CollingwoodToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication).The following letters were sent in response to the proposed development of the Collingwood Terminals site.
I attended the presentation on Nov. 27 describing the public lands portion of the Terminals Point project. The plan is excellent.
Sadly, we are told that to finance it we have to accept a completely inappropriate, massive, private development of multi-million dollar condominiums.
I further learned that the hotel and restaurant will be on a 99-year lease from the Town of Collingwood who will still own the property. It seems like a huge and potentially risky liability for the town to assume as a landlord.
I look forward to the public consultation for the Terminals Point buildings next spring to shed more light on how these issues will be addressed. We need alternative solutions to what's being proposed.
Anne Brayley
Collingwood, Ont
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After reading the numerous replies from Rino Stradiotto's letter, I am in agreement.
Collingwood is not Toronto and does not require a 24-storey condominium at our water's edge.
We can barely see our beautiful Georgian Bay with the new developments that are presently underway.
Clean up the terminals, with perhaps a less predominant project proposal.
Collingwood cannot support the infrastructure required for the increased traffic the Terminals Point project will cause.
We are a small town, with an amazing waterfront and a backdrop of the Blue Mountains. Please leave us beautiful.
Heather Larke
Collingwood, Ont.
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Jim Higgins
Collingwood, Ont.
