Governance: A Checklist for Communities Linking Plans to Concrete Implementation

Have you prepared an inventory of your guidelines, regulations, standards, bylaws, zoning requirements? Is your municipality aware of any overlap and duplication between local, provincial and federal responsibilities that may affect the development of sustainable infrastructure? What are the barriers to concrete implementation of sustainable infrastructure? pubs.pembina.org/reports/Smart_growth_Calgary.pdf Have you assessed your community’s engagement to climate change and sustainability. For techniques consider: and Basic Information and Initial Decisions

What are other communities doing, and who are the leading edge communities in planning and implementing novel plans for governance? Try: and and What is the most appropriate planning timeframe for implementing sustainable community development? Basic Information and Initial Decisions Continued

Have you considered how to address the whole issue of sustainability and how to govern it? If not, try Do you have a template or plan to introduce sustainability within your community, and appropriately govern it? If not, try: Have you aligned policies, zoning, bylaws, regulations and standards to achieve optimal sustainable infrastructure implementation? Is there policy congruence between municipal and provincial policies, as well as federal? See: Implementation

Do you have readily available material describing the long term advantages of pursing sustainability within your community? If not, try: or Have you developed a process to ensure community engagement, and political commitment and support? and Has consideration been given to green building standards in the planning and construction of new buildings? Standards and concepts can be found at: Implementation Continued

For further information on governance and community planning try the comprehensive resources section at: sustainableinfrastructure.crcresearch.org/resources.html Are you looking for expert practitioners to assist in then implementation of sustainability within your community Also try: Additional Resources