WHEREAS the Town of Collingwood promotes amongst other characteristics a healthy lifestyle and accountable decision-making to provide excellent services;
AND WHEREAS the Collingwood Council is committed to openness and transparency and have restructured the Town of Collingwood’s Committee Structure with a view to communicating with and hearing from residents with respect to matters of concern to them and perhaps not specifically covered under day-to-day operational planning lists;
AND WHEREAS the occupants of 31 Ste Marie Street have brought to the Town of Collingwood Council and staff’s attention on numerous occasions the unsafe conditions for egress from their medical services location on Ste Marie Street;
AND WHEREAS staff’s recommendation to Council re lining of Ste Marie Street to narrow lanes in an attempt to slow traffic are not making a difference for the occupants of 31 Ste. Marie Street;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council herein direct staff to remove the parking meter previously bagged and necessary to clear the egress sightlines for the laneway;
AND FURTHER THAT Council herein direct staff to have the space signed as no parking and marked with yellow diagonal lines clearly messaging no parking.