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stouffville sufitribune t thursday nov 3 2605 7 downtown plans would cost about 307500 group urges council to move quickly by hannelore volpe staff writer do it now was the message delivered loud and clear by downtown brainstorming committee member paige savery at tuesdays whitchurch- stouffville council meeting she outlined the groups recommendations on what should be done to give downtown stouffville a muchneeded boost the cost for the improvements for 2006 would be 307500 committee members held their first meeting sept 9 with a tour of down town stouffville in their quest to come up with a strategic plan for the area improving signage in the downtown core for 35000 creating a busi ness plan and selecting the site for a cultural and per forming arts centre for 65000 and spending 150000 on extensive pedestrian and bike trails were all recommendations of the 20member commit tee in its report to council further recommenda tions for 2006 included creat ing a website redesigning the civic square behind the clock tower and spending 25000 on a community improvement area the downtown has been overstudied mayor sue sherban noted at council whether all or some of these recommendations will happen soon depends on councils decisions at the 2006 budget talks next week the downtown has been overstudied mayor sue sherban noted at council we cant afford to sit around any longer with these documents sitting on the shelf collecting dust even if all the recom mendations for 2006 are implemented there would be no tax increases since the money would come out of the towns financial reserves the towns treas ureradministrator nick kristoffy said the 150000 for the trail system is aiready in the budget he said after years of study by individual groups looking at the feasibility of a theatre and performing arts centre the town wanted to try something new with the brainstorming format it included discussions with the whitchurch- stouffville chamber of commerce the stouffville business improvement area residents youth and the her itage advisory committee the downtown core has to work together with two other commercial centres the western end of town and the new big box com plex slated for hwy 48 south of stouffville road ms savery said with the residential and commercial growth com ing over the next 10 to 15 years all these areas of town should complement each other she said the ultimate aim is to make downtown stouffville a place people want to visit and stay for longer periods of time one recommendation was to spend 5000 on a professional report on the strategic action plan which could also be used as a marketing tool a downtown stouffville working group will be estab lished as a permanent advi sory committee of council each stakeholder took responsibility for longer- term action often to work together with other groups for a long list of things such as finishing the memorial park master plan coordinating with local community groups to fund communitybased projects downtown and conducting customer service provider surveys to find out demographics of those visiting stouffville this will help establish new markets and identify areas for improvement one longterm project is the improvement of the civic square with projected costs of 25000 in the 2006 budget 45000 in 2007 and 235000 in the 2008 municipal budget the committees first steps are in the right direc tion councillor rob hargrave said but he also sounded a cautionary note the towns socalled absentee land lords must be part of the planning process currently many arent keeping their properties up to standard he said he wants to see a meet ing arranged between landlords real estate agents and town staff only research can cure leukemia only excellence in- canadian research is funded by lrf please help leykemifc research furidoj canddti a winch avewstez22 i toronto ontario m3j2t2 ter416661c0re2873 fax 416 6613840 this message brought to you asa community service of ttie economist ssuntnte 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