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Town, Project Niagara team up for parking plan

Published on Nov 27, 2009

Town Council will be working with Project Niagara and members of the community on a traffic and parking plan.

Councillors adopted a resolution at Monday night’s council meeting calling for the town’s parking and traffic committee to work with Project Niagara and their consultants, Town and Regional staff and concerned residents to develop a terms of reference for a traffic parking management plan.

Concerned members from the community and stakeholders will be added to the already existing parking and traffic committee while this plan is developed, explained Coun. Jim Collard.

Project Niagara, the proposed 17-week music festival, is an initiative of the National Arts Centre and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Announced plans for the festival has been met with criticism by some members of the community and this resolution, proposed by Project Niagara itself, is an effort to resolve concerns about traffic and parking that some residents might have.

In the letter to Town Council, written by Robert Weese, chair of Project Niagara’s board of directors, he reiterated the findings of this summer’s Traffic Impact Study.

“Although it has been confirmed that Project Niagara is a feasible addition to Niagara-on-the-Lake from a traffic perspective, we recognize there is still much work to be done,” he wrote.

“We understand that, regardless of the feasibility of the additional traffic, work needs to be completed to address how traffic and parking will be managed in order to respect the existing ambience and heritage nature of the Town.”

Don Smith, CAO for the Town, recommended that citizens from the Chautauqua and Garrison Village area participate in the committee, as well as representatives from the Harmony resident group - a group of residents opposed to the project. http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/communities/Niagara-on-the-Lake/article/287974