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City hall continues to seek input from the community for what eventually will find its way into the blueprint.

“They can get involved online. We’ve already had several public meetings,” Stafford said. “We’ve met with all stakeholders, partners and those delivering recreation services to all including school boards to university and colleges, Western Fair, Tourism London and all different volunteer community groups.”

After these meetings Stafford said he believes that a stadium of some sort will be under discussion.

“We’re getting some input now so it will be an item that will be addressed as part of community interest,” he said. “We haven’t got to the point of evaluating all the demographics and all of the sub-studies . . . but it’s something that’s coming forward as an interest in the community.”

It is all a concept at this stage.

“Right now there are certainly some sites we are looking at that are proposed by the community,” Stafford said. “It would be looking to see what partners there would be, what the size, what the scope is and what the need would be. It’s something we will be investigating for sure.

“But we haven’t done the math yet. We’re trying to decide is, is it needed for a greater economic vitality picture for tourism or from a sports perspective?”

The Western Mustangs have TD Stadium for football. The Majors have Labatt Park. While soccer has the BMO Centre, it’s an indoor facility.

The one glaring need is an outdoor soccer stadium with a modest seating capacity. No doubt the facility would be used for other sports as well.