Regina catalyst committee survey shows support for new library, aquatics facility
One local swim coach says Regina’s current facilities make it hard to attract competitions, “people don’t really want that competition hosted in Regina right now because we can’t accommodate everyone or they just don’t want to come here to the Lawsons to swim,” said Craig Nieuwstad of the Regina Optimist Dolphins.He says the city’s lack of available options has led to impacts on his teams.
President and CEO at Regina Exhibition Association Ltd. Tim Reid said that from 4,500 survey completions 1,200 responses from the community asked that accessibility be considered while building these projects.“You’ll see some of the results are regardless of where these facilities end up, they need to be connected. And not only connected by parking lots, to vehicular transit. People want to walk to things, they want to bike to things,” Reid said.
He added that one of the takeaways that they took from the survey results during public engagement was that the public wants more. They want more information not only on the potential sites, they want more information on potential facilities and catalyst projects. “We have other priorities in our city that are important we need to weigh these against the importance of those and there are some economic realities that we’re facing, or uncertainties, that we should be very mindful of,” Reid said.
The catalyst committee is expected to prepare a report for city council and present their findings in mid-January.
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