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Biography
Councillor Lutczyk holds an honours degree in Urban Planning, specializing in downtown revitalization, from Carleton University. He is the earliest advocate of a university for Oshawa, Ontario’s largest city without having its own university. In fact, getting a university for Oshawa was a key component of his election platform when he ran for mayor in 1991. At that time, downtown Oshawa had already began to enter its “dark years” of decline. His plan was to construct a university downtown. Had this occurred, fifteen years of downtown decline would have been avoided, along with the decline in Oshawa’s overall image. The housing conflicts in the north part of the city between students and homeowners would have been non-existent, and millions and millions of Oshawa property taxpayer dollars destined for downtown rejuvenation efforts, by-law enforcement costs, consultants’ fees, and other costs would have been avoided. He is pleased that finally some UOIT programs are coming downtown and this has already made a major positive impact on downtown activities. He believes that the three pillars of education at UOIT should be engineering, medicine, and architecture, in order to become a clear leader in the post education world of Canada. The faculty of engineering should also add aerospace engineering to its mandate. Councillor Lutczyk also holds a teaching degree from Trent University. Our monarch, Queen Elizabeth II granted him a commissioning in the Canadian Armed Forces where he achieved the officer rank of Lieutenant and served in both the Artillery Corps and the Armoured Corps. He has also been awarded a bravery citation for averting an armed robbery and bringing the culprit to justice. The Ontario Government has also awarded him with the 15 year pin for volunteer service. He has served with the Oshawa Folk Arts Council, Multicultural Council of Oshawa-Durham, the Second Marsh, and Parkwood Foundation, among others. He lives in a historic home, which he saved from demolition by moving the entire building. Some other accomplishments of note include spearheading Oshawa’s first Habitat for Humanity project, providing free parking on street or in city parking lots for veterans with “poppy plates” on their cars, developing a policy where navy ships travelling in the Great Lakes would make automatic stops at the Port of Oshawa where the public would have an opportunity to tour them, and to have one of the next generation of navy ships be named HMCS Oshawa, upholding the name of a former WWII minesweeper of the same name.
Councillor Lutczyk is pleased to have provided assistance to the many businesses and individuals over the years who have appealed to him for assistance in navigating around the rules, regulations, and sometimes other red tape at City Hall.
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