Ideas!

Add permanent diverse art instead of temporary spray paint art to cover undesirable spots in town (A & B Sound, Diana Krall)

More appealing entry to City

Do something about creating a more appealing city when entering on the Old Island Highway. The boarded up and derelict buildings don’t create an inviting “welcome” to Nanaimo. Tear down and rebuild these places and create attractive dwellings, shops and businesses. Create some parks / trails and spruce the area up. It makes me feel down when I drive through that area into the downtown.

Make MT Benson, a wide Pathway flat in mobility accessible 4 families to walk with grandpar to bring children & infant strollers to the top

Decentralize Social Support

As a south end resident I am extremely dissapointed in the placement of supportive and affordable housing. I am not against the idea and believe the housing that has been introduced has been fabulous. This being said all the supportive and affordable housing has been centralized into the south end. BCHousing has a great website tailored to capturing and supporting the concerns of neighbours however this is a city wide problem being tackled by one portion of the city. And thanks to BC housing' online webinar introducing the new agreement with Nanaimo they repeatedly stated two of the main reasons for site selection included cost of land and policies allowing development. We appreciate being told the land in our neighbourhood is the cheapest in the city. I would hope that the city could spread some of the housing throughout Nanaimo so the south end land may have a chance of not having the cheapest land in the city. BC housing does a great job, building integrate well and staff do a wonderful job of helping residents. This is with a building, Nanaimo you just agreed to place 4 new sites within close proximity in a neighbourhood that is already facing their fare share of issues. Nanaimo, my photo is taken directly from BC housing's website, please find the link here https://letstalkhousingbc.ca/nanaimo. They did not even bother including the whole city in the map they chose to post on their website. As a south end resident I agree my neighbourhood should do it's part in helping with the complex issues at hand, however this should be tackled collectively and not place an overly large burden within one area.

Convert Diana Krall Plaza into a green courtyard

A big water feature surrounded by trees and plants. It would a great place to hang out in the summer... like a little oasis off of Commercial St. It would also provide spillover for restaurants and cafes, because patrons could take their food to go to sit in the garden. Maybe a pond could be turned into an outdoor ice rink in the winter?