Civic Affairs Meeting

Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to speak to the Civic Affairs Group this past Monday..

It is such a revelation to hear from you of all the complexities of the decisions you have to make. Nothing is as simple as we are lead to believe getting our information only from the papers and there are always many sides to consider we are unaware of. Hopefully by hearing you, we will be able to become more informed and can pass our knowledge on to those we meet.

Thanks again for all the time and effort you are giving to the city we all are so fond of.  JG

True environmentalists were angered by protesters

The following letter to the editor appeared in the November 10 edition of the Guelph Mercury:

The late John Edwards, who was an environmentalist, community leader, and the man who led our neighbourhood in saving an open space for what is now Carter Park, and the tiny frog whose habitat was threatened by a housing development, would be appalled and disappointed at the actions of the so-called activists who harrassed, threatened and abused the city and business leaders at the Hanlon Business Park recently.

HCBP comment

I am a student at the University of Guelph completing a degree in water resources engineering.

I would like to express my disgust in how the City is pursuing the HCBP. Why do you consider it green? How do you consider this project to follow LID (Low Impact Dev.) practices, when you are still installing conventional stormwater management systems and are still paving over 70% (I assumed the 24% of open land was the only certain pervious area) of the land?

Dwindling downtown traffic on the agenda

The following article appeared in the November 10 edition of the Guelph Mercury:

In the summer of 1990, more than 12,000 vehicles a day drove along Wyndham Street through St. George’s Square.

Seventeen years later, daily trips on the same stretch had dropped to about 5,400.

Return to main street

Traffic Counts for a 24 hour period on Wyndham St through St.George’s Square:

July 1990                               12,500
September 1993                  12,100
July 1998 Signal Lights at Wyndham & Quebec Programming Change
October 1998                         8,300
October 2002                        6,445
November 2004                  6,495
April 2007                             5,476