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Planning for our shared future: City of Winnipeg seeking input on strategy for the sustainable growth of our city

Released: 2:06 p.m. July 13, 2020

Engage Winnipeg website (for duration of engagement activities):

https://winnipeg.ca/OurWinnipeg2045 | https://winnipeg.ca/notreWinnipeg2045

Winnipeg, MB – With Winnipeg on pace to grow by over 160,000 people in the next 20 years, the City of Winnipeg is determining how our city should grow in a way that builds community, improves quality of life, and ensures sustainability for the environment. The blueprint for how Winnipeg should grow has been detailed in strategic planning initiatives that the City is now looking for Winnipeg residents to share their views on.

The City has developed its strategy for sustainable growth in two interconnected planning initiatives:

OurWinnipeg – The City’s 25-year development plan, which provides a vision, goals, and policies intended to influence leadership and good governance, priority setting, the delivery of City services, how residents get around the city, and decisions about how Winnipeg grows. OurWinnipeg is required by the City of Winnipeg Charter, which requires the City to adopt, by by-law, a development plan that sets out long-term plans and policies. The current update of OurWinnipeg has been guided to this point by earlier public consultation, as well as input by the Community Advisory Committee.

Complete Communities – Building on policies set out in OurWinnipeg, Complete Communities is a citywide secondary plan that guides growth, development, and land use in Winnipeg.

Information and feedback opportunities for these initiatives are being presented together in order to provide a complete picture of how these planning documents propose to achieve the City’s goals for sustainable growth as the population of Winnipeg continues to climb.

The opportunity to engage online with the City of Winnipeg on these important initiatives will continue until Monday, August 10, 2020. In light of current restrictions on in-person events, online discussion sessions will be held for both projects to present some of the main topics of discussion, and allow for questions to be asked of the project teams at the following times:

Topic: OurWinnipeg: Sustainable Development Goals
Format: Zoom meeting
Date: Wednesday, July 22
Time: 7p.m. – 8:30p.m. (90 min)

Topic: Complete Communities: Growing Sustainably
Format: Zoom meeting
Date: Wednesday, July 29
Time: 7p.m. – 8:30p.m. (90 min)

To register and attend one of these sessions, please email city-engage@winnipeg.ca at least one day before the event you would like to attend.

For more information on OurWinnipeg and Complete Communities, and to view the draft documents, please visit winnipeg.ca/ourwinnipeg. To share your thoughts on how Winnipeg’s future is envisioned through these initiatives, please visit: winnipeg.ca/ourwinnipeg2045.