City Councillor Janice Wing wrote a letter to the Niagara Falls Review expressing concern about their coverage of the City Council meeting where Canadian Niagara Hotel’s application for off-site parking at their Jolley Cut hotel was approved:
Some important facts were missed in your coverage of the Canadian Niagara Hotels’ new development atop the moraine above Queen Victoria Park. The current proposal is certainly not “green,” as your headline suggested.
The information presented by city staff indicated it is not the depth of vertical encroachment into the moraine that matters, but the horizontal: Planning staff told council that “given the steep slopes and mature vegetation surrounding the site, a significant reduction in the building footprint will be necessary to effectively reduce the impact on the moraine” and “eliminating one level of parking without decreasing the building footprint does not lessen the impact on the moraine.” We were told mature trees on the Jolley Cut will be lost as a result of the construction.