[All] FW: [healthycommunities] Seeking Support on SidewalkSnowclearing in Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge

[Alisa McClurg]

I vote yes.

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From: all-bounces at gren.ca [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Susan
Koswan
Sent: April 12, 2011 11:45 PM
To: 'gren'
Subject: [All] FW: [healthycommunities] Seeking Support on
SidewalkSnowclearing in Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge



Does GREN want to sign on to this?

Susan K

 

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Subject: [healthycommunities] Seeking Support on Sidewalk Snowclearing in
Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge

 

Dear Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge community groups and organizations,

The Pedestrian Charter Steering Committee seeks your support - in the form
of adding your organization's signature to a letter to city councils - in
our efforts to improve the City of Kitchener, City of Waterloo and City of
Cambridge sidewalk snowclearing policies.

Our committee has noted that the current by-laws do not adequately serve the
needs of members of our community who walk or use assistive mobility devices
in the winter months according to criteria laid out in the Pedestrian
Charter that all three cities have adopted.

We have drafted a letter (please see attached) to the city councils
requesting a review/reassessment of their respective sidewalk snowclearing
bylaws and pointing out some of the problems with the by-laws currently in
place. We would like to add strength to our letter by including the names of
groups and organizations in our community that share our concerns and
support our request for such a review/reassessment of the bylaw -- would
your group be willing to lend support to this issue by being listed in our
letter as supporting organization?

We welcome your feedback before we sent the letter to the municipal councils
which we would like to do by April 18th -- when the City of Waterloo has a
council meeting on the sidewalk snowclearing issue -- or as soon as possible
after that date. 

If you know of any other groups not on our list that might be potential
supporters of this initiative please let us know. 

We look forward to hearing back from you.

Thank you,

The Pedestrian Charter Steering Committee


*** IMPORTANT RELATED NOTE: If you are interested in the snowclearing issue,
we encourage you to register as a delegation to speak at the City of
Waterloo council meeting on April 18th (agenda starts at 6:30 pm) where a
staff report regarding snowclearing in the City of Waterloo will be brought
forward to council through the Draft Transportation Master Plan. We'd like
to highlight Section 17 (page 84-85) of the June 2010 City of Waterloo Draft
Transportation Master Plan (please see attached) which included the
rationale and a number of recommendations for the enhancement of "Sidewalk
Maintenance (Winter Control)." 

This Master Plan Report was presented to Council for information. The next
draft of the report won't be available to the public until April 15th, so
some of the details may be different, but we understand from discussions
with staff that recommendations will still pursue an improved sidewalk
snowclearing program undertaken by the City. Please review the updated
reports when they are released on the City of Waterloo website along with
the council meeting agenda on April 15th and consider making a statement in
support of enhanced snowclearing recommendations at the April 18th meeting. 

This is an excellent opportunity to encourage the City of Waterloo council
not only to reassess current by-laws, but also put a potentially more
proactive plan into place! Delegations can register by calling Rose Clemens
in the Clerks Dept. at 519-747-8549 (Rose.Clemens at waterloo.ca). You will
have 10 minutes to speak if you register prior to 10 am on April 18th and 5
minutes to speak if you register afterward.


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Pedestrian Charter Steering Committee
email | pedestriancharter at gmail.com
<mailto:pedestriancharter at together4health.ca> 
website | http://www.together4health.ca/workgroups/pedestrian-charter

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