We're going camping this week

Our communication team's  on holiday!

But we still have interesting content for you. As we do every week, we've been gathering opinions from friends and neighbours. We'd love you to read the selection we've put together. As always, we copied and pasted this week's comments exactly as they were written:

"So we should all endorse a flawed plan? For the sake of what- ensuring we get the city's current hospitals shut down and a hospital that is a both fiscal and environmental burden for citizens?"

"I am fed up with our elected politicians (MAYOR) taking us for a ride and disregarding our many voices of objection."

"No one elected CAMPP but many support them and what they are doing, me included. I don't want this Mega Hospital decision to turn into another Windsor Arena decision. If you take a step back and look at the project as a whole it doesn't make sense to build the hospital on the proposed location. The added infrastructure and services to support the area will have to be paid somehow and obviously Windsor can't even maintain the current infrastructure and services so why take on more. This deal seems shady by the people in charge but most people are blinded by a brand new shiny hospital which won't add services or beds to see through the veil."

"wake up..think of us who dont drive and our income is low"

"I completely understand the desire of county residents to be closer to a hospital. However, the tens of thousands of inner-city windsorites (many of whom do not have personal vehicles) that will now be further from healthcare thoroughly outweighs this. It’s just not fair or equitable for inner-city residents."

"You're building it to encourage urban sprawl when we should be building up not out. We need to reduce our impact on climate and this will have the opposite effect. There are so many reasons to oppose the site but people are only seeing it as a "it's only an x amount of time drive" but that misses the point that the current hospitals serve a population that doesn't have the privilege of a car or other things we take for granted. It's irresponsible to put it out there whole closing other sites. Keep the sites open or find land in the downtown are and use the "build it and they will come" argument to inspire a new breath of life into the downtown core that is so desperately needed."

"...thousands of acres of farmland are going to be developed and covered with concrete and asphalt in a city that struggles mightily with flooding as it is. Plus they're encouraging an entirely new neighbourhood be developed. Were talking major climate impact. I am not claiming to have a solution but I think this was rushed to try to secure funding. There's a reason there is a ton of pushback."

"It's a colossal mistake."

"The side that wants the hospital built on farmland basically has one argument: "I don't want to drive downtown and see crackheads". I have even seen founders of the Master Gardeners of Windsor support the sprawl. There are SO MANY empty fields within the urban zone of Windsor, paving over so much prime farmland and all the extra roads and the sprawl it will created for decades is unconscionable."

"Farmland is immeasurably important in sustaining our region and it’s incredibly shortsighted to keep gobbling it up. Especially when Windsor’s core has so much abandoned and derelict property. Build up, not out. Restore the interior, don’t abandon it."

"It’s worth taking the time to make sure it’s a location that will help the region over time, not hurt it."

"I also live outside of Windsor but I have to say it seems like the hospital should be in the core of the city. City residents pay higher taxes because they live near everything. When we choose to live outside the city because it is quieter and safer (or whatever reason), we have to accept that we have to drive into the city for a lot of things (including the hospital). You can't have your cake and eat it too."

"The Premier of Ontario can see that this does NOT make sense! STOP THE MEGA MISTAKE!"

"Good Luck CAMPP. This whole plan was poorly done and has really divided Windsor and the County. You've worked hard defending Windsorites on this location and I hope you are successful. "

"The Mega-Hospital project will have devastating effects on our economy and on our local ecosystem. We need to do everything within our power to oppose this development project. Urban Sprawl = post-collapse wasteland"

"I CARE about the poor, about those in central Windsor, who can't afford a taxi, or bus. I care about those people. The county gets 2 ERs, the city gets one?"

"Why build new infrastructure if there are areas that already contain it? the amount of urban sprawl that will occur if this hospital is built in the recommended location will have some negative impact on the city. The city can't even take care of the necessities with the size that it is now, which means that taxes will more than likely go up to maintain the infrastructure and services (fire, police, public transport). Windsor is 25% the size of Toronto, in km^2, but only 8% of its population."

"The Community Windsor will have to foot the Bill for all Infrastructure costs in the Hundreds of Millions. Yes the City which has the lowest Household income in the Windsor Essex Region. Windsor is lowest and Leamington is second lowest approx $60,000 approx $67,000 per year income. Tecumseh is the Highest at close to $100,000 and Lasalle approx $90,000. So yes the poorest community has to pay so the richest communities get better access."

"The plan to make Windsor more suburb than city simply isn't sustainable economically and environmentally. Windsor needs to get with the times."

"We didn't make the subdivisions developers did, at some point it needs to stop when all the farmland is paved over it will be to late. As a farmer it is getting increasingly harder to farm because of development."

"Between the population of Essex county and Windsor we both deserve a new hospital. People our age will have to relie on transit. Get there by bus at 9 am how do they get home at 3am when they are released?"