Category Archives: Ad Hoc Committee Updates

Committee of the Whole, Report No. 30 Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Item 7: Concord GO Centre Secondary Plan – File 26.3 City of Vaughan Response to Public, Government and Agency Submissions Related File: OP.07.013, 1834374 Ontario Inc. … Continue reading →

The Vaughan Committee of the Whole Public Hearing which took place at 7 pm on November 26, 2013 included two items (Items 2 and 3) of crucial relevance to the Concord West community.  We have assembled together the following documents pertinent … Continue reading →

The following is a partial transcript of the Public Open House of  November 4, 2013, which accompanied the release, for public comments, of the Draft Secondary Plan for the Concord GO Centre.  The transcript encompasses two interventions by members of … Continue reading →

[This extract can also be accessed in PDF format.]  April 9, 2013 Committee of the Whole Item 15. CONCORD GO CENTRE SECONDARY PLAN DIRECTION TO PROCEED WITH STUDY AREA EXPANSION AND ADDITIONAL FUNDING FILE 26.3 WARDS 4 & 5 Concord West … Continue reading →

[This extract can also be accessed in PDF format.]  Extracts from the City of Vaughan, Committee of the Whole (Working Session) Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Item 1. Concord Go Centre Secondary Plan Study Status Update Presentation by Planning Alliance by … Continue reading →

On June 21, 2012, Dr. Paulo Correa and Dr. Gila Martow met with Fred Darvish, the President of Liberty Development Corporation (which owns the lands for the planned Concord Floral residential development and Concord Corporate Center) and MPP Peter Shurman. … Continue reading →

On November 29, 2011, Josephine Mastrodicasa, president of the CWRA, Theresa Panezutti, vice-president of the CWRA, and Dr. Paulo Correa, Chair of the CWRAHC, were interviewed by Dr. Gila Martow on her AllTalkTV show Gila’s Community.  The first part of … Continue reading →

An All-Candidates Meeting, organized  by the Concord West Ratepayers Association and the Concord West Seniors Club, for the Thornhill candidates in the upcoming Provincial Election, took place on September 14, 2011, at the Fontana Gardens Banquet Hall.  The candidates present … Continue reading →

On September 13, 2011, a delegation of Concord West residents attended a meeting of the Vaughan Municipal Council (Committee of the Whole), in order to address, in particular, item 33 on the agenda: the proposed Terms of Reference for the … Continue reading →

In early September, in advance of the All-Candidates Meeting for the upcoming Provincial Elections, Concord West residents staged daily protests against the plans by the McGuinty government to destroy the Concord West heritage greenspace and its wildlife inhabitants.  The protests … Continue reading →

Palilalia, the compulsive repetition of one’s own words, is a symptiom that may – and in the case of the MTO, definitely does – occur in autism.  And so in May and again in June, Dr. Correa received, forwarded by … Continue reading →

In late March, after our petition was read in Queens Park, we once more appealed for help from our friends all around Ontario, initiating an email campaign directed to Premier McGuinty and the Ontario Legislature, in support of the petition.  In this … Continue reading →

In early April, 2011, Dr. Correa received from Premier McGuinty a response (dated April 8th) to the community’s request, dated March 2, for an audience with the Premier.  The Premier’s letter is worthy of extensive quoting, as it is both brief and exemplary, … Continue reading →

On March 2, 2011, the York Region Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) adopted a Recommendation for York Region Council to “support the 407 Transitway Environmental Assessment […] subject to the satisfactory resolution of outstanding issues submitted by York Region, … Continue reading →

On March 23, 2011, Councillor Sandra Racco issued a letter to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty asking for his “serious consideration in delaying the adoption process of the 407 Transitway Environmental Project Report until all significant outstanding issues submitted by the … Continue reading →

On March 22nd and 24th, 2011, Thornhill MPP Peter Shurman read in the Ontario Legislative Assembly a petition, initiated by the Concord West community, requesting of the McGuinty government a transfer of the Concord West Greenspace from the Ontario Realty … Continue reading →

On March 2, 2011, representatives of the Concord West community submitted to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty a letter – signed by all the directors of the CW Ratepayers Association, all the directors of the CW Seniors Club, and all the directors of the … Continue reading →

On March 2nd, while Dr. Correa was delivering a deputation to the York Region Planning and Economic Development Committee, he was suddenly informed that the points he was making have become moot, since York Region Council has just been made aware … Continue reading →

On Sunday, February 27, the Concord West Seniors Club organized a luncheon to raise funds for our struggle to preserve the CW Greenspace.  Many thanks to everyone  (there were so many of you!) who worked so very hard to make … Continue reading →

On February 15, Vaughan City Council unanimously passed a resolution of full support for the Concord West community.  The resolution requests the Province to place the core (GO Station and parking lot) of the intermodal 407 Transitway/GO Barrie hub on … Continue reading →