Bay Ward mulls issues over breakfast
Posted Jan 26, 2012 By Kristy Wallace
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EMC news - From high traffic areas to development issues going before the Ontario Municipal Board, Coun. Mark Taylor wants to make sure community leaders in Bay Ward have a chance to discuss these issues and try and find a resolution to them.
Kristy Wallace, Ottawa West EMC
Dave Madeley, left, treasurer of the Woodroffe North Community Association, Dave Grosvenor, president of the association and Clarence Dungey, facility manager at Park Vista Condominium met with other Bay Ward community leaders at Kristy's Restaurant.
"It's a nice way of getting everyone together, to have our first meal of the day together and talk about our priorities," said Taylor. "Each community will have neighbourhood issues, but more broadly, we'll look at common themes."
Some of those themes include issues like speeding, which he said came up at last year's breakfast.
"That was a huge issue, and we took a lot of action on that," Taylor said. "We've dropped speed limits on residential streets."
He said the breakfast meetings have become an annual tradition, currently in its second year. The meetings are held in addition to executive Bay Ward meetings that are held with the same leaders.
The leaders consist of community association presidents and executives from organizations and groups in the area, such as the Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre.
Dave Grosvenor, president of the Woodroffe North Community Association, said meetings like the annual breakfast get together is a good time to see what other issues are happening in other areas of the ward.
"We hear what problems other communities are having, and I think that's good," he said. "We hear other people's complaints, and in many cases they parallel what we're doing."
kristy.wallace@metroland.com
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