Welcome

Welcome to the website for any and all information relating to the City of Barrie’s Historic Neighbourhoods Strategy. Please click on the button to the right to access and download the final Strategy or come and visit us here at City Hall to view a paper copy of the Strategy.

The Strategy was unanimously approved by Council on Monday June 21, 2010. Council thanked the Community Committee and requested members continue to meet and provide regular reports to council on progress in implementing the strategy. This website will continue to provide you the most up-to-date information as the strategy is implemented.

Thank you to everyone who gave their time and offered their thoughts at neighbourhood meetings and workshops and for those who took the time to fill in our neighbourhood surveys. All documents, including the Workshop Notes and the Survey Results are now available.

We have now also completed an update to Council and invite you to take a look at the presentation. We are now moving toward drafting the Strategy and we expect to have a Draft to release for comments and feedback this Spring.

The Background Report from the first phase remains available. 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 carry on the work, pride and achievement that went towards creating a workable strategy for our 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 was a community-driven process. A Community Committee was created with representatives from each participating neighbourhood to guide the project. Committee Members ensured residents from all neighbourhoods were 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 was 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