- Environmental Issue Identification
This checklist provides you with a high level overview of components to consider as part of your environmental planning. By reviewing this checklist it will ensure you take a holistic approach in developing the environment dimension of your ICSP. [Download PDF]
- Economic Issue Identification
This checklist provides you with a high level overview of components to consider as part of your economic development planning. By reviewing this checklist it will ensure you take a holistic approach in developing the economic dimension of your ICSP. [Download PDF]
- Social Issue Identification
This checklist provides you with a high level overview of components to consider as part of your social planning. By reviewing this checklist it will ensure you take a holistic approach in developing the social dimension of your ICSP. [Download PDF]
- Cultural Issue Identification
This checklist provides you with a high level overview of components to consider as part of your cultural planning. By reviewing this checklist it will ensure you take a holistic approach in developing the cultural dimension of your ICSP. [Download PDF]
- Public Input Toolkit
Developed by Alberta Municipal Affairs and Housing, the Public Input Toolkit provides municipalities with guidelines to determine the appropriate level of public input for various situations. For each level, example situations and an estimated budget to support the activities are provided. As well, a high level process to carry out the different levels of public input is provided. [Go to Toolkit]
- Community Dialogue Toolkit
It is important for any municipality to hear the voices of its citizens to help understand and address any issues they may have. A community dialogue session can take many forms, but its purpose is to identify issues and opportunities within a community that can ultimately lead to a higher quality of life for its citizens. This toolkit will aide you in preparing a community dialogue session. [Go to Toolkit]
- Town Hall Tool
A town hall session enables you to meet with members of your municipality to educate them on an issue and then discuss. It can be a useful tool in reaching a large number of people at once. This tool provides you with a process to host a town hall session. [Download Tool]
- 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 Checklist]
- 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 Publication]
- Setting Performance Measures
- A performance measure quantifies the degree to which your municipality is achieving its strategy. Performance measures can be used by the municipality to determine success as well as to identify opportunities for improvement. [Download Performance Measures]
- Data Collection Tools
Almost all projects or initiatives involve the collection of data. This tool presents a number of data collection techniques that may be used to gather information. [Download Data Collection Tools]
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