Timeline - Understanding Options
How do we reach the goals for the future?
Note: This phase has been completed.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
Outcomes of the Understanding Options phase:
1. Review and revise the community sustainability goals that had been communicated during the Envisioning the Future phase, through public and stakeholder review, and;
2. Developing actions (strategies) that will enable us to reach those goals.
This work started with developing possible future Scenarios focused on external factors beyond our control that might affect if and how we reach our goals. The Strategy Workshops then developed actions within our control to achieve the goals. A technical and public review improved the actions.
Download a one-page overview of the Understanding Options process in this myPG Update.
The table below provides an overview of the Understanding Options events as well as the information developed at each workshop, photos, and input information considered. Each workshop was attended by 35 to 45 stakeholders and representitive organizations. Workshops included an evening public review session open to the public from 6:30pm to 8:30pm (except the food security workshop).
Click on any workshop below for information:
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Description |
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Food Security Workshop
(Jan 22) |
Stakeholders proposed food sustainability and security strategies in a collaboration between myPG, Northern Health, Communities in Bloom and the Prince George Native Friendship Center. |
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Scenarios Workshop
(Feb 11-12) |
Stakeholders explored external factors that might affect Prince George and our ability to achieve our goals, and developed four “scenarios” – alternative stories about what the future might hold for PG. (the community participated in an online pre-workshop idea submission and voting forum from Feb 2-9, 2010). |
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Land Use and Transportation Strategy Workshop & Developer Meeting
(Feb 23 & Mar 30)
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Stakeholders proposed land use and transportation strategies that would achieve the community’s goals. A subsequent meeting was also held with 10 major land owners and developers on March 30, 2010 as part of the goals and actions review. |
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Environment Strategy Workshop
(Feb 24)
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Stakeholders proposed buildings, infrastructure (sewer, water, energy), and open space (parks, forest, etc.) strategies that would achieve the community’s goals. |
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Economic Development Strategy Workshop
(Mar 3)
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Stakeholders proposed economic development and business practice strategies that would achieve the community’s goals. |
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Social Development Strategy Workshop
(Mar 4)
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Stakeholders proposed social development strategies that would achieve the community’s goals. |
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Youth Priorities Strategy Workshop
(Feb 26)
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Youth proposed strategies relating to all components of the sustainability plan, to achieve the community’s goals. An additional myPG goal is to learn from youth on how to best engage youth in local government.
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Technical Review Workshop
(Mar 16)
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A core group of stakeholders reviewed strategy workshop outputs (from all of the above workshops), and developed criteria for prioritization, developed indicators of success, strengthened vulnerable strategies and identified early actions.
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Community Review
(Mar 27-Apr 19)
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Goals and Actions Review. "You spoke. We've been listening.....did we get it right?" Citizens were invited to review community goals from the Envisioning phase, and actions (strategies) developed through the above workshops. There were on-line and in-person opportunities to participate. |
The community review started March 27 and ended April 19, 2010, then final plan drafting began.
The final plan was completed for presentation to the community in June 2010, information is posted in the Choosing the Future section of this website.