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

From: Mary-Jo Rusu < Mjinchina@outlook.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 10:13 AM
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Subject: Voicing concerns about citizen’s lives and current hospital plan

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My name is Mary-Jo Rusu and I am reside in ward 4.

I am writing to express my strong opposition to item 15 on the city council agenda for November 9, 2020.

While I support the need to modernize Windsor's hospital system, I do not agree with building a new regional hospital on County Road 42. Location is crucial and that location is unacceptable for many reasons. One of the most important is the health and lives of those who will not be able to easily access this location, and secondly, the removal of an economic and health care anchor in our city’s downtown area which has played a pivotal role in the lives of citizens for over 100 years. The actions taken now can lead to urban drawl and greater Econ disparities for the next 100 years.

Building the regional hospital at the far edge of Windsor is unfair to the most vulnerable in our society who will need the hospital most and have the fewest resources to travel there. It's unfair to the taxpayers who will have to pay for the upgrades of the road systems which are currently inadequate for the amount of traffic that will be heading there. It's environmentally unsound to build the hospital on farmland. Windsor declared a climate emergency in 2019. If the city were serious about mitigating flooding and other climate related impacts, it would not allow this development to go ahead on this property.

Best regards,

Mary-Jo Rusu

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