By Pepper Parr
June 13th, 2023
BURLINGTON, ON
Described is as a Vision to Focus (V2F) Workshop, the second one to take places, it will be a facilitated engagement to inform, consult, get feedback and have collaboration between members of Council and Burlington’s Leadership Team on the V2F actions using SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis.
It is one of the, if not THE most important tasks city council undertakes this term of office.
The road that will be travelled
The public is aware that there is going to be growth, lots of it. This Council has signed a pledge with the province that calls for the city to create 29,000 new residences by the year 2031.
There are development applications working their way through the planning approval process.
A number of them are stuck at the Ontario Land Tribunal.
Council nevertheless has to focus on what kind of a city will Burlington be at 2031, 2041 and 2051.
Mayor Meed Ward tells citizens that the city has already reached its housing commitment for 2031.
Tuesday morning the process of working through what this Council will set out to do during this term will begin – they have already had one worship where the scope and scale of the work to be done was determined.
Council, along with Staff will be taking a closer at the four Focus areas that have been decided upon. Just who determined what those four focus areas are is a bit of a mystery.
They are set out below. The space between the two columns is the work that council in a Workshop setting will take on this afternoon.
It is fair to ask if the Focus areas created reflect what most people on Burlington want to see done.
Very interested on how COB will be “financially sustainable”, on the back of taxpayers who will be footing the bill for the V2F.