REQUEST FOR DIRECTION
DATE: October 6, 2015 Report No. DEV-15-049
TO: Laurie Hurst, Chief Administrative Officer
FROM: Marlene Lagoa, Community Development Coordinator
SUBJECT:
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Official Community Plan Review - Phase 1 "Kick Off" Survey
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
Should the Township launch an "OCP Kick Off Survey" asking respondents to provide some basic demographic information about themselves, their community priorities, and preferences on how they would like to participate in the review process?
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
That the Committee of the Whole receive Staff Report No. DEV-15-049 for information, provide any additional direction to staff as the COTW considers advisable, and direct staff to launch the review of the Official Community Plan with an online and paper-based survey.
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BACKGROUND:
The process of updating the Official Community Plan (OCP) is identified in Council's Strategic Priorities 2015 - 2019. A Project Charter for the OCP Review was presented to Council on September 28, 2015 where the following motions carried:
"That Council:
1) adopt the Official Community Plan project charter (Schedule "A") and instruct staff to begin the review of the Official Community Plan;
2) authorize the Mayor to send a letter to all of the stakeholders identified in Schedule "B" indicating that Council has commenced a review of its Official Community Plan and inviting them to indicate whether or not they wish to actively participate in the review; and
3) authorize staff to draft an on-line/paper kick-off survey for Council's review;
all as outlined in staff report DEV-15-043."
The purpose of this report is to provide a draft of the "OCP Kick Off Survey", attached as Appendix A, for review and comment prior to distribution.
The survey was designed to achieve three primary objectives:
1. To identify several key community priorities that will be the focus of future community engagement opportunities (5 ques...
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