Zoning Amendment Application/410 Claair Road East

As residents of Westminster Woods, we are totally opposed to the above Zoning Amendment Application of the existing residential R.4A-34 Zoning, to include ‘religious establishment’.

Please note our opposition strictly addresses PLANNING principles, and does not reflect, in any way, anti-religious nor anti-interrelational reasons, not to mention racism. We strongly believe the proposed lot is much too small to accommodate the nature of the proposed building ; and this part of Ward # 6 does not have the required infrastructures to accommodate this kind of land use. We also strongly believe the addition of such a religious establishment of this nature would completely alter the quality of life in this part of Ward # 6.

We already know our opposition will classify us under the category of ‘racists’ – as it is widely reflected in blogs and other reading material about this project. TD

Naming of Parks and Assets

Heritage Guelph feels very strongly that it would be inappropriate to assign an individual’s name to the area currently known as the Civic Square (including also the area in front of the old City Hall), but recommends that the name Market Square be given to this area in recognition to the name that was assigned by John Galt in his original plan for the City.

Heritage Guelph has made this and a couple of other suggestions to staff in response to the public notice, but asked me to personally pass our concern to you and members of Council.  HR

NO Sikh temple!

I am shocked and angry that city plans to build a religious temple in our beautiful community–Westminster Wood.

1. I, myself, am an immigrant from China. My husband is from Iran. We came to Canada because we love Canadian culture and life. We are always very grateful to generations of immigrants from Europe, who built this wonderful country for us to enjoy. We need to respect the history. We are here to share the common value, not to bring the difference.

Public invited to suggest names for City parks and assets

As part of a new Commemorative Naming Policy, the City of Guelph is inviting the public to suggest names for six new assets. Submissions are due by Thursday, February 11.

“Our new commemorative naming policy gives people a chance to submit names which they feel reflect their neighbourhoods and communities when naming new parks, facilities and other assets.” says Development and Parks Planning Manager, Scott Hannah.

GUFF Newsletter Winter 2010

Hello GUFFers:

We hope that you are enjoying the trees as they sport their winter look the branches now reveal different features of their beauty. One can enjoy being among them and with a handy guide, can see the differences and marvel at their variety of shapes and colour.