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RSS FeedsJohn Fisher students can stay put if special measures taken: Report
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

27 april 2017 15:52:12

 
John Fisher students can stay put if special measures taken: Report
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


The man behind a controversial tower being erected beside John Fisher Public School says he’s so confident about safety measures for the project that he’d be content if his own grandson attended the school while construction goes on next door.“We have said from the outset our priority is safety,” KG Group founder Marvin Katz said in an interview Wednesday, days after the Toronto District School Board released a third-party risk assessment of the 35-storey apartment project.Katz said he understands concerns raised by parents over the past six months who say they are worried about how construction will affect the health and safety of the 500 kids attending the French immersion elementary school.“Of course I do. I’m a parent, I’m a grandparent,” said Katz. “I think it’s always distressing when change comes about.”But he blamed “misinformation” for the backlash, said the project has gone through all necessary approvals and that the company has the experience, expertise and technology to ensure the highest safety standards.Outrage over the project prompted the TDSB to propose temporarily relocating the school next fall to Vaughan Road Academy, a high school seven kilometres away and slated to close in June.But Katz says the company never believed it was necessary to relocate the school. Local politicians have called the development unprecedented because of its size and proximity to students, Katz reiterated the company’s message that it is not the first high-rise to be built next to a school. According to the risk assessment report released last week by the TDSB, “risks can and should be mitigated to a level where students can remain in the school during construction.”However, “diligent monitoring and enforcement will be needed to ensure adherence to all mitigation measures,” concluded the report by ECOH, an environmental and occupational hea ...


 
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