Park land and parking lots for transitional housing proposition

There are Few Options in Sarnia for a proposed 15 to 20-unit Transitional Housing Project for People Fleeing Abuse.

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But there are Four that could work, According to A City ReportAfter Council Agreed in September To work with Women’s Interval Home Sarnia-Lambton to Find to Site, To Help Address What Lambton County Council Has Called an Epidemicc of intimate partner violence.

Top Pick is the Northwest of Germain ParkSaid Tim Welch, With Tim Welch Consulting, Reprintable the Interval Home For the Project.

Bounded by Sarnia’s Strangway Community Center and A City Public Works Yard, The Land is Penciled in to become parking under Sarnia’s Germain Park Master Plan.

The Area is “some passive, in Terms of its use,” Welch Said.

The Form Jackson Pool South South of the Strangway Center, also consider for parking as part of the master plan, is another option, Welch Said.

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So is the Mitton Village Parcette that’s been a staging are for community events in that downtown-adjacent district, and the current sarnia and district humane society site in centennial park would also work, pending that organization’s plan to move across the cityhe Said.

“The Organization COULD Make Any of (The Sites) Work,” Welch Said.

But it needs an ok from Sarnia City Council First, in order to access about $ 200,000 in Support the County of Lambton has pledged for THINGS LIKE geotechnical studies for the project, he said.

Welch and Interval Home Executive Director Jennifer Vansteenkiste Pitched the Northwest Germain Park Property Earlier This Month, But Council – Amid concerns about Public Backlash – Asked for More options.

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The FollowUp City Staff Report, Identifying Options Connected to Bus Routes and Feasible for the Project – Surplus City Lands in Research and Business Parks Wouldn’t Work, It Says – Comes to Council for Consideration March 3.

“It’s just important to emphasize the need for a decision to move forward,” Welch Said.

There will be public consultation, goal selection unlocks the dollars to conduct that, Welch Said.

“That’s the dilemma and challenge that we faced with,” He Said.

Hopes are to have good community support for the project, and “a positive addition to the neighbourhood that obiously meets the goal of the supportive housing that’s trying to be Created,” He Said.

All but Mayor Mike Bradley and Coun. Anne Marie Gillis vote Feb. 10 for the Deferral, with some on council noting sarnia’s Recent About-Face On donating a downtown parking lot to the country of lambton for supportive housing.

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That Victoria Street Lot Donation was stopped Amid Community Opposition After 16 MONTHS OF NEGOTIATIONS.

“I don’t want you to spend the money” on studies, without guaranto the project Will Move Forward, Coun. Brian White Told Welch and Vansteenkiste.

Several on Council noted theyd heard from Neighbours concerned with about Development in Germain Park.

Coun. Terry Burrell Said He was Against Donating City Land to a charity at the exclusion of all other charities, and eSpecially from a major city park.

“I’m just not in favour of this particular site at all,” he said.

Difficult Decisions for Council Loom About Rezoning Requests for Housing Projects, Bradly Said.

“You are going to see some very strong opposition to some major affordable housing projects, so you are going to have to make a bigger decision about the need in the community,” he said.

The proposed Women’s Interval Home Project Likely Wouldn’t Affect A Pending Strangway Center Gymnasium Expansion Project in Germain Park, with details about that project expected to come to cover for a decision before summer, City Community Services General Manager Stacey Facar Said.

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