By Pepper Parr
February 12th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
During a lengthy and very detailed report on what Denise Beard, Manager Community Planning, has done to date on finding out what people want to do with the Bateman Community Centre, now that we own it, we come to realize that at least one member of Council – probably every one of them, need a map to identify the progress in terms of programming.
Councillor Lisa Kearns: shop areas which are kind of on the westerly side of the of the property, and kind of icky.
Councillor Lisa Kearns asked:”this report is putting in scope the three shop areas which I said are kind of on the westerly side of the of the property, and kind of icky and then the 11,000 of the potential 42,000 square feet of community space which is that open flex space, so I don’t know if that means we can use 500 of that for a community pantry, if we’re just going to be open space with programming.
“I just feel like I need to see two maps or two floor plans with where these potential pieces are. And I’m especially concerned about the gym space because we’ve, I believe, encouraged the community to talk a lot about what gym facilities and gym activities they want to see without the benefit of technically having jurisdiction over deploying the use of that. I don’t know when and how much we’ve given to Bateman.
Councillor Kearns is quite correct – there are no detailed floor plans – the above is what the public has been shown to date. The Communicators from the top down are not very good at communicating.
“I don’t know if we’ve seen that least I don’t i don’t think I know that. So I feel like the expectations are high from the community and I’m not able to appropriately scope the first phase, what’s been determined, versus second phase yet to be scoped.
“I don’t have the information for phase one. Why? ”
Good question.
