Preserve, Protect, Plan & Prosper
Preserve and Protect
- Preserve our rich agricultural assets while allowing for diversification and purposeful development on and around our farmlands.
- Preserve our rural lifestyle through stronger, common-sense approaches to aging in place and succession or legacy strategies.
- Protect our environmentally sensitive areas including lakes, rivers, and watersheds through consultation and collaboration with partners committed to these lands and waters.
- Protect our quality of life and well-being with a commitment to increased resources for rural crime reduction and public safety programming.
- Preserve and protect our public recreational spaces through infrastructure maintenance and improvements.
Plan
- Decrease complexity and wait times for development permitting.
- Remove barriers to rural connectivity.
- Allow for flexibility for rural and complimentary agri-based business to expand and diversify.
- Facilitate understanding of high-level documents like the Municipal Development Plan and Land Use Bylaw through use of plain language.
- Increase meaningful engagement and resource allocation to hamlets and small pocket communities. This includes widening the scope for notification on development proposals to include community-based input on feasibility and future impacts to the affected area.
Prosper
- Commitment to a balance between quality rural lifestyle and economic growth and diversification.
- Supportive infrastructure equals development and/or increased demand.
- Explore the creation of a county specific online business directory tool aimed at supporting and advancing local business.
- Explore the development of an annual divisional community league forum, bringing community champions together.
Experience You Want
Accountability You Deserve
Leadership You Need
