Skeezix
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Yes, and I have no doubt there was at least an open house/community meeting regarding the new intersection and at least some public consultation for the public art options (that might be bundled together with park improvements).
Cities don't inform citizens of everything, but they usually do inform the public on mid-sized larger projects that often include these smaller issues. It doesn't need to be a full-scale Honest Ed's level of public participation, but there is some level of public consultation/newsletters that inform the public of plans.
In this case, it was a private donor, so it seems like this step was skipped in favor of committee meetings and a council vote.
No. The new lights were approved by motion at Council. There was no open house or community meeting - jeez, if every traffic improvement in my area generated an open house, the city would need to build a facility to house all the open houses. There was no public consultation on the art - certainly the local community was not notified.
As I said, municipalities can't function if they notified people of every improvement. This donated art in a park isn't a "mid-sized larger project". Like I said earlier, Markham likely doesn't have a notice requirement for this kind of art because people aren't usually this petty (and because it has no real impact on local residents).