CollingwoodToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via our website. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letters were submitted in response to a letter from the Collingwood branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario opposing six-storey building heights for downtown. Collingwood's draft official plan proposes increased building heights for portions of downtown, you can read more about it here.
I write this letter in support of the work being done in Collingwood to prevent the proliferation of six-storey buildings in the downtown core and waterfront areas of Collingwood.
Collingwood’s charm and tourism draw revolve around its beautifully maintained heritage buildings and its picturesque waterfront.
These should not be spoiled by modern buildings that don’t conform to existing height standards and block the views and access to the natural beauty of Georgian Bay.
Janette Vander Zaag
Collingwood, Ont.
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Such a very bad idea. Let's keep our downtown a visually uniform place. If there needs to be taller buildings, put them somewhere else.
Mary Trenholm
Collingwood, Ont.
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So, you want to be like every other big, noisy, dirty, congested city? This is how it starts.
One building "a little" higher than the others, then another, then another.
If there are bigger multi-residential or multi-commercial buildings, the roads and sewers and traffic have to accommodate that.
More taxes, more people to support that, more higher buildings.
Nevermind the buildings already going up blocking off the waterfront so only the wealthy can enjoy it. Just like big city Toronto and others.
Leave our quaint town a town and keep the city where it belongs.
Corinne Bassett
Collingwood, Ont.
