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A huge thanks to the (by my count) 80 Strathconians who came to Saturday's Rally in support of calming Prior. It was so great (and gratifying) to see how many people really care. Fantastic signs. Amazing energy. What a community! We need to do that more often.
Thanks also to the many elected officals who were there: City Councillors Pete Fry and Sarah Kirby-Yung and Park Board Commissioners Stuart MacKinnon, Tricia Baker, Dave Demers and Camil Dumont, as well as Councillors Colleen...
Residents of Strathcona... set your alarms.
Members of the community are invited to a peaceful demonstration of community support for not putting the arterial on Prior or through the park. Please gather at the Linear Park at Hawks and Prior at 8:30AM tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 26. The 42 members of the Panel will be gathering across the street near the baseball diamond at 9 AM. The SRA will be giving a brief talk soon thereafter. It will all be over by 9:30.
Please remember...
The time has come.
The future of Strathcona will be decided in the coming months. So if you care about your neighbourhood, stop watching quietly from the sidelines and start getting involved.
The Flats Arterial Community Panel begins next Saturday, Jan. 19 from 9-4:30 PM at Dudoc Vancouver, located at 1489 Francis St. (just east of Clark). City Staff will finally be presenting detailed plans for the various options that afternoon. The public is invited (to watch, not...
DECEMBER MEETING
Thanks for the amazing turnout last month. We’ll be holding our December monthly meeting this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 7-9 PM at the Strathcona Community Centre. No big agenda. Just a follow-up to last month's Community Panel discussion (we've invited other community groups to come and share their perspective) and then a conversation about “What next?” About the arterial, the trains, the parks. Where should we be focusing our energies in 2019?
All welcome. Come if...
First off, thanks to the many people who came out for our November SRA meeting. It was inspiring and invigorating to see Strathcona rally once again behind the future on our neighbourhood.
For anyone who did not make the meeting, Susanna Haas Lyons, the chair of the Community Panel, sent a copy of her presentation. Here's a link. If you would like an overview of the concerns that came up at the meeting, here another link.
For anyone who would like to be on the Panel...
NOVEMBER MEETING: WEDS. NOV 7, 7-9 PM Strathcona Community Centre
Susanna Haas Lyons, chair of the upcoming Flats Arterial Community Panel, is coming to explain how the Panel will work and take questions. The Panel is being formed to recommend the best route for the widened road and railway overpass that will replace Prior St. as an arterial (maybe). Some details below…
This is an important meeting. A big turnout sends the message that residents care about the future of...
Read the Report. Sign the Petition.
If you're receiving this e-mail - but did not also recently receive the agenda for the upcoming AGM, then you are not on our SRA members mailing list. If you are a resident of Strathcona or Kiwassa, and would like to join, please click here to sign up as an official member. It's free.
(Why you ask? I'm already on the SRA mailing list! Here's why: the old mailing list was open to anyone anywhere and so we had no way of knowing who was and was not a resident. As the Strathcona Residents...
OCTOBER NEWSLETTER
A couple updates on items that came up at our last meeting...
Support for an Arterial at National-Charles
At the September meeting, members voted to support a proposal presented by Richard Taplin for an arterial route at National-Charles, an option the City has yet to fully consider. Richard's presentation has been turned into a comprehensive report that details the many downsides of the William, Malkin and Prior options and makes the case for National...
We’ll be restarting our monthly meetings on Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 7 PM at the Strathcona Community Centre. Here is a revised agenda:
7-8 PM
Brief Updates on Ongoing Issues:
What’s Up with the Community Panel? Susanna Haas Lyons is overseeing the Community Panel that’s supposed to recommend where the new arterial should go. The panel was supposed to be convening now, but the team in charge has yet to set parameters or begin recruiting. Susanna is unable to attend but will...