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Planning: from platitudes to practice. How do we indentify and implement all the good recommendations and solutions made to date by experts
Mark
Planning - Plattitudes to Practice
How do we implement the recommendations and solutions already made?
Mark Boscariol
List of Plans and studies that sit on shelves collecting dust
Commissioned by city
1. City Center Revitalization Task force recommendations - List of 173 recommendations
2. Glengarry Marentette Community improvement plan
3. Sustainable Downtown Community Improvement Plan
4. Bellmio Physical Site visit Report
5. International Downtown Association Panel Report
6. Healthy People, Healthy places - Smart choices for Windsor-Essex County
External Reports and resources
1. Brookings institute - Revitalizing weak market Cities (and other reports)
2. EPA - Active Aging Community strategies Website
3. International Downtown Association
4. Mainstreet.org
5. Gluespace.org
6. PPS.org (project for public spaces)
7.Detroit Eastern Market's plan to convert city space to agricultural and localize their economy
Recommendations by Group
1. Create a source to locate a master list of all these recommendations
2. Keep Gov't out as much as possible (with the exception of Community Improvement Plans)
3. Invite community organizations to sign up to the different recommendations to "own" and work on
4. Separate list to ones adopted by city politicians vs. ones that are more controversial and need work on
5. Hold city politicians accountable when they interfere with a groups attempt to implement a recommendation already adopted by council
6. Prevent politicians from conducting any more studies unless budget exists to implement recommendations
7. Get city council to allocate budget dollars towards
8. Have city designate and name officials responsible and accountable for getting progress on city controlled recommendations.
Would you let me know if you are willing to submit the plans you have collected already and would be willing to submit any additional plans as they are loaded in here?
If you follow the link, the submission screen is right at the top of the page.
Here is the link for this location on the portal:
http://together.windsor-essex.info/
Here is the Description of this Resource:
This online resource was created to encourage organizations to communicate activities on an ongoing basis and establish synergies in the community for addressing key issues.
Submissions will be held in a one-stop-shop database that enhances the awareness of initiatives to the broader community in general and to external agencies. It is one-stop service for showcasing the impacts of the diverse activities underway to the general public, and provides:
Descriptions of key activities that are underway within the region
Up-to-date contact information for each activity or planning document
A repository of planning documents, reports or strategy frameworks
A searchable interface to query sources to help identify those that could be aligned to help reduce the duplication of effort
Built-in tracking mechanisms to assist in targeting best practices and success stories that can be showcased
On-line access to a report of activities that helps share knowledge proactively
Here are a list of the plans that have already been loaded in to the repository:
Results for: Browse All Submissions
01. Name of Initiative: Agenda for Community Impact
Lead Organization: United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County
Summary: The Agenda for Community Impact is the result of five years of work and the culmination of thousa...
02. Name of Initiative: Centre for Business Advancement and Research – CBAR
Lead Organization: University of Windsor/ Odette School of Business
Summary: CBAR was formed in 2006 and is placing an emphasis on projects in tourism, creative industries, t...
03. Name of Initiative: Centre for Smart Community Innovation
Lead Organization: University of Windsor
Summary: Smart communities support the people and electronic resources required to take advantage of the o...
04. Name of Initiative: Community Strategic Plan
Lead Organization: City of Windsor
Summary: Windsor is a quality city full of history and potential, with a diverse culture, a durable econom...
05. Name of Initiative: Community Strategic Plan
Lead Organization: Town of Lakeshore
Summary: The vision statement of the Town of Lakeshore Strategic Plan is a progressive town of healthy, in...
06. Name of Initiative: Connecting Windsor-Essex Smart Community Portal
Lead Organization: University of Windsor
Summary: The Windsor and Essex County Smart Community, through its Connecting Windsor-Essex activities, wi...
07. Name of Initiative: Data report prepared for SWEA on the local economy
Lead Organization: Southwest Economic Assembly (SWEA)
Summary: South West Economic Assembly is pursuing several thrusts, all directed at improving the economic ...
08. Name of Initiative: Employment Support Services Community Report
Lead Organization: United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County
Summary: none listed
09. Name of Initiative: Immigration Portal
Lead Organization: University of Windsor
10. Name of Initiative: Initiatives for Mould/Tool and Die/Machining
Lead Organization: TCU
Summary: Matrix to assist business and industry in Windsor and Essex County identifying the variety of reg...
11. Name of Initiative: Premier-Ranked Tourism Destinations Evaluation report
Lead Organization: Windsor Essex County & Pelee Island Convention & Visitors Bureau
For more information, click here.
12. Name of Initiative: SOERC Summit Final Report
Lead Organization: Shores of Essex Resource Corporation (SOERC)
Summary: The Shores of Essex Resource Corporation (SOERC) will provide strategic direction for Economic De...
13. Name of Initiative: Trends Opportunities Priorities Report
Lead Organization: South Western Ontario Industry-Education Council (SWOIEC)
Summary: The Trends, Opportunities and Priorities Report 2007 for Southwestern Ontario reflects the evolut...
14. Name of Initiative: Windsor-Essex Well Being Report
Lead Organization: United Way/Centraide Windsor-Essex County
Summary: 2006 Well-Being Report, the first of many reports developed by United Way / Centraide of Windsor ...
15. Name of Initiative: Working Together Windsor-Essex - A Community Economic Development Information Resource Strategy
Lead Organization: Essex CFDC/SADC
Summary: Essex CFDC/SADC is a non-profit federally funded organization whose goal is to encourage economic...
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