City of Courtenay Official Community Plan - 2026 update

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Performance Monitoring Council, City staff, partners, and all residents are strongly encouraged to participate in decision-making processes and community wide dialogue in order to respond to the evolving context of the community, and determine whether the OCP vision, goals, and targets are being achieved. Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the Plan is crucial to the successful implementation of the OCP. 1. Carbon neutrality by 2050 A key indicator of the OCP’s success is carbon neutrality by 2050. In order to meet this target, a number of policies and actions must be implemented immediately while others can be phased in over time. To guide GHG reduction performance, the City of Courtenay commits to the phased GHG reduction targets in Table D-1. The City publishes an annual report outlining development activity and summarizing major planning, programming, and capital investment initiatives. This report will identify what actions have been initiated and completed and what the outcomes are; as well as and how well the City has responded relative to the vision, goals, and policies of the OCP. Appropriate performance indicators will be established, measured, and monitored on a regular basis. Other creative performance monitoring approaches such as partnerships on indicator selection and data tracking, and third party reporting through the CVRD’s Regional Growth Strategy data collection and monitoring work will also be considered. 2. Establishing performance indicators and monitoring framework

evaluation and further work plan refinement year after year. The OCP provides the overarching strategic direction for the City, from which all other plans, bylaws, actions, and decisions should align. The full implementation of the OCP depends on its full integration with the City’s strategic and organizational action plans, budgeting, work planning, and annual reporting system. The provincial planning legislation introduced in 2023 emphasizes long-term planning and regular review and updates of OCPs and associated documents to ensure standardized monitoring of population projections and housing needs. Key changes for proactive planning include updated requirements for Housing Needs Reports, OCPs and Zoning Bylaws including requirements that these planning tools be reviewed, and in some cases updated, every 5 years. Infrastructure and amenities are critical to servicing new development and ensuring a complete community. As such, the proactive planning cycle will also be used to build more certainty and predictability in the review, adoption and construction of; infrastructure servicing through strategic servicing plans (water, sanitary, integrated rainwater management, multi-modal transportation, parks and recreation, cultural services), capital construction plans, development financing tools (i.e. Development Cost Charges and Amenity Cost Charges bylaws) and other servicing and regulatory bylaws. Figure D-1 builds on the OCP implementation cycle found in the 2022 OCP to incorporate the proactive planning cycle legislative requirements and the recommended actions to corporately steward the proactive planning cycle. Each of these elements serve to support the implementation of the OCP and will be monitored annually and updated within the 5-year OCP cycle to measure progress towards the vision, goals, and objectives outlined in this plan.

City of Courtenay Official Community Plan