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Vision 2020
for a Sustainable Hamilton

Background

The sustainable community initiative was formally launched in June 1990, when the former Hamilton-Wentworth (now the City of Hamilton) Council created a citizens Task Force on Sustainable Development. This group was mandated by Council to explore, in co-operation with its fellow citizens, the concept of sustainable development as a basis for review of all regional policy initiatives.

Over two and half years, this group met with approximately 1,000 fellow citizens and developed a community vision called, "VISION 2020: The Sustainable Region", and over 400 recommendations about the kinds of decisions required by government, business, community groups, individuals for making the vision a reality.

In February, 1993 the Task Force completed its mandate when it presented Regional Council with its three final reports:

  • Vision 2020 - The Sustainable Region;
  • Directions for Creating a Sustainable Region; and
  • Detailed Strategies and Actions for Creating a Sustainable Region.

Regional Council unanimously adopted these reports as a guide to all future decision making.

The stated goal of the document was to 'identify for Regional Council the major policy shifts and directions, needed to begin the process of creating a sustainable region'. The report addressed the following five topics:

• The Landscape    • Our Communities    • Getting Around

• Quality of Life    • Livelihood

The City of Hamilton's Vision 2020 - Smogs, Logs and Financial Bogs
by Eileen Shannon, March 2004
There are a number of citizen groups keeping watch on and reporting with growing alarm the demise of Hamilton.

It seems timely to take a second look at the city's own Vision 2020 document, which was adopted by Hamilton City Council in 1993 and reviewed in 2003, to compare their stated goals with the current situation. The document describes Hamilton as a place in which "we look after the environment, look after each other, and create safe and healthy places to live, work and play." Unfortunately Hamilton appears to be making little, if any, progress. Here, to remind you, are a few selections from Vision 2020 along with some comments on recent events at City Hall. Read further.

 
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