[All] GREN meeting tonight Tuesday the 23rd

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Hi Everyone



To add to your issue Robert if we don't get an LRT system or better mass transit options in place, and new roads are needed, 
the aggregates will most likely come from our own local quarries and the capture zones along the Grand River etc. Less aggregates = more actual 
protection for the moraine. So much emphasis has been placed on protecting the water but without protecting the sediment composition that controls infiltration, water flow and flow rates, we're really not going to prevent the damages.

Lulu

--- On Tue, 11/23/10, Robert Milligan <mill at continuum.org> wrote:

From: Robert Milligan <mill at continuum.org>
Subject: Re: [All] GREN meeting tonight Tuesday the 23rd
To: "John Jackson" <jjackson at web.ca>
Cc: "'Manuel Riemer'" <manuel.riemer at gmail.com>, "Felix Munger" <felixmunger at mac.com>, "GREN" <all at gren.ca>
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 12:19 PM

John & All,
Looks like an interesting meeting -- thank you for putting the Agenda together John. I would like to suggest the following addition:Five minutes for me to discuss:
1) key aspects of the LRT system design such as the need to better address our accelerating road congestion and how necessary is a very costly 2-track corridor along King between W & K downtowns in the initial stage;
2) the related need to be more concerned with developer disincentizing thru the negative health effects &/or disagreeable aesthetics of toxic chemicals in our air in downtown/' near downtown' areas that we wish to intensify (so as to better control urban sprawl and help decrease the use of roads connecting to the periphery).
The 2) was very much influenced by concerns expressed by other GRENERS over the last for months about various env'tl health  effects and by my noticing how AirBoss Rubber Compounding (Strange/Glasgow area), is polluting the air -- depending on the wind direction -- from downtown Kitchener to near downtown Waterloo (what to do?). http://www.profilecanada.com/companydetail.cfm?company=152349_AirBoss_Rubber_Compounding_ON
Robert

On 23-Nov-10, at 9:51 AM, John Jackson wrote:
 GREN meeting: Tuesday November 23, 2010 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.
 St. John’s Kitchen (Victoria at Weber), 2nd floor, enter from side, limited parking in back and you need to enter from Weber St.) 
 
 Agenda:
 discussion on municipal election results and how best to follow-up on the elections updates on GREN activities – existing and proposed
 Pipeline committee – Susan B Source Drinking Water Protection: Comments on Grand River Watershed Assessment – Dec 6 - John Status of Waterloo Region Official Plan and country-side line - Kevin Santa Claus Parade – Susan K Climate Action Network letter - Lulu
 Proposal re: Green Book –Manuel Riemer & Felix Munger Member Updates 
 West Side lands – Lulu Salt in groundwater - Greg Municipal integrity commissioners - Lulu Trees in Guelph – Norah
 Future meetings
 
 John
 
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 John Jackson
 17 Major Street
 Kitchener, Ontario N2H 4R1
 519-744-7503
 
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