Welcome

Welcome to the City of Barrie’s Historic Neighbourhoods Strategy. This is the place for any and all information relating to the development of this Strategy. Find out where the process is at and become involved in shaping the future of your historic residential neighbourhood!

We have moved into the next phase of the project – Visioning. To help shape the vision for your community please take a few minutes to answer the second HNS Survey and register for one of the two workshops being held in the month of February. Click here to find out more.

The Background Report from the first phase has been released. Check it out for information about the Historic Neighbourhoods and your Neighbourhood Profile.

Keep up-to-date! Contact Us and we will send you email updates and a link to our Newsletter.

Together we can develop a great strategy for your historic neighbourhoods, those in the heart of the City!

Thank you for visiting us and we look forward to your involvement.


Jeff Lehman, Councillor Ward 2 

Let your voice be heard - please fill out our online NEIGHBOURHOOD SURVEY here!

The Community Process

The Historic Neighbourhoods Strategy is a community-driven process. A Community Committee has been organized with representation from each participating neighbourhood in order to guide the project. Committee Members will ensure representatives from all neighbourhoods are included in every meeting.

Some members were part of the initial Working Group that assisted in creating the work program for this initiative during the summer of 2008. Others, upon hearing about the Strategy, have joined the Committee more recently.

The Committee is supported by full-time City staff and interested City Councillors as well as a communications and outreach consultant.

All residents are encouraged to Get Involved in the Strategy process. Opportunities to participate will include surveys, events, forums, open houses and much more. A newsletter will be emailed and posted on the project website to keep residents informed, enabling them to get connected and get involved.


Your Community Committee Members

If you would like to contact a member of the Community Committee, please send them an email at: hnscommunitycommittee@barrie.ca

The Community Committee members are residents of the Historic Neighbourhoods. In fact, several representatives from each neighbourhood serve on the Community Committee to build the Historic Neighbourhoods Strategy from the ground-up. Staff support for the Committee members is provided through Stacey Forfar, the Committee’s full-time City Project Planner and key contact and Lynn Morrow, the Committee’s Communication and Outreach Consultant. The Committee will be chaired by Ward 2 Councillor, Jeff Lehman.

Committee Chair
  • Ward 2 Councillor Jeff Lehman
The Grove
  • Jan Harris
  • Sue Ley
  • Caresse Ley
Downtown
  • Ross Rodgers
  • Earl Paquette
  • Judith Powell
  • Jennifer Klementti
Queen's Park
  • Laurie Watt
  • Clare Mitchell
West Village
  • Christine Manewell
  • Jim Perrin
Brock Park
  • Bill Sandford
  • Marilyn Murray
Allandale
  • Jennifer Horlings
  • Cathy Colebatch
  • Colin Allen