{"id":279,"date":"2026-09-26T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/?p=279"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:30:58","slug":"2026-community-priorities-survey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/2026\/09\/26\/2026-community-priorities-survey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Community Priorities Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between June 3 and September 1st, 2026, 41 Overbrook residents shared their priorities for our neighbourhood in the OCA&#8217;s Community Priorities Survey. It was an open, self-selected survey, not a scientific poll, so it reflects the residents who chose to respond. The themes were clear, and we&#8217;re sharing them with candidates during this year&#8217;s municipal election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Top priorities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Traffic and road safety<\/strong> was named by 68% of respondents. Queen Mary, Donald, North River, Lola and the Vanier Parkway intersections came up most.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Green space, parks and tree canopy<\/strong> was named by 49%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Crime and community safety<\/strong> was named by 39%, and <strong>cycling and pedestrian infrastructure<\/strong> by 37%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Development and consultation<\/strong><br>Residents are divided on the pace of new development. 49% say growth is fine when done thoughtfully, 22% say it&#8217;s too fast, and 15% say it&#8217;s too slow. The clearer finding is about process: 20 of 41 respondents rate the City&#8217;s consultation before approving major projects as poor, and only 5 rate it 4 or 5. It averaged 2.46 out of 5, the lowest score in the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What we&#8217;re asking candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Commit to a traffic safety review of Queen Mary, Donald, North River, Lola and the Vanier Parkway intersections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reform the development consultation process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Protect mature tree canopy and manage invasive species as density continues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support Ottawa Community Housing tenants with repairs and redevelopment plans.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engage residents on both sides of the development-pace debate.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/OCA_Survey_Deck.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/OCA_Survey_Deck.pdf\">Download the full results<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Get involved<\/strong><br>Want to help the OCA act on these priorities? Sign up for our newsletter or email us at <a href=\"mailto:info@overbrook.ca\">info@overbrook.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between June 3 and September 1st, 2026, 41 Overbrook residents shared their priorities for our neighbourhood in the OCA&#8217;s Community Priorities Survey. It was an open, self-selected survey, not a scientific poll, so it reflects the residents who chose to respond. The themes were clear, and we&#8217;re sharing them with candidates during this year&#8217;s municipal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overbrook.ca\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}