Dear
Councillor Grimes
(cc'd Mayor John Tory)
(cc'd Mayor John Tory)
It has
been almost seven months since we sent you our response to Michelle Telfeyan’s
email concerning the waterfront area at the south end of Fourth Street. We sent it on October 2nd, 2015,
and have not yet received acknowledgement from your office.
The
response referred to above, as well as Michelle’s email, are attached to this
email.
We did our research and presented our thoughts in a detailed, thorough and reasoned manner. We referenced the initiative of the former Etobicoke municipality, the City’s own Official Plan as it relates to green space on the waterfront, the City’s newly adopted policies on the safeguarding of heritage vistas of the lake as well as lake window precedents already in place along the Ward 6 shoreline. We referenced decades’ long issues of encroachment. We even referenced your own supportive motion at Community Council to look in to whether road allowances can be transferred for park purposes. (All of this has been archived on our website http://fourthstreetlakewindow.blogspot.ca/)
Needless to say, we are confused and disappointed that our simple and sincere request for a meeting to discuss with you the points we raise has not yet materialized.
We urge you to take us up on this and, to repeat what we said in our response, we love our street and community and are really excited about the future potential of our own “lake window”. We are heartened by your statements and the vision of the former government and are confident that, by working together, its potential can be eventually realized.
Given how much time has passed without any reply from your office, we expect to have this communication promptly acknowledged and to receive your response within a couple of weeks.
Sincerely,
Fourth Street Wave (Waterfront Access for Everyone) fourthstreetwave@outlook.com
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