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Corydon planning to resume with outside consultant
Coun. Russ Wyatt credits Mayor Sam Katz with getting the planning process back on track. (WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES) Photo Store
A Corydon-area planning process is back on track after a city committee voted to continue work with the help of an independent consultant.
This morning, council's executive policy committee directed Winnipeg's public service to hire an outside consultant to help oversee secondary plans for the Corydon neighbourhood. They are expected to report back on a strategy for the planning process in 60 days.
Coun. Russ Wyatt (Transcona) thanked Mayor Sam Katz for helping to broker a resolution, and compared him to Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger.
On Monday, Katz met with property and development chairman Coun. Jeff Browaty (North Kildonan), Coun. Jenny Gerbasi (Fort Rouge), community representative Carla Richmond, business owners Jerry Cianflone and Jeff Rabb, and senior city administration to discuss the neighbourhood planning process.
Last week, Wyatt introduced a motion last week calling on the city to terminate the planning process after the Corydon Avenue BIZ and several business owners sent a letter to Gerbasi and other city officials, calling the process a "stop-growth plan."
Council's property committee subsequently voted to stop work on the neighbourhood plans.
Wyatt said Pizza Hotline owner Jerry Cianflone contacted him about serious concerns about the planning process, and he advised Cianflone to put his concerns in writing and speak to the property committee. He said he does not know why business owners decided to contact him directly about the problem, but speculated it was because he has helped Transcona businesses deal with city-related issues.
On July 4, Wyatt hired Cianflone's son, Anthony, as his executive assistant.
"There's no conflict," Wyatt said this morning following an executive policy committe meeting. "If Mr. Cianflone had hired my son, then I think there would be a conflict, but my son is five years old. There's definitely no conflict."
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