With the municipal election campaign heating up, candidates will soon be knocking on your door. This is an important time to let them know what direction you want them to take our city.

There will be other opportunities — at community halls and other venues — to hear from candidates and ask them questions. Here’s one question I encourage everyone to ask: when a decision is needed from a councillor, what will they do when they are caught between city administration implementing a strategy — such as the parks plan or housing strategy — and residents who overwhelmingly oppose a project?

Let’s look at an example in the community I grew up in, Renfrew. One block from the corner of Edmonton Trail and the Trans-Canada Highway (16th Avenue N.E.) is Beaumont Circus. Circus is an old word for traffic circle, or roundabout.

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Four separate “pie pieces” comprising green space, benches and mature trees complete the roadway. Beaumont Circus........

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