TCRA Position Statement – Midtown Public Engagement

 Issue: we are concerned that the current public engagement process will not yield a vision for a Midtown that meets the density target and is integrated with its surrounding neighbourhoods. 

The experts on the surrounding neighbourhoods are the people who live there. We believe that the quality of the vision and its public acceptance will be greatly enhanced by engagement by the consultants and our planning staff in a series of workshops with a small advisory group made up of residents of these neighbourhoods. We do not think that a visioning process, for what will amount to a whole new town in our midst, should be led and conducted exclusively by people who do not live here.