Jenny Calder

Member since 24 October 2025

I'm passionate about communities and empowering them. My special interests are heritage and the environment with a keen eye on sustainable development,

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Jenny Calder6 months ago The public participation system is lacking. Issues: The result is rarely if ever made known to the person who has taken the time to comment. We need closure and to know what the outcome is. Public participation notices appear in several different places in parts. There is no single place to go to where one could find everything that is open for public participation. This is frustrating and sometimes misleading. Public participation feels like a tick-box exercise because of the lack of transparency and outcomes. Possible solutions: Have a single page or website where you can find everything that is open to public participation. An example of it being misleading is where you have a drop-down tab for Have your Say on this page. On the main City website you also have a link to Have you Say. Both have property related items which are not the same but related. It would be simpler to access them all in one place. A commitment from the City to be transparent will build trust in communities. Publish the request/notice, as well as how many people interacted or commented, category, a summary of objections, and the interim (i.e. if after comments were received the item was revised) and the final outcome. The same process should be developed for C3 service requests. Sometimes it is self-explanatory but sometimes a short description of what was done would be helpful and alleviate a lot of frustration.

Jenny Calder6 months ago I'm concerned this analysis has only been done on a desktop study. I urge the team to do an actual survey. Kinkle Way and Kinkleway Avenue, Newlands do not need speedbumps. The road is a dead end and has 2 dead ends leading off it. All these streets are short with only residential traffic. There is no thoroughfare. No indication why 4 speedbumps are needed. No map enclosed for Lee Road Claremont and no indication where or why a speedbump is needed.Bonair Road Rondebosch is not a thoroughfare, it is a quiet residential road that has a dead end on one side, no direct access to Park Road going east and the list and map don't match in terms of number of speedbumps required. Map says 8 and list says 3. It is more reasonable to place 3 speedbumps here. Cook Road Claremont - speedbumps have been requested several times for this road as people speed down here towards Keurboom. There are always pedestrians walking towards the park, and there is the WPCC field which Rondebosch High uses across Keurboom from Cook Road. It is a long road with a dangerous kink towards Keurboom. The residents have been begging for traffic calming for years. Please consider using those not needed elsewhere here rather. A resident from Cook Road was killed in December 2025 while crossing Keurboom Road from Cook.There was no option to select partly support so I have had to opt for no. I have only included looked at the Ward 58 area as I'm familiar with the area.

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Jenny Calder2 years ago The surrounding buildings make the site unsuitable for expansion and given the high cost of the plant expansion in future may be a more cost effective way of increasing capacity. Discharging brine into the ocean is problematic and will affect marine life even if diluted and diffused. It increases salinity and decreases oxygen which kills marine life. A bay is also not an ideal site for such an operation. I propose a more suitable site be used that has the space to create salt pans or the ability to process the waste product into a useful commodity like caustic lye. The high cost of energy and the high usage of a desalination plant, and the fact that energy using fossil fuel is not guaranteed due to inefficiency of the national government and mismanagement of resources by them, a more suitable site might be one where renewable power might be sourced for the operation of the plant (solar or wind). Using nuclear energy is also a cleaner option than fossil fuel but again all energy is fed into and supplied to the national grid. It's impracticable to solve the delivery of one service by creating a problem with another. How clean is the intake water? When was it tested for this project? How energy efficient is the plant and how is it likely to affect climate change? How will noise be mitigated? Given that the Potsdam Water Treatment plant which feeds into the Diep River and into the ocean at Woodbridge Island, and the poor quality of effluent that does enter the ocean at this point, and the proximity to the desalination plant, would this site be deemed to be the most suitable? We have room for improvement at all our water treatment plants so I'm sceptical that the upgraded Potsdam Plant would improve this situation. It is being upgraded to double capacity. Desalination plants risky and are costly, and dirty environmentally. I would feel happier seeing several of the more environmentally methods of increasing the capacity of potable water supply to the City. The alien vegetation clearance project has yielded good returns and is a fraction of the cost. Updating and maintaining our water treatment plants could supply the balance of our needs. Currently very few of them are operational. Use the design of the Atlantis project to look at more environmentally friendly ideas of dealing with this. We don't have the knowledge or expertise to run design, implement, and run a desalination plant, so it is feasible to outsource. Hopefully the contract with the successful bidder will include a contingent of local labour. * There are many sources I've used to come to this conclusion which I'm happy to supply should you need them.

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Consolidate all City Public Participation Notices

Traffic Calming Area South

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