Cost of infrastructure: Windsor has a billion dollar infrastructure deficit today. Building our new hospital on the municipal boundary will reduce our ability to meet existing infrastructure needs.
Future population growth: Sandwich South is our city's nest egg, for when our population needs it. We don't have sufficient population growth expectations in the next 25 years to suggest we need this land for development. We should be building up our core instead.
Cost of sprawl: Our new hospital should not create more sprawl or destroy one of the region's greatest assets, our agricultural land. A hospital built on greenfield land, while initially appearing cheaper, will in the long term be more costly to all of us living in Essex County.
Wastefulness: The Cancer Centre was built in 2001, using public funds and funds raised in our community. It is wasteful to demolish buildings that were considered to be state of the art just a short while ago and should still have many years of useful life.
Population Density: It is upside-down logic to think it is feasible for the people from the greatest population density to trek to a location that is more geographically central. This will not help ambulance response times, and it will put up barriers to access for those who don't drive and physicians on call.
Detroit: The location must also enable the speedy emergency ambulance transfers to Detroit area hospitals to continue. It would be foolish to turn our backs on the benefits of living in a border city with access to major world class medical facilities that are unavailable in Windsor.
Future population growth: Sandwich South is our city's nest egg, for when our population needs it. We don't have sufficient population growth expectations in the next 25 years to suggest we need this land for development. We should be building up our core instead.
Cost of sprawl: Our new hospital should not create more sprawl or destroy one of the region's greatest assets, our agricultural land. A hospital built on greenfield land, while initially appearing cheaper, will in the long term be more costly to all of us living in Essex County.
Wastefulness: The Cancer Centre was built in 2001, using public funds and funds raised in our community. It is wasteful to demolish buildings that were considered to be state of the art just a short while ago and should still have many years of useful life.
Population Density: It is upside-down logic to think it is feasible for the people from the greatest population density to trek to a location that is more geographically central. This will not help ambulance response times, and it will put up barriers to access for those who don't drive and physicians on call.
Detroit: The location must also enable the speedy emergency ambulance transfers to Detroit area hospitals to continue. It would be foolish to turn our backs on the benefits of living in a border city with access to major world class medical facilities that are unavailable in Windsor.