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DN: ARCHER.GPA
REPORT
Meeting: General Purpose and Administration Committee File#
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1992 Res. #
Report#:---p8-92-94 File #: Pin 22 . 1 By-Law#
Subject: COUNCIL CORRESPONDENCE
REQUEST BY DURHAM ARCHER CLUB FOR LEASE OF TOWN'S OWNED LAND
LOT 1, CONCESSION 9, DARLINGTON
Recommendations:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and
Administration Committee recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report PD-92-92 be received for information;
2 . THAT the Durham Archer Club be advised that the Town of
Newcastle deny its request to lease Town land at Lot 1,
Concession 9, Darlington; and
3 . THAT a copy of Report PD- 92 -92 be forwarded to the Durham
Archer Club.
1. BACKGROUND:
At its meeting held on February 24 , 1992, Council received
correspondence from the Durham Archer Club requesting to
lease the Town's land at Lot 1, Concession 9, Darlington for
the purpose of holding the Club's activities. Copy of the
correspondence is attached as Appendix 1.
2 . COMMENTS:
2 . 1 The Town of Newcastle owns 134 acres in Lots 1 and 2 ,
Concession 9, in the former Township of Darlington. This
property was recently surveyed and preliminary testing on
the property indicates that it contains a significant ( .5
million to 1. 5 million cubic metres) amount of mineral
aggregate (sand and gravel) .
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2 . 2 The Public Works Department is presently preparing
preliminary documents in an effort to develop this property
as a potential aggregate source. In the event that
development of this property is successful, the Town would
have a guaranteed aggregate supply which could look after
the Town's aggregate needs for some twenty years hence.
2 . 3 Monies have been approved in the 1992 Capital Works Budget
to continue with the work which commenced in 1991 and will
involve various agencies working on the property throughout
1992 and beyond.
2 . 4 Any activity, such as an archery range, will be a hindrance
and liability to the Town from proceeding as explained
herein.
2 . 5 In order to protect the Town's interest, the request from
the Durham Archer Club should be DENIED.
Respectfully submitted, Recommended for presentation
to the Committee
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Franklin Wu, M.C. I.P. i,awrence Ef Kotseff
Director of Planning Chief A mi istrative
and Development Officer
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APPENDIX 11
%RCHERS
Dear Mr. Oakes.
I am writing not only for myself, but on behalf
of the entire membership of Durham Archers Archery Club. Our
club was established almost 12 years ago by a handful of archers
who went on a hunt for land so that they would have a place to
gather, and bring their families. A place where archers could
meet, and practice, .and discuss their sport. Their goal was to
promote archery, and to promote bowhunting.
Their hunt for land finally ended when they contacted Mr. and
Mrs. Dow, who own a farm N.E. of Bowmanville on the 4th conn.
in the Durham region. The Dow family very generously donated
a part of their land that they were not using, for our club.
This was on the condition that .if ever they (bows ) had need
of this land in. the future, we the Durham Archers would have to
vacate the premises.
So a non-profit archery club which we named Pineridge Archery
Club was established. This name was later changed to Durham
Archers Archery Club. Over this almost 12 year period, we have
grown from a handful of members (about 10) to nearly 150 members
strong. These members come from all walks of life - doctors,
teachers, policemen, R.C.M.P. , students, young and old, and
even possible Olympic Archers .
Each year our club hosts at least 2 archery tournaments,
(sometimes 3 or 4) with contestants coming from across Canada,
and the U.S. , with the number of contestants increasing each
year due to the ever increasing popularity of' the sport of arch
ery.
We have a 28 target course with the majority of these targets
being McKenzie 3-D targets, and we boast a warm-up, and practice
range of 12 target butts (made from recycled materials) - almost
3 times as many as other clubs. We have established, and maintain
ed, a '100% clean safety record. We have maintained, and improved
the property (by planting trees, clearing deadfall, recycling)
that our club is now situated on, until we have become one of
the best archery clubs in Ontario. We are affiliated with the
O.A.A. (Ont. Ass. of Archers) , the I'.B.O. (International Bow-
hunters Org. ) , and O.F.A.H. (Ont. Federation of Anglers and
Hunters ) .
Now 12 years later, and after all the hard work of establishing
a class A archery club, we have been informed by the Dow family
that our club must vacate the premises by June of this year, due
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