Meaford's Local Motive

A short overview of the strategic principles of the Main Street approach guiding the launch of Main Street Meaford.

A short overview of the foundational principles of the Main Street approach guiding the launch of Main Street Meaford.

Overview of subjects discussed during the last Council meeting. 

Overview of Council orientation and training activities since the election.  

Update of Council activities since the election.

In this episode we introduce the topic of healthy communities, its definition, and where that may take us in planning and developing the future we want.   

A brief outline of the services and responsibilities of the Development Services Department, and the changes it has undergone over the past 12 months.  

Short recap of the Sept 12th 2022 Council meeting.

If we make the right changes, I believe we will become better a working in collaboration and better at providing for all of our needs as a community.

For a recent public meeting I adapted a game I created a number of years ago to make learning about community building and urban design more approachable and interesting, while hopefully also facilitating conversation.  This game is called the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon the planning edition.

It’s a way of making conversations about community building less technocratic and fun to take part in.

Many communities are facing challenges to providing housing for all persons across their life courses.  Two categories of housing "affordable" and "attainable" are often used interchangeably in discussions, although they mean very different things.  In this episode of Local Motive we explain the important differences of these types of housing.   

Introduction to new feature where we provide a preview and summary of Council meetings.  

This episode also covers the preview of items on the September 12th, 2022 meeting of Meaford's Council.  

Communities with the highest levels of wellness, livability and success are open and welcoming to others, their ideas and perspectives. That type of mind-set is exactly what we are trying to facilitate with Local Motive.  Let's be sure to use the language that can facilitate dialog and bring people together with understanding. 

Community happens when citizens, associations, businesses, builders and governments work together.

LOCAL MOTIVE is a tool for facilitating dialog and passing on knowledge on a variety of community development subjects, from urban design to wellbeing to economic development and beyond