The Renewing Riverview folks have put up a PDF outlining this Vision
Online open house from Thursday, December 17, 2015 – Friday, January 29, 2016 on PlaceSpeak
Sadly the participants are required to sign up to this privately-owned forum; and the process to do so is convoluted and confusing :( which has been pointed out to the people in charge before, but nothing has changed.
Send the facilitators of the "visioning process" an email to share your thoughts. questions@renewingriverview.com
So it appears that The Maples the Provincial Assessment Centre,PAC and the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction, BCMHA all at this time based in Burnaby, will be moved to Riverview.
A quick glance through the PDF finds numerous mistakes, half-truths, and outright wrong facts, strewn throughout the document. I would expect much better and indeed the public should expect more accurate and truthful reporting in such a document.
Sadly the bureaucrats and their paternalistic attitudes want to sell-off large portions of the property, using their break-even formulae; Which means really that the public will lose control off a large portion of this property, and we the public will have nothing to show for it, since any profits will be swallowed up paying off the various leeches, that make a living preying on the Public purse.
Various news sources:
Six-week feedback period for Coquitlam lands vision; Kwikwetlem looks to receive benefits
Riverview Lands revisioning to include new mental health buildings
The former psychiatry facility has been sitting mostly empty since it was shut down in 2012
Three programs to move to new facilities on Riverview grounds
New Riverview plans don't meet B.C.'s mental health needs, say UBC researchers
The province says the days of locking up people with mental health problems are over.
[Oh, really ! hopefully some bureaucrat can explain what is going on at Colony Farm, and Cypress lodge, which is on the site. Some patients have to be kept secure, for the staff and the public safety, and above all for the Patients safety ]
