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Objective 3 Physical spaces are designed with the needs for social connection and accessibility in mind

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Provide sufficient, high-quality public spaces that promote social connectedness. Include amenities to support all ages and abilities such as public washrooms, seating areas, and drinking fountains. Develop a strategy to address community need for public washrooms, including hand washing stations and access to secure potable water. Strive for public washrooms in all community parks, and spaced a maximum of 4 kilometres apart along multi-use pathways. Whenever developing new public facilities such as recreation centres, hospitals, and government offices, explore the opportunity to include child care as part of the design. Apply universal design principles in the review of development applications and in the design of new or retrofitted public facilities and infrastructure early in design and evaluation. These principles include complete streets, transit and parking facilities, public buildings, trails, recreation areas, and intuitive and accessible way-finding. Apply both first- and second-generation Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles in supporting community safety. This focus includes physical aspects such as street lighting and building orientation (first generation) and social aspects such as community connections and behaviour (second generation). Ensure consideration is given to unintended consequences associated with discriminatory surveillance practices that can target racialized and equity-priority groups .

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PART C Thematic Policies