Citizens For an Accountable Mega-Hospital Planning Process is calling for the province to reconsider the location of the new hospital in light of its new Climate Change Action Plan.
The plan promotes protecting agricultural lands, cycling and walking and reducing traffic.
"The mega-hospital plan is out of sync with Ontario's climate change plan," says CAMPP spokesperson Philippa von Ziegenwiedt. " If we rip hospital health care out of our established neighbourhoods we'll be looking at more road usage and more traffic congestion."
The new hospital is set to be located on County Rd. 42 and Concession 9 on a greenfield site.
"Hospitals are one of the most important community anchors and so when you have hospitals there's lots of related businesses, medical businesses and they need to be close by as well and that's where the walkability comes in too. If you take that away and we're having to drive from one place to the other that's not a healthy city," says von Ziegenwiedt.
CAMPP would like to see the new hospital located on a brownfield site, that already has services and is close to transit.
