Yesterday, I posted about development matters that were on the agenda of Monday night’s Langley City council meeting. Today, I will be continuing to post about that meeting.
With a new council, comes a review of some of the City’s key policy documents. One of the policy documents reviewed was Langley City’s 2017 - 2021 Strategic Plan. This document onlines key initiatives that the City will take on until 2021. You can read more about the strategic plan in a previous blog post, and by looking at the following table.
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| Langley City's old priorities and key initiatives in the 5-year strategic plan. Select table to enlarge. |
The follow changes were adopted on Monday to the descriptions of several key result areas:
Quality of Life
Old Statement:
We are a community that is an ideal place to raise a family, offers a welcoming and affordable living environment, boasts great leisure and recreational opportunities, and supports healthy, safe and diverse neighbourhoods.
New Statement:
We are a community that is an ideal place to raise a family, offers a welcoming and diverse living environment, boasts great leisure and recreational opportunities, and supports healthy and safe neighbourhoods.
Revitalization
Old Statement:
We have a revitalized downtown core that is vibrant, clean and safe, is a desirable location for industry, and our policies and strategies create a vibrant economy that position the City as the Regional Hub in the Fraser Valley for innovation, education, technology, shopping, health industry, leisure, and entertainment.
New Statement:
We will revitalize our community so that it continues to be vibrant, clean and safe, is a desirable location for industry, and our policies and strategies create a vibrant economy that position the City as the Regional Hub in the Fraser Valley for innovation, education, technology, shopping, health industry, leisure, and entertainment.
Environment
Old Statement:
We continue to focus on protecting, promoting and enhancing environmental assets in the community.
New Statement:
We continue to focus on protecting, promoting and enhancing environmental assets in the community and active in achieving the Zero Waste goals.
The change to the “Quality of Life” statement was meant to reflect that we need a diversity of housing options for people at various price points and configurations in our community.
Changing the “Revitalization” statement was meant to reflect the desire of council not just to renew Downtown Langley, but the whole community. Over the last few years, the City has been renewing our parks, roads, and water and sewer lines throughout all our community. This is update reflects what is already happening today.
The final change to the “Environment” statement adds the objective to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfill in our community.
The current initiatives in the strategic plan remain unchanged, but the updated statements can be used to evaluate other ad-hoc initiatives that the City might consider in the future.
Tomorrow will be my final post on Monday’s night council meeting, and I will outline the remaining items that were on the agenda.
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