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In this issue…Greater convenience and access make voting easy

This Municipal ElEcTion yEar GuElph voTErs have more opportunities than ever to get out and vote. With four days of ad-vance voting taking place this fall—October 12, 13, 14 and 16—in addition to Election Day on October 25, take advantage of the convenience of voting on the day that works best for you. Con-sider an advance poll this year to avoid the Election Day lineup!

All locations are accessible, welcome service animals and offer voters the option of audio voting.

Who’s running?Every four years, Guelph (and all other Ontario municipalities) holds a Municipal Election to select a Mayor, City Councillors and School Board Trustees.

Get to know the candidates at guelph.ca/vote.

Are you on the Voters List? If you’re a Guelph resident you should have received your Voter Notification Card through Canada Post mail at the beginning of October. The card tells you when and where to vote. If you didn’t

receive yours, you may need to be added to the Voters List or update your address information.

Four easy ways to check if you’re on the Voters List:Check online at 1. guelph.ca/vote > Information for voters > “How do I know if my name is on the Voters List?” and then simply enter your name and addressCall the City Clerk’s Office at 2. 519-837-5603Email the City Clerk’s Office at 3. clerks@guelph.ca Visit the ServiceGuelph counter at City Hall, 1 Carden St. 4.

The City Clerk’s Office can easily add your name or update your information. Simply complete the Application to Amend Voters List form available on guelph.ca/vote or pick up a copy at the ServiceGuelph counter. Once the form is filled out, visit the Service-Guelph counter at City Hall and bring identification with you.

Don’t forget your ID New for the 2010, voters are required to provide a piece of iden-tification that shows proof of their name, address (where they live or own property in Guelph) and signature. For a list of ac-ceptable pieces of identification, visit guelph.ca/vote.

For more information about the 2010 Municipal Election, including where you can vote (if you’re on the Voters List) visit guelph.ca/vote or contact the City Clerk’s Office at 519-519-837-5603 or clerks@guelph.ca.

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For more information, call 519-837-5603 or TTY 519-826-9771.Pour les plus amples renseignements, composez le 519-837-5603 ou ATS 519-826-9771.

Ward Poll

If your name and address appear on this card, you are registered to vote. If this card is not addressed to you or contains errors, please call the number below.Please bring this card and personal identification with you in order to vote. This card cannot be used as proof of identity.All locations are accessible and offer audio voting.

Si votre nom et adresse sont sur cette carte, vous êtes inscrits pour voter.Si cette carte ne vous est pas destinée ou si elle contient des erreurs, téléphoner le numéro situé au dessous de cette carte.Soyez prêts à présenter cette carte et des pièces d’identité afin de voter. Cette carte ne peut pas servir de preuve d’identité.Tous les emplacements sont accessibles et sont équipés pour le vote audio.

City Clerk’s Office/Bureau du secrétaire municipal 1 Carden Street Guelph, ON N1H 3A1

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Good neighbours, great neighbourhoods

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Guelph Transit: shorter travel times coming soon

This is what your Voter Notification Card looks like. It should have arrived in early October.

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Good neighbours, great neighbourhoods

Fallyard Waste collectionYard waste will be collected during your clear WASTE collection week

on your regular collection day.

Week B collection: november 1-5Week A collection: november 8-12

Check your Conservation Calendar to determine your clear Waste collection week.Week A Waste collection is highlighted in purple. Week B Waste collection is highlighted in yellow. Or visit guelph.ca/wetdry to view the collection map.

Preparing your yard waste for curbside collection:

Yard waste must be at the curb by 7 a.m. on your •clear WASTE collection day.Yard waste must be placed in kraft paper bags, •jute bags or in a clearly labelled container (less than 100 litres). Yard waste in plastic bags will NOT be collected.•Branches and tree limbs must be tied in bundles •not larger than 1 metre (3 feet) long by 0.6 metres (2 feet).Each bundle, bag or container of yard waste •must not exceed 20 kilograms (44 pounds).Yard waste must be placed within 1 foot of the •curb and 1 metre (3 feet) away from your Wet, Dry and Waste materials.

Yard waste includes: Grass clippings (including thatch) •Leaves •Hedge trimmings •Woody plants (including vines, rose bushes, and •the like) Brush, branches, and tree limbs with a diameter •less than 5 cm (2 inches)

Yard waste does NOT include: Sod, soil and sand •Treated wood •Large stumps •Stones •Plastics •

give your composter a treat this halloween

Chop up your pumpkin •and put it in your backyard composter.Whole pumpkins will also be picked up during •Fall Yard Waste Collection. Make sure you place your pumpkin beside your yard waste bag.Pumpkins can also be chopped up and put in •your green Wet bag.

For more information call 519-767-0598 or visit guelph.ca/wetdry.

Report a problem in your neighbourhoodZoning changes and more enforcement are positive steps, but we know long-term change takes time. In the mean-time, if you experience a problem that needs enforcement, call one of the numbers below:

Parking By-law Compliance and Enforcement 519-836-7275

GarbageSolid Waste Resources 519-767-0598

Messy yards or run-down buildingsBuilding Services 519-837-5615 x 3

Fire safetyGuelph Fire and Emergency Services 519-763-8111(non-emergency number)

NoiseGuelph Police Service 519-824-1212(non-emergency number)

Snow removalOperations 519-837-5628

PetsOperations 519-837-5628

An in depth review of shared rental housing regulations was conducted from 2003 to 2005, and resulted in many changes to regulations and processes.

The City is now working towards improvements in a number of areas to ensure Guelph’s neighbourhoods have a healthy mix of housing types, and to address problems in neigh-bourhoods with high concentrations of these forms of housing.

Proposed changes to Guelph’s Zoning By-lawThe City has proposed changes to Guelph’s Comprehensive Zoning By-law to regulate the minimum distance between lodging houses and two-unit houses with six or more bedrooms. Such changes would support diversity of housing types and relieve the pres-sure of high-occupancy rental housing in some neighbourhoods.

EnforcementResidents may have already begun to see the impact of the City’s enhanced compliance and enforcement program. The program increases the City’s ability to proactively and reactively address noise and parking violations in residential areas with a concentration of shared rental housing units.

LicensingThe City is also considering a licensing program for lodging houses and two-unit houses in order to regulate the business of shared rental housing.

Keeping everyone informedThrough all of this, the City is committed to keeping all parties informed and encouraging people to get involved in the decision-making processes.

sharEd rEnTal housinG is a common form of rental accommodation in the city of Guelph that’s mainly associated with lodging houses (a detached residential dwelling with five to eight lodging units) and accessory apartments (two-unit houses, otherwise known as residential dwellings with a rental apartment.) These forms of housing are regulated through the Zoning By-law, and the Provincial Fire and Building Codes. These regulations are in place to ensure that safe, decent, affordable housing is available for tenants and that these residential units are compatible with the surrounding neighbourhood.

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Guelph’s new organics facility—coming soon!aT This TiME nEXT yEar, construction of Guelph’s new state of the art Organics Waste Processing Facility (OWPF) will be wrapping up and preparations will be underway for processing your home’s organic waste into clean, organic compost.

This facility, located at 110 Dunlop Drive, is expected to increase Guelph’s waste diver-sion rate by 10 per cent.

Although that’s plenty to look forward to, here’s what’s happening on site now. Con-struction is more than 20 per cent complete and the following is already in place:

the perimeter walls of the facility •the geomembrane liner•water tanks •more than half of the administration building’s footings and concrete walls •backfi lling inside the facility has started•

Learn more about the OWPF and keep up to date on the progress of the construction at guelph.ca/organics.

Waste collection moves from bags to cartsGuelph residents will start putting carts at the curb instead of bags in 2012. New waste collection trucks with an automatic arm will pick up the carts and empty them.

Why carts?To build the OWPF, the City is required by the Ministry of the Environment to stop collecting organic waste in bags. Based on best practices research and a third party peer review, Council decided in August that the best environmental, operational and fi nancial option is automated cart collection for all three streams—organics, recyclables and waste.

Benefi ts of carts includeincreased waste diversion through more frequent yard waste collection•less waste sent to landfi ll and fewer associated disposal costs•reduced operating costs of $430,000 annually and a smaller carbon footprint due •to four fewer collection trucks

To help manage costs, carts will be phased in over a three year period. One-third of Guelph homes will receive their carts in 2012, another third in 2013, and the remainder in 2014.

To learn more about the switch to carts, visit guelph.ca/organics.

Dawson Rd.Speedvale Ave. to Shelldale Ave.

Edinburgh Rd.Speedvale Ave. to London Rd.

Eramosa Rd.Delhi St. intersection

Gordon St.Stone Rd. to Harts Ln.

Maltby Rd.Hanlon Expy. to Gordon St.

Norfolk St. Norwich/Woolwich St. to

Paisley/Quebec St.River Run Centre

Sidewalk replacementsVarious locations

Sleeman Centrevideo score clockSpeedvale Ave.

Stevenson St. to city limitsStevenson St.

York Rd. to Elizabeth St. Stone Rd.

Scottsdale Dr. to Victoria Rd.Victoria Rd.

Eramosa Rd. to Eastview Rd.Victoria Rd.

Woodlawn Rd. to city limitsWestmount Rd.

Speedvale Ave. to London Rd.Wyndham St.

Carden St. to Wellington St. CN Rail Bridge

50-99%COMPLETE

Neighbouring cities are starting to get jealous.

PREDICTED PROJECT STATUS FOR OCTOBER 12, 2010.

Woodlawn Rd.Hanlon Expy. to Nicklin Rd.

100%COMPLETE

0-49% COMPLETE

Carden St. Wilson St. to Wyndham St.

(Market Square rink/water feature)Carden St.

Wyndham St. to Macdonell St. (NEW Inter-modal Transit Terminal)

Evergreen Seniors Community Centre Main Fire Station

Transit FacilityWest End Community Centre

guelph.caThese projects are made possible thanks to contributions from:

HAVE YOU SEEN THE SIGNS OF FALL? Leaves are turning, kids are back at school and construction projects look like they’re wrapping up for the season.

Thank you Guelph. You’re dealing with detours and tolerating traffi c snarls while the City completes major upgrades to our roads, sewers and buildings. We’ll keep working as fast as we can to meet our construction deadline.

About fi ve years worth of work has to be done by March 2011 in order to take advantage of $48 million in Federal and Provincial funding. That’s why you’ve seen construction just about everywhere this summer.

By now you’re used to navigating detours and delays, so hopefully nothing stops you from enjoying your favourite shops, restaurants and services. Keep using the maps and construction updates on guelph.ca to get to where you’re going without any surprises.

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OctoberGuelph Studio Tour October 15-17 www.guelphstudiotour.ca

NovemberGuelph Festival of Moving Media November 5-7 www.festivalofmovingmedia.ca

Fair November November 18-21 University of Guelph www.uoguelph.ca/ucevents/fair.shtml

Guelph Santa Claus Parade November 21 519-836-0660

Festival of TreesNovember 24-December 28River Run Centre

DecemberSparkles in the Park December 11-31 www.sparklesinthepark.ca

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Services PhoneGeneral inquires 519-822-1260

Mayor’s office 519-837-5643

CAO’s office 519-837-5602

Building 519-837-5615

City Clerk’s office 519-837-5603

Court Services (Provincial Offences Court)

519-826-0762

Engineering 519-837-5604

Evergreen Seniors Community Centre

519-823-1291

Fire and Emergency Services 519-824-3232

Guelph Museums 519-836-1221

Human Resources 519-837-5601

Library (main branch) 519-824-6220

Neighbourhood Engagement 519-837-5618

Operations 519-837-5628

Parking519-822-1260 x 2888

Parks Maintenance 519-837-5628

Police Services 519-824-1212

River Run Centre (box office) 519-763-3000

Sleeman Centre 519-822-4900

TTY (teletype for deaf ) 519-826-9771

Tax office 519-837-5610

Tourism 519-837-1335

Traffic 519-837-5628

Transit 519-822-1811

Victoria Road Recreation Centre 519-837-5621

Waste Resource Innovation Centre 519-767-0598

Waterworks 519-837-5627

West End Community Centre 519-837-5657

Zoning 519-837-5615

Who to callEvents

For more events go online to visitguelphwellington.ca.

All information in Insight Guelph is accurate at time of printing.

Guelph Transit: increased frequency, more direct routes, shorter travel times coming soon GuElph TransiT is poisEd to make significant changes to its routes and service frequency, making it easier and more convenient than ever to travel using public transit.

Based on the recommendations in the Transit Growth Strategy, major changes are coming in 2011, with increased bus frequency, enhanced routes and improved service.

What riders can expect in 2011a new transit terminal that improves connections between local transit, •commuter bus and rail travela restructuring of routes with 15 minute frequency during peak periods•weekend riders can look forward to 30 minute service on Saturdays and Sundays •and Sunday service will be extended by an hour Mobility Service users will have a transit fleet that is 100% accessible •innovative service approaches to service industrial areas•

Longer-term improvements planned over the next five yearscreation of a transit spine (priority for transit buses along Gordon/Norfolk/•Woolwich and Stone Road corridors)transit buses will have signal priority, priority corridors and queue jump lanes to •speed up travel timesenhanced service levels including express and semi-express buses and GO shuttle•additional routes to service existing and emerging business/industrial areas •further assessment of the Guelph Junction Railway •corridor to transport riders to and from the Guelph Innovation Centrerevamped Community Bus service •introduction of new service to surrounding •communities in the County and select interregional destinations

Recognizing the need for a long-term transit vision to meet the growing needs of our residents, the City’s Transit Growth Strategy provides a detailed roadmap for the growth of Guelph Transit over the next twenty years.

Community input a vital componentA comprehensive consultation process was an important part of the Plan’s recommen-dations. The consultation included participation from more than 7,000 residents, includ-ing Guelph Transit riders and staff, area businesses, accessibility groups, health care professionals and seniors, making this one of the largest scale public consultations in the City’s history.

These improvements will see our community become better-connected and riders will be able to move between residential, business and shopping areas with ease. These enhancements to Guelph Transit reaffirm Guelph’s vision of building a sustainable and environmentally responsible community.

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