Accommodating_growth_one

accommodating growth 2007 – 2026
monitoring growth and change series
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Introduction
Accommodating Growth: Coordinating Municipal Capital
Investment is a Council mandated document and its framework
and approach were approved by City Council in July 2002.
The City’s strategy for managing growth is not a single
solution or a single document. Rather, it is a interrelationship
of administrative tools and Council approved policies that
enable The City to respond to the needs of a growing
population in a coordinated, organized, and responsible way.
For more information and background to Accommodating
Growth and the policies that address growth management
please refer to Appendix 1 - Background to Accommodating
Growth. Background to the Capital Budget and budget
summary tables are found in Appendix 2 - The Investment
in Growth.
Accommodating Growth is not a policy document but a tool
to help make better informed decisions on coordinating
long‐term growth. The specific purpose is to:
• To provide credible, reliable and up-to-date information
on growth related municipal capital projects, out 10
years, and beyond, where possible;
• To map these projects by Business Unit and by
geographic sector of the city in the context of
forecasted growth;
• To provide a tool for Business Units to track and
review the timing of growth related municipal capital
investments and to coordinate the alignment of these
investments, in relation to future growth projections
and ongoing development;
• To provide a mechanism to inform the following
three key decision-making points in the planning and
implementation cycle:
• decision on work programs identifying new planning
areas;
• preparation and decision on new policy plans; and
• decision on land use applications.
• To provide operational guidelines & protocols to:
• ensure a coordinated approach to aligning municipal
capital projects at the time of Outline Plan/Land
Use application; and
• ensure a coordinated and consistent review of
requests from landowners to extend municipal
infrastructure and services into new areas, negotiate
financial arrangements where appropriate, and
make recommendations on these requests to City
Council.
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