The aim is to create a single nature reserve for Lake Kauka and Lake Pitkäjärvi that serves the residents of both towns.
A council initiative to create a nature reserve on the border between Tampere and Kangasala is going forward to the Tampere City Council. The city of Kangasala has already taken a cautiously positive view.
In their joint council initiatives, the green council groups of the cities of Tampere and Kangasala have proposed that a single nature conservation area be created on the southern border of the cities in Kaukajärvi and Pitkäjärvi lakes.
According to the initiative, the nature reserve would start at Haihara Manor Park, cover Hikivuoren Park, the Levonmäki beach area, the steep honeysuckle ridges of Kuuselantie and Lake Pitkäjärvi, and extend all the way to the old forests of Kisapirt.
The presentation partly overlaps with the workplace and residential area planned for Saaremaa. The related partial master plan was approved by the Kangasala city council in June. An appeal has been filed with the Hämeenlinna Administrative Court against the approval decision, so the formula has not entered into force.
Kangasala’s Saarenmaa is supposed to gradually grow together with Tampere’s Rusko and Annala. In the future, it is planned to run the Tampere region’s second ring road and tramway through the area.
The Greens, on the other hand, want to develop a new kind of neighborhood nature reserve for city dwellers in the area.
In addition to the municipalities, there are several landowners in the area, and there are some private plots and leisure apartments on the south shore of Lake Kaukajärvi. The nature reserve should be established in such a way that the rights of the current residents and cottagers are protected.