John Bacon

Thank you for the reply John. The parking spaces for vehicles and trailers already exists and requires no additional construction or maintenance expenses. It has always been sufficient to accommodate all users. The problem is that they closed the access with a gate. Removing the gate would be very small job (or locking it in the open position, even easier) which can be done in a few minutes by a friendly volunteer at no cost. 

Those spots will be gone when contruction is completed (at least according to the plans that I have seen).  There will be parallel parking along the side of the road.  Perhaps you'll get lucky and there will be a spot long enough for a vehicle with trailer.

My brother-in-law attended some of the meetings for the project.  He did say that most people preferred to just leave the area the way it was.  Unfortunately, that's not what the politicians chose to do.

Parallel parking is acceptable. But it's the gate that is forbidding access to the launching beach. 

What I saw recently is that they urbanized the place, completely stripping it of its semi rural charm. It now looks like an ordinary downtown city park, quite an ugly one too, which is a pity. It will take many centuries for nature to heal this ... if it is left to do it.  I understand why most people who were fortunate to be invited to the meetings preferred to leave it the way it was. For me it was a place I much enjoyed going to for a relaxing walk, especially in the winter. I won't be going there any more for that. It's sad to see another good thing that is taken away from us.

But the boat launching beach was the last place for us to access Lake Ontario in this region. The (very few) other launches in the city core are totally affordable to people like us. That is why I would like to have as much help as possible to fight this and have this access restored (ie. the gate removed.)