Dump trucks emptied loads of dirt at a development site in Kanata West Thursday, two weeks after the City of Ottawa called for a halt to development in the area.

A CBC camera filmed moving dump trucks and bulldozers Thursday at the Trinity Development Group site on Hazeldean Road along the Carp River, which is zoned for a commercial development with parking for 1,500 cars.

Trucks and bulldozers were adding landfill to a site in Kanata West Thursday that is zoned for a commercial development.
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As of late Thursday afternoon, the company had not returned calls from the CBC.

On Feb. 4, the city announced that no development would take place on the Carp River flood plain until the city had examined the circumstances surrounding its approval.

The city made the decision after learning in January that a plan to alter the flood plain for commercial and residential development was based on flawed flood predictions.

John Moser, director of planning for the City of Ottawa, said neither he nor his staff had been aware that movement of trucks at the site was still going on two weeks after the city's call for it to stop.

"Well, I'm surprised," he said. "So certainly we'll be pursuing this to see what is happening there and why is it happening."

Peggy Feltmate, city councillor for Kanata South, said the developers do have valid permits to work in the area until mid-March, but she thought in "good faith that they would stop at this point until we clarify all of the issues that are involved."