Appendix 5 High Level Goal 5: Safe, Accessible and Resilient Neighbourhoods
Submission source Summary of Issue Raised relevant to this High-Level Goal 5.2.32 Private individual 5
• Main thrust of this submission was to promote greater use of green spaces around the city to enable activities for all ages, encourage interaction between neighbours, get people out of their homes and strengthen community resilience and cross community interaction as well as climate change action (biodiversity through community garden food growing as well as clothes and goods recycling).
5.2.33 Private Individual 6
• Concern about planning of change to Dunnes Stores on Patricks Street and request to discuss with wider community.
5.2.34 Private Individual 7
This submission promotes the need for quantifying the benefits of cycling networks in terms of benefits and costs to counter what it sees as false claims and objections to active travel, Bus Connects and cycle paths and their commercial and traffic impact.
5.2.35 Private Individual 8
• Provide accessible toilets in the city centre
5.2.36 Private Individual 9
This submission opposes opposition to sustainable transport initiatives and calls for more forcefully rebutted officially and formally. One suggested route is to commission studies around the following and cite them in all future schemes: Proximity to greenways/ bus corridors increasing property values, cycle infrastructure impacts on business, modal shares of customers visiting city centre businesses (showing car users are minority), share of customers visiting city centre availing of on street parking (showing on street parking is not critical to business), negative effects to businesses on streets with high car throughput, greenways not attracting or benefiting crime, sustainable infrastructure disproportionately benefitting people with disabilities. This submission identifies vacant/derelict buildings, car-centredness and a dearth of community cohesion as the key challenges facing the city. It identifies transport, housing, and community as the ‘triad’ to drive urban success and makes the following recommendations in those three areas:
5.2.37 Private Individual 10
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