Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Trent University, Oshawa Campus has been approved

Click on THIS LINK to read the article by Ms. Jillian Follert, Oshawa This Week, about the unanimous council vote to allow Trent University to build a campus on a portion of the former Civic Auditorium and St. Michael Catholic School.

We would appreciate hearing your thoughts and concerns about Council's vote.





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Tim Eye said...

I attended the two meetings at Bobby Orr lounge with respect to the Trent proposal. The Oshawa This Week paper did not include the fact that 5 area residents spoke against this move to former St. Michael's School property and at least three were in favor of it. Misleading reporting is not uncommon around these parts.

The major concerns voiced were student housing and traffic safty. I believe those two were addressed when it was pointed out that Trent presently has 700 students up at the Simcoe St.N. campus and less than 15% of them require housing. With a total expected student population of 2000 by 2015 housing requirements can be expected as 300. There is already a School crossing gaurd for children crossing Thornton Rd. at the Civic Arena North entrance for those kids attending Waverly Public School. One woman complained about a two story building across the street from her home being able to look into her bedroom window, I suggested that she might want to buy blinds for her bedroom.
Our neighborhood surrounding the Civic is an older neighborhood within walking distance to Trent's proposed campus and as such has many older residents that may be able to help out younger people by renting an empty bedroom to them while they attend Trent.
The Civic property is already serviced by the public transit system, an empty School will again be a place of learning, almost 200 fulltime staff will be required to function, by drawing over 2000 people to this part of town the local economy will benefit greatly.
If local roads could handle 4000 attending Oshawa Generals games at the same area, I am sure they could handle half the previous traffic loads.
It is about time Oshawa City Council got something right, without extra added public costs to us local residents.
Besides, I will no longer have to watch youngster climbing onto the roof of St. Mikes waiting for them to fall to serious injury or worse....as cleaning staff usually are in these facilities throughout the night and many students will be attending in the evenings. In fact, I am suprised a kid hasn't fallen yet to my knowlege.
With the severe decline in the manufacturing sector and the resulting job losses, this really is a good-news story.

Tim Eye

July 5, 2009 at 5:40 AM

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