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2026-2030
Jennie's Top Ten
Local priorities based on deep consultation with community members.
Securing a joint feasibility study for the rebuild of Secord Elementary School and Secord Community Centre, in collaboration with the Toronto District School Board.
Completing repairs at 500 Dawes Rd and other problem buildings.
Protecting and enhancing our waterfront by continuing to say NO to jets at Billy Bishop, working with community members to develop better responses to public disturbances, and installing lighting along the Martin Goodman Waterfront Trail.
Make it easier to set up and maintain your small business on our neighbourhoods’ main streets and reducing the number of vacant storefronts through block-by-block level data collection and collaborating with Business Improvement Areas (BIAs).
Speeding up streetcars to allow greater access to downtown for Beaches residents by giving streetcars more transit signal priority, reducing left turns on routes, and adjusting parking and patio placement.
Implementing a ward-wide safer streets plan through street redesigns, adding crosswalks and upgrading pedestrian infrastructure to meet modern accessibility standards.
Expanding our existing Ravine Strategy to include our beloved Glen Stewart ravine and Taylor Creek so we can better protect our natural spaces for all to enjoy.
Converting the Coxwell-Danforth Streetcar barns project into a community-led development with mixed income housing, integrated services from the Toronto Public Library and other local service providers, and guaranteed space for community programming.
Filling in the missed connections in our cycling network across BEY and securing funding to upgrade existing lanes with permanent infrastructure.
Securing funding to add year round accessible washroom facilities in parks in Beaches-East York.
Securing a joint feasibility study for the rebuild of Secord Elementary School and Secord Community Centre, in collaboration with the Toronto District School Board.
Completing repairs at 500 Dawes Rd and other problem buildings.
Protecting and enhancing our waterfront by continuing to say NO to jets at Billy Bishop, working with community members to develop better responses to public disturbances, and installing lighting along the Martin Goodman Waterfront Trail.
Make it easier to set up and maintain your small business on our neighbourhoods’ main streets and reducing the number of vacant storefronts through block-by-block level data collection and collaborating with Business Improvement Areas (BIAs).
Speeding up streetcars to allow greater access to downtown for Beaches residents by giving streetcars more transit signal priority, reducing left turns on routes, and adjusting parking and patio placement.
Implementing a ward-wide safer streets plan through street redesigns, adding crosswalks and upgrading pedestrian infrastructure to meet modern accessibility standards.
Expanding our existing Ravine Strategy to include our beloved Glen Stewart ravine and Taylor Creek so we can better protect our natural spaces for all to enjoy.
Converting the Coxwell-Danforth Streetcar barns project into a community-led development with mixed income housing, integrated services from the Toronto Public Library and other local service providers, and guaranteed space for community programming.
Filling in the missed connections in our cycling network across BEY and securing funding to upgrade existing lanes with permanent infrastructure.
Securing funding to add year round accessible washroom facilities in parks in Beaches-East York.
Building the city we want, one policy at a time
Jennie Worden is a community advocate, a tenant organizer, and proud East Yorker running for City Council to make life better for the working people of Toronto. Click on an issue below to learn more about Jennie's platform.
Una leadership reattiva e accessibile presso City Hall e nel Ward 19
I consiglieri comunali dovrebbero essere presenti, avere una conoscenza approfondita delle problematiche a livello di quartiere e dell'intera città e dovrebbero sempre agire nell'interesse pubblico.
L'ufficio Jennie's terrà degli orari di ricevimento a rotazione presso sedi temporanee dislocate in tutto il distretto, per incontrare i residenti ovunque si trovino. Gli orari e i luoghi saranno comunicati chiaramente ai residenti in anticipo.
L'ufficio del Consiglio stabilirà e rispetterà gli standard di servizio per le e-mail e le telefonate dei cittadini.
Jennie sarà presente. Dedita alla comunità e al suo ruolo di consigliera comunale, non dovrete chiamare l'ufficio del sindaco o sollecitarla per avere una risposta.
L'ufficio di Jennie metterà a disposizione degli assistenti sociali per aiutare i residenti a districarsi nella burocrazia dei programmi pubblici. Che si tratti di iscrivere i vostri figli a un corso di nuoto o di richiedere agevolazioni sulle tasse immobiliari, siamo qui per aiutarvi!
Community-led Planning and Investment
Across Toronto residents and cultural hub tenants are being displaced. This happens because city-led planning processes often treat community expertise as an optional, rather than integral, part of the planning process. Community led planning is where residents identify neighbourhood needs, build consensus around local priorities, and directs resources towards solutions that prioritize human dignity and access for all.
Community Led Planning
Jennie will vote in support of funding community-led planning projects in 15 neighbourhoods in the 2027 budget. And she will support scaling investment into all 158 neighbourhoods by 2030.
Jennie will work with City staff to develop more meaningful and in-depth public engagement practices that meet the needs of residents.
Jennie will work to ensure that any funds allocated to community led planning initiatives are governed through participatory budgeting and with neighbourhood-level resident leadership at the helm.
Jennie commits to a co-design model that foregrounds resident voices in the development of community-led planning programs in Beaches-East York.
Inclusive Economic Development
Toronto can do more to ensure that our city's economy benefits more residents. As a large employer, purchaser, builder, landowner and funder, the City of Toronto needs to ensure that economic activity is shared more equitably across our communities.
Jennie will work to improve access to decent employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for low-income residents, particularly women, youth, and those facing systemic barriers to work.
She will support providing sufficient funding to ensure that workers within City funded non-profit organizations earn a living wage and she will work to expand the City's fair wage policy.
Jennie will work to create the conditions that communities and workers need to build wealth including through supporting policies and programs that enable communities to own land, housing, and other infrastructure, and she will support communities having greater control over local economic decisions such as how communities and local businesses can benefit from development in our neighbourhoods.
Jennie will support the development of community land trusts worker cooperatives, credit unions, and non-profit and public ownership models of businesses in Beaches-East York.
Participatory Budgeting (PB)
Participatory budgeting is when community members come together to decide how to spend public money.
Jennie will work in community to implement PB that empowers residents in Beaches-East York to lead projects at the neighbourhood level. This is not new, Ward 17 Don Valley North has been running community led budget processes since 2015. Ward 13 Toronto Centre has also been doing participatory budgeting for the past four years.
Participatory budgeting projects in Toronto have included art installations, park improvements, new off-leash dog areas, updated playgrounds, and other public realm improvements. This is a good start but PB has the potential to have more significant impacts once additional capacity is built.
Jennie will support the expansion of the City's current PB framework to broaden the types of projects it can fund and build capacity at the neighbourhood level.
Thriving Main Streets: un Small Business Action Plan
Le piccole imprese creano benefici economici e sociali duraturi per le comunità e i quartieri in cui operano. Eppure, il 48% dei proprietari di piccole imprese canadesi andrà in pensione nei prossimi 5 anni e solo uno su dieci ha un piano di successione formale.
Anche le piccole imprese si trovano ad affrontare una serie di sfide nell'attuale contesto economico: complesse normative urbanistiche, assenza di tutele contro gli aumenti di affitto superiori ai limiti previsti per gli inquilini commerciali, pressioni tariffarie e ricambio del personale.
Processo decisionale basato sull'evidenza
Jennie presenterà al Consiglio una mozione per creare un database cittadino degli immobili commerciali sfitti e abbandonati, al fine di studiare come e perché gli spazi commerciali vengono lasciati vuoti.
Jennie introdurrà un sondaggio annuale a livello di quartiere sulle piccole imprese per raccogliere dati specifici sul livello di sviluppo delle piccole imprese nel quartiere di Beaches-East York.
Pianificazione della successione per le piccole imprese
Jennie collaborerà con organizzazioni provinciali come Succession Ontario e con le risorse federali per sensibilizzare l'opinione pubblica sulle problematiche relative alla pianificazione della successione aziendale.
L'ufficio elettorale Jennie's fungerà da centro di risorse e di sensibilizzazione per collaborare con i proprietari di piccole imprese locali e condividere conoscenze sulla proprietà comunitaria delle piccole imprese (come le cooperative e la proprietà dei dipendenti) al fine di garantire la sopravvivenza delle attività commerciali locali.
Jennie si impegnerà per ottenere finanziamenti equivalenti per il Toronto Business Enterprise Centre al fine di ampliare il supporto individuale alla pianificazione della successione aziendale per le imprese Beaches-East York.
Ridurre il numero di negozi sfitti e migliorare l'aspetto delle nostre strade.
Jennie si impegnerà affinché le risorse per il miglioramento dell'arredo urbano, attualmente disponibili solo per Business Improvement Areas (BIAs), siano accessibili a qualsiasi gruppo di attività commerciali previa presentazione di una domanda.
Jennie si impegnerà per eliminare il "tax cliff" (l'esenzione fiscale temporanea) per gli immobili ad uso provvisorio in attesa di sviluppo residenziale.
Jennie si metterà in contatto con la provincia Ontario per valutare le opzioni per l'introduzione di una Vacant Storefront Tax nelle aree in cui è dimostrata la domanda di immobili commerciali da parte degli inquilini o dove vi sono prove di speculazione fondiaria da parte degli investitori.
Dare priorità al trasporto pubblico
Keeping the TTC Affordable and Public
Jennie will work to lower the fare capping threshold so you can ride for free after 40 trips, instead of the current 47 trips.
Jennie supports maintaining the current transit fare freeze, bringing costs down for transit users.
Jennie will never support distance based or "zoned" fares, make your ride more affordable.
Jennie will advocate to expand the RapidTO Surface Transit Network Plan to streets in BEY, getting you where you need to go even quicker.
Jennie will support a commercial parking levy to provide stable funding for TTC operations.
Jennie will work to ensure the TTC remains a public service and will defend Toronto's rights to make our own decisions about our public transit system and in the best interest of riders.