08-13-2020, 05:30 PM
(08-13-2020, 03:36 PM)dtkmelissa Wrote:(08-12-2020, 12:29 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Well ... it's not a council decision yet, only a staff recommendation. There is time to lobby the councilors and/or present to the council at the meetin
Yes, I am gathering my thoughts now and trying to figure out what exactly I want to ask of council. I suspect that, as has been mentioned, there isn't a lot of hope for moving ahead on this. But I find it fascinating that the Vic Park pilot area has such support (and the Record goes with the much more negative headline). I mean, how many city projects get that kind of support in a relatively short period of time?
Though not my ideal, I do wonder if the best way forward right now is to encourage council to consider a slow build out of the program, starting in the (more dense and overall walkable) core/central neighbourhoods and expand that out slowly over the next several years. Still thinking on this of course, but it's just one idea I had to try to find a way to move forward.
Is the actual report public yet somewhere?
The record went with staff's narrative....
In my opinion, staff substantially missrepresented the results of the study...they didn't exactly say the pilot was poor, but they strongly minimized the improvement in sidewalk conditions.
They also failed to in any reasonable way address the enormous discrepency between sidewalk conditions (60% good 15% bad) and tickets issued (7% notices issued)...they said "well they're different areas"...then I asked "didn't the bylaw enforcement apply to the whole city"? answer: "Yes"....so how were they different areas?!