Focus on eliminating barriers to investment, facilitate small-scale urban renewal through cooperative efforts and self-help; Encourage broad participation, improve community involvement and build support for sustainable planning policies and programmes; promote community identity through the creation of meeting places, public spaces, pedestrian networks, the preservation of historic buidings and attractive streetscapes; Provide a range of cultural and recreational opportunities through the efficient use of natural areas; maintain a system of integrated and interconnected open spaces, parks, river valleys and waterfronts; protect the natural habitat and resources in these areas; Provide water and sewerage infrastructure that accommodates the needs of the local community, while meeting environmental objectives; considerably improve the infrastructure to reduce untreated urban run-off and waste-water discharge, and increase the capacity of infrastructure to accommodate urban growth and intensification; Improve and expand the transport system to meet the challenges of readjustment in the urban economy and to sustain the competitiveness of public transport. To maximize
f) Offrir une infrastructure en matière d'eau et d'assainissement qui réponde aux besoins de la communauté locale tout en allant dans le sens des objectifs environnementaux; améliorer considérablement l'infrastructure de manière à réduire les rejets d'eaux usées et ruissellements urbains non traités et accroître la capacité de l'infrastructure à répondre à la croissance et à la densification urbaines;