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Public engagement activities, history and reports helping guide the development of The City Plan.
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The City Plan is a plan for people. How will Edmontonians experience our city as we grow to become a healthy, urban, climate resilient city in a prosperous region? The choices we make along the way will impact how we move around the city, where we work, where we live, and where we go to have fun. To ensure The City Plan is a plan for Edmontonians, The City Plan includes a dynamic and flexible public engagement program to ensure the voices of our city are heard.
Interested in sharing your voice and shaping our city? Check out current engagement opportunities below.
Read a summary of engagement to date below, or take a deeper dive into our Phase I and Phase II What We Are Hearing reports.
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Prior to The City Plan work, over 4000 individual engagement records were gathered through engagement for Vision 2050. This data was used to provide a foundation for The City Plan’s Guiding Values and City Building Outcomes.
Since September 2018, The City Plan team has carried out public engagement events across the city to encourage Edmontonians to refine the Guiding Values and City Building Outcomes.
At all those events we asked Edmontonians to tell us what they love about our city, and what the opportunities are as we grow to a city of two million people.
Edmontonians commonly describe their vision for our city as a healthy, safe, inclusive, diverse and multicultural with a strong sense of community. Emphasis was placed on being ecologically sustainable, climate resilient, and protecting and celebrating our river valley. It’s important to Edmontonians that our city provide affordable housing and diverse and accessible transportation options. Edmontonians are proud of our engaged citizenry and believe a diverse economy will help to attract global investment.
Key stakeholders and members of the public had the opportunity to dream up big, transformational City Moves in a series of model building workshops in late 2018. Represented at different scales, the suggested City Moves generated by the public have been consolidated into the five Big City Moves.
The City Plan has structured a dedicated program to engage Indigenous communities in and around Edmonton. In 2018, we contacted the City’s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) partners including Enoch Cree Nation, the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4, and the Métis Nation of Alberta. This process is part of the City’s commitment to build and maintain connections with First Nations and Métis communities with historic and cultural connections to the land where Edmonton is now located.
Throughout 2019, we will continue participation of MOU partners through dedicated engagement events facilitated by The City Plan Team, and recently retained Indigenous Engagement consultants. As the project progresses, feedback and results from those processes will be reported in a dedicated Indigenous Engagement What We Heard document.
The City Plan will consider a full range of perspectives to ensure that it is responsive to the needs of the city. We are structuring our engagement to incorporate four perspectives:
In addition to engagement events that are open to the public, we have invited core stakeholders from local public institutions, civil society, and businesses to engage on topics specific to their areas of expertise. Feedback and results from this process will be reported in The City Plan What We Are Hearing reports throughout the project.
Public Engagement began for The City Plan in September. Here's what we've heard from you so far.
Project staff held public engagement sessions or workshops, to collect input on the creation of The City Plan on the following dates:
Participants learned about the City Plan and upcoming Zoning Bylaw Renewal, and helped develop the direction of the new City Plan.
Date: June 18, 2019
Location: Chappelle Gardens Residents Association
Date: June 14, 2019
Location: Edmonton Public Library - Jasper Place Branch
Date: June 12, 2019
Location: Pride Centre of Edmonton
Date: June 10, 2019
Location: Abbottsfield Recreation Centre (ARC)
Date: June 5, 2019
Location: Mill Woods Senior and Multicultural Centre
Participants learned about the innovative ways Edmonton has changed and evolved, and what might be possible in the future. The City Plan’s Big City Moves gave focus to the conversation as participants strolled or biked around the city.
A Community of Communities - Getting Around by Bike
Date: June 15, 2019
Location: City Arts Centre
Inclusive and Compassionate - Edmonton’s Urban Wellness Plan
Date: June 14, 2019
Location: Dr. Wilbert Mcintyre Park
A Rebuildable City - Edmonton’s Zoning Bylaw Renewal
Date: May 4, 2019
Location: The Oliver Exchange
Greener As We Grow - A Sustainability Stroll
Date: May 3, 2019
Location: City Hall
Catalyze and Converge - Ramblings of a Heritage Planner on downtown heritage, investment and urban design
Date: May 3, 2019
Location: Churchill Square
Key stakeholders and members of the public dreamed up big, transformational City Moves in a series of model building workshops. Represented at different scales, the suggested City Moves generated by the public have been consolidated into the five Big City Moves.
Phase I What We Are Hearing Report
Phase II What We Are Hearing Report
Date: Thursday November 20, 2018
Location: Meadows Community Recreation
Date: Friday November 16, 2018
Location: Terwillegar Recreation Centre
Date: Thursday November 15, 2018
Location: Edmonton Tower
Date: Wednesday November 14, 2018
Location: J.A. Fife School
Date: Thursday November 8, 2018
Location: Millwoods Town Centre Mall
Date: November 7, 2018
Location: The Meadows Recreation Centre
Date: Tuesday October 30, 2018
Location: West Edmonton Mall
Date: Thursday October 25, 2018
Location: Londonderry Mall
Date: Thursday October 18, 2018
Location: Northgate Mall
Date: Thursday October 11, 2018
Location: Southgate Centre
Date: Sunday September 30, 2018
Location: Muttart Conservatory
Date: Wednesday September 26, 2018
Location: Edmonton Tower
Date: Saturday September 22, 2018
Location: Rosenthal Playground and Spray Park
Date: Friday September 21, 2018
Location: Enterprise Square
Date: Thursday September 20, 2018
Location: Terwillegar Recreation Centre
Date: September 17, 2018
Location: Facebook live event (Kalen Anderson with Dr. Karen Lee and Mack Male)
Participants shared their ideas about the future of Edmonton - what needs to be preserved and what bold steps should we take to prepare for the future?
Date: Sunday September 16, 2018
Location: Kaleido Family Arts Festival
Date: Friday September 14, 2018
Location: Commonwealth Recreation Centre
Date: Wednesday September 12, 2018
Location: The Meadows Recreation Centre
Date: Launched September 12, 2018
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