November 9, 2020 City Council Meeting Item 15 Additional Information Notice of Motion

From: Judith

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Subject: Item15 (Notices of Motion) City Council Agenda for November 2020

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I am writing in connection with Item 15 (Notices of Motion) on the City Council Agenda for November 9, 2020.

I do NOT support the construction of a new regional acute care hospital on County Road 42.

My concerns/questions are as follows:

1. We need a new W.E. planning committee, one that doesn’t kowtow to developers and big egos, one that doesn’t speak out of both sides of its mouth. How can a planning committee talk about Windsor’s Climate Plan and then dramatically add to urban sprawl by building a hospital miles from the Windsor’s core. Science has demonstrate the correlation of climate change with urban sprawl, carbon-based transportation and reduction of green spaces to name a few.

2. And to add insult to injury, increase taxes for Windsor residents including the poor, the elderly and the disadvantaged and not tax the county equally. Windsor taxes should go towards repairing roads and working to revitalize the downtown, not to non-essentials such as Bright Lights, a pavilion on the waterfront or a streetcar, anywhere.

3. Most important, how can ignore accessibility issues for people who can’t afford or don’t want to own a car for environmental issues. How many seniors moved to Windsor proper to be close to hospitals and pharmacies and doctor’s offices?

My husband and I are close to 80. We live five minutes from Ouellette Campus and fifteen minutes from the Met Campus. If/when one of us is hospitalized, I can’t imagine how the other will visit.

I would like Windsor to be thinking forward, not backwards. Society as we know it now with cars and suburbs is not sustainable. We need to rethink this plan first before we make a mega-mistake.

Judith McCullough