"Officials say the Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area has transformed a degraded industrial section of the waterfront into a sprawling green space. It is named after Jim Tovey, a late Mississauga councillor who was committed to environmental conservation. The conservation area, all 26 hectares, is located along Mississauga's eastern shoreline next to the emerging mixed use community of Lakeview Village. It opens to the public on May 30."
"Stephen Dasko, Mississauga city councillor for Ward 1, said the conservation area was created by crews taking clean excess soil and construction rubble from around Peel Region and redirecting it to the site, where there used to be a coal-fired power plant. "We wanted to take what was an industrial area where the waterfront really had been abused for decades and turn it back into something clean, green and sustainable," Dasko said."
""Quite frankly, this should be the standard of what we should encourage others to do to embrace nature and the environment," he said. "Instead of really cannibalizing our waterfront, we're embracing our waterfront, welcoming the public here and having people learn as well." Dasko said the conservation area, which has teaching areas, was also created in collaboration with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation."
"The site includes a network of trails, boardwalks, lookouts and gathering spaces, including an Indigenous Teaching Amphitheatre. The conservation area has an Indigenous theme throughout the green space, he said."
Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area is scheduled to open to the public on May 30 in Mississauga. The 26-hectare site is located along the city’s eastern shoreline beside the Lakeview Village mixed-use community. The area was created by using clean excess soil and construction rubble from around Peel Region and redirecting it to a former coal-fired power plant site. The project transformed a degraded industrial waterfront into a green space intended to be clean, sustainable, and welcoming to the public. The conservation area includes teaching areas, a network of trails, boardwalks, lookouts, and gathering spaces, including an Indigenous Teaching Amphitheatre. It was developed in collaboration with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and features an Indigenous theme throughout the site.
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