City of Courtenay Official Community Plan - 2026 update

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The OCP is a living document. Through the 5-year update cycles, the OCP will identify changes and steps that need to be taken to serve the community. This OCP identifies significant change is needed within a variety of services, developments, and partnerships to ensure they work towards our established vision. Fortunately, changes to support climate action, reconciliation, equity and community well-being are taking place in wider society and the work undertaken to achieve Courtenay’s vision will be in good company. This OCP is expected to be met with many partnership opportunities with others who share Courtenay’s vision. However, how quickly identified actions are implemented, in what order, and how significantly will depend on the ability of all of us who actively share and work towards Courtenay’s vision to steward this OCP to its fullest potential. The Implementation section (Part D) of the OCP identifies the most commonly applied tools available to the City of Courtenay to play its leadership role in stewarding and implementing this Plan. holders, rights-holders, and partners, these tools can be powerful in implementing the Plan. Like all tools, their ability to deliver on Courtenay’s vision will depend on how fully they are used. When applied together, and with the support of engaged citizens, interest

With or without implementation of this OCP, Courtenay will change. A combination of demographic, technological, political, ecological, cultural, and economic changes are the constant – but shifting – backdrop of this OCP; unforeseen challenges and opportunities will present themselves in Courtenay’s future. The OCP clarifies Courtenay’s choices in how we as a community intend to manage change for those topics that could be explored though the creation of this Plan. The four cardinal directions provide focus for when encountering new challenges to ensure Courtenay’s values guide actions whatever the opportunity may be. Therefore, paramount to all these implementation tools is the ability to evaluate our implementation efforts and adapt and recalibrate policies and actions as new information and opportunities come available. The core directions of the OCP are dynamic and complex and therefore this OCP must respond to the community’s needs with flexibility, always in pursuit of the vision. The City of Courtenay welcomes you, the reader, to pick up Courtenay’s compass and walk and work with us on our collective journey towards being a City responsible for the future.

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City of Courtenay OCP Background Report PART A Foundations