Downtown Stakeholder Support

Region of Durham – Downtown Oshawa Support

The Region of Durham created a Task Force with representatives from Durham Region Social Services, Durham Region Health Department, Durham Regional Police Service, Lakeridge Health and the City of Oshawa. The Task Force reviews all support services offered by the Region and community partners, identifying gaps and duplication of services and taking steps to help all involved.

The Region has created a Community Code of Conduct for recipients of support services and developed a Street Outreach and Encampment Strategy for Durham Region. To further support communications, the Task Force hosted a virtual Town Hall for the downtown Oshawa business community. View the presentation.

To learn more, visit the Region's Downtown Oshawa Support webpage.

City of Oshawa - Downtown Oshawa Support

The City is committed to addressing the unique health and safety challenges in the downtown, including the allocation of funding, resources and staffing.

Some of the City's actions to date include:

• increased patrol and staffing of Municipal Law Enforcement Officers downtown to proactively enforce municipal by-laws
• Parks staff patrol and clean downtown trails and parks, including landscape maintenance, removal of garbage and drug paraphernalia, and addressing graffiti.
• service increase to every other day, for sidewalk and road cleaning
• Works staff to assist with cleanup of garbage and drug paraphernalia on public and private property.
• a Downtown Clean-Up Initiative assists with the daily cleanup of their street facing business entrances.
• Downtown Urban Growth Centre Community Improvement Plan update to include security and safety
• developed the Plan20Thirty Downtown Action Plan that included input from downtown stakeholders
• a Community Safety, Security and Well-Being in Oshawa's Downtown Area Action Plan containing 37 action items