General Goals

1. Bring Suburbs to life

2. Average incomes should be able to afford average homrs

3. Solve the alcohol and drug dependence issue

Additional Goals

1. Reduce the necessity of driving to do day-to-day things

2. Address youth mental health and loneliness

3. Avoid ghetto creation

Notes

1. Improve affordability

   • People have more time and energy if they don't need to overwork themselves to afford a life

   • People are less stressed and happier if they feel financially secure

   • People are more likely to raise a family in a suburb

2. Create pedestrian town squares at the heart of suburbs

   • Purpose is to give the neighbourhood easy access to a place where they can:

     • Hangout with family/friends/community

     • Host small events like celebrations and local markets

     • Find convenience stores without having to drive

     • Launch a small business with minimal overhead

   • Must contain at least :

     • A convenience store (that sells more than snacks)

     • A coffee shop/tea house (ideally local)

     • A restaurant/pub (ideally local)

     • A small indoor community space/event hall

     • A number of small to medium store spaces

     • Some art/aesthetic decorations

     • Plenty of seating and greenery

   • Nice to haves:

     • Daycares overseen by retirees

       • It takes a village to raise a child after all

     • Cultrue oriented/entertainment focused spaces

   • Limit parking spots to avoid turning them into a destination for non resident

3. Government built/supported suburbs will follow a hub and spoke model:

   • The model is as follows:

     • The hub:

       1. Pedestrian townsquare at the center

       2. Surrounded by a couple low rise office and residential buildings

          • Residential buildings can include retirement apartments(?)

     • Along the spokes:

       1. Multistory apartment townhouses

       2. Townhouses

       3. Single unit houses

     • At the end of a spoke mirror until the next hub

     • Goal is to have the furthest single home be at most 20-30 minutes walking distance from the closest hub

   • In between spokes add one of the following:

     • Parks, Green spaces, or outdoor sport lawns

     • Playgrounds for children

     • Big community centers similar to the currently existing ones

       • Indoor sports

       • Library

       • Event space

     • Big strip malls similar to what we have now

       • Preference is that they look more like Tanger than southkeys/train yards

     • Religious building

     • Medical centers/clinics

4. Improve road quality

5. Improve public transportation connectivity

   • Commuters will have the option to not drive to work, which reduces traffic for those who need/want to

   • Teens who still can't drive but are otherwise independent don't need to rely on parents driving them around

6. Solve drug abuse and overdosing

   • Safe supply saves lives but solves nothing

   • Pretending drug abuse is a homeless/urban/rural only problem doesn't solve anything

   • Alcoholism is in the same category tbh

   • The solutions:

     • Housing Affordability because if high income earners struggle to afford mortgages, low income families are shit out of luck

     • The safe supply policy should be part of a wider rehabilitation program that includes: 

       • Drug rehabilitation and weaning is the priority

       • Likely in an AA styled format

       • Includes the basis of building a support network of people similar situations

     • People have multiple chances to go through the system

     • Our Anti Drug Policy