Saskatoon Speaks

The City of Saskatoon is very pleased to officially launch the Community Visioning project Saskatoon Speaks. It is time to start thinking about what Saskatoon will look like in 50 years, and share your thoughts about how you want to shape the future of our city.

Saskatoon Speaks wants to find out what residents value and want to preserve in our city, and what they want to improve and strive for as Saskatoon continues to grow. Conversations throughout the city will gather information about what the whole community wants for the future. These conversations will take place at city summits, through roundtable discussions, and online with the use of social media tools such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook. These conversations will help shape a vision for Saskatoon's future and develop into more focused discussions as the visioning process develops and the core issues are revealed.

For more information on the project and to get involved please go to: http://www.saskatoonspeaks.com

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[GriffinElliot]

yEAH, AGENDA 21, BABY! dIVERSITY SURE. All you're gonna do is nix single family homes & shove everyone into soviet style 'stack n pack' death traps. The great white north has lost it's mind & it's soul.Don't forget to put plenty of rail lines in. . .gotta keep them box cars flowin when u decide to euthanize that large elderly population in 2026-all that elder care might put a drag on your sucess & all, aye?

[Swackers90]

Saskatoon should build an elevated train like Vancouver :D

[legatinois87]

notice how they don't show any winter shots. : P

[officereagle]

at least it's name doesn't sound like some kind of genitalia

[jasonscfr]

It's just that when people come to Saskatoon from the airport the first thing they see is an intersection with lights coming on to a freeway. This might portray that we are cheap, or can't afford an overpass. I know that Saskatoon is growing at an substantial rate, and I am sure that it is hard to keep up with infrastructure. I strongly feel that we need to get another Penguin Village in Saskatoon, but this time build it downtown in the Kinsmen Park field. It looks large enough.

[jasonscfr]

I believe that modes of transportation wouldn't be such a problem if there are a sufficient amounts of overpasses (over intersections and railroads). The highway heading north to Martensville and the service road along side of the highway looks like something just slabbed together with out much thought put into it. I feel the "if you build it they will come" saying will portray largely in the amount of people that come and stay in Saskatoon.

[roroforsho]

@stiki123 if you want to keep those beautiful clear skies well into the future, the only answer is vertical architecture and a core population. (The reason why glass buildings are so popular here in Canada is our high hourly sunlight hour average per year, beautiful skies and reflective light.) The view wouldn't be ruined as long as the architecture is attractive and functional. Did you know that the city of Calgary is about the same size area as New York City? Grow up, not out.

[stiki123]

@bic2k Saskatoon has a beautiful sky all year round and it would be a shame to block that by giant sky scrapers. However, there must be a middle ground. A balance between increasing the living density in the city and maintain the beautiful view of the clear skies.

[bic2k]

@stiki123 I agree. To bad we have a community that wants to "preserve" the sky line. *sigh*

[stiki123]

Saskatoon has the potential to be a great city, however just like Calgary its growing out and wide instead of up. This makes it hard to get around without a car and the city sidewalks are non existent in some places.

I would love to see the people of this great city embrace responsible living and set an example for the rest of Canada.

I would love to see Saskatoon embrace the sustainable attitude and implement better urban planing and build bike-paths and more sidewalks.