City of Prince Rupert seeks comment on Official Community Plan Renewal initiative

The members of Prince Rupert City Council are about to embark on an ambitious exercise towards renewal of the City's Official Community Plan, the guiding document for city officials when it comes to development of the city's neighbourhoods and vacant land areas.

The document that is currently in place dates back to 2007, and much has happened around the community in the last thirteen years that will make for some of the theme for the new version later on in the process.

The focus for a new Plan will include objectives and policies that guide decisions on planning and land use management, the form and character of development, as well as defining social, economic and environmental policies.

Towards charting their blueprint for the months ahead, the City has launched an Official Community Plan Survey, hosted on the Rupert Talks platform, the consultation designed to get some early feedback from residents as to where they have the most interest towards an upgrade to the Plan.

The recent 2030 Vision Presentation of December will make for much of the guidance towards developing the new OCP, and Mayor Lee Brain made note of that initiative as part of his statement today to introduce the city's ambitions moving forward.

“A main aim of the survey is to test some of the land use related recommendations that the 2030 Vision Plan had for Prince Rupert. Our OCP is in need of a refresh, and there is no better time than now to reopen our land use rules to see if there are opportunities for improvement, and to enable some of the great ideas that were proposed.”

Towards a review of some of those presentation boards of December, the City has made available a number of files for download that provide some background on the themes of that Lester Centre event.

A sample of some of the presentation boards that are available for
review as part of the City of Prince Rupert's Official Community
Plan Renewal Study now available for city residents to participate in

The online survey can be accessed here, while paper copies are available for residents at the Seniors Centre, Library City Hall and the Recreation Complex.

Those that take part in the survey will be automatically entered to win one of five $100 gift cards that will be randomly selected.

As well, lunch will be on the Mayor for ten lucky survey respondents who will also be randomly selected as part of the online or paper survey process.

As part of the community engagement theme, those ten will be invited to a lunch meeting with the Mayor to discuss your views of the future of Prince Rupert in more detail.

You can learn more about the launch of the Survey from the City's website, Facebook page, Twitter feed and mobile app.

With the launch of the online survey, the next step in the launch of the OCP renewal will be a Town Hall to be scheduled in March

For more notes on Redesign Rupert and other civic land management initiatives see our archive here.

Further items related to Prince Rupert City Council can be found from our Council Discussion page.