A key component of this study is Public Involvement. Formal opportunities for public involvement will be held throughout the study.

Summary of Role of Stakeholders

• Get Involved! - Be Involved! - Stay Involved!

• Provide your contact information (or that of your organization) to the study team for placement on the stakeholder contact list, so that you receive letter / email notifications of project activities.

• Utilize the 'Overview of the Study Process' (key tasks, reports, public information centres and information presented, preliminary schedule) as the framework for your participation throughout the study.

• Provide the study team with your comments (additions/deletions/errors) on draft reports, within the time period requested, so that your input can be considered in finalizing those documents for use as building blocks for upcoming work.
  • For the first round of PICs, the draft reports include:
    • Report "A": Study Plan for Technical Work, Outreach and Consultation;
    • Report "B": Working Paper - Overview of Transportation, Land Use and Economic Conditions Within the Analysis Area; and
    • Report "F" - 1st Part: Working Paper - Environmental Conditions and Constraints.
  • Comments on the draft reports presented at the first round of PICs are requested by October 30, 2007


• Provide the study team with your comments (additions/deletions/errors) on the proposed approach to upcoming work, within the time period requested, so that your input can be considered before those approaches are applied to upcoming work.
  • For the first round of PICs, the proposed approach to upcoming work includes:
    • Process to define 'Area Transportation System' Problems and Opportunities;
    • Process and Criteria for Evaluating and Selecting 'Area Transportation System' Functional and Modal Alternatives; and
    • Process, Factors and Criteria for Evaluating and Selecting Preliminary Planning Alternatives.
  • Comments on the proposed approaches to upcoming work presented at the first round of PICs are requested by October 30, 2007
    
    
• When providing your comments, keep in mind the following:
  • Study objectives;
• Assumptions of EA proponency and completion of study work.
  
  
• If you have questions or comments, or if you wish to add your name to the study contact list:
  • Attend Public Information Centres (PICs) and talk to the study team members that staff them;
• Complete a comment sheet provided at the PICs;
• Contact the study team at:
  • Email: projectteam@7and8corridorstudy.ca
  • Toll Free: 1 (866) 921-9268