Timeline - Understanding Options

What trade offs will you need to think about? 

In this phase, we will be developing long term strategies to achieve the vision described by the community in the Envisioning the Future phase of myPG through a series of workshops and community reviews.

There will be opportunities for your review and input on the workshop results after each workshop in this phase – see below for specific opportunities. Please get involved!

Scenarios Workshop:
We all know the future is uncertain. To help us think long term, we will start by developing “scenarios” – stories that describe different futures we may face.  The community helped in this work listing the big forces that may affect Prince George in the future. This community engagement was open from February 2nd to February 9th. 

February 2-9 Pre-Scenarios Workshop Community Input
Trends and Uncertainties survey. Gathers information on external factors that may affect Prince George.  Community leaders and experts were interviewed; the community was engaged using an on-line brainstorming/prioritizing software.

February 11-12 Scenarios workshop  
To describe our future as a few alternative scenarios, each one illustrating how different external factors might affect Prince George and our ability to achieve our goals.

We will use these scenarios in order to “test” strategies as they are being developed in the subsequent strategy workshops. Testing strategies as they are being developed against possible future scenarios ensures the strategy will work under future conditions we can predict, and allow the strategy to have better chance to work under actual future conditions, which we can’t predict.

Scenarios Workshop Results Community Review:
Open House: February 12th, at the Civic Center, Room 208, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Online: Details will be posted here
At City Hall: Details will be posted here

Strategies workshops:
To develops strategies to achieve the community goals. A series of workshops will cover land use/transportation, economic development, environment, and social development.  In each workshop, strategies will be developed, then tested to ensure they will achieve our goals, in any of the scenarios.

February 23 Land Use and Transportation
Development and transportation patterns

Land Use and Transportation Workshop Results Community Review:
Open House: February 23rd, at the Civic Center, Room 208, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Online: Details will be posted here
At City Hall: Details will be posted here

February 24 Environment
Buildings, infrastructure (sewer, water, energy), and open space (parks, forest, etc.)

Environment Workshop Results Community Review:
Open House: February 24th, at the Civic Center, Room 208, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Online: Details will be posted here
At City Hall: Details will be posted here

February 26 Youth Priorities 
Broad strategies developed by youth that relate to all components of the sustainability plan.

Youth Strategies Review:
Open House for Youth: February 26th, at the Civic Center, Room 208, 7:00pm
See the Invitation for Youth to attend
Online: Details will be posted here
At City Hall: Details will be posted here

March 3 Economic Development 
Economic development and sustainable business practices

Economic Development Workshop Results Community Review:
Open House: March 3rd, at the UNBC Bentley Center, Room 7-170, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Online: Details will be posted here
At City Hall: Details will be posted here

March 4 Social Development
Broad strategies that affect all areas of social development and strategies specific to community priorities

Social Development Workshop Results Community Review:
Open House: March 4th, at the Civic Center, Room 208, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Online: Details will be posted here
At City Hall: Details will be posted here

 

myPG Draft Plan Reviews:
At this stage we will be bringing together the pieces created in the above workshops, and creating a draft plan for public review.

Community review of full draft plan: 
A series of events will be held for the community to review and comment on the draft goals and the strategies to achieve them.
  
TBD Specific Events Sessions are being considered specifically for youth, aboriginals and the First Nation.

Mar 27 Open House 
All community members will be invited to attend this open house, location and time TBA.

There will also be online and City Hall community review opportunities for the full draft plan at this stage. Details will be posted here and advertised in the media.