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CITY: Report on planning for Edmonton region’s growth covering 25 municipalities
        (AlbertaIndex, December 14, Friday) --- The Alberta government is studying a report commissioned by Premier Ed Stelmach on how the Edmonton region’s 25 municipalities can jointly plan and manage their unprecedented growth underpinned by a total of $88 billion in new projects.
        Commissioned six months ago, “Working Together – Report and Recommendations of the Capital Region Integrated Growth Management Plan Project Team” is Premier Stelmach’s document to provide a leadership role for the region’s growth.

He said he will study its recommendations in the report, and will listen to the individual responses of the region’s municipalities at a meeting today.

He said: “It’s just common sense that municipalities work together on a regional plan. We’re looking at the potential for $88 billion in new development, the most intense in the region’s history, and we have one chance to ‘get it right’.”

The region’s strength, the Premier said, lies in the ability of individual municipalities to take on a long-range regional perspective on key infrastructure such as land use, roads and transit.

The report, produced by consultant Doug Radke, was developed with ongoing input from the region’s municipal leaders.

It outlines:
•    a basis for a regional growth management plan;
•    a governance mechanism for a new regional board to oversee regional approaches;
•    estimates of the costs of regional core and social infrastructure required to absorb growth and benefits of a regional board;
•    a transition plan that will give the region’s municipalities the tools to further develop a number of key components of the plan in greater detail and get the board operational; and,
•    a list of key issues to be addressed by the provincial government.

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