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Katz looks at pulling plug on water park plan
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Mayor Sam Katz.
Mayor Sam Katz is only five more weeks away from pulling the plug on a city plan to use public funds to build a private water park.
Since January 2008, the city has been trying to hand a $7-million grant to a private developer who would build a private, indoor water park with some provisions for public access. The grant was awarded to the Canad Inns hotel chain later that year, but withdrawn in 2009 when no progress had been made on the project, which the chain planned for Polo Park.
Since then, no proposals have come forward. On the floor of council Wednesday morning, Katz said if no viable proposal materializes before the end of March, the city should use the $7 million to fund other recreation amenities.
At some point, you must decide whether "to shoot it or feed it," the mayor later told reporters, employing a barn-yard analogy.
The funds for the water-park grant initially came from a $43-million recreation kitty, most of which has been spent on community centres. The cash came from Ottawa after Katz convinced the then-Liberal government to advance the city recreation funds in lieu of cash for a rapid-transit plan approved by the Glen Murray administration but cancelled under Katz.
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