A new Comprehensive Plan for the City of Watertown is now being developed.
As a community stakeholder in the comprehensive planning process, Watertown for All Ages offered our perspective on the following questions:
• What is the City doing well to meet the needs of Watertown’s older residents?
• What could the City do better?
• What new opportunities should the City consider?
WAA’s responses to these questions reflect our vision of what the City of Watertown should aspire to in terms of the services it provides to benefit not only older residents but also people of all ages.
Click here to read WAA’s “Observations and Recommendations for the Watertown Comprehensive Plan Update 2022”
These recommendations have been provided as input into the city’s Comprehensive Plan process, which includes community surveys and public forums. (Click here for details.)
During the coming year Watertown will be making other critical decisions that will affect the services the city will be providing older Watertown residents. The city will be hiring a new Director of Senior Services and developing a Master Plan that will probably include the redevelopment of the Senior Center. “We hope the ideas we have offered for the Comprehensive Plan will be the basis for a broader community discussion, and we encourage everyone to get involved,” said Bob Shay, President of WAA.
Over the past decade Watertown for All Ages has been collaborating with city departments, service organizations, and providers to support and advocate for policies that will make Watertown more “age-friendly” for older adults and thereby more welcoming to individuals of all ages.
Please share your thoughts about the ideas we have suggested for the new Comprehensive Plan or any other issues that can help make Watertown an “age-friendly” community. Send your responses to: info@watertownforallages.org.
Your input is important!