Letter to Stantec written by resident Bert Harris
Hello Ms. Reid,
I recently viewed the proposed area development plan for the Windsor mega-hospital project and I strongly disagree with the location of the hospital and the development of this farmland. The hospital should be located at a more central location in the city to better serve the city’s residents and the zoning of the Sandwich South farmland should remain as it is.
Opening up this farmland for development would encourage urban sprawl which is the #1 cause of global warming. The remote location also would strongly discourage the use of any mode of transportation except cars to access the hospital. The result is that the hospital plan is the opposite of sustainable design. The development plan also violates Ontario’s Smart Growth Plan and the City of Windsor’s planning principles and would counteract the efforts of Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan thus wasting millions of dollars.
Windsor’s downtown core currently has hundreds of vacant properties and is economically depressed. Moving the hospital out of the city would drag thousands of people and jobs and many businesses out of the downtown core thus making this problem dramatically worse. It also represents an assault on taxpayers to require the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars to bring roads, water, sewer and electrical services to this greenfield site when these services are already in place in Windsor’s downtown core.
So in summary, this location of the hospital would be inconvenient for the citizens of Windsor and cause maximum environmental harm to our area (and the world) and cause maximum economic damage to the downtown core and taxpayers. Clearly this development proposal should be shelved and the process of finding a location should be started over and this process should be redesigned with sustainability as its foundation.
Sincerely,
Robert Harris
I recently viewed the proposed area development plan for the Windsor mega-hospital project and I strongly disagree with the location of the hospital and the development of this farmland. The hospital should be located at a more central location in the city to better serve the city’s residents and the zoning of the Sandwich South farmland should remain as it is.
Opening up this farmland for development would encourage urban sprawl which is the #1 cause of global warming. The remote location also would strongly discourage the use of any mode of transportation except cars to access the hospital. The result is that the hospital plan is the opposite of sustainable design. The development plan also violates Ontario’s Smart Growth Plan and the City of Windsor’s planning principles and would counteract the efforts of Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan thus wasting millions of dollars.
Windsor’s downtown core currently has hundreds of vacant properties and is economically depressed. Moving the hospital out of the city would drag thousands of people and jobs and many businesses out of the downtown core thus making this problem dramatically worse. It also represents an assault on taxpayers to require the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars to bring roads, water, sewer and electrical services to this greenfield site when these services are already in place in Windsor’s downtown core.
So in summary, this location of the hospital would be inconvenient for the citizens of Windsor and cause maximum environmental harm to our area (and the world) and cause maximum economic damage to the downtown core and taxpayers. Clearly this development proposal should be shelved and the process of finding a location should be started over and this process should be redesigned with sustainability as its foundation.
Sincerely,
Robert Harris
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