This week at Harbourside: week ending January 18

A weekly summary of what’s happening in the Harbourside planning process.

Meetings with advisory bodies
This week the Concert team continued to meet individually with City advisory bodies which specialize in specific areas of community planning and make recommendations to the City. On Wednesday night the team met separately with two advisory bodies:

• The Integrated Transportation Committee (ITC) gave their unanimous support and commended Concert’s work with Translink to provide the necessary level of transit service to Harbourside. 
• Concert also met with the Advisory Design Panel (ADP). They were in support of Concert’s development plans in principle, but requested additional information. A follow-up meeting was scheduled for February.

Concert has now met individually with four of the five relevant advisory bodies. A meeting with the remaining body, Advisory Committee on Disability Issues (ACDI), is set for next week. 

Harbourside Open House
On Thursday night, Concert held an “open house”, welcoming the community to drop by and learn more about what is being envisioned for Harbourside. The event was well-attended, and the feedback received was overwhelmingly positive. Many area residents were enthusiastic about the transformation of this waterfront site into a true community. While transportation and traffic continue to be areas of concern, a comprehensive review of mitigation strategies will be covered in the upcoming “developer information session” on January 24 (6pm – 8:30pm at the Pinnacle Hotel, presentation by the project team at 7:00pm).