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Name: Maria Popova on Apr 16, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z2E7Flag
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Name: David Ludmer on Apr 16, 2011Comments: The lack of transparency in this process would make even Stephen Harper blush.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z2M3Flag
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Name: Norberto Travieso Jay on Apr 16, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2N1Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 16, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z2K1Flag
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Name: Emily Andrews on Apr 16, 2011Comments: I want to see a needs assessment that seriously considers the potential usage of a year-round municipal pool in Westmount, one that offers various options for time of lap-swim. The Westmount Y offers very limited hours for lap swim, and is costly for people who don't use the other Y services. For certain peak hours one is required to join the Masters swim. Many people have no access to an apartment pool (many cannot afford to live in the buildings that have pools!). Westmounters are forced outside to CIty of Montreal pools, requiring extra travel time. Swimming and aqua-fitness are highly beneficial to the health of seniors, a growing proportion of Westmounters. At the same time, children also benefit from year-round swimming and competitive swimming programs. I never saw any evidence of analysis or even consideration of these issues, only conclusions. I also feel the future absence of the small rink with its wide open access is a huge loss. While I'm totally in favour of Westmount Recreation providing organized activities, I deeply resent their apparent bias against free, individually scheduled, spontaneous athletic activities.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Y3C4Flag
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Name: Donald Lovell on Apr 16, 2011Comments: I would love to see a proposal for an indoor / outdoor swimming pool. I think with an aging population this would make a lot more sense. I love hockey, and I think it's a fabulous team sport, but do we really need 2 hockey arenas?Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z-2K7Flag
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Name: Anne Monty on Apr 16, 2011Comments: the city needs to do a real needs analysis based on our population and offer a plan that responds to THIS community's needs.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2N1Flag
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Name: Mitra Javanmardi on Apr 16, 2011Comments: I agree that we need a more time for a more complete understanding of the true needs of our community and that this plan now is too extreme.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 1M4Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 16, 2011Comments: Monumental, large-scale projects don't fit with the human scale of the park -Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 1N7Flag
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Name: June Paterson on Apr 16, 2011Comments: I strongl;y support the petition.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2J7Flag
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Name: Pamela Cyr on Apr 16, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3z1r7Flag
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Name: Aldo Vesnaver on Apr 16, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z2C5Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 16, 2011Comments: it is simple a bad ideaPlease, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 3E1Flag
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Name: Georgina Smith on Apr 16, 2011Comments: I am against this project as currently proposed primarily due to the fact that it is 2 hockey rinks and I feel strongly that the money and efforts should meet the needs of all Westmounters in a creative and imaginative way keeping the lovely aspects of the current arena. The other objections are well clarified in the petition. Lastly, even if the debate is regarded as late in the day, in a democracy, our elected officials are charged with "hearing" and acting on debate and concern not stifling it.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z2L4Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 16, 2011Comments: a park is a park is a park, not a high-traffic stadium-in-a-pitPlease, What Is Your Postal Code?:Flag
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Name: Barbara Houghton on Apr 16, 2011Comments: Westmount needs an indoor pool. Learning to swim will save more lives than learning to play hockeyPlease, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Y2J6Flag
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Name: Avrom Shtern on Apr 17, 2011Comments: We have so little green left. This arena project paves under the park. It hollows it out like a gourd.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H4V 1A4Flag
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Name: Lindsay Bignell on Apr 17, 2011Comments: I am signing because I think that Westmount needs to include an indoor pool in this plan. Pools are not only for fitness laps for the few. They invite competitive and team swimming and diving. They make possible swimming lessons for children and aqua fitness programs for every age, from expectant mothers to seniors. In our climate, an indoor pool is a good choice for year-round activities for a broad range of residents.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 1N2Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2L4Flag
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Name: Larry Klepper on Apr 17, 2011Comments: How sad that this unnecesary and costly project has taken the citizens to the point where they are forced to put up an online petition to stop it. Should we be surprised? After all this is a council with individual members afraid to speak up for what is really in their hearts with one councilor who ran on a platform of building consensus in the community and another who ran on 12 strong points against the project all of which still stand true today.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z1S6Flag
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Name: Firooz Azam-Zanganeh on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z1Y6Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2L4Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 17, 2011Comments: This plan is going to change the character of the park and the surrounding area to a serious degree and will create a traffic burden that will be dangerousPlease, What Is Your Postal Code?: H4L 3T3Flag
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Name: Barbara Korwin on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2L4Flag
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Name: Patrick Barnard on Apr 17, 2011Comments: Westmount Park is an Olmsted-inspired park, part of the patrimony of Quebec. Underneath it are water flows connected to the still-running stream in the double-use sewer running to the Glen. A huge excavation under the park is ecological folly. From the beginning of this project, the "two-big-rink imperative" has distorted planning. The projected complex is simply too big for the park and the neighbourhood. It is an un-needed, mis-shapen Goliath that many do not want -- first it was supposed to be above ground, and the people said NO. Then it was suggested that Goliath go to the Westmount Athletic Grounds. And the people said NO. And now it will be buried. Why not a one-a-half new, inter-generational complex on the existing footprint -- and auxiliary ice elsewhere? That would be a good solution.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2J6Flag
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Name: Marilynn Gillies on Apr 17, 2011Comments: Westmount needs a new pool and arena. However, I do not believe it needs an arena of this size. We do not live in the suburbs, we live in a small, densely populated area especially where this facility is going to be built. Contrary to what we are being told, I do believe that traffic will increase and I believe it will increase through the park. As the city's park's master plan shows, the park has reached its "saturation point".Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2J6Flag
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Name: Peter Weldon on Apr 17, 2011Comments: The city proposes to run a hockey rink all summer long. This in spite of the fact that the city [unlike other municipalities] suspends many of it's it's community sports programs eg soccer, because of lack of kids to participate, during most of the summer. . So why run a hockey rink all summer? For a series of allocations for hockey schools, hockey clinics and summer beer hockey leagues etc.of little relevance to community recreation?? It's interesting that Selwyn House has already suggested that it run a summer hockey school in the rink.. Also, has anyone considered the expense and extra manpower required to simultaneously run the swimming pool, a hockey rink and for a time, the various city summer sports programs? Or the extra traffic load on the neighbourhood that the concurrent use of these facilities will bring about??.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 1N6Flag
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Name: Dorota Taraska&Alain Roy on Apr 17, 2011Comments: no needs for 2 rinks, inside/outside pool please !Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Y 2K4Flag
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Name: Rachid B. Talih on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3z2l4Flag
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Name: Cynthia Brown Herschorn on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3z 1s6Flag
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Name: Henry Nesvadba on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Y3C4Flag
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Name: Sara Rodriguez on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 1S2Flag
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Name: Samira Hall on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3y 3b2Flag
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Name: Steve Louis on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3W 1W2Flag
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Name: Khaled Saidi on Apr 17, 2011Comments: Its a ridiculous plan, Westmount does not need such a project.We already have a hockey arena so what for all this expense on an obsolete project which is also environmentally destructive.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3zFlag
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Name: David Parsons on Apr 17, 2011Comments: Westmount needs a Public Consultation on the Arena project NOW. The Mayor has been promising a Public Consultation on the Arena project since September 2010. Even after regular questioning on the Public Consultation at Council meetings, still no date. However, the City went to tender for the Project Manager on March 18, 2011. The tender document requires that those submitting bids examine the most recent plans available at the City. The City has sufficiently advanced in the process to provide the plan documents to potential bidders but not its own residents. This is backwards. The Public Consultation should precede the tender process for the Project Manager, not follow it.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3ZFlag
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Name: Jonathan Kantor on Apr 17, 2011Comments: I am most concerned with the traffic flow on Lansdowne. The current bicycle lanes are a hazard for both cyclists and cars. Having the entrance to the arena on thius main thoroughfare is absurd and will aggravate the dangers.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z3E1Flag
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Name: David Muhlstock on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H4A 2H4Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3z2p3Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z1N6Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 17, 2011Comments: This project must not be altered in any way. It must proceed as is for the benefit of the community. A $30M project for $10M - given government input - must not be toyed with. A handful of citizens can't and won't change this gift. It is time for Westmount to regain its place as a first rate city. Hands off the arena plan!!!!Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3z 2j6Flag
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Name: Patricia Crosbie on Apr 17, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3y5j8Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 17, 2011Comments: I believe the consultation done( if done) last august concerning the arena project does not seem to have reached enough Westmount residents. I certainly never received any information about it ,therefore never had a chance as a resident of this community to express my opinion about it. It was also done at time of the year where lots of people are away on vacation, therefore limiting feedback. I would also like to know what will be long term financial implications of this project.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H2W1S9Flag
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Name: Isztar Zawadzki on Apr 17, 2011Comments: A serious consultation, where a majority of residents has a chance to express their view, is necessary before a project of such importance is undertaken. Of all the people I had the chance of discussing the project no one had a clear idea of the long term financial implications, the impact on the park and on the immediate neighbourhood.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2L4Flag
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Name: Louise Lutfy on Apr 18, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2E5Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 18, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3z 2j1Flag
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Name: Mary-louise Engels on Apr 18, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H3Z 2P5Flag
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Name: Pierre Thériault on Apr 18, 2011Comments: Je fréquente ce parc presque quotidiennement hiver comme été, et je désire que ce site de notre patrimoine reste intact.Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: H2T 2Y2Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Apr 18, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3z2c4Flag
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Name: Sandra Shatilla on Apr 18, 2011Comments:Please, What Is Your Postal Code?: h3z2c4Flag