Parking Situation

We are pleased to have recently met with Mayor Sohi, with the kind assistance of Chief Willie Littlechild

By supporting Sacred Heart purchasing the old Sacred Heart playground, your Mayor and Council are enabling Canada’s National Indigenous Parish to continue to hold funerals, serve the disabled, and serve as a beacon of reconciliation in action.

With the city renewing the streets, 96 Street was rebuilt, including a bike lane, which is wonderful for our neighbourhood and is a good thing. A side-effect was that it reduced the limited parking spots in front of our church.
This is especially important for access for funerals, as well as those with limited mobility.

As a solution, Sacred Heart wants to buy the small playground just south of the rectory, which was formerly used by Sacred Heart School. While costing the city nothing and enabling street renewal and sustainable transportation at our own cost, and no cost to taxpayers.
As that’s no longer needed, the school board is willing to sell it. But that needed the City’s approval. Thanks to your support and Mayor Sohi’s understanding and help, we now have permission to bid on the property.

THANK YOU!

This is where you stepped up. We asked you to look up your city councillor (listed in the link below) and send an email or letter to them supporting this.
You did that, and the Mayor listened, resulting in the meeting pictured above.

• Letter to Mayor Sohi and City Councillors
• Letter to our McCauley Neighbours

Note that we would never have asked, if this would have impacted kids in the neighbourhood. What’s important to know is that just one block east, there’s a renewed playground at the much bigger and nicer Giovanni Caboto Park, including a city Green Shack program, a spray park, fountain, and more.