Community-based planning outreach sessions are scheduled to run on digital platforms
JOBURG – Residents have been urged to submit their inputs by attending the CBP virtual meetings.
The City of Johannesburg will be hosting a series of virtual public consultations to give residents free rein to determine the substance and character of the City’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP).
The council-led community-based planning (CBP) outreach sessions for Region B wards 87, 88, 90, 98, 99, 102, 104, 117 are scheduled to run on digital platforms on February 21 at 17:00.
These meetings will afford residents of Johannesburg a platform to air views about how the City can deal with backlogs in the delivery of municipal services. The outreach sessions serve as a forerunner to the Integrated Development Plan process, designed to produce service delivery policies for each ward in all of the City’s seven regions.
All public comments are critical to ensure a legitimate IDP consultation process as provided for in prescripts of municipal government as it assists the City in being responsive, planning accordingly and building partnerships between them and communities.
Wards will get the chance to participate in a planning session on requesting capital expenditure projects as well as seeing what is planned in the 2021/22 financial year. These include sewer and water pipe replacements, stormwater upgrades, road resurfacing, traffic calming, new traffic lights, fencing of any parks and stormwater drains and upgrading of sub-stations.
Residents have been urged to submit their input by attending the virtual meetings. All engagements will be streamed live on the City’s social media pages, including Twitter and Facebook.
For more details, watch this community-based planning self-explanatory video, click HERE. To download the IDP 2021/2022 document click HERE.
To make an online submission click HERE. Inputs may be submitted to cbpinputs@joburg.org.za or cbpcomments@joburg.org.za. Written comments can be submitted through suggestion boxes available at each regional office.
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