Enhancing Social Connection

The Civic Precinct is a welcoming place where visitors and residents alike can go for social interaction and support. A place where our community will choose to gather and where our formal celebrations take place. The Civic Precinct is a destination celebrated by our community and which our visitors are drawn to.

PRINCIPLES:

• A place for gathering and informal community interaction, where everyone feels comfortable spending time, taking part, listening or merely observing others going about their daily routines. • A special place for formal ceremonial events, celebrations and

Civic rituals. • The Precinct has immediate appeal to a broad range of people, including for residential purposes, and is a place that people enjoy and want to return to again and again. • The Precinct is a focal point for people to meet at the start of their central city experience as they journey into the city from around the region.