Integrated Community Sustainability Plan for the City of Kawartha Lakes
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Integrated Community Sustainability Plan for the City of Kawartha Lakes FINAL REPORT - APRIL 2014 © 2014. The Corporation of the City of Kawartha Lakes. All Rights Reserved. The preparation of this Sustainable Community Plan was carried out with assistance from the Green Municipal Fund, a Fund financed by the Government of Canada and administered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Notwithstanding this support, the views expressed are the personal views of the authors, and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Government of Canada accept no responsibility for them. Table of Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................................................2 1. Introduction .........................................................................................................3 1.1 Message from the Mayor .....................................................................3 1.2 Message from the Project Champion, Councillor Pat Warren ............3 1.3 Why We Have Developed the Plan ....................................................4 2. Background ........................................................................................................5 2.1 Sustainability Defined ..........................................................................5 2.2 Sustainability in the City of Kawartha Lakes ..................................... 11 3. Integration and Sustainability ...........................................................................15 3.1 Integration and Sustainability ............................................................15 3.2 Need for an Integrated Community Sustainability Plan .................... 17 4. Integrated Community Sustainability Plan .......................................................19 4.1 Our Kawartha Lakes: Vision .............................................................19 4.2 Process .............................................................................................19 4.3 Document Organization ....................................................................21 4.4 Baseline Analysis ..............................................................................22 4.5 Sustainability Plan: Goal to Action Sequence ...................................22 Water .................................................................................................24 Agriculture .........................................................................................34 Natural Systems ................................................................................40 Resource Consumption ....................................................................48 Health, Education and Social Well-being .........................................56 Innovation..........................................................................................64 Culture & Heritage ............................................................................72 Active Communities ..........................................................................80 Accessibility ......................................................................................88 Financial Filter ...................................................................................96 5. Volume II - Local Action Plan .........................................................................100 FINAL REPORT - APRIL 2014 CitY of KAWartHA laKES 1 Acknowledgements A special thanks to the COUNCIL Frank Smith HEALTH & Pat Warren community partners that CHAMPION John Baldry EDUCATION Tim Burke have developed the Our Marian Sweetnam Pat Warren Anne Overhoff (Chair) WATER Kawartha Lakes – City of Marilyn Hoekstra Linda Skilton (co-Facilitator) Robert Messervey (Chair) Kawartha Lakes Integrated CITY STAFF Catherine Staples Wanda Percival David Kerr Christine Trillard Sustainability Plan Michael Benner Craig Shanks Donna Howard Debbie Stacey Ron Taylor Doug Erlandson Diane Lansdell Frank Corker CONSULTANT CULTURE Evelyn Chambers Gord Balch & HERITAGE Joan Skelton IBI Group Mark Majchrowski Lorna McCleary Suresh Kandaswamy (Chair) Meike Schipper Mary-Lou Mills AGRICULTURE Al Ingram Pat Warren Rod Sutherland Doug Plaunt (Chair) Barb McFadzen Sharon King Rosemary McColeman Christi Norris Barb Truax Thomas Grace Scott Robertson Henry Baker Bill Bateman FINANCE & Kelly Maloney Heather Stauble NATURAL SYSTEMS Lloyd Wicks Jim Garbutt AFFORDABILITY Mike Hendren (Chair) Paul Buckley John Macklem FILTER Linda Kent Agnes Kedmenecz Peter Craig Rudy Huisman (Chair) Marjory Smith Barb Elliot Joe Hickson Christi Norris Brent Wootton Rebecca Parker Russ Moore Brett Moore Frank Smith INNOVATION Cindy Sutch Donna Villemaire Dale Leadbeater Lance Sherk (Chair) Doug van Hemessen ACCESSIBILITY Bob Knight Jeanette Myer Barb Condie (Chair) Brett Moore Kevin Williams Debbie Spivey Carly Poole Stu Williams Jane McLean Hope Lee Steve Strangway Ingrid Whitney Jim Garbutt RESOURCE ACTIVE Nicki Dedes CONSUMPTION COMMUNITIES Pat Warren Tim Burke David Kerr (Chair) Andre LeFreneure Lisa Kaldeway (chair) Trish O’Connor Donna Howard Art Hornibrook James Mulhern Ellen Woodward Jim Irwin 2 INTEGRATED COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY PLAN & LOCAL AcTION PLAN 1. Introduction The City of Kawartha Lakes has embarked on a process to increase Kawartha Lakes on the world stage over the next 100 years. Together, sustainability within its community now and in the future. This process we can transform our visions for this great community into reality.” and its resulting plan is entitled “Our Kawartha Lakes”. Our Kawartha Lakes is a process that will provide a road map for residents and the 1.2. Message from the Project Champion, local government to implement goals and actions that will help to make the City of Kawartha Lakes a better place to live. Councillor Pat Warren “I have had the great pleasure of working closely with more than 100 volunteers who have created this plan. Through this work we have 1.1. Message from the Mayor Ric McGee discovered that we are a very principled community, considerate of the “For me, the City of Kawartha Lakes, its places and people, have legacy we will leave for our children. The Sustainability Plan will allow always been a very special place. Our residents are talented, practical, us to create the kind of community we want for ourselves and future hardworking and caring. The pursuit of sustainability for our community generations so that the quality of life for our children is equal to or even provides endless economic opportunities and benefits. Our focus surpasses what we have inherited from our ancestors. I am honoured toward a knowledge based water and food economy will position to be a champion of this important plan.” FINAL REPORT - APRIL 2014 CitY of KAWartHA laKES 3 1.3. Why We Have Developed t e Pl . h an On April 19, 2011 the City of Kawartha Lakes May dor C an o uncil SUSTA ABIL TY…IIN endors ued the O Ka r ktr wa Sustainabil ha La es ity Commitm t. en Means – me tine edg the ne s ofe n thet prwithout se com romip n h e si g t ability of future generations to meet t rhei o w n needs. Integrates - econo c, enviromi nmenta , andl so cial consider tions inato plannin gand acti n.o WE NEED YOUR HELP... To define the best values, issues and vision need d t he ee o dev lop t plan’s long term sustainability goals and objectives, and to define the tools needed to measu er the su cec ss of the Plan. WE WAN OT THEAR FROM YO ! U • Complete the online or paper survey; • Participate i unn comm gity meetin s; Figure : Ma r and ounci l withCo 1 ythe Sustainability Commitment. • Get invol v e d online through Fac eb ook or T witter; • Provide a brief descripti O URK W A ARTHA LAKES SUST INAB ITILA Y COMMITMENT on/artwor fk yo our vi ion for Kaswartha Lakes compared to Kawartha Lakes of today; and The City of Kawartha Lakes is t oakingn to trans acti orm ourf Kawartha • Encourage your friends, family and children to take part. Lakes into a more successful, desirable, and sustainable place to live through th e vde elopment of an Integrat uedy Comm Sustaina nit bility WILL YOU JOIN US? Plan called “O arthura Lake Kaws”. Our Kawartha L ka es is a long-term It takes a community to achieve commu stainnityability. su It is u op allt plan, dev elop ed in consultation with community members, t rovi e o p d of us to do our part, and we need your help because, togethe r , this is direction for t e commhunity to realize sustainability objecti he ves for t Our Kawartha L akes. environmental, cul al, socia ltur and e conomic dimension s th a t ke ma up “Our Kaw aarth L k a es”. 4 2.1. Sustainability Defined 2. Background For many Canadians concerned about the long term viability of their communities, sustainability has been identified as not only desirable but essential for mid-to-long term prosperity. Policies and practices are being developed and implemented to move communities across Canada in this direction. To properly understand the dimensions of sustainability it must be understood that it is a discussion that has been defined in many ways. There are a variety of ideas and perspectives, with equal importance. Rooted in the environmental movement that emerged as an element of broad social change in the 1970s, sustainability began as a discussion to address rising global environmental problems. Figure 2 illustrates the evolution of sustainability highlighting the changes in thinking between the eras and the resulting response and goals. FINAL REPORT - APRIL 2014 CitY of KAWartHA laKES 5 Figure 2. Sustainability