- Economic Issues Identification
This checklist provides you with a high level overview of components to consider as part of your economic planning. By reviewing this checklist it will ensure you take a holistic approach in developing the economic dimension of your ICSP. [Download Checklist]
- Economic Development Action Work Plan
This work plan is helpful when you are planning out various community initiatives. It allows you to define the objectives, responsibilities, costs, and time frame for different goals. This planning process will be useful when it comes time for implementation. [Download PDF]
- Working in Partnership
This guide created by Alberta Economic Development is a helpful tool that explains the benefits of partnering, how to find compatibility, how to handle conflict, and other useful information when considering forming partnerships. [Go to Guide]
- Sustainability Checklist
This tool will help you identify the most sustainable way forward for a project. The purpose of a project may primarily be social, economic or environmental, but it might have impacts or benefits in other areas that have not been considered in other areas. [Go to Tool]
- Community Improvement Planning Handbook
This handbook, produced by Ontario’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, will help your municipality plan activities that effectively use, reuse and restore lands, buildings and infrastructure. The objective is to continually energize your community through the attainment of environmental, social, cultural and economic benefits achieved from more sustainable growth management and development practices. [Go to Handbook]
- Municipal Financial Tools for Planning and Development
This publication, developed by Ontario’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, helps municipalities identify a range of potential financing tools available to support planning and development activities. It presents a number of municipal financial and planning incentives that encourage redevelopment, revitalization and improvement of existing neighbourhoods of a municipality. [Go to Tool]
- Recruiting New Rural Practitioners
This website provides tips for recruiting and retaining practitioners in rural areas. The site offers information on where and how to recruit, and some case studies from rural America. [Go to Website]
- Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan
RPAP (Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan) is an independent not-for-profit company funded by Alberta Health & Wellness, established to provide a provincially-focused comprehensive, integrated and sustained program for the education, recruitment and retention of physicians for rural practice. Their website provides some of their publications and other useful information. [Go to Website]
- Strategic Planning for Community and Economic Development
This website provides an online tool that builds a simple but useful overall strategic plan. It could be used as a starting point for more in depth planning. Note: You need to supply an e-mail address to access the tool. [Download PDF]
- Sustainable Urban Landscapes Typology
Through researching various communities and neighbourhoods, this document presents a number of sustainable neighbourhood patterns. The sustainability factors considered are: Walkability, Vehicle Kilometres Travelled, Affordability, Housing Mix, and Effective Permeable Area. [Download PDF]
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