LAHC and Family and Community Services (FACS) with support from UrbanGrowth will commence the master planning process, including engagement and consultation, late in 2016. FACS will prepare a summary of previous community feedback to assist in informing the master planning communication process.
According to the LAHC the master plan will determine the detail of the final plan, its strategy and timing. This will include how much building there will be and its staging; and the detail about the mix of social housing, affordable housing and private housing; in addition to other community needs.
LAHC says the full answers to many of the questions raised by REDWatch will emerge in the master planning process.
Agencies and tenants shared information about the redevelopment at a meeting in late September. Agencies are exploring ways to support tenants with training in areas identified at the meeting. The Waterloo Public Housing Action Group has met with officials and the Minister, and the Waterloo Neighbourhood Advisory Board has developed with LAHC terms of reference for a Waterloo Redevelopment Group.
With master planning starting in late 2016 we hope that associated communications will be handled much more sensitively than the dropping of the redevelopment announcement just before last Christmas. Waterloo tenants deserve a Christmas/New Year break with some certainty about what is coming rather than another holiday season fueled by uncertainty.
