Wonderful news. Making progress! <div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1610991283212"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1610991283368">Lulu <br id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1610991269676"><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>----- Forwarded message -----</div> <div><b>From:</b> "Get Concerned Stratford" <info@wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca></div> <div><b>To:</b> "Louisette Lanteignne" <water.lulu@yahoo.ca></div> <div style="display:"none""><b>Cc:</b> </div> <div><b>Sent:</b> Thu., 14 Jan. 2021 at 10:11 a.m.</div> <div><b>Subject:</b> Breaking news – Xinyi proposal put on hold</div> </div> <div id="yiv5214222722">
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of Stratford Puts Xinyi proposal on hold in response to Community
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<strong>City of Stratford Puts Xinyi proposal on
hold </strong><strong>in response to Community Opposition</strong>
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<p>It appears Stratford City Council took the decision to pause the
evaluation of Xinyi Canada Glass Limited’s proposal to build a $400
million float glass facility in Stratford.</p>
<p>As I write this, we do not yet have an official notice from City of
Stratford however Xinyi has released a statement (<a href="http://www.wellingtonwaterwatchers.ca/r?u=z7H9wr2ODug18JlD98WqYftYUHmLKkFDeZcOrPv5x2jAEpGhwEufgtWAl3Wg9KEA&e=a63f584a59a0d87ccf92e3e3b4edd7e4&utm_source=wellingtonwaterwatchers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_202101&n=2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">see
here</a>) .</p>
<p>However, the City’s lawyer contacted David Donnelly, lawyer for Get
Concerned Stratford late yesterday afternoon to inform us of the
following.</p>
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<li>Stratford Council has put the Xinyi matter on “hiatus”. The City
is not doing anything regarding the Xinyi application for 4-6
weeks. </li>
<li>After this hiatus, if the City intends to proceed with the Cost
Sharing Agreement evaluation, the City will seek comments on a Public
Consultation Plan. </li>
<li>There will <u>not be a vote </u>on the Cost Sharing Agreement
until a public consultation program has been completed. </li>
<li>This means it will be weeks/months before a Xinyi vote goes to
Council. </li>
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<p>Donnelly added “Congratulations, you have been heard”.</p>
<p>There is much more to be learned and shared but I wanted to share
with you what we know as we know it.</p>
<p>The commitment to a thorough public consultation is an important
first step in restoring public confidence in the Mayor and Council and
during this pause we are asking Mayor and Council to write to Steve
Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and ask him to revoke
the Ministerial Zoning Order (MZO). The purpose of the MZO was to deny
public consultation, and now that Council appears to be restoring
public consultation the MZO is unnecessary.</p>
<p>The community earned this concession from Stratford’s Mayor and
Council through your visible, persistent and principled opposition to
the Xinyi proposal. The issue is not resolved but in eight short weeks
together we have stopped what many thought was a ‘done deal’.
Hopefully, this is a first step in restoring democratic public
decision-making to Stratford.</p>
<p>We aren’t stopping, but we can catch our breath as we continue to
make the case of why Council must say no to Xinyi.</p>
<p>Thank you! Let’s celebrate this important milestone and continue to
move forward.</p>
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<p>Melissa Verspeeten on behalf of</p>
<p>Get Concerned Stratford</p>
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