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DDO hearing with OMB has been announced DDO case heads to OMB June 2 And, another point of view: A UFO runway for David Dunlap Observatory?

DDO bought by Metrus The sale price was quite a bit lower than earlier estimates. Too bad the Town of Richmond Hill could not convince the province to work out a deal to buy this property for the public. When this thing began in Jan 2007, U of T created a Real Estate Advisory Board to...

Video: U of T Moving art work and heritage material out of DDO http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsUQARA9kNY and...founding astronomer, C.A. Chant's grand daughter steps forward, asking U of T to keep contents with the Observatory. http://www.thestar.com/article/467103

We're still not sure if it has been sold... at least, it appears the deal has not closed yet. Despite all of the press, U of T has still not announced that the property has been sold on their own website. Supposedly half the funds (According to the Star, half will go to the Dunlap...

Ok, so my first reaction was "Wow -- you can draw rectangles". But there is more to it than that. The people who live here DO know the site. They have grown up around it and watched it regenerate for the past 70 years. You've drawn a road through where owls and dozens of other birds species...

Anybody else want to negotiate? Heh -- your description of U of T "negotiating" with the Dunlap family made me think of Bruce Willis in "Fifth Element". We still don't know all the details of this "open and transparent" process, but one of the Dunlap heirs has come forward to say that U of T...

Funny you should say that. DDO was used for forestry teaching and research for many years. That's how the farmland got reforested. Why can't the people of Richmond Hill have the DDO as their own High Park. U of T needs to slow down this process to give the Town of Richmond Hill, the province...

"Arguably financially sound" decisions can often be stupid -- and it depends on how you do the math. Adding a few thousand more people to Richmond Hill -- along with noise, cars, pollution -- will have many hidden costs. If the price of jet fuel rises to the point that sending astronomers to...

There is more to it than astronomy Really? After regenerating the forests on the property over the past 70 years, is it fair for U of T to steal this land from the people of Richmond Hill and the GTA? This is the largest remaining green space in the middle of our town. It's bigger than St...

And so the sale begins... Late this afternoon, U of T's Governing Council voted to declare the David Dunlap lands surplus so that it can be sold to the highest bidder. I was one of about a dozen "guests" from Richmond Hill. We were permitted to listen, but at the last minute learned that we...