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The Capital Region Board

Regional Planning in Alberta’s Capital Region

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Introduction

• Origins• Participating municipalities• Mandate• Outcomes• Achievements• Challenges


Origins

• Edmonton Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission, to 1994 (mandatory)

• Capital Region Forum, 1995-97 (voluntary)• Alberta Capital Region Alliance, 1997 -2007

(voluntary)• Capital Region Integrated Growth Management

Plan (2007)• Capital Region Board Regulation, April 15, 2008


Participating Municipalities

• Twenty-five named in Regulation• Cities of Edmonton, St. Albert, Fort

Saskatchewan, Spruce Grove and Leduc• Counties of Strathcona, Leduc, Parkland,

Sturgeon and Lamont• Towns of Devon, Stony Plain, Morinville,

Beaumont; 11 other Towns & Villages• Reduced to twenty-four, 2010


Participating Municipalities


Mandate

• Capital Region Growth Plan• Comprehensive, integrated regional land use

plan for the Capital region– Population and employment projections– Identification of :• Priority growth areas• Land supply for residential, commercial and industrial

purposes• Agricultural land• Buffer areas


Mandate

• Density of development • Development and location of infrastructure• Identification of corridors for recreation, transportation,

utilities and intermunicipal transit

• Also– Policies regarding environmentally sensitive areas– Policies for co-ordination of planning and

development among participating municipalities– Specific actions to be taken by participating

municipalities to implement the land use plan


Mandate


• Also:• Regional Intermunicipal Transit Network Plan

for Capital Region• Plan to co-ordinate geographic information

services for the Capital Region• Plan regarding social and market affordable

housing requirements for the Capital Region• Completion, March 31, 2009

Outcomes

• Growth Plan prepared by:– Interim Chair– Plan Committees – Elected officials - Mayors, Reeves Councillors– Municipal administration– CRB staff– Consultants


Outcomes

• March 31, 2009 – Growth Plan submitted to Government

• June 11, 2009 – Government response• October 31, 2009 & December 31, 2009 –

Growth Plan Addenda submitted to Government

• March 31, 2010 – Growth Plan came into effect


Outcomes

• Capital Region Growth Plan• March 31, 2010– Land Use Plan– Intermunicipal Transit Network Plan– Housing Strategy and Implementation Plan– GIS Strategy and Implementation Plan– October/December 2009 Addenda


Outcomes

• Capital Region Growth Plan• Plans that came into effect March 31, 2010,

plus• June 17, 2013– Integrated Regional Transportation System Study– Integrated Regional Transportation Master Plan– Thirty Year Transit Service Plan


Achievements

• Capital Region Growth Plan• Unprecedented scope of work• Twenty four municipalities talk to each other• Twenty-four municipalities, one voice• Influence on Government • Long-term planning, second regional ring road


Challenges

• Twenty-four municipalities• Consensus sometimes elusive• Agricultural lands• Priority Growth Areas – PGAs• Interpretation and Implementation• Growth Plan update 2014 - 2015


Capital Region Board

• Website:• www.capitalregionboard.ab.ca

• HadenPlan Consulting• [email protected]

• 778-425-4100


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