The Collingwood Downtown Business Improvement Area has requested a return to the Red Zone status in Simcoe-Muskoka.
It says by placing Simcoe-Muskoka into Grey Lockdown while moving Grey-Bruce to Green simply does not make sense and illustrates the lack of understanding of the close relationship that the Town of Collingwood has with The Town of Blue Mountains.
The BIA says our economies are intimately connected and making the decision to force our personal service businesses and our restaurants to close while having the ability to travel just a few kilometers down the road to Green Zone businesses that are wide open for commerce shows a lack of understanding and empathy for the great challenges that our local business community is facing.
The Collingwood Downtown BIA Board of Management held an emergency meeting this morning to address the concerns from its membership.
The Collingwood BIA requests that Chief Medical Officer of Health and the Province of Ontario remove the Collingwood Downtown Business Improvement Area from the Grey Lockdown restrictions and, at a minimum, return the area to a Red Zone immediately.
