The Future of Ambleside

 Tuesday, March 7, 2023

The Future of Ambleside

In February, our District Council unveiled the Local Area Plan for Ambleside along with an Options Booklet which offers up some interesting statistics about Ambleside.

The 2016 census lists the population of Ambleside at 7,500 with 57% of these people living in single person households. As well, 48% of the residents of Ambleside were over 58 years old. Today, these people are all senior citizens. 

 The District is looking for feedback on what we envision for our community. This plan outlines the long-range vision for Ambleside. Here is a link.

https://www.westvancouverite.ca/plan-ambleside?utm_source=ehq_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ehq-Get-ready-to-help-create-the-Ambleside-Local-Area-Plan-review-the-draft-options-and-bring-your-ideas&utm_source=ehq&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=website

As we are probably the largest identifiable group in Ambleside, this may be the best time to make wants and needs met. Besides the obvious needs like better sidewalks and 'on-demand mini buses' (promised by our new mayor before he was elected), how nice would it be to have a special department set up, in coordination with other public agencies, to allow us to age-in-place comfortably and happily.

Just think of wild possibilities for a moment - maybe with a phone call, we could have a personal assistant to help us when needs arose, or even possibly setting up a system where doctors or nurse practitioners could make house calls again. Even having a resource that could give us information and direction would be nice.

But,.... “How do we go about doing that?”