May 9, 2012 - 8:03am
By Toby Gorman
Nanaimo News Bulletin
With the first stage of its Successful Cities initiative now complete, the Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce is looking to integrate its results into broader city strategies.
In January, the chamber hosted a forum to help define qualities that provided a framework to help make Nanaimo a successful city. From that forum emerged 12 principles, including ideas such as environment, connectivity to move people and goods, and entrepreneurial governance among others. Within those 12 principles are 66 actions that can be considered by the city and its departments to make Nanaimo a more successful city.
[VIU Provost and Vice-President Academic] David Witty, who spearheaded the Successful Cities project for the chamber, said no city is perfect, but steps can be taken to improve the quality of life for all citizens.
"Cities are a powerful symbol of what we've got right, but also of what we've got wrong and how we have failed in so many ways," said Witty. "When we talk about success, it's not success individually, but collectively."
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