Many people who live and work in the so-called red zones say they have been given little information about how increased security during the 2010 Games will affect them. (VANOC)

Organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics will be sending out a special team to talk to residents and business owners around Games venues regarding the impact of security arrangements on their daily lives, a spokesman said.

With a year left before the Vancouver-Whistler Games, many people who live and work in the so-called "red zones" say they have been given little information about how increased security will affect them.

The RCMP's special security unit for the Olympics has announced where the red zone areas in Vancouver and Whistler will be, but details on people's access and mobility in and out of the areas during the Games have not been released.

Information about security and transportation will be delivered in a timely fashion, said Terry Wright, executive vice-president of service operations and ceremonies for the Vancouver organizing committee, known as VANOC.

"About two months ago, we formed what we called an operations engagement team, and they're tasked to begin to take the detail and start to engage specifically around the venues where people really need that finite information," Wright told CBC News in an interview.

"But, you know, from experience, we're still early to be going out relative to most projects I've ever worked on," he said.

Businesses are concerned

The Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association said many of its 8,000 members are anxious to find out about planned security closures during the Games.

Businesses located near Olympic venues should have been told a long time ago so they could make plans for both staff and customers, said Charles Gauthier, the association's executive director.

"Are they going to require certain kinds of passes? In the absence of any kind of concrete information, a lot of our members are starting to be very concerned about what might actually transpire," Gauthier said.

Rosemin Jutha, owner of First Blossom Floral Boutique Ltd. on West Cordova Street in downtown Vancouver, said she expects restrictions on access but has heard nothing about how severe they could be.

"I need to know like how I'm going to be getting in to work — if I'm going to even be able to open the store and serve customers," she said.

"We've been in business for 19 years, and to shut down, it would be dramatic for us."

With files from Priya Ramu