<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I vote yes also Sharon<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 4/13/11, Alisa McClurg <i><alisa.mcclurg@sympatico.ca></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Alisa McClurg <alisa.mcclurg@sympatico.ca><br>Subject: Re: [All] FW: [healthycommunities] Seeking Support on SidewalkSnowclearing in Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge<br>To: "'gren'" <all@gren.ca><br>Received: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 6:31 AM<br><br><div id="yiv822879768">
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<div><span class="yiv822879768031373113-13042011"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I vote
yes.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" lang="en-us" class="yiv822879768OutlookMessageHeader" align="left"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> all-bounces@gren.ca
[mailto:all-bounces@gren.ca] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan Koswan<br><b>Sent:</b>
April 12, 2011 11:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'gren'<br><b>Subject:</b> [All] FW:
[healthycommunities] Seeking Support on SidewalkSnowclearing in Kitchener,
Waterloo, and Cambridge<br><br></font></div>
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<p class="yiv822879768MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt;">Does
GREN want to sign on to this?</span></p>
<p class="yiv822879768MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'sans-serif';COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt;">Susan
K</span></p>
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<p class="yiv822879768MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:10pt;" lang="EN-US">
healthycommunities-list@socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org
[mailto:healthycommunities-list@socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>healthycommunities@socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org<br><b>Sent:</b>
April-08-11 12:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> pedestrian.charter@gmail.com<br><b>Cc:</b>
ahilliard@wonderfulwaterloo.com; trails@woolwich.ca; doucettem@cambridge.ca;
paula@ilcwr.org; CACAQ@pirg.uwaterloo.ca; linda.pretty@kitchener.ca;
waterloo@ontario.cancer.ca; kitchener@runningroom.com; uwsp@feds.ca;
safecommunitiesonthegrand@gmail.com; hcrn@healthy.uwaterloo.ca;
healthycommunities@socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org; hello@tritag.ca;
graac@kitchener.ca; waterloo@runningroom.com; info@wpirg.org;
Admin@healthywoolwich.org; andy@activecambridge.ca; alicja.kennedy@wdghu.org;
lori.ludwig@waterloo.ca; kwwalkingclassic@gmail.com;
Pauline.Potzhold@grhosp.on.ca; nwazir@kdchc.org;
kelly@socialplanningcouncil-cnd.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [healthycommunities]
Seeking Support on Sidewalk Snowclearing in Kitchener, Waterloo, and
Cambridge</span></p></div>
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<p class="yiv822879768MsoNormal">Dear Kitchener, Waterloo, and Cambridge community groups
and organizations,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br>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.
<br><br>If you know of any other groups not on our list that might be
potential supporters of this initiative please let us know. <br><br>We look
forward to hearing back from you.<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>The Pedestrian
Charter Steering Committee<br><br><br><b>*** IMPORTANT RELATED NOTE:</b> 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)." <br><br>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. <br><br>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 (<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Rose.Clemens@waterloo.ca" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=Rose.Clemens@waterloo.ca">Rose.Clemens@waterloo.ca</a>). 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.<br><br><br clear="all"><b><span style="BORDER-BOTTOM:windowtext 1pt solid;BORDER-LEFT:windowtext 1pt solid;PADDING-BOTTOM:0cm;PADDING-LEFT:0cm;PADDING-RIGHT:0cm;BORDER-TOP:windowtext 1pt solid;BORDER-RIGHT:windowtext 1pt solid;PADDING-TOP:0cm;"><img id="yiv822879768_x0000_i1025" border="0" alt="Image removed by sender." src="cid:1.3540385090@web65709.mail.ac4.yahoo.com" width="100" height="100"></span><br>Pedestrian
Charter Steering Committee</b><br>email | <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pedestriancharter@together4health.ca" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=pedestriancharter@together4health.ca">pedestriancharter@gmail.com</a><br>website | <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.together4health.ca/workgroups/pedestrian-charter">http://www.together4health.ca/workgroups/pedestrian-charter</a></p></div></blockquote>
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