Circulation List for January 24, 2024

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

• Agenda for January 23: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12593494&GUID=0BD77BD6-2EEE-4960-BA84-74F321F73EB1

🛣️🫂 Infrastructure and Community Investment Committee

• Agenda for January 24: https://barrie.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12593496&GUID=14950F09-FF96-4CE8-BC77-05077C5ABB01

✍️📨 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

• Nil