WELCOME!Vic West

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

COMMUNITY MEETING

SATURDAY 28 MAY, 2016

Today’s Agenda

• Presentation on Planning for the future of your neighbourhood

• Workshop to help refine the process and engagement plan

• Begin to identify key themes, problems and issues and opportunities

What does a Neighbourhood Plan do?

• Provides detailed guidance for growth, change and development in the neighbourhood

• Builds on the work of the Official Community Plan (OCP) by filling in the details at the local level

• Create planning and design policies to evaluate future development proposals

Vic - West Neighbourhood Plan• Directing growth to designated

areas (i.e. urban villages, corridors)

• Integrating new masterplans with the established community;

• Designing for pedestrians, bikes and proximity to transit; and

• Preserving special neighbourhood characteristics and community spaces.

• Build community

• Identifies community needs, values and wants

Public Spaces

Land Use & Urban Form

Community Vitality

Transportation

Action Plan

SHORT-TERM

NEIGHBOURHOOD

ACTION PLAN

NEW

NEIGHBOURHOOD

PLAN

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Tailored Topics

Co-Planning Approach

• Collaboration between City and a Working Group of local stakeholders

• Community led engagement events augmented by additional staff led activities

• Build trust, and ownership

• Streamlined approach

ACTIVATE Projects

TARGET TIMELINE

1 Pre-Planning

2 Imagine

3Co-Create

4Draft

5 Refine

-3 MONTHS MONTHS 1&2 MONTHS 3&4 MONTH 5 MONTH 6&7

6Approve

MONTH 8

7Deliver

MONTH 9 +We are here

Neighbourhood Working

Group (NWG)Membership

• Community Association

• Business owners

• Urban Development

Institute

• Parent Advisory

Committee

• Placemaking Victoria

• Hallmark Heritage Society

• Citizens at large

• Who else represents the

community?

Role of NWG

• Contribute to designing the planning

process and engagement strategy

• Assist with the delivery of community-

led engagement activities, where there

is interest

• Collaborate with staff to develop,

evaluate and refine neighbourhood

planning vision, issues and policies,

based on public input

• Help promote neighbourhood planning

and encourage broad participation

• Review draft plans and provide

feedback to staff

Input to process, work, products and

collaborate with City staff at key stages

Process, Work, Inputs and Final

Products

Sets direction/approves LAP Terms of

Reference, Public Engagement Plan,

Proposed PlanCouncil

City of Victoria

Neighbourhood Working Group

Community Groups and Citizens

iap2 public participation spectrum

Workshop Themes

• Key Values

• Developing a Neighbourhood Plan

• Engagement and Stakeholders

• Key themes and issues for the plan to address

Workshop Exercise #1

• A word that reflects most

important value for the

neighbourhood

Workshop Exercise #2 Q1

What does a successful planning

process look like to you?

• What are the measures of

success?

• No. of events, no of

people involved?

• Process vs Products

• Commitment to feedback

Workshop Exercise #2 Q2

Which groups and stakeholders should be involved and how?

• What is the role, purpose, makeup of the Neighbourhood Working Group

• Focus groups on particular issues?

• Hearing from the underrepresented e.g. renters, youth, tourists?

• Others to be involved?

• How do you want to be engaged & communicated with?

Workshop Exercise #2 Q3 - Key Issues/Themes

• Housing

• Safety

• Culture

• Recreation

• Parks and Open Space

• Public Spaces, Urban Design

• Transportation

• Infrastructure

• Waterfront

• Heritage

• Aging population

• Affordability

• Climate Change

• Health e.g. diabetes, obesity

• Cultural

• Community Development

• Jobs and the local economy

Next Steps

• Summary Report of what we heard today

• Report to Council with the Project Plan

• Neighbourhood Working Group established

• Stay informed at • www.Victoria.ca/vicwest

• Brian Green bgreen@Victoria.ca

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