Environment and Sustainable Development
Eisenberger has proposed a downtown pedestrian plaza to increase pedestrian activity in the core of Hamilton.
He also gained the endorsement of colleagues to implement an anti-idling by-law. A by-law which has yet to issue one single ticket. The by-law is not proactively enforced and relies on citizens calling the by-law office about a vehicle idling longer than 15 minutes.
After several years of debate, Eisenberger worked with both the provincial and federal governments to gather financial support ($60 million in total) to assist with efforts to clean up Randle Reef in Hamilton Harbour, a toxic hotspot from the city's industrial past. The province and Ottawa have each contributed their portion and the City of Hamilton continues to work with the Region of Halton, the City of Burlington, the Hamilton Port Authority and the private sector (including US Steel and Arcelor Mittal) to create a funding formula to cover the remaining one-third of the cleanup costs. To date, the City has pledged $7 million to $10 million dollars toward the cost of the cleanup.
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