Art-9684 23h ago
What a waste of money. It's adjacent to Pickering Nuclear which will operate for another 50 years. The investor bought the land hoping the plant would shut down and he would make it rich. Somehow the mayor wants to bail him out now it's being refurbished
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u/wylee_one 21h ago
Bingo Bingo we have a winner wanna bet how much the developer has donated to the re elect campaign?
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u/Typical-Role-8062 8h ago
It should never have been a “privately owned body of water” to begin with. Protect it for the birds and fish and limited recreation and preserve as much shoreline as possible. It’s only a matter of time before some developer puts in a maze of docks and ugly “floating homes” evading taxes costing the rest of us and polluting the water while ruining everyone’s view, and disrupting the ecosystem. Crazy that higher levels of government have dragged their feet so much on this, the deal to bring the bay back into public stewardship should have been done years ago.