MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Mossel Bay Municipality, in association with various stakeholders, is working towards a total urban regeneration of Mayixhale Street, one of the main arteries of KwaNonqaba.
Soon the area will be the place to be for budding young entrepreneurs, the place where young people will want to go to be noticed. The street will sport a new look with attractive areas that will be inviting and vibrant.
Municipal personnel of the local economic development department are in constant communication with various stakeholders who are in a position to contribute to the exciting plans for the corridor.
Mossel Bay was selected as a beneficiary of the Western Cape government's Regional Socio-Economic Programme and Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading Programme (RSEP/VPUU), an inter-governmental programme run in the Western Cape.
The programme was established in response to the requirements of a "whole-of-society" approach.
Municipal personnel are closely liaising with a committee of community stakeholders to ensure that the community's wants and needs are incorporated in the planning and design of the exciting project.
Obviously a multi-year project, it ties in with the existing municipal planning and budgetary frameworks such as the Integrated Development Plan and spatial development framework.
Much work has gone into the gathering of information on what is available, what are actual needs, and what facilities and infrastructure the community would like to have. A full-scale public participation process will follow once the wants and needs have been synthesised, but safe walkways with adequate lighting, a proper police station, upgraded sporting facilities, an outdoor amphitheatre, adequate bus stops, outdoor markets, a multi-purpose community centre and a youth and business park with an outdoor gymnasium are some of the exciting projects being envisaged.
"The plan is flexible and may change over time, considering the input we expect from the community," Sharion Louw, the local economic development officer of the Mossel Bay Municipality told the Mossel Bay Advertiser. She added that the value of the plan is in the people, their trust and the relationships that will develop over time. "This plan may be used as a business case to attract other sources of funding."
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