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The group behind plans to convert the hill in Diefenbaker Park into a winter recreation facility is going to try to replant as many trees as it can.

Optimist Hill Recreation Park project manager Ryan Rogal appeared before a Saskatoon city council committee Monday to explain plans to start transforming the hill.

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Work on the project could begin soon on the first phase of the project, which would include two lifts, snowboard and ski runs, tubing runs and toboggan runs.

The plan entails scooping five metres of earth from the bottom of the hill and adding six metres to the top for a net gain of 11 metres. Some trees will be displaced by the project.

“So we will be looking at replanting opportunities within Diefenbaker Park to replace that biomass,” Rogal told council’s planning, development and community services committee.

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Saskatoon’s Optimist Club has formed a separate non-profit corporation, the OSP Community Development Corporation, to manage the Optimist Hill project.