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Whaletown Commons Project
Whaletown Commons:
A Cortes Community Project
The Whaletown Commons Project is a Cortes Island community initiative, whose mandate is to secure public land to meet the future needs of all Cortes Islanders. The land we are working to acquire is the 71-acre property adjacent to Burnside Creek (also known as Whaletown Creek) located in the heart of Whaletown, next to the fire hall.
Our vision is fourfold:
1. To create a community park and public assembly area in Whaletown.
2. To protect the salmon-bearing Burnside Creek and its unique ecology in perpetuity.
3. To provide a possible future home for some of the community's public assembly buildings, currently housed in provisional locations or on privately held lands, where rebuilding, expanding, or extending use agreements may not be possible.
4. To reserve this important piece of land for Cortes Islanders, so that we can decide, both now and in the future, how to use this land to meet the needs our community.
The Whaletown Commons Society was chartered in 2005 as a not-for- profit society, dedicated to fulfilling this vision. Please join us! We need your support to make this virtual commons real!
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