Dunbar Community Visions Program

The Dunbar Community Vision directions were approved by Vancouver City Council on September 10, 1998. The Vision directions were developed by people who live and work in Dunbar, with the assistance of City staff. They will be used at City Hall to help make decisions affecting Dunbar, and to set priorities for funding, programs and services, and in the community to guide local actions.

Pan Visions Meetings

Pan Visions Meetings are jointly hosted by the chairs of the CityPlan Committees and held at their discretion. The purpose of the Pan Visions is for areas with completed Community Visions (Dunbar, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Victoria-Fraserview/Killarney, Sunset, Renfrew-Collingwood, Hastings-Sunrise, Arbutus Ridge-Shaughnessy-Kerrisdale, and Riley Park-South Cambie) to meet each other, share their successes and challenges, and identify opportunities to work collaboratively. Please contact Jane Ingman-Baker for more information.

On November 26, 2006 the Renfrew-Collingwood and Sunset CityPlan Committees hosted a workshop with Jim Diers, the former Director of Seattle’s Department of Neighbourhoods. At the workshop, participants discussed how to mobilize their assets—their passion, knowledge, skills, and relationships—in support of caring communities, and revitalized neighbourhoods.

For more information about Jim Diers and a review of his book “Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way”, visit www.neighborpower.org.

At a meeting on January 28, 2006, Ian Lockwood, a Senior Transportation Engineer with the firm Glatting Jackson in West Palm Beach Florida, met with over 40 residents to discuss traffic calming measures (see pictures below). View Ian Lockwood’s transportation paper (PDF, 3.94MB).

Pan Visions Minutes

More about this community: Dunbar Community Web Page

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