Beattie, 46, said his campaign will be issues-based and focus on community concerns about housing developments that are out of place with surrounding neighbourhoods and often lack supporting infrastructure like sidewalks, suitable roads and transit.
His examples include the city’s rezoning of a Baseline Road municipal property for a nine-storey apartment building, the Winona Point survey near the Costco plaza, the proposed skyscrapers near the lake shore, the planned redevelopment of LIUNA Gardens in Winona, and the recently approved 11-storey condo building near Cenotaph Park.
“It’s on people’s minds and respectfully to our incumbent councillor, she is known as a pro-development councillor, and I’d like to position myself as a pro-community councillor.”
