Where I stand
Your streets
Keep parking, roads, parks, and services reliable year-round, not just in tourist season.
A pothole on River Road is the same pothole—whether you live there year-round or you’re driving through on the way to the beach.
But too often, what gets fixed first depends on visibility—whether your street is on the way to a tourist destination.
That’s not how infrastructure should work in a town of nearly thirty thousand full-time residents.
Every neighbourhood matters. Every road matters. And basic services shouldn’t depend on whether visitors see them.
What I'll push for at council
- A transparent infrastructure plan. Wasaga Beach should publish a multi-year infrastructure schedule that tells every neighbourhood when their road, sidewalk, and storm sewer are next in the queue. Not "when someone complains loudest." A real list, with dates, posted online, updated quarterly. If a project gets bumped, the reason is in the open.
- Equity across the residential streets, not just the visitor corridors. Beach 1, and the Rex-plex parking lot get attention because they're high-traffic and high-visibility. The streets where residents actually live — the ones two and three blocks back from the shoreline — should get the same standard of repair, plowing, lighting, and sidewalk maintenance.
- Long-term thinking on the road network. Wasaga Beach has doubled in twenty years. The road grid hasn't. We need a council that's willing to ask hard questions about where the next traffic bottleneck will be in five years, not just where the angry call came in this morning.
Council won’t fix every pothole next quarter. But it can change how priorities are set, who knows when their street is up next, and whether service depends on which side of town you’re on. We’re growing—but our roads aren’t keeping up. More traffic, same infrastructure. That needs to change. A transparent, accountable approach means fair priorities, clear communication, and infrastructure that grows with our community—not behind it.
Related
- Your town hall — the transparency and accountability side — how priorities get set in the open.
- Your beach — the visitor-corridor parking and access infrastructure that overlaps with residential streets.