REGIONAL VISION PROJECT

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Calgary Regional Partnership
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Can meaningful regional planning be done within a
voluntary framework?
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Regional Planning Initiatives in the Calgary
Area

• 1951-1995 Calgary Regional Planning
  Commission (CRPC)
• 1995-2001 Inter-municipal Development Plans
• 2000- Initiation of Regional Partnership

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Regional Planning Commission Benefits

• Gave a picture of what the proposed future land
  use of the region was to be.
• Developments were to fit within the plan.
• Professional planning services were available to
  smaller centres.

From George B Cuff Report, April 1994
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Regional Planning Commission Disadvantages

• Plan Process became too prescriptive and too
  narrowly defined.
• Plan process used to control and resist rural
  development.
• Too intrusive in local planning.
• From George B Cuff Report, April 1994

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Intermunicipal Development Plans in the Calgary
Region

• No major inter-municipal disputes
• Many IDPs plus several Notification Zones
• Improved Inter-municipal relationships and
  inter-municipal planning
• Limited in Geographic Coverage/Issues
• An important element is the mix of
  inter-municipal regional cooperation

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15 Members and growing...
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The CRP Is
NOT another level of Government NOT another
level of bureaucracy or structure
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We believe
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The region is greater than its parts.
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No man is an island ... John Donne
1572/1631
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• Todays issues go beyond municipal boundaries

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We compete in a global market place...
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... with no municipal boundaries
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We are stronger together
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Or as a local small town Mayor says
We either cooperate and work with the
City/Region/real world - or we get run over by
it.
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So we are becoming
Head-down local do-ers
Globally smart regional thinkers
NOT
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We are

• Doing win-win projects,
• Practising trust and collaboration, and
• Meeting regional goals.

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SUSTAINABLE
SERVICES ENVIRONMENT PROSPERITY

• MUNICIPAL
• SERVICES
• Regional
• Transportation Planning
• Regional water services
• Emergency Response Enhancement

• SUSTAINABLE
• ENVIRONMENT
• Watershed Information Management
• Regional Waste Management

• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• One window Regional Economic Development
  Framework
• Marketing
• Regional Asset Inventory

COMMUNITY PLANS AND VISON
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Kinder and gentler regional planning

Economic Development Framework
Regional Servicing
Regional GIS
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But well go our own way on tough local issues
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Regional Servicing
Regional GIS
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Regional GIS Projects has a foundational land
use planning component
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Regional Economic Development Framework has a
regional planning component

• Winning communities are usually highly organized
  regional efforts, with specific information
  available on demand.
• Selector Richard Sheehy

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CRPs Regional Sustainability Project has a major
regional / community planning element
   
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First Nations are a part of our Partnership
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Can meaningful regional planning be done within a
voluntary framework?
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Regional Planning is a branch of architecture
that deals with the design and efficient
placement of activities and infrastructure across
a significantly large area of land (Wikipedia
definition)
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Regional planning is Communities working
together to plan for our future NW Regional
Planning Commission in Vermont
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• Regional planning is defined as a hierarchical,
  integrated, process of planning and action that
  occurs in area of substantial but varying size
  for the purpose of protecting the environmentIt
  requires an institutional framework in which to
  operate
• The existence of a hierarchical arrangement of
  regional and local institutions
• The degree of integration between and within the
  local sectors that manage a region and
• The ability to implement the regional plan
• (from a recent Masters thesis prepared by
  Richard Barss)

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• We are thinking and planning regionally
• We are acting and planning locally

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• The End