Help shape the future of Country Hills Park

We are upgrading Country Hills Park and adding stormwater facilities to the park. We want to hear what park experiences are important to you. Your input will help guide the design of these upgrades so that the park better serves the neighbourhood.

Park updates will include:

• Trail upgrades
• A stormwater pond or underground stormwater feature
• Upgrades to other park features in response to the community’s interests and needs

We want to hear how Country Hills Park is currently used and how the park could better support the community into the future. Your input will help us balance the new stormwater facility with park upgrades.

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Why are we adding stormwater measures to the park?

Climate change will bring more intense storms and more frequent freeze-thaw cycles. Creating more spaces for stormwater to collect in neighbourhoods reduces flooding during storms.

Runoff from the neighbourhood flows through a sewer under Country Hills Park to Balzer Creek and the Grand River. This makes Country Hills Park a good place to add a new stormwater facility to collect runoff. By adding stormwater storage to the neighbourhood, we would:

• Improve water quality in Balzer Creek and the Grand River
• Reduce the risk of flooding
• Reduce erosion in Balzer Creek
• Improve resilience against climate change
• Enhance community safety

For more information on this project, please read the project background.

This project was approved by the Ministry of the Environment in 2016 as part of the Integrated Stormwater Management Master Plan (ISWM-MP). If community consultations lead to required project modifications, we will seek to amend the relevant planning tools—in this case, the Class Environmental Assessment, under which the ISWM-MP was completed.