The next step in the
ongoing process to give John Street its due, the city is holding an open house tomorrow to discuss the cultural corridor's future.
The city will be presenting printed display panels, large scale plans of short-listed alternative to the street's current state, along with illustrations and comments from the previous public consultation held on June 17, 2010. There will be staff to answer questions and gather further comment.
"Following the open house, the city and the consultant team will continue to meet to decide on and finalize a technically preferred alternative for John Street," says Stephen Schijns, manager of the city's transportation division's infrastructure planning department. The consultant will prepare a draft Environmental Study Report that documents the whole study process and its conclusions. It is intended that staff will report to Public Works and Infrastructure Committee at its meeting of September 13, 2011 with the study recommendations, and seek endorsement of the plan at Committee and subsequently at council. If endorsed, the city would proceed to file the Environmental Study Report with the Ministry of the Environment for a thirty-day public review period, in accordance with the requirements of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment process. This filing would occur in the fall."
If this seems like an extraordinarily long process for some street furniture and a possible pedestrian zone on a six-block-long street, well, you can ask the staff about that, too.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Stephen Schijns
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