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Title: SHAPING OUR FUTURE TODAY


1
SHAPING OUR FUTURETODAY
  • A Discussion on Goals and Objectives for The Town
    of Antigonish

2
Getting Started
  • What places do you like in Town
  • Dislike? (why)
  • What aspects of the Town do you appreciate?
  • Dislike? (why)
  • Where do you like to walk? (why)

3
Municipal Planning Strategy
  • Councils intent
  • Importance of Citizen participation
  • Daily Growth management in the context of a
    longer vision. (LUB)

4
Some Context
  • A Brief History
  • Planning in Antigonish
  • Changes over the last decade (or so)
  • More Recently
  • Double Cohort
  • Boundary review
  • Sustainability, Front and Centre

5
The Changing Face of Antigonish
  • A brief examination of changing demographics and
    what they may mean for our future. (Courtesy of
    the Antigonish Area Partnership)

6
Within approximately a one hours drive, there is
a population larger than the entire Province of
PEI
7
The population trend lines 1851-2001 from
StatsCan
8
Canadian immigration 1851-2001 as a percent of
population growth
9
Canadian Population Growth by Province (Percent
Change) 2001-2006
10
Changes in NS Population by Counties (Percent
Change) 2001-2006
11
Nova Scotia Vital Statistics 2005
12
Demographic trends in the Quad Counties
1986-2005
13
Population Pyramid - Canada
14
Population Pyramid Antigonish County
15
Population Pyramid Town of Antigonish
16
Population Profile Antigonish Area Population
Changes 2001-2006 by Number
17
Population Profile Antigonish Area Population
Changes 2001-06 by Percent
18
Income Pyramids 2004
Canada
19
Income Pyramids 2004
Antigonish County
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The Antigonish Sub-Communities
Malignant Cove Arisaig, Doctors Brook,
Georgeville, Livingstone Cove, Malignant Cove,
Maryvale, McArras Brook, Morar Clydesdale Big
Marsh, Cloverville, Clydesdale, Lower North
Grant, North Grant, Pleasant Valley James
River Addington Forks, Beaver Meadow, Brierly
Brook, Brierly Brook Back Road, Glen Bard, James
River, St. Joseph, West River Mahoneys
Beach Antigonish Harbour, Back Settlement,
Ballantynes Cove, Brophy, Cape George, Cape
George Point, Fairmont, Harbour Centre, Jimtown,
Lakevale, Lanark, Mahoneys Beach, Morristown,
North Lakevale, West Lakevale Lochaber College
Grant, Copper Lake, Cross Roads Ohio, Frasers
Mills, Glen Alpine, Hillcrest, Ireland, Loch
Katrine, Lochaber, Middleton, North Lochaber,
Ohio, South River Lake, Upper South River, West
Lochaber Salt Springs Beauly, Black Avon,
Caledonia Mills, Croft, Dunmore, Frasers Grant,
Glassburn, Glenroy, Lower Springfield, Marydale,
Meadow Green, New France, Polsons Brook, St.
Andrews, Upper Springfield Antigonish Antigonish,
Antigonish Landing, Lower West River, Sylvan
Valley Lower South River Beech Hill, Greenwold,
Lower South River, South River Station, Williams
Point Havre Boucher Aulds Cove, Cape Jack, East
Havre Boucher, Frankville, Havre Boucher,
Linwood, West Havre Boucher, West Linwood St
Andrews Beauly, Black Avon, Caledonia Mills,
Croft, Dunmore, Frasers Grant, Glassburn,
Glenroy, Lower Springfield, Marydale, Meadow
Green, New France, Polsons Brook, St. Andrews,
Upper Springfield Map Courtesy Nova Scotia
Community Counts
Tracadie Afton, Barrios Beach, Bayfield, Big
Tracadie, East Tracadie, Merland, Monastery, Rear
Monastery, Tracadie, Upper Afton, West Arm
Tracadie Pomquet Bayfield Road, Heatherton,
Monks Head, Pomquet, Pomquet Forks, Southside
Antigonish Harbour, Summerside, Taylors Road,
Upper Pomquet Pomquet (Paktnkek First
Nation) Pomquet and Paqtnkek First Nation
(formerly IR 23)
21
Population by Selected Age Groups
22
Family Structure
23
Educational Attainment
24
Dwellings by Type
25
Class of Worker
26
So What does this tell us?
27
Mega Maybe ProjectsWith Brian Segal
28
SWOT
29
Strengths
  • 8000 people per day pass through.
  • highest income / education levels.

30
Weaknesses
  • aging pop
  • location relative to airport and Halifax
  • loss of young
  • drastically under-bounded

31
Opportunities
  • Goldboro
  • Mulgrave

32
Threats
  • Ongoing lure of west.
  • Difficulty attracting / keeping immigrants
  • Sea level increase and flood surge
  • Impact of TCH relocation

33
What have we missed
  • Other pressing Issues facing the Town
  • Short term
  • Long term
  • What can we do about them?

34
A Set of Proposed Goals and Objectives
  • And how they evolved

35
The Overarching Notion
  • The Municipal Planning Strategy is based upon a
    number of goals that provide the broad framework
    which manage the evolving development of the
    Town. Goals are general statements of intent that
    describe a desired future condition.
  • Our Primary Vision is to maintain, and where
    possible, Improve the quality of life, safety and
    stability of our community.
  • We hope to achieve this through realization of
    the following goals which are to be read in
    relation to one another

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Governance
  • G1. Develop an administrative framework whereby
    Municipal decisions are made with an
    understanding of the ecological, social, cultural
    and economic implications for any particular
    course of action.
  • G2. Promote informed public involvement and
    education in a user-friendly, accessible and
    transparent planning and development process.

37
Housing
  • G3. Strive to ensure that an adequate supply and
    range of housing types and supporting amenities
    are provided to satisfy the needs of all
    residents.
  • O3(a) Identify areas suitable for increased
    density.
  • O3(b) Investigate, and where possible, eliminate,
    barriers restricting access to undeveloped lands.
  • G4 Seek to maintain a balanced demographic mix
    within the Town
  • O4(a) Seek to attract families to core
    residential neighbourhoods.
  • O4(b) Implement measures to enhance neighbourhood
    integrity.

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Economic Vibrancy
  • G5. Through policy development and effective
    partnering, work toward steady, diversified and
    balanced economic growth and a wide range of
    employment opportunities.
  • O5(a) Where opportunity arises, assist in
    fostering local development of innovative,
    sustainable technologies.
  • O5(b) Through effective partnering, promote of
    the Towns knowledge base, natural sites,
    cultural diversity, recreational assets and
    events and festivals.
  • G6. Through policy and effective partnering,
    foster the development of a full range of
    commercial uses consistent with the needs of the
    regions population.

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  • G7. Understanding that the Downtown is the heart
    of a community, foster its growth as a vibrant,
    multiple function district and community focus
    for commercial, recreational, entertainment,
    institutional, cultural and public service uses.
  • O7(a) Ensure and adequate supply of commercial
    space in the Downtown core
  • O7(b) Ensure Adequate room for commercial
    expansion in the Downtown
  • O7(c) Improve way-finding in, and to, the
    Downtown core.

40
Place Making Urban Design
  • G8. Plan and design an efficient and attractive
    urban landscape that reinforces and enhances our
    communitys sense of self, and of place, while
    encouraging innovative design opportunities.
  • O8(a) Ensure that development in established
    areas of the Town is done in a manner that is
    sympathetic too, and enhances, the built form of
    existing land uses.
  • O8(b) Entrances to Town shall be made more
    Inviting.
  • G9. Through policy development and effective
    partnering, protect and enhance our built
    heritage legacy.

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Environmental Sustainability
  • G10. Promote energy conservation and climate
    change protection through land use planning,
    effective partnering and through other municipal
    initiatives.
  • G11. Foster the development of a safe, efficient
    and convenient transportation system that
    provides for all modes of travel and supports the
    desired land use patterns of the Town.
  • O11(a) Investigate opportunities to implement a
    public transportation system.
  • O11(b) Initiate an Active Transportation study

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  • G12. Respect and encourage the protection and
    enhancement of the natural environment so as to
    support a healthy and diverse natural ecosystem
    in and around the Town.
  • G13. Promote the sustainable use of natural
    resources and the effective management of wastes
    to ensure protection of the natural and built
    environment.
  • G14. Through purchase and effective partnering,
    sustainably manage the finite groundwater and
    surface water resources that are needed to
    support our existing and planned growth.

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  • G15. Develop a Flood Risk Management approach
    which reduces flood damage potential, increases
    public safety and, where possible, increases
    development opportunities.
  • G16. Work toward the development and
    implementation of a Sustainable Energy Plan
  • G17. Work toward becoming a Model Sustainable
    Community

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Social Cultural Wellbeing
  • G18. Provide the facilities to satisfy the
    social, health, educational and leisure needs of
    existing and future residents.
  • O18(a) Develop and maintain sufficient parks and
    open space facilities to meet the needs of all
    ages and socio-economic groups for active and
    passive recreation activities.
  • O18(b) Continue to pursue the development of an
    expanded library service.
  • O18(c) Work toward the development of a Cultural
    Centre.

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  • G19. Acknowledge the importance of agriculture
    both to our sense of place and our future well
    being, by fostering opportunities to practice
    agriculture as appropriate in our largely urban
    context.
  • G20. Work toward improving the promotion of our
    culture and amenities in a manner which
    celebrates our cultural diversity and which
    acknowledges the richness it adds to our lives.

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Infrastructure
  • G21. Provide infrastructure in a manner which is
    supportive of the goals of this plan and so as to
    ensure the efficient and reasonable use of public
    expenditures.

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Closing Thoughts
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