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The city of Cornwall will be hosting a com- munity engagement session on Wednes- day, May 29 to seek input from the public on priorities for the city. “We are e m barking on an i m portant stra- tegic planning exercise, and input fro m the public is a ke y part of this exercise,” said Nor m Levac, chief ad m inistrative officer. “I would encourage residents to join us at this session and provide input on their concerns and priorities for the cit y .” The session will be held fro m 3 p. m . to 7 p. m . in Salon B of the Cornwall Civic Co m - plex, and all residents and co mm unit y stakeholders are invited to attend and par- ticipate. It will be a roundtable session, and scribes will be on hand at each table to col- lect input fro m co mm unit y m e m bers on what should be included in the cit y ’s new strategic plan. For those who wish to participate but are unable to attend the live session, there will be a surve y available online at the cit y web-
site and in hard cop y at various Cit y build- ings. The co m pleted surve y s, along with the data collected at the co mm unit y engage- m ent session, will be co m piled and sub m it- ted to the cit y of Cornwall to be used in its strategic planning exercise. Additional in- for m ation on the surve y will be announced shortl y . In addition to the public input co m po- nent, the strategic planning exercise will also consist of an internal surve y of cit y e m - plo y ees and two strategic planning sessions with cit y council on Saturda y , June 1 and Thursda y , June 6. A final report is expected to be co m pleted b y Frida y , June 14 and pre- sented to council at its regular m eeting of Monda y , June 24. The strategic planning exercise is being led b y the St. Lawrence College Corporate Learning and Perfor m ance I m prove m ent office, which delivers professional devel- op m ent and consulting services to a wide range of private and public sector clients. RE/MAX CORNWALL REALTY INC.
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Shelved Lookout Point plan may be back on the table For m er waterfront develolp m ent co mm ittee m e m ber Bill Beattie, right, e x plains the historical significance of Pointe Maligne to co mm ittee m e m bers Thursday evening as Chair Lee Cassidy, and city planner Stephen Ale x ander look on.
Cit y planner Stephan Alexander had al- read y begun work on the plan in earl y 2010, and a contract for initial Lookout Point work was awarded in October 2010 b y cit y council to MMM Group Li m ited to provide three design concepts to bring to the “pub- lic, stakeholders and waterfront co mm ittee m eetings”, according to waterfront co mm it- tee m inutes fro m Nov. 25, 2010. But the new waterfront co mm ittee – re- constituted in line with the new ter m of council -- began distancing itself fro m the develop m ent shortl y after the new council began its new ter m in Dece m ber 2011. At a Jan. 13, 2011 m eeting, Ro y Perkins m oved a m otion, seconded b y Gu y Menard, “that the Waterfront Co mm ittee dela y an y further discussions on Park and Landscape Design for Lookout Point/Pointe Maligne” until a special co mm ittee m eeting one week later. The Lookout Point plan was scrapped b y the waterfront co mm ittee in June 2011, de- spite the fact the co mm ittee had alread y spent m one y developing a proposal for the site and that it had received approval fro m Cornwall cit y council. At the Jan. 20 special m eeting, Eric Lang m oved a m otion seconded b y Councillor Denis Thibault, that the co mm ittee defer consultations on the proposal “until the y have taken the ti m e to look at other op- tions such as develop m ent of areas along the park with the intent to have a balance of co mm ercial and parkland.” At a m eeting of the waterfront co mm ittee on June 16, 2011, Perkins m oved a m otion seconded b y Menard that “ad m inistration write a report to cit y council to advise that the waterfront co mm ittee does not wish to take an y further action on the Request for Proposal # 10-R for Park Design for ‘Lookout Pointe/Pointe Maligne’ and wishes to close the file for the ti m e being.”
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After striking out with a contentious con- do plan and a beach inlet for Lamoureux Park, a project shelved by the city’s Water- front Development Committee two years ago is back on the radar. The co mm ittee is once again considering a proposal to convert Lookout Point, also known as Point Maligne, adjacent to the ball fields east of Marina 200, into a local tourist attraction. For m er waterfront co mm ittee m e m ber Bill Beattie m ade a length y presentation about the historical significance of the point to waterfront co mm ittee m e m bers Thursda y evening. The previous waterfront co mm ittee had been working on turning the point into a historic tourist attraction, but that plan was scrapped b y the new co mm ittee in earl y 2011 to pursue a plan for condos next to the Cornwall Civic Co m plex in La m oureux Park. Beattie told the co mm ittee the point has i m portant historical significance because it was the first m eeting point between Sir John Johnson, who wanted to surve y the area to eventuall y beco m e Cornwall, and First Nations peoples. “Pointe Maligne has a line of site un- equalled in an y other area of the Cornwall waterfront,” said Beattie, adding it should be developed “but not necessaril y to be planned as y ou m ight envision it to be.” Co mm ittee chair Lee Cassid y said the pre- sentation revealed to co mm ittee m e m bers “a good idea of how i m portant this little piece of land is.” She added that “ m a y be so m e develop m ent of so m e historical” sig- nificance can take place at the site.
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