Only one High River councillor has admitted reading the entire Master Plan for the town's parks, trails, and pathways.

Carol MacMillan says she made it through the 467-page report while well-known naturalist and councillor Bruce Masterman admitted he couldn't.

Mayor Craig Snodgrass says he couldn't either.

"That's what Bruce was speaking to is it's a 467-page document, who's going to read all that?"

Council will go over the 25-page summary at its next Committee of the Whole meeting to decide what should ultimately go out to the public.

"That's the piece we really want to review because that's the piece people are actually going to pay attention to, not the tiny, minute details of 464 pages. We want to make sure that when we release this and when we accept this that we've got something the community can understand," Snodgrass says.

He says the report was done by consultants and not something the town did on its own.

That's important to council because one of the recommendations mentioned at last week's council meeting was to rename the campground at George Lane Park.

The mayor says neither council nor anyone else in the town has any interest in that, and they want the public to know that even if they accept the report it doesn't mean they accept every recommendation included in it, especially that one.

He did give kudos to Khalid Mohammed, the manager of planning development, for his work on such an extensive document.

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