Where I stand
Infrastructure
Wasaga Beach is growing quickly, and our infrastructure and community amenities need to keep pace. We cannot allow important needs outside Beach 1 to continually be pushed down the road.
Wasaga Beach is growing quickly, and our infrastructure and community amenities need to keep pace. We cannot allow important needs outside Beach 1 to continually be pushed down the road.
That means addressing long-standing flooding concerns in the West End, prioritizing West End urbanization, making school zones safer, and maintaining and expanding parks as our community grows.
Wasaga Beach is more than one development area. Every neighbourhood deserves attention, investment, and a seat at the table.
Every neighbourhood matters. Every road matters. And basic services shouldn’t depend on whether visitors see them.
What I'll push for at council
- Long-term thinking on the road network. Wasaga Beach has doubled in twenty years. The road grid hasn't. We need a council that's willing to ask hard questions about where the next traffic bottleneck will be in five years, not just where the angry call came in this morning.
- School Zones Safety Growth should never come at the expense of safety. I will advocate for ongoing reviews of school zones, crossings, sidewalks, and traffic patterns to ensure our children can get to and from school safely. Every development and infrastructure decision should consider its impact on nearby schools and the safety of students, parents, and staff.
- A transparent infrastructure plan. Wasaga Beach should publish a multiyear infrastructure schedule that tells every neighbourhood when their road, sidewalk, park and storm sewer are next in the queue. Not "when someone complains loudest." A real list, with dates, posted online, updated quarterly. If a project gets bumped, the reason is in the open.
- Equity across the residential streets, not just the visitor corridors. Beach 1, and the Rexplex parking lot get attention because they're high traffic and high visibility. The streets where residents actually live, the ones two and three blocks back from the shoreline, should get the same standard of repair, plowing, lighting, and sidewalk maintenance.
We’re growing, but our roads aren’t keeping up. More traffic, same infrastructure. That needs to change. That means addressing long-standing flooding concerns in the West End, prioritizing West End urbanization, making school zones safer, and maintaining and expanding parks as our community grows. We need clear communication, and infrastructure that grows with our community, not behind it.
Related
- Your town hall — the transparency and accountability side — how priorities get set in the open.
- Your beach — the visitor-corridor parking and access infrastructure that overlaps with residential streets.