LOWER TAXES - FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY​

• Cap residential property tax increases to rate of inflation. 

• Reduce spending on consultants.

• Aggressively purse grant opportunities, including recreational facility grants. 

• Attract new commercial and industrial development to reduce residential property taxes. 

• Sell naming rights to ROC and MURC.

• Lobby Region for property tax carve out from Yonge North Subway extension costs ($1.2 Billion).

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MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING​

• Increase infill housing by reducing development charges and fees.

• Work with housing co-operatives, non-profits and charities, like Habitat for Humanity and St.Vincent De Paul Society, to build affordable housing.

• Lobby Housing York Inc. and Region to build more community housing in Sutton.

 

IMPROVE SERVICES​

• Re-introduce recycling for small businesses in Sutton and Jackson's Point BIAs.

• Establish service desk at Sutton public library, where senior residents can pay water and tax bills.

• Reduce building permit application wait times. 

• Upgrade select amenities at De La Salle Park, Mill Pond Park, and Sutton Parkette. 

• Lease Jackson's Point Harbour to private marina to improve facility and services for residents and visitors.

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REVITILIZE SUTTON & JACKSON'S POINT

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• Extend sidewalk from Jackson's Point to De La Salle Park. 

• Stop removal of transit signal at High St. and Middle St, as part of High St. reconstruction. 

• Support small business owners in Sutton & Jackson's Point with innovative marketing programs. 

• Encourage new subdivision residents to shop in Sutton and Jackson's Point through flyers and social media. 

• Work with Sutton & Jackson's Point BIAs to attract new businesses, including a new financial institution.  

• Add municipal parking in Jackson’s Point and Sutton.

• Encourage commercial landlords to rent out their empty storefronts to pop-up stores through property tax rebates or other innovative measures. 

• Allow zoning bylaw exemptions for Jackson’s Point and High St, so smaller lots can be developed into viable businesses.

• Build kayak/canoe dock on Black River.

• Establish new recreational/sport facilities for youth, including half-basketball court and outdoor skating rink.

• More festivals and special events, including more live concerts/theatre in De La Salle Park, Sutton Parkette, and Jackson’s Point Parkette, and additional street fairs and markets.

• Replace municipal lawns with pollinator gardens and indigenous plant species

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RESTORE SKILLED TRADES TRAINING IN SUTTON

• Work with Province, Region, Town and private sector partners to restore local skilled trades training programs for adults and youth. 

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MORE RESIDENT INPUT

• Quarterly town hall meetings at the LINK with residents in Ward 4.

• Ward 4 social media groups.

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PROTECT LAKE SIMCOE

• Lobby to restore full funding for Lake Simcoe Clean-Up Fund. 

• Work to reduce the application of road salt.

• Tougher bylaws and measures to deal with illegal dumping.This practice threatens local wetlands, tributaries that flow into Lake Simcoe, and our groundwater.