As promised at community meetings and in the SECA newsletters, we are updating you on the status of Geo-Energy's land use change application which was submitted to the City in mid October 2009.

On January 6, 2010 Alderman Diane Colley Urquhart informed SECA that the City Planning Department (CPD) had advised her that Geo-Energy completed the formal submission of their land use change application for the Shaw-nee Slopes golf course, late last fall. The CPD spent the last couple of months working with the applicant to ensure completeness of the application and will be officially distributing it to all key stakeholders sometime this month. Our Alderman has scheduled a meeting of the Ward 13 Land Use Mobility and Advisory Committee to which the SECA executive has been invited along with members of City administration land use and planning who will be sharing the timelines on the Shaw-nee golf course application going forward. 

Please be assured that as soon as the SECA Board has received and reviewed this application, we will call a town-hall meeting, most likely in February, to share its contents with the community.  Although the application is yet to be circulated, we anticipate that it will essentially follow the proposal provided at Geo-Energy's January 22, 2009 presentation to the community at the Delta Calgary South (see http://shawneeslopesdevelopment.ca/). It is the responsibility of the applicant to conduct consultation meetings with key stakeholders which we will insist includes an “open house” meeting for all residents of the Community. We continue to believe that their application is without merit and we will fight vigorously to retain the current land use designation of Special Purpose - Recreation.

We will notify you in an email and update the SECA web site (http://www.shawnee-evergreen.net /) as soon as the application has been received. A detailed assessment of the application will then be undertaken by the SECA Land Use Committee. We anticipate that this will be a very long process, likely spanning several years. Many issues will need to be addressed in the intervening period and a steady and consistent volunteer base is essential. Fortunately we have had a very positive response from our members. As specific needs are identified we will detail them and call for additional volunteers.

Gloria Dingwall, President