Council Priorities 2019-2022 Refresh
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City Council approved its strategic priorities in May, 2019.
See them on the Kingston 2019-2022 Strategic Plan microsite.
Council wants to hear from you about the strategic priorities that Council set in 2019. Do they still make sense in light of COVID-19? Offer Council your comments on any or all of these priorities:
- Demonstrate Leadership on Climate Action
- Increase Housing Affordability
- Improve Walkability, Roads and Transportation
- Strengthen Economic Development Opportunities
- Foster Healthy Citizens and Vibrant Spaces
Your input will be provided to Council for consideration at a Sept. 24 Special Council Meeting - Council Strategic Planning Session to review the 2019-2022 Council Priorities.
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City Council approved its strategic priorities in May, 2019.
See them on the Kingston 2019-2022 Strategic Plan microsite.
Council wants to hear from you about the strategic priorities that Council set in 2019. Do they still make sense in light of COVID-19? Offer Council your comments on any or all of these priorities:
- Demonstrate Leadership on Climate Action
- Increase Housing Affordability
- Improve Walkability, Roads and Transportation
- Strengthen Economic Development Opportunities
- Foster Healthy Citizens and Vibrant Spaces
Your input will be provided to Council for consideration at a Sept. 24 Special Council Meeting - Council Strategic Planning Session to review the 2019-2022 Council Priorities.
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Demonstrate Leadership on Climate Action
over 3 years agoCLOSED: This brainstormer has concluded.Provide any comments you have related to the Climate Action priority. Input opportunity period ends Sept 15 at 4 p.m.
tomtom77over 3 years ago"Green idea bank" for Kingston residents
Provide Kingstonians with a bank of effective, low cost strategies that individuals can use to mitigate climate change/pollution.
0 comment2Rebeccaover 3 years agoPark and rides for buses to west and east ends
It would reduce traffic downtown and could be cheaper for users currently paying for prime parking spots downtown.
0 comment4Codylinkover 3 years agoTax rebate for yard space used to grow vegetables
The percentage of your yard used to grow veggies should be a tax benefit to show the value of contributions. Owning chickens etc. should be strongly encouraged and supported not just permitted
1 comment8Susan Bover 3 years agoBuses, buses and buses.
It was shortsighted to cancel the partnership with Queen'sU. Transit should be all about increasing usership and minimizing private vehicles on the road. More buses, more routes would be a huge investment in Kingston's climate action.
3 comments12nclaanover 3 years agoMake active transportation and transit higher priority than cars.
We need to stop expanding the car culture in Kingston and look at the successful model of downtown and try to spread it to the rest of the city.
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Increase Housing Affordability
over 3 years agoCLOSED: This brainstormer has concluded.Provide any comments you have related to the Housing Affordability priority. Input opportunity period ends Sept 15 at 4 p.m.
arrie041over 3 years agoMake it easier for individual property owners to add additional residential units
A quick, easy solution for increasing rental housing supply
1 comment9Stanover 3 years agoEstablish a local Institute of Advance Building Technologies.
Educate and train individuals to build factory manufactured buildings locally that are to LEED standards with innovative flexible building design options. Advanced building technologies are already being used worldwide to build homes and other types of buildings that are both more affordable and faster to produce for the end user when produced under environmentally controlled indoor factory manufacturing settings.
0 comment0npover 3 years agoActually build more affordable housing
Depending on private developers to add a sprinkling of "affordable" units in their buildings is not cutting it. The city needs to step up and build the units. Efforts so far have been a drop in the bucket.
1 comment13AmandaVHover 3 years agoCollaborate with NPOs/churches to address housing issues
Many orgs. care about the city but feel they lose out on "say" when they invest/work with a government agencies. Is there a way to collaborate on funding, resources and development?
0 comment0Derekover 3 years agoComplete City-wide Zoning Update
Despite many advances in city planning, we're still stuck with zoning bylaws from the '90s. The City-wide Zoning Update process has been ongoing since 2013, with the Central Kingston Growth and Infill Strategy leading to further delays. Until our zoning bylaws are updated, new housing will continue to be held back due to lengthy zoning bylaw amendment processes. Our planning department is more than likely overworked and understaffed, so greater funding to planning may help move past our current housing crisis.
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Improve Walkability, Roads and Transportation
over 3 years agoCLOSED: This brainstormer has concluded.Provide any comments you have related to the Walkability, Roads and Transportation priority. Input opportunity period ends Sept 15 at 4 p.m.
Analyticaover 3 years agoI'd like to see more roads closed off to vehicular traffic.
I've never understood why motorized vehicles are given priority over pedestrians, cyclists, strollers, people using wheelchairs, etc. Is this a city for cars or is it a city for people? Right now it seems to be for cars.
1 comment4ian.coutts.jrover 3 years agostreets that really need it such as Queen St, Brock st. and Johnson St. not Gardiners or Taylor Kidd
road repairs
0 comment0NickiWoockover 3 years agoHwy 15 - traffic calming
There is a desperate need for traffic lights at the corner of Hwy 15 and Kingston Mills Road. The traffic converging from Kingston Mills Road, Hwy 15 (including a bridge), 2 gas stations, and John F Scott Road, has been and will continue to be a recipe for accidents and deaths. Traffic should also be slowed to 70 km/h near Rideau Heights Camp Ground and continue to the posted 60 km/h further down Hwy 15.
0 comment1DavidSnowover 3 years agoCouncil should slow down on more bicycle infrastructure and support mandatory licenses/training first.
Until bicyclists start observing the Rules of the Road
1 comment0MadeInOntarioover 3 years agoSidewalks along Fort Henry Drive!
New to Kingston and shocked with the lack of lighting and sidewalks along Fort Henry Drive. Our tourists (and locals) deserve better!
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Strengthen Economic Development Opportunities
over 3 years agoCLOSED: This brainstormer has concluded.Provide any comments you have related to the Economic Development Opportunities priority. Input opportunity period ends Sept 15 at 4 p.m.
AmandaVHover 3 years agoI think in light of COVID, priorities must be chosen based on city-preservation and best for YGK citizens....
Economic development and affordable housing become top priorities in light of this...
0 comment2Derekover 3 years agoLegalize missing middle housing to empower small-scale developers
Missing middle housing (duplexes, fourplexes, cottage courts, etc.) will not only help solve our housing crisis, but it will help empower small developers and construction teams, rather than only those who have the financing to build large-scale development. In addition, missing middle housing types seem to be an easy way to densify citywide without potentially causing political turmoil (unlike recent mid- and high-rise proposals).
0 comment2Pgaudreauover 3 years agoTalent attraction campaign
With many workplaces going remote, now is a great opportunity to bring more high skilled workers to town from overcrowded cities with poorer quality of life.
2 comments2Krista LeClairover 3 years agoKeeping looking ahead with vision for full recovery; tourism
Tourism is a $36 billion industry in Ontario, we need to keep current, competitive and looking ahead to keep our piece of that pie. Tourism is the largest employer of youth in Ontario with some of the highest employer rates in Canada here in Kingston (Conference Board of Canada). As we continue to work through Covid- 19 impacts here in Kingston and with our Provincial and Federal counterparts, I would stress that we need to continue to look ahead so that we can continue to be relevant and at the table in the future, our municipal economy and SME's depend on this. It's important to keep considering the heavily researched Integrated Destination Strategy for Kingston and how a multi purposed Conference Centre and Deep Water Dock will greatly benefit our community in the long run, and help a very successful and integrally connected industry get back on their feet and continue to thrive producing jobs and tax dollars. Consider too, the massive economic spin off the tourism industry produces.
0 comment0MMerrillover 3 years agoMore businesses that attract younger families to the city and encourage new grads to settle in the city.
Too many young families and grads with valuable skills (doctor, engineer, lawyers) leave the city because there is no opportunities for them. We need people to stay and keep the city running. Bringing in more business that hire young talent will help people make Kingston their home.
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Foster Healthy Citizens and Vibrant Spaces
over 3 years agoCLOSED: This brainstormer has concluded.Provide any comments you have related to the Healthy Citizens and Vibrant Spaces priority. Input opportunity period ends Sept 15 at 4 p.m.
Ann Prince-Stevensover 3 years agoStronger efforts to deal with student parties, noise and garbage needs to come from City Counsellors. Neighbourhoods are changing badly.
0 comment7Aplus10over 3 years agoAffordable housing is needed in order to have healthy citizens and vibrant spaces
1 comment5gerrytmmover 3 years agoEnforce physical distancing on campus and downtown during this influx of students to the city and throughout the coming weeks/months.
Help stop potential spread of Covid-19
0 comment3jfcaronover 3 years agoRequire merchants to offer actual contactless payment
Even when you pay with a contactless credit card, too many merchants add a mandatory tipping step to their terminals, requiring you to touch the keypad even if you don't want to tip. Given the lessons of COVID-19, we should require that merchants configure their POS terminals to allow truly contactless payment. Tipping should be voluntary and I shouldn't have to touch a common keypad even to say no. The same goes for gas-station "contactless" payment that requires you to push a button to admit you don't have a Points Card. Make these absurdities go away through law!
0 comment1arrie041over 3 years agoBuskers and winter activities
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Key dates
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September 01 → September 15 2020
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September 24 2020
Project timeline
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Sept. 1-15
Council Priorities 2019-2022 Refresh has finished this stageonline engagement is open
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Sept. 24
Council Priorities 2019-2022 Refresh has finished this stageSpecial Council Meeting - Council Strategic Planning Session
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October 2020
Council Priorities 2019-2022 Refresh is currently at this stageCouncil re-confirms strategic priorities.
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