The City Plan - Public Engagement

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Public engagement activities, history and reports helping guide the development of The City Plan.

The City Plan is a People Plan

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.

Curious about what we’ve been hearing?

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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What We Are Hearing

Guiding Values and City Building Outcomes

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.

City Moves

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 City Moves.

Phase I What We Are Hearing Report

Phase II What We Are Hearing Report

Current Engagement Opportunities

Incorporating Recommendations

In 2019, The City Plan team will work with the public to create a preferred scenario for our city at two million people, incorporating recommendations on choices and actions into policy decisions to the maximum extent possible.

Scheduled Events

There are currently no events scheduled.

Engagement events for 2019 will be added as soon as the information becomes available.

Continuing Conversations

Indigenous Engagement

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.

Stakeholder Engagement

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:

Citizens
Public Institutions
Civil Society
Business

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.

What We Are Hearing - Phase I

Public Engagement began for The City Plan in September. Here's what we've heard from you so far.

What We Are Hearing - Phase II

Here's what we heard from you in November and December of 2018.

Public Engagement History

Project staff held public engagement sessions or workshops, to collect input on the creation of The City Plan, on the following dates:

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: Instagram live event (Kalen Anderson with Michelle Henderson)

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: October 1-5, 2018
Location: Read-in week via City Hall School

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)

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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