Let's Talk: Official Community Plan Update

Let's Talk: Official Community Plan Update - Community
Online Information Session

Join us for an online information session to learn more about the Official Community Plan update and ways you can provide feedback to help shape how Victoria can grow and change into the future. This is the fourth of six online information sessions where you can learn about the proposed OCP update, provide feedback and ask your questions to City staff. Each session spotlights one OCP engagement topic area: Housing, Community or Climate.

Event Details:

The OCP is a big deal. It’s the long-term plan that shapes where housing, businesses and public spaces should go and how we move around the city. A focus of the 10-Year OCP update is to support high-quality communities with more housing choices, services, amenities and transportation options for a lower carbon city where residents have what they need close to home.

This information session will go over key points of the proposed OCP update and discuss topics related to:

· Housing
· Climate
· Community

Spotlight: Community

In addition to the information about the overall OCP update, this session will also dig deeper into Community OCP topics on transportation, local economy and parks and open spaces.

As Victoria responds to the housing and climate crises, more services, amenities and transportation options will be needed to meet the needs of a growing population. Expanding commercial centres and creating new ones with more sustainable and accessible ways to get around will help create more complete communities and maintain a healthy local economy.

This online session will cover community topics on:

· Community infrastructure such as parks, public open spaces and amenities.
· Local shops and services in community villages and town centres.
· Opportunities to embrace and activate the waterfront.
· Linear parkways, park-like spaces created from repurposed road space, and their social and environmental benefits.