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

Wed Apr 13 16:47:54 EDT 2011

I vote yes also Sharon

--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Alisa McClurg <alisa.mcclurg at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: Alisa McClurg <alisa.mcclurg at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [All] FW: [healthycommunities] Seeking Support on SidewalkSnowclearing in Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge
To: "'gren'" <all at gren.ca>
Received: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 6:31 AM

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I vote 
yes.

  -----Original Message-----
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 

  From: 
  healthycommunities-list at socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org 
  [mailto:healthycommunities-list at socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org] On Behalf Of 
  healthycommunities at socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org
Sent: 
  April-08-11 12:05 AM
To: pedestrian.charter at gmail.com
Cc: 
  ahilliard at wonderfulwaterloo.com; trails at woolwich.ca; doucettem at cambridge.ca; 
  paula at ilcwr.org; CACAQ at pirg.uwaterloo.ca; linda.pretty at kitchener.ca; 
  waterloo at ontario.cancer.ca; kitchener at runningroom.com; uwsp at feds.ca; 
  safecommunitiesonthegrand at gmail.com; hcrn at healthy.uwaterloo.ca; 
  healthycommunities at socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org; hello at tritag.ca; 
  graac at kitchener.ca; waterloo at runningroom.com; info at wpirg.org; 
  Admin at healthywoolwich.org; andy at activecambridge.ca; alicja.kennedy at wdghu.org; 
  lori.ludwig at waterloo.ca; kwwalkingclassic at gmail.com; 
  Pauline.Potzhold at grhosp.on.ca; nwazir at kdchc.org; 
  kelly at socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org
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.

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

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