Offering free memberships to seniors over the age of 65 at all Barrie Recreation Centres would encourage them to be more physically and mentally active which would in turn improve their health. This would help reduce doctor visit, hospital visits, combat obesity rates, reduce diabetes, and have an overall improvement in the lives of seniors who may feel isolated. So many seniors are on a fixed income and cannot afford to pay the membership fees every year. If they had a place to go associate with other seniors that was free, they would get out more to exercise and have something to look forward to. Designated class times for free seniors workout classes that would not interfere with the other ages who want to use the work out equipment, would be my suggestion. Our recreation centres are not used to their full potential. It costs a lot to run them, so why not have these used more and benefit everyone? Having free memberships and classes for those over 65 could fill in the gaps when it's not so busy at the recreation centre.

Santa Monica, California's 3rd Street Promenade is a prime example of what could happen to revitalize our downtown core and rid it of the seedy elements and violence at night that are concerning visitors.

Formerly sketchy 3rd Street in CA. turned into a bustling strolling and shopping hotspot with cafes, kiosks down the centre of the street, twinkling lights, fountains, topiaries and buskers. Look at some of these photos.

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It became so popular that shops and restaurants stayed open in the evenings. A wonderful way to end the day.

Close Dunlop to traffic from 5 corners to Mulcaster. Install kiosks in the centre of the street. Add lights, music, fountains and let the festival atmosphere unfold.

Imagine how magical it could be at Christmas with a Christmas Mart. imagine a cafe au lait in a street cafe in the evenings in the spring. Ice creams and outdoor music in the summer. Hot waffles from street vendors in the fall.

Replace the current recycling bins with bigger bins with lids.
Agree that the current system is counterproductive whena little bit of wind causes litter to blow around the neighbourhood. Most days we spend time searching for our bins, garbage lids and cleaning up what garbage has blown into our yard. Also, the amount of garage space that is taken up with blue bins, grey bins, green bin and a garbage can, leaving little space to park our vehicle. Make it easier for residents to recycle and keep the waste out of the landfill and out of our neighbor hoods we work hard to keep clean.

The downtown core has always been a bone of contention for me. This city's downtown is disgusting. Gum all over the sidewalks, dirty sidewalks, stained sidewalks, bricks missing in the sidewalks and now paving tar put in the holes left by bricks that are missing (which sticks all over our shoes). Either purchase more paver stones and put them in the places where they are missing (cheapest fix) or put concrete back down. Then make the businesses power wash their sidewalks or the city do it like in other cities. Our downtown core streets and sidewalks are disgusting. This year the city only planted one side of collier street planters with flowers????????
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The city of Barrie decided 5 years ago to drain off the land located between Huronia Road and Yonge Street on Little Avenue because it flooded in the spring. They came in and tore up a walkway used by children walking to Assisinack ES and Innisdale HS forcing the children to walk an extra 3 blocks equilivant.
When the destruction of this beautiful eco system did not have the "effect" they desired they then decided to remove a well used and loved playground from the same location. The nearly 30 children that live in a three block radius were left to roam the busy car filled streets.
The closest playground is nearly 8 blocks away and not convenient for the local children as they need to cross busy streets to get there.
The area that was drained off is now a disgusting mess of weeded overgrowth.
The area has had old construction debris and materials left to rot. Maintenance is now nearly non existent and is being used to dump all kinds of garbage.
The once beautiful eco area, home to hundreds of animals, fish and birds has now become a stagnant, smelly mess.
Multiple calls and emails to city hall from residents of this area have gone ignored.
There were city workers out on the property, a few days ago, removing 5ft of the remaining 50ft of paved catwalk. When questioned they said no plans were being made.
Something needs to be done...either return it to its previous condition by filling in the drainage site so that the animals can return or figure out something for a replacement park so our children have a safe place to play.
It would also be nice if signage to the catwalk indicated that there was no access to Little Avenue from Herrell Avenue since this is supposably a TransCanada Trail.