SURVEY RESULTS

• More police especially after 10:00 pm
• Evidence of drug activity – gangs
• Trails need light
• Youth with little to do causing trouble
• Recreation for youth
• Neighbourhood watch
• Houses being bought by slum landlords and then renting
• Drunken students at night
• Halfway houses not controlled
• Boarded up building making the area unsafe
• Police walking or biking
• Group homes
• Pleasant St. is to fast
• Close to Hospital and Fire Department
• More lighting

• Security includes crime, graffiti and safety
• Links to other trails
• More Trails and Connectivity
• Maintenance and garbage
• Bike Trails
• Improved access 
• Great Trail
• More Green Spaces
• Great views of Harbour 
• Benches
• Poverty
• Poor access to ferry service
• Trail from Woodside to Dartmouth Ferry Terminal  Access to waterfront
• Connection to Eastern Passage
• Conflicts between walkers, cyclists and dog owners  Keeping ahead of the drug problem
• More work on cove behind NSCC – nice beach, boat docking
• Right out to Pleasant St. with Signs
• More signs needed
• Parking
• people
• people
• Protect green space
• Better crossing over Pleasant St
• Links to Russell Lake
• Great bike/walking trail
• Need waterfront by ferry
• Better access to waterfront

Themes - Working Well

Bus/Ferry service is great 
Ferry runtimes are great  
Improved bus connection (to buses/ferry)
Free parking at ferry terminal  
Students- bring more transit
Woodside ferry to run holidays

Challenges
More frequent bus/ferry run times (non-peak/evenings/weekends)
Access to bus stops/routes
More connections needed
Safety  
Better access a bus service
Cost of transit service  
Need promotion for transit services  
Start buses earlier 5:30 am
Making transit more accessible so people leave cars at home
A bus from Woodside to Portland St.
Have riders pay 100%, not tax payers

Encourage you to take transit
More frequent service/connections
Lower cost  
Safety  
Better bus shelters
Closer bus stops
Less smoking around bus stops  
Pamphlets for transit service
A bus from Woodside to Portland St., Dartmouth Crossing
More low floor buses

Working Well
Traffic lights
Highway 111
Crosswalks
Mt. Hope exit
Road between Lilock, Herbert and Acacia
Road from Evert St to Sobeys Russell Lake
Speed limits

Challenges
Address congestion
Noise from highway 111
Jake Brake usage
Speeding
Parking
Air pollution from highway 111
Drivers education and stiffer fines
Not getting enough money from NSCC for the problems it causes
Section between new college and highway
Road lines don’t match up
Cars not stopping at crosswalks
No bike lanes

Streets needing speed  & volume addressed
Pleasant St.
Irving
Prince Arthur
Highway 11
Everette St.
Exit to Russel Lake West from Everett
Air/Noise pollution from 1111 effects homes on Irving/Mason St
Johnstone

Trail - more trails, more bike routes
Water taxis to Halifax
Coffee shops, patio restaurants, other shops along waterfront
Bathrooms – more frequent places whilst walking
More benches to sit enroute
Crosswalk lines maintained more frequently
Waterfront trail
Ferry accepts bikes
Bike lanes
Trail connection to other HRM areas

• Rec & sports programs and facilities
• Community meeting room and center
• Off leash dog park
• Seniors programs
• Neighbourhood watch
• Community garden
• Concerts and outdoor events
• History
• A welcome wagon
• Lack of volunteers
• More retail
• Clean up parks
• Post signs of park hours
• Transportation to attend activities in winter
• Being more informed
• Programs offered in daytime
• Not enough playgrounds
• Have exercise equipment like North End Dartmouth
• More affordable programs
• Need tennis court, basketball courts, skateboard park, safe biking routes
• More advertisement for programs
• Artistic programs & Artist studios

Works Well

• Community college
• Dartmouth gate
• Mix of housing - choice, types, affordable
• Affordable housing
• Industrial park - non obstrusive & employment
• Drugstore, hairdressers, stores, used books, restaurants
• Neighbourhoods are unique/friendly
• Russell Lake (by car only)
• Trail Development
• Hospital
• Views
• Population growth/change
• Maplehurst upgrading/renovations
• Residential Development at Russell Lake
• Food chains
• Good scale of housing
• Development inside circ.
• Construction along harbour easy access from Woodside
• Close to Downtown
• Close to ferry
• Kings Wharf
• Lot of new construction in area
• New pharmacy
• Mt. Hope connection
• Housing for mental health
• Land costs are reasonable
• Harbour cleanup
• Trees along Pleasant
• Promote Woodside Industrial Park
• New Community Living Residence
• No large apartment towers going up

Challenges

• Grocery store
• Generally poor building stock & standards (both residential and commercial)
• Too car oriented i.e. parking lots
• Space in Woodside
• More balanced and  mix of residential/commercial development
• Lack of sidewalks, landscaping
• More nice infill development
• Sobeys mall is an eye sore
• Oil refinery smells
• Over development of Renfrew and Chadwick
• Economy
• Need a general purpose store i.e. Zellers, Walmart
• Too many buses to get to Russell Lake
• View plane management
• More landscaping
• Housing costs

Where

• Former Sobey site with landscaping
• Former hospital lands
• Front portion of Industrial Park
• Around Dartmouth Gate
• Vacant commercial areas
• Close to NSCC or on site
• Close to Ferry Terminal
• Upgrades of existing homes
• Anywhere and everywhere
• Existing older apartment building replaced by townhouse or newer apartment building
• Lot off Pleasant St. by Esson
• With landscaping at bottom of Prince Arthur
• Off Mt. Hope Extension
• Former Value Village site
• Redevelopment of areas on Marvin and Chittick
• Property fronting Pleasant St. from Fenwick to NSCC
• South Woodside
• Empty lot on Pleasant where car wash use to be
• The lot between North Woodside Community Center and Youth Center
• Eastward towards Russell Lake and no more industries added to the park
• Away from Refinery hill behind value village.
• No more residential Development

Working Well

Community centers
Community celebrations
Dartmouth Heritage Museum
Canal signage
Trails
Pubs/taverns
Events planned
Lawn bowling
Bowling rink

Challenges
Promotion/signage is poor (interpertive/?)
Not enough material at Dartmouth Heritage Museum Want to learn more
Getting people to work together
Go for the future not the past
More activities for seniors

How we learn about our history
Family/Friends
Books
Community Center
Internet
Museum newsletter/Dartmouth Heritage Museum
Library
Churches
School – Anniversary of Imperial School
Seniors
Family

Making Woodside a welcoming place for newcomers:

• Acceptance of mostly everyone
• Grocery stores helps you become familiar with the people in your neighbourhood
• Help to get minority members of the community involved
• Boarded up buildings, rundown residential
• Lack of services
• Sobey's closing left large gap in the economy
• Friendly place for working people
• College is excellent revival
• People are the greatest asset
• Affordable housing
• Special events
• Need grocery store