Community Safety and Well-Being Plan
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The City of Brantford is working to develop a Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) Plan. Community Safety and Well-Being plans are provincially legislated under the Police Services Act, 1990. This legislation mandated all Ontario municipalities to prepare and adopt CSWB Plans. Municipalities are required to work in partnership with police services and other various sectors, as they undertake the planning process. The goal of CSWB planning is to achieve the ideal state of a sustainable community where:
- Everyone is safe and has a sense of belonging
- Everyone has access to services; and
- Individuals and families can meet their needs.
Help us turn our priorities into action
Brantford City Council has endorsed various priorities that will guide the development of the Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan and other City initiatives. The City of Brantford is looking for ideas from the community that will help us turn our priorities into action!
Tell us how the municipality can take action with projects and programs that support the following six focus areas:
Share your ideas with us below.
The City of Brantford is working to develop a Community Safety and Well-Being (CSWB) Plan. Community Safety and Well-Being plans are provincially legislated under the Police Services Act, 1990. This legislation mandated all Ontario municipalities to prepare and adopt CSWB Plans. Municipalities are required to work in partnership with police services and other various sectors, as they undertake the planning process. The goal of CSWB planning is to achieve the ideal state of a sustainable community where:
- Everyone is safe and has a sense of belonging
- Everyone has access to services; and
- Individuals and families can meet their needs.
Help us turn our priorities into action
Brantford City Council has endorsed various priorities that will guide the development of the Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan and other City initiatives. The City of Brantford is looking for ideas from the community that will help us turn our priorities into action!
Tell us how the municipality can take action with projects and programs that support the following six focus areas:
Share your ideas with us below.
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Affordable Housing
about 3 years agoAt the end of 2020, The City of Brantford developed a Housing Action Plan. Learn more at the Mayors' Housing Partnership Task Force web page.
What next steps can we take to create more affordable housing options in Brantford?
JayMayabout 3 years agoAffordable housing is one week's wages. For many residents, that is below $500. Affordable housing needs to be within the range of $450-550
Geared to income housing
0 comment5Hiabout 3 years agoMore cooperative housing complexes.
0 comment1Deborah Vickersabout 3 years agoAdd additional trails in neighbourhoods and parks that accommodate walkers and wheelchairs.
The paved trail at Burford Lions Park is a good example. Same with Paris trail through Lions Park
0 comment2edbernackiabout 3 years agoBe more ambitious.... no chance our plan will meet the needs of people
The city we have a need now for 1700 and it plans to build 500 units over the next ten years. This clearly is not an ambitious goal. The city is playing with numbers. The production of 500 units should be compared to the need in 10 years, not today. What is the forecast demand in 10 years for low-income housing?
0 comment0Mkmacabout 3 years agoCap the rent. Landlords are greedier by the day and some tents in the city are more than a mortgage payment. Increase Bhome funding
Rent control
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Age-Friendly Community
about 3 years agoWhat next steps can we take to continue to make Brantford a great place for older adults (55+)?
Leoabout 3 years agoArrowdale must be open for public as an age-friendly golf course, Mohawk park made useable for all ages and include entertainment zones.
0 comment0Timabout 3 years agoimprovements in pickleball courts and affordable drop in pickleball prices for indoor playing (see Hamilton)
0 comment0Leoabout 3 years agoAffordable housing, socializing areas with accessible toilets, good access to bus stops, quality pavement, multi-issue city phone helpline
0 comment2chris Labout 3 years agoI noticed at the plaza where no frills is in the east end their are no wheelchair ramps until u hit no frills
0 comment0edbernackiabout 3 years agoImplement City Policy
The City has a parks policy and a healthy ageing policy that both state parks must also be designed for seniors to experience Yet, this is not being implemented. The idea? Pull together a group to create the ideas needed to make parks interesting and a good experience for seniors. What this group is doing in the painting is not possible in a city park. You cannot copy, you must create new ones
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Children and Youth
about 3 years agoWhat next steps can we take to help Brantford's children and youth grow and thrive?
Btfdrezabout 3 years agoHave every kid in elementary school get a library card.
Have every kid in elementary school get a library card so they foster a love of reading and are exposed to new ideas that will help them think creatively throughout their whole lives. Parents can also bring their kids to the library every weekend to let the kids choose books they are interested in (and not forced to read in school).
0 comment1JacquelineDouwesabout 3 years agoBring back all sports in full swing. Create themed affordable camps for this summer. Have community theatre programs. Activity days in parks
0 comment2Roleabout 3 years agoLift the restrictions from renting industrially zoned facilities please!
If I may, please lift the restrictions on renting from industrial zoned facilities. Legally, businesses involving youth sports are zoned commercial, which restricts many of us in terms of business space to find a location. Due to the nature of many sports, a 20ft. ceiling height is needed; however, 90% of the open commercial space that is open in Brant is either made for small stores / restaurants, have beams running through the middle of the facilities, or are unaffordable as they are meant for bigger corporations to take over (Ex. commercial gyms, H&M, Mark’s etc.). This would give sport run businesses a fighting chance to build and create without going bankrupt or having to settle in situations where they get exploited for renting from other facilities (speaking from experience as a former tenant of the SportsXcelerator facility). Furthermore, we have lots of unused industrially zoned buildings with fair renting contracts. But once you go commercial, the cost to rent per sqf. is upwards of $12.00 /sqf. For a sport like say...basketball, that’s roughly $12.00 x 1,500sqf = $18,000.00 a month. Not including utilities or property tax. By doing this, you not only can worry less about what “the city” can / has to offer for the youth because other businesses can step up for you with no added risks. But you also help local small businesses in the process.
0 comment1Michelle Babout 3 years agoCommunity Gardens/Food Forests
More community gardens and food forests so kids can learn about healthy food, see where their food comes from and how it grows while helping their community.
0 comment1Aliabout 3 years agoFree Mental Health Care
I think access to free mental health care is very important to all children and adults, especially for those with difficult home lives. Would be amazing to see it integrated into all elementary and high schools. Kids could have one on one sessions with a counsellor once a month just to do regular mental health checkups. Every kid should get this just to make sure they are doing okay, progressing well, not getting bullied, etc
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Diversity and Inclusion
about 3 years agoWhat next steps can we take to help make Brantford more inclusive?
tberabout 3 years agoReallocate funding from the police to community.
Take note of the work being done in Waterloo to redistribute police funding to Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities in Brantford. If you mean what you say about wanting to celebrate and honour diversity in Brantford, start listening to the community and investing in BIPOC folks. Listen to community, and actually take action around the things that they’re telling you they need or desire around creating a sustainable, inclusive and diverse future for Brantford— allow community to be the decision makers. This space to offer ideas is a great first step! Support the disabled community by creating more affordable, accessible housing. Invest in keeping the sidewalks clear of snow for folks who use mobility devices. Again, listen to what folks are telling you they need to live thriving lives here. Invest in queer and trans youth, and support them in being leaders in cultivating safe community spaces. Stop gentrifying neighbourhoods and forcing poor folks out of their homes and into a rental market that is inaccessible in order to build condos.
0 comment3Deborah Vickersabout 3 years agoLower speed limits in many areas for further safety, or greater fines for speeding.
0 comment1anonfordabout 3 years agoLook for barriers, not differences in outcomes.
Search for barriers or exclusions, explicit or systemic. Identify any discriminatory mechanisms directly, not by speculative inference from disparate outcomes. Treat people as equally as possible, and avoid explicitly counter-discriminatory programs.
0 comment0Olimpiaabout 3 years agoInclusion means equal recreational opportunities to all age groups. Keep Arrowdale Golf course available for 17% older adults 65 and over
Inclusion means to give equal recreational opportunities to all age groups. Keep Arrowdale Golf Course available for the community to include the 17% older adults 65 and over in outdoor recreational activities. Golf clubs and Tennis courts are needed to include all age groups, the same way that Parks and Recreation maintains 67 parks with playgrounds for 12% children under 10, 34 soccer fields for 12% Youth 10 to 19, 27 softball diamonds and 10 hardball diamonds for the 12% young adults 20 - 29 and small group of over 30. Arrowdale central location is a great place for a senior center with nice parking and easy access from different directions.
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Vibrant Neighbourhoods
about 3 years agoWhat next steps can we make to promote community connections and create vibrant neighbourhoods in Brantford?
Btfdrezabout 3 years agoSlower traffic - councillors with a vision
The neighborhoods will never be vibrant when people drive 70km hr on roads that should be 40 kmhr. Also - city council is a bunch of old men with their own agenda that is keeping the town back in the 1980s. They need to spend a few bucks on projects that create a sense of community and show brantford to be a forward thinking community. The ymca was a good example of this. Bike lanes are good examples of this. The library improvement downtown is a good example of this.
1 comment0VCabout 3 years agoKeep green spaces
Stop destroying our green spaces!We need areas like Arrowdale and the land around the Grand stop Oak pk ext Stop paving over nature
0 comment3RTMabout 3 years agoMurals
Asking local artists to create murals about our city on existing structures. The Brant ave bridge was just being painted over for graffiti. Would be a great place to make something unsightly, beautiful and promotes local artists.
0 comment0Anonymousabout 3 years agoGreen bins! All other major cities have green bin collection. Would assist with reducing waste and providing compost for those who garden.
0 comment0Katabout 3 years agoLeave the green space by the Grand river alone. No oak park extension! You destroy the wildlife and green space overall appeal goes down.
No to Oak Park extension
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Substance Use
about 3 years agoHow can we support our health care partners in preventing substance misuse in Brantford?
Aliabout 3 years agoFree Mental Health Care, Shelter, Food and Essentials
People on the streets, and with substance abuse problems, often come from a background of abuse in childhood. This needs to be dealt with at the core. These people need special mental health facilities to go to so they can rehabilitate into society. These facilities should provide food, shelter, essentials and free mental health care. I have seen many people reach out for help over the years, but without actual free, long term mental health facilities for them to go to and recover, they often continue their cycle on the streets and/or abuse various substances to cope. There will always be people that are just to far gone to even reach out for help. In this case I think the idea of having peace keepers/community helpers, that can wander around the city daily, and make sure these people are at least eating and somewhat taken care of, is the best we can do at this point for them. I know there has been something similar to this idea implemented in the downtown core over the last few years. Trauma can also come at any point in life (loss of loved ones, jobs, homes, food security, accidents, etc). We ultimately just need a place people can go when their mental health begins to suffer in anyway and/or they become addicted to harmful substances. There is a lot of scattered, temporary, short term type help, but it takes more than that to get to the core of mental illness and/or help people conquer their drug addictions. Very few are stable enough to do it with will power alone. Creating places necessary for true recovery is key. People need to realize that anyone of us could be on the streets at any point. We are all in this together.
0 comment1tberabout 3 years agoLean into the harm reduction work being done by agencies like The AIDS Network & grassroots organizers with BSUN.
You need to reframe this question! You should start by asking the leaders in local harm reduction work what to do. You should also start by asking substance users what they need. We are experiencing an opioid crisis in our community, and substance users (like ALL humans in Brantford) deserve access to citizenship regardless of whether or not they use. That means access to housing, a living wage, food, health care, access to safe supply, and the creation of user-led spaces where folks aren’t forced to use alone. Check out collectives like East Tennessee Harm Reduction, or the work of folks like Ann Livingston in Vancouver to begin informing how you approach discussing the issue of drug use. People are dying! One year ago, I sat with a stranger as he died of an overdose in a local Tim Hortons parking lot. I’m a non-user who carries naloxone and tries to stay informed about harm reduction. People should not be dying alone in parking lots. And by centering your approach in abstinence and “prevention” you’re not going to do anything to support folks in our community who are experiencing marginalization and are contending with demoralizing and dehumanizing conditions because they use drugs. Center autonomy, and self-advocacy in your approach. This question is disappointing.
0 comment3Tiffanyabout 3 years agoRehab centre and more free programs for mental health and Youth
Redirecting some of the funds given to 5 of the harm reduction supply sites into better Addiction and Mental Health services ( Rehab centre) Better programs for our Youth.
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