What is the city council thinking? The downtown core is a residential neighbourhood with seven condominium units in place, another finally under construction again, and should the Grandin mall project develop, another few hundred residents will call the five block area home.
For a number of days in June (the International Children's Festival) and for the Farmers’ Market on Saturdays, St. Anne Street is closed, resulting in the usual Perron Street traffic jam.
Now the mayor would like to see St. Anne Street closed to traffic. Why?
The special events that he appears to foresee are currently being accommodated with no additional cost to the taxpayers of St. Albert.
The so-called "festival" area, even if created at untold expense to the already over-taxed population, with the usual weather conditions in this part of the country, would see limited use at an untold cost.
Possibly the city should consider hiring a real "planner" that would take consideration of the community’s real needs instead of some group’s wants and use some common "cents" instead of our dollars.
J. R. Soulsby, St. Albert
