Council Undecided on Fortis Proposal
Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:43

According to CBC, "Several St. John's city councillors said Wednesday they want to learn more about a proposed 15-storey building complex on the city's waterfront before making a decision about it." 

Meanwhile, we just received this comment from Councillor Sheilagh O'Leary regarding not only the proposal, but the need for a review of the City's municipal plan: 

As councillor for the city of St. John's, I feel it is imperative that we reject the Fortis proposal as it is completely inappropriate for the downtown. It would degrade our status as a cultural heritage community, and would open the floodgates to developers to lift the present height restriction in the downtown core.

The Downtown as we know it will be gone and we will never get it back. We are the oldest city in North America and entertaining this concept would be the nail in the coffin of our unique downtown.

The bottom line is it is outside our city regulations. In order to even entertain a development concept like this, the city would have to do a review of our municipal plan which is long overdue. I will vote no if it comes to a decision at council. Please write your mayor and all councillors to voice your concerns.

Thank you.
Sheilagh
Councillor O'Leary
 

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-1 #2 Nic 2010-02-04 18:10
Agreed O'Leary but maybe you'd like to come up with a feasible financial plan to develop the downtown area.
The current Fortis building is a complete mess and needs to be retrofitted or completely removed. Lets talk to Fortis instead of making a mess and forcing them to go elsewhere.
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+1 #1 Debbie 2010-01-21 16:39
I agree with Ms. O'Leary totally! The City of St. John's should have turned this proposal away the minute they saw that it did not fit the regulations. Get that municipal plan finished and deal with the downtown as a whole area, not bit by bit until all semblance of St. John's has been picked away.
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