SIA Guiding Principles

What are the Guiding Principles of the SIA Plan?

The Steering Committee, made up of community members, adopted the following guiding principles for the Plan:
Improve and maintain a high quality of life for the people who live there and those who may in the future by addressing issues surrounding housing decay, crime, health, jobs, adult education, child care, and transportation.
Create a healthy neighborhood and a “sense of place” with public parks, libraries, other amenities and healthy food sources with safe and interconnected streets that promote walking, bicycling and efficient public transit and use green infrastructure techniques to improve water quality.
Promote mixed income residential development without displacing current residents.
Focus and coordinate private and public investment to infrastructure, education and community assets to increase economic, recreation and housing opportunities.
Honor the CRHA Residents’ Bill of Rights for Redevelopment and rebuild and preserve existing public and assisted housing as part of an overall plan to revitalize the area. (The SIA will work in concert with the CRHA redevelopment plan and not supersede or replace it).
Develop shared understandings of the issues, challenges, opportunities and desired outcome for the SIA.