The following summary of the Open Conversations held on April 25th was captured by the conversation leader. We want to continue the dialogue, so please use the form below to provide us with your big, blue sky ideas!
Session Convenor: Carl Killen
Participants: Numerous
Main Point from Discussion:
- Accommodations required --density (condos, apt.)
- We need to sell/market ourselves - people
- Need to count something we have. DESIRE
- Market density itself as a value
- Transportation
- What Should Happen Next?
- Municipal plan - land use
- Neighborhood plans
- Rethink heritage
- Play spaces (Rainbow Park, Harbour Passage)
- High rise housing in South End
- parking permits to identify residents rather than visitors
- condos, apts. place to live - quality
- not tearing down enough buildings
- Lack of products - What is valued? What do you covet?
- we don’t sell/market ourselves
- market density itself
- families - activities, entertainment
- must begin with the centre
- high rise housing in the southern peninsula
- movement of people within the region
- how do we increase desire?
- not enough “new product”
- neighborhood plan
- Rainbow Park?
- Immigration?
- marketing high schools in the city
- Exhibition space?
- Shuttle service within the city core?
- ferry from West to centre
- Encourage free parking when it is available. Notice when it is free as large as the rest
- small parks
- Social media - Radian 6 monitoring?
- Mixed use as a central concern