Neighbourhood Improvement Area:
#85 South Parkdale
Councillor & Ward:
Gord Perks, Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park
Meeting Schedule:
Planning Table meetings are coordinated on a bi-monthly basis.
2018-2019 Priority Actions:
- Social Development: Develop a community services plan to increase access, coordination, and investment in community services for Parkdale residents
- Economic Opportunities: Create a Community Benefits Strategy with institutions, local businesses and employment service providers to increase opportunities/access to employment, envisioning a future where all community members can benefit from the changes that are happening in the neighbourhood with equitable benefit
- Participation in Civic Decision-Making: Establish a resident advisory body and communication plan (outreach protocol) to increase resident participation, information sharing between residents, service providers, business, and government
- Healthy Lives: Create a health and well-being plan to address concerns identified by local stakeholders—including aspects of mental health, environmental health and food security
- Social Development: Develop a sustainable and collaborative social infrastructure in Parkdale to enhance the overall well-being of community members through four core directions: leveraging neighbourhood well-being indicators, developing a community service hub, building multiple shared platforms, and exploring cooperative network approaches
2017 Priority Actions:
- Economic Opportunities: Held participatory workshops on popular economics to build residents’ capacity for participating in economic development planning in the
neighbourhood
- Participation in Civic Decision-Making: Held participatory workshops to come up with ways of measuring neighbourhood progress in a way that is meaningful to Parkdale community members
- Economic Opportunities: Supported a resident initiative to produce a video that explore the idea of “community serving businesses”
