Fairfield - Gonzales

Neighbourhood Plan - Community

Meeting #2

Today’s Agenda

• Update - What's happened so far

• Community led engagement

• Some key background neighbourhood facts and figures

• ‘Now, Wow, How’ Workshop

• Next steps

Pre-planningEngagement Summary

Successful Process:

•Respectful

•Collaborative

•Diversity of Voices

Pre-planningEngagement Summary

The Plan:

•Well-communicated

•Range of opportunities for the community to participate

•Will build trust

•Reflect the community’s vision

Project Plan to Council

• Project plan refined following community meeting on April 9.

• Project goals

• Project objectives

• Detailed planning process

• Community engagement strategy

• Proposed detailed work plan

Neighbourhood Working

GroupMakeup

• Fairfield - Gonzales

Community Association

• Business owners

• Urban Development Institute

• Parent Advisory Committees

• Hallmark Heritage Society

• Citizens at Large

Phase 1

Pre-

Planning

Phase 2

ImagineVision,

Guiding

principles

and Key

Issues

Phase 3

Co-Create

Develop

options and

concepts

Phase 4

Draft Neighbourhoo

d Plans

Phase 5

Proposed

Plan

Refine and

Review

Feb-May

2016

June - August

2016

September -

November, 2016

December

2016 –

February

2017

March –

April 2017

Phase 6

Implementati

on and

Delivery Plan

May – June

2017

Phase 7

Deliver -Council

adopts

Plan

June 2017

Target Timeline

Community Led Engagement

What is it?

A planned process, led, coordinated or facilitated by individuals or groups from a community, with the specific purpose of working with identified groups of people, whether they are connected by geographic location, special interest or affiliation, to address issues affecting their well-being.

Community Led Engagement

Why Do It?

Community Led Engagement

Principles

• Inclusive

• Aligns with plan development

• All feedback is valid

• Reported back

Community Led Engagement

Who Can Lead Engagement?

Community Led Engagement

Planning An Event

Why?

What?

Who?

How?

When?

iap2 public participation spectrum

Community Led Engagement

Inform & Consult Flyers Stories (newspapers/magazines/blogs) Pop-up displays Websites Emails Social media

Community Led Engagement

Workshops Surveys Neighbourhood walks

What else?

Interviews Meeting in a box Sounding boards

Involve & Collaborate

Community Led Engagement

Resources

• Promotional support

• Facilitation support

• Planning guidance

• Graphic recording

• Note-taking

• Summarizing

• Technical support

Community Led Engagement

Process

Submit proposal

• Organization or Citizen

Review proposals

• Neighbourhood Working Group

• City of Victoria

Resource planning

• With the City of Victoria

City Led Engagement

Community-wide visioning workshopsSounding boards at eventsFirst Nations interpretive walksNeighbourhood Working Group meetingsFocus GroupsSurveysElectronic updatesWebpage updates

Fairfield - Population

Fairfield - Population Age

Fairfield – Housing Types

Fairfield – Housing Tenure

Gonzales - Population

Gonzales - Population Age

Gonzales – Housing Types

Gonzales - Housing Tenure

Development Activity

Net New Housing Units by Neighbourhood

2012 2013 2014 Average

per year

Fairfield 17 33 20 23Gonzales 8 23 14 15

Housing Units Approved by Type of Housing 2012 -2014

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Fairfield 44 3 20 4 1 8 16 2 98

Gonzales 22 12 2 17 1 54

Planning for the Future

Fairfield – Gonzales 2041

• Population projection 2041 = Roughly 2,100 more people

• Average Household size 2.0 persons

• Potential number of new housing units to plan for over the next 25 years = 1,050 approx. more housing units or 40-45 units per year

Planning for the Future

• Where will these people live?

• What types of housing and tenure will they live in?

• Where will these new homes go?

• How do we create more housing diversity and choice?

• How do we plan for an ageing population?

• How do we plan for more families?

• What services and amenities do we need for all these new people and different age groups?

Issues, Themes and Opportunities Workshop (Now, How, Wow)

• What is working well in your community today?

• What is not working well?

Workshop Exercise #1 - Now

• What does the future of Fairfield-Gonzales look like?

• What would make you say “Wow!” at end of this plan’s life?

Workshop Exercise #2 - Wow

• How will we get to “Wow!”?

• What are some strategies, actions and ideas that will help get us there?

Workshop Exercise #3 - How

Next Steps

• Survey on community-led engagement

• Neighbourhood Working Group meeting

• Call for community-led engagement proposals

• Keep informed on what's going on at: www.Victoria.ca/Fairfield-gonzales