Complete Community Assessment

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In anticipation of future growth, to address current and emerging needs in the community, and in response to new BC provincial land use legislation, the City of Terrace is conducting a review and update of the 2018 Official Community Plan (OCP) in 2024-2025.

As a precursor to the OCP update, the City is undertaking a Complete Communities Assessment which will analyze the built form of Terrace through the lenses of Housing, Daily Needs, Transportation, and Infrastructure. Deliverables from this Assessment will include baseline data and maps and future growth scenarios that will be used to inform the OCP Update process.

What is a complete community?

A “complete community” is one that provides a diversity of housing to meet identified needs and accommodates people at all stages of life. Complete communities provide a wide range of employment opportunities, amenities, and services within reasonable walking and cycling distances of people’s homes. They also support the efficient use of infrastructure through more compact forms of development and promote the reduction of a community’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the provision of alternative modes of transportation and movement for residents.

Striving to become a more complete community is intended to operate as an overall goal, recognizing that complete communities may look different across regions. All communities have the potential to be more complete, regardless of their existing context and physical characteristics.

What is a Complete Community Assessment?

A Complete Community Assessment is a desktop-level, geospatial exercise that analyzes a community’s “completeness” by mapping its Housing, Daily Needs, Transportation, and Infrastructure assets to assess how well residents are served across the community, with the goal of having all services within a compact and energy-efficient 15-minute distance. The results of the assessment are then used to identify additional housing needs, improve connections between residents and services or amenities they frequently access, understand how municipal infrastructure can be used more efficiently, and determine where growth should be directed.

This assessment is being funded through the Government of BC’s Complete Communities Program and reflects a key commitment under the BC Climate Action Charter which requires all local governments to create complete, compact, and energy-efficient communities.

To learn more about how the Complete Community Assessment will be done, explore the Ask a Question section below.

In anticipation of future growth, to address current and emerging needs in the community, and in response to new BC provincial land use legislation, the City of Terrace is conducting a review and update of the 2018 Official Community Plan (OCP) in 2024-2025.

As a precursor to the OCP update, the City is undertaking a Complete Communities Assessment which will analyze the built form of Terrace through the lenses of Housing, Daily Needs, Transportation, and Infrastructure. Deliverables from this Assessment will include baseline data and maps and future growth scenarios that will be used to inform the OCP Update process.

What is a complete community?

A “complete community” is one that provides a diversity of housing to meet identified needs and accommodates people at all stages of life. Complete communities provide a wide range of employment opportunities, amenities, and services within reasonable walking and cycling distances of people’s homes. They also support the efficient use of infrastructure through more compact forms of development and promote the reduction of a community’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the provision of alternative modes of transportation and movement for residents.

Striving to become a more complete community is intended to operate as an overall goal, recognizing that complete communities may look different across regions. All communities have the potential to be more complete, regardless of their existing context and physical characteristics.

What is a Complete Community Assessment?

A Complete Community Assessment is a desktop-level, geospatial exercise that analyzes a community’s “completeness” by mapping its Housing, Daily Needs, Transportation, and Infrastructure assets to assess how well residents are served across the community, with the goal of having all services within a compact and energy-efficient 15-minute distance. The results of the assessment are then used to identify additional housing needs, improve connections between residents and services or amenities they frequently access, understand how municipal infrastructure can be used more efficiently, and determine where growth should be directed.

This assessment is being funded through the Government of BC’s Complete Communities Program and reflects a key commitment under the BC Climate Action Charter which requires all local governments to create complete, compact, and energy-efficient communities.

To learn more about how the Complete Community Assessment will be done, explore the Ask a Question section below.

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    What process will be used to determine how complete the community is?

    about 2 months ago

    To determine how complete Terrace is as a community, we will be mapping “indicators” across four lenses:

    1. Housing: the location and type of housing in the community. Indicators in this lens will be used to identify how well the housing stock is meeting residents’ needs through all stages of life, from emergency shelters to market housing and everything in between.
    2. Daily Needs: the location and type of amenities and services that residents access on a frequent or daily basis (e.g., food or groceries, employment areas, schools, child care, medical services, and parks and recreation). Indicators in this lens will be used to look at how well different areas of the community are served by different amenities, and how that relates to meeting perceived needs and reducing commute distances.
    3. Transportation: the location and type of transportation infrastructure, services, and routes that are available. Indicators in this lens will be used to determine how convenient it is to travel throughout the community using different modes of transportation and how complete and connected the transportation network is in the City.
    4. Infrastructure: the location and type of linear municipal infrastructure (e.g., roadways, waterlines, pump and lift stations, storm ponds). Indicators in this lens will be used to measure infrastructure use and cost efficiency. We will also be reviewing where there is existing infrastructure capacity to accommodate future growth.

    Following the review of mapped indicators, we will be able to determine baseline conditions for the City and better assess the strengths, opportunities, and challenges to Terrace becoming a more complete community. 

    Once chosen indicators have been mapped, we will hold a Project Open House in mid-March with community members to present information on the objectives of the Complete Communities Assessment and the initial findings of the baseline data. We will engage with the community a second time following the scenario testing step of the project, to seek input on the growth scenarios and to inform the Implementation Plan and OCP update process.

     

Page last updated: 18 Apr 2024, 11:49 AM