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Close to Home The benefits of compact, walkable, transit-friendly neighbourhoods The character and location of a neighbourhood shapes the lives of the people who live there. [...] When the property in 2013.13 The continued feedback developers actively seek to listen, learn and accept Engaging all stakeholders in the development collected from these meetings and the public community feedback, they earn trust within process benefits everyone involved, and ensures information centre was used to shape the Mirvish the community. [...] Residents’ associations also have the ability to mobilize the community and have the potential to constructively guide intensification in their neighbourhoods if positively engaged in the The Markham House will be open four days a week to gather community feedback on the Mirvish consultation process. [...] This growth, along with intensification policies in To address this, under the leadership of the the Region of Waterloo, helped attract developers Kitchener, has made the region a destination for mayor and city council, the City of Kitchener to purchase the Tannery District building — an younger adults to live and work. [...] Allied Properties REIT, which and this, paired with the City of Kitchener’s use planning framework and action plan has purchased the Tannery, is now developing other strategy to rejuvenate downtown, has led to a changed the landscape of the Region of Waterloo.