In response to Mayor John Fenik\u2019s request for clarification, the Ministry of Environment recently stated that the authority to oversee parking configurations for Main Street rests in the hands of Perth officials.<\/p>\n
Mayor Fenik wanted to clarify the ministry\u2019s ruling that stipulated they can only reconstruct the town\u2019s Main Street if it conformed to the to the environmental assessment\u2019s instructions. Failure to do so would result in stiff penalties.<\/p>\n
The mayor\u2019s question came as a result of the ongoing balancing act he\u2019s had to deal with in designing the town\u2019s main street, which includes removing all on-street parking. Residents who are presently operating businesses along Wilson Street say that removing parking will practically put their establishments out of business.<\/p>\n
His decision to take out parking is final, Fenik said, and he will no longer entertain any back and forth debates. He will however, continue to communicate and work with the public as the project goes along.<\/p>\n
Councilor Ed McPherson invited residents in town to attend a public meeting on the 10th<\/sup> of February where final designs and configurations of the street will be unveiled; these include streetscaping, as well as a glimpse of \u00a0businesses slated to open in the future.<\/p>\n Whatever the case, we\u2019re just happy Main Street is up for some rejuvenation. It\u2019s a move sure to breathe new life into the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In response to Mayor John Fenik\u2019s request for clarification, the Ministry of Environment recently stated that the authority to oversee…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[125,126,127],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perth-ontario-news","tag-perth-main-street","tag-perth-main-street-facelift","tag-perth-main-street-project"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPiZ-63","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}