Kensington-Cedar Cottage
Community Visions Program Update
May 1997

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Index

Introduction
Outreach
Community Ideas Fair
Kids' Day
Community Liaison Group
Community Storefront Office
Issues
Kensington-Cedar Cottage Groups Contacted so Far

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Introduction

Since January, the Community Visions staff have been busy with the first two steps of the Visions process-- Step 1, Getting in Touch , and Step 2, Sharing Ideas.

Outreach

January and February were spent doing outreach. About 80 groups were contacted and invited to participate in the program. (The groups contacted are listed on the next page.) In January we also distributed the first Visions newsletter to every home and business in Kensington-Cedar Cottage--nearly 13,000 in all (as well as providing the newsletter to 2,000 absentee owners).

Community Ideas Fair

The Community Ideas Fair took place on Saturday and Sunday, March 8th and 9th, at Lord Selkirk Elementary Annex. There were displays by community groups, local schools, UBC Planning students, and City Departments. Displays provided information on the Kensington-Cedar Cottage area, on a variety of topics, like traffic, housing, the environment, etc., and on the Visions program. Most displays were interactive, encouraging people to respond to questions about the future and to contribute their ideas, comments and/or suggestions on sticky notes anywhere on the displays. (Hundreds of contributions were made.) Artists were also on hand to sketch residents’ ideas for the future of Kensington Cedar Cottage. Attendance reached well over 200, keeping City staff and community volunteers busy fielding questions until the fair ended late Sunday afternoon.

Kid's Day

Kids’ Day at the Ideas Fair on Friday, March 7th attracted more than 300 school children, many of whom returned on the weekend with their families.

An important product of these first months of the program is a list of interested people. These are community members who signed up to receive information about opportunities to work on the next step of the process--creating options for the Kensington-Cedar Cottage Community Vision. Many people signed up at the Ideas Fair. Altogether the list has over 170 names and is growing. We will be continuing our outreach and promotion efforts to expand the list.

Community Liaison Group

A Community Liaison Group has been formed and is working with Planning staff to provide advice on the next step in the process. The Group’s inaugural meeting was on March 4th and has met 3 times to date. There are 37 members--from different parts of Kensington-Cedar Cottage and from different age, community and ethnic groups.

Community Storefront Office

We have now moved into our community storefront office at #102, 1459 Kingsway and look forward to meeting with local residents and businesses here in the community. Our office hours are from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, and from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Please call us at 873-5746 if you would like to meet at other times.

Issues

Issues that have emerged from contacts with the community include:

redevelopment of two former Safeway sites, at Knight and Kingsway, and 41st and Victoria traffic volumes and speed on arterials, particularly on Knight Street and Kingsway crime and safety character of new single-family development more services for children and teenagers lack of pedestrian amenities

The next step in the Visions process, Step 3, Develop Options, will involve the community in creating Visions options on various topics during workshop sessions--building on ideas from Steps 1 and 2. City staff will be coordinating the sessions and providing information. If you are interested in taking part in one of the workshops, or have any questions about the Kensington-Cedar Cottage Community Visions program, please call us at 873-5746, fax us at 873-3607, or drop in at #102, 1459 Kingsway.

Your Community Visions staff: Heike Roth, Angela Ko, Branca Verde, Sylvia Stephan

Kensington-Cedar Cottage Groups Contacted so Far:

General Groups
Trout Lake Community Centre Association
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood Association (CECONA)
Cedar Cottage Youth Group
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House
Kensington Community Centre Association
Glen Park Neighbours
Gray’s Park Neighbours
Gray’s Greys
Broadway Community Crime Prevention Office
Queen Alexandra Safer Community Society
Block Watch Captains and Co-captains
Community Health Committee #3
Community Health Committee #5
Fraser Street Business Association
Victoria Drive Business Group
Kensington Cedar Cottage Area Services Team
St. Margaret’s Anglican Church

Multicultural Groups
Kensington Chinese Seniors Club
Vancouver Chinese Baptist Church
Chinese Christians in Action
SUCCESS Chinese/Cantonese Group
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House Chinese Group
Vancouver Chinese Alliance Church (Knight Street)
Vancouver Chinese Fellowship Baptist Church
Taiwanese Canadian Cultural Society
SUCCESS Centre for Taiwanese Community
Charles Dickens School Annex Vietnamese/Chinese Groups
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House Vietnamese Group
Trout Lake Community Centre Youth Initiative Club
MOSAIC Cambodian Group
Korean Businessmen on Kingsway
Korean Baptist Church of Vancouver
Nationalist Vietnamese Community in B.C. Society
MOSAIC Latin American Group
Latin American Youth Workers Council
Khalsa Diwan Society
South Asian Community Association Consortium
South Asian Women’s Centre
MOSAIC Iranian/Afghan Group
MOSAIC Polish Group
Portuguese Seniors Foundation
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House Portuguese Seniors Group
Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House First Nations Group

Schools/School Consultative Committees
Charles Dickens Elementary School and Annex, and SCC
Cunningham Elementary School
Grandview ?uuqinak’uuh School
MacKenzie Elementary School and Annex
Queen Alexandra Elementary School
Laura Secord Elementary School
Lord Selkirk Elementary School and Annex
St. Joseph’s Elementary School
Tecumseh Elementary School and Annex, and SCC
Tyee Elementary School
Gladstone Secondary School
John Oliver Secondary School
Home Schoolers Association of Greater Vancouver
East Side School

Adjacent Community Groups
Grandview-Woodland Area Council
Brittania Community Services Society
Grandview-Woodland Area Services Team
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood Association
Mount Pleasant Area Network
Mount Pleasant Community Crime Prevention Office
Mount Pleasant Community Association
Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
Renfrew-Collingwood Area Services Network
Renfrew Park Community Association
Joyce Station Advisory Planning Committee
Joyce Street Community Crime Prevention Office
Collingwood Neighbourhood House
Renfrew Heights Community Association
Little Mountain Residents Association
Riley Park Community Association
Little Mountain Neighbourhood House
Little Mountain/Riley Park Community Crime Prevention Office
Sunset Community Association
Fraser Street Community Crime Prevention Office
Sunset Residents Association
South Vancouver Neighbourhood House

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