Posted Mar 8, 2014, 7:15 AM
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Location: Yellowfork
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To the city council of Martensville:
What are you doing? No, seriously? What are you doing? I've lived in Martensville for seventeen years and it's painfully clear to me that you do not have a plan for the growth of the city.
You're building eastwards without creating a viable means for those who live in the new subdivision to get there. This is going to increase congestion and the danger at the two exits to the city. It would have been simpler to build west across the highway.
Speaking of the highway, the creation of an interchange or overpass should be a top priority, yet the only thing we've heard about it is that it is in future plans. It should be in the plans now, especially with the new infrastructure funds in the new federal budget.
Lastly, new businesses are great, but they aren't the businesses we need. Out of all the major new stores in Martensville, the majority are fast food. We don't need those, we need a larger grocery store and things like doctor's offices. We also need to create another business district in the city because the current plan of placing all businesses on a single street is growing old. Warman has the right idea in this regard. They seem to have a plan to attract businesses and manage growth, and because of that the city feels far larger and more impressive. As much as I hate to say it, maybe take a page out of their playbook and stop trying to manage growth like Martensville is still a town of 2,500 people. It isn't.
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