Updates on the Transit Terminal and winter recreation
Circulation List: https://barrie.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1147919&GUID=3DF4BDED-DE75-48D2-B02E-0AC8BFF4D42E&Options=info|&Search=
📑📊 Staff Memos
🚉🚏 Barrie Allandale Transit Terminal and Downtown Mini Hub
Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12593460&GUID=47D3BFC3-F19A-4F15-8531-738F1CFC2B48 from P. Odikpo, Facilities Project Manager
Budget and funding update, project updates, and communications update
☃️❄️ Winterfest and Hello Winter
Memorandum: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12593634&GUID=140E019E-8F98-415D-A3BE-6DEAB97A147E from K. Ellis, Manager of Recreation and Culture Programming and Special Events
Winterfest will take place at Heritage Park and Meridian Place on February 3 & 4 – learn more at barrie.ca/Winterfest
Hello Winter includes a number of events in partnership with community groups and venues in a variety of locations – learn more at barrie.ca/HelloWinter
👥📃 Committee Agendas
🗿🏰 Heritage Barrie Committee
🛣️🫂 Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee
✍️📨 Correspondence
📆⚕️ Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day
Mayoral Proclamation: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12593322&GUID=7093D437-6A34-4250-A4E4-DAE01237CFBC
January 26 is Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day
🏘️💸 Affordable Housing Strategy
Media Release, January 18: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12593497&GUID=43502ED3-AC1A-48F0-B2DE-7687ED050CA6 – "Barrie's Affordable Housing Strategy Approved. Nine actions will be taken to address affordability in the city"
Those nine actions are:
undertake a comprehensive review of the City's Zoning Bylaw (already happening)
update the City's existing incentive program and increase the annual budget
use public land to deliver new affordable housing (already happening)
work towards a decision faster / shorten approval timelines
create a concierge program to connect parties who are interested in partnering to deliver new housing
enhance the Simcoe County Secondary Suite program for Barrie
enact a Rental Replacement Bylaw to preserve existing rental stock
continue to communicate to the public the benefits of growth, density, and affordable housing
explore the potential for inclusionary zoning (already happening)
For more information, visit buildingbarrie.ca/AffordableHousing or barrie.ca/BuildingProgress
🛣️🆘 Declaring a Road Safety Emergency
Correspondence from Town of Mono, January 15: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12593495&GUID=A3D67D5E-A8A5-4E14-B20E-60DEE6466B7B
Mono has declared a Road Safety Emergency, and is calling on the province to take action to address traffic safety through measures including public education, increased Highway Traffic Act fines and expanded use of Automated Speed Enforcement
⏳➕ Late Additions
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