CITY OF MISSISSAUGA
“ significant ” waterfront communities being built in the city : Brightwater , an approximate 75-acre development built on reclaimed oil land , and Lakeview , which is about 245 acres . “ Those are both what we would call smart communities ,” Slack says . “ For the first time we ’ re heavily involved in the community master plan process to look at the technologies , to look at digital and figure out how we can do it as part of the build , as opposed to after the fact . We ’ re designing pole infrastructure to integrate both our fibre infrastructure and our Wi-Fi , plus the build-out of 5G and other technologies that are going to be in the community on the Lakeview development . We ’ re looking to implement things like vacuum waste , district energy , energy from waste . These are very early in the master planning process of the community where digital and innovation have become integral aspect .”
Slack finds himself in the unusual position of being a CIO who sits in on meetings with the lighting group , the utilities group , and design and planning . “ We ’ re finding lots of opportunities to partner with post-secondary institutions and other agencies and through Economic Development . There ’ s lots of excitement about these two developments , but also
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