Residents, business owners to weigh in on future of Erieau

The Erieau Community Affiliation and the municipality are holding general public sessions Saturday to discuss the effects of that survey and the foreseeable future direction of the group.

Scott Vidler, chair of the association’s strategic setting up committee, said the community has observed a significant change.

“Erieau has transitioned from an industrial local community with a coal property and a professional fish packing plant to a residential and tourist neighborhood,” he claimed. “And what we’re wanting at now is, where do we go in the foreseeable future.”

There are all-around 400 inhabitants in the neighborhood, which juts out into Lake Erie, but the population swells from 1,200 to 1,400 in the summer time, Vidler estimated.

He phone calls Erieau the gem of Chatham-Kent. Vidler grew up in the village, still left in 1977 and arrived back again in 2019.

His perspective is that there desires to be treatment and consideration into how the region develops.

“As we increase into a vacationer desired destination…how do we control that so that the long-lasting residents aren’t squeezed out, and that’s squeezed out in the summertime time with superior targeted traffic, a lot of congestion. That is why we have a technique committee is to appear at the foreseeable future. What do we need so everybody can prosper in Erieau — the people and the travelers that arrive.”

The intention of the local community association is to develop a multi-yr strategic prepare.

“What we want to do is impact Chatham-Kent’s finances on how to expend money in Erieau,” Vidler said.

However quite a few of the survey’s respondents expressed worry about erosion, that concern is not in just the scope of the group’s function.

Randy Rolls, who owns the Eau Buoy restaurant, came to the area a few several years ago. As a small business owner who relies on tourism, he states the much more people today the far better.

“People are carrying out what they’re carrying out and people today want to get absent from Toronto and distinctive spots and they are buying down below, and you know, additional electrical power to ’em,” he reported.

The general public info periods are getting location at Erieau Community Corridor on Saturday. There is just one setting up at 9 a.m. and one particular at 1:30 p.m.