2016 Birch Hills County Municipal Development Plan Community Survey

Birch Hills County is developing a Municipal Development Plan (MDP), which is a long-range strategic document intended to guide the growth and development of a municipality into the future.

What is a Municipal Development Plan?

The MDP is a document that identifies the vision, principles, goals and objectives that a municipality has set for itself on a long-range timeline. Typical MDPs reach approximately 20 years into the future, and may have goals and objectives that are achievable over a 1 to 5 year period, 6 to 10 years, and 11 or more years. Best practice is to review MDPs every five years to ensure they remain relevant and up-to-date with the needs and wants of the community. Birch Hills County has not updated the Municipal Development Plan since 2008.

MDPs generally encompass a range of topic areas that may be considered the building blocks of a municipality. Birch Hills County’s MDP will articulate the vision, principles, goals and objectives of today’s residents in the community’s highest level planning document. The MDP captures the community’s vision for the future, and translates it into achievable goals and objectives over time.

YOU are the key to understanding how the County will change and grow into the future.

This survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete and all responses are completely confidential. No personal or organization names will be associated with responses. The results will be reported in an aggregated form. Individual comments may also be reported publicly but will remain anonymous.

Survey results will be available at upcoming Open Houses for the Municipal Development Plan.
This survey is being managed by the Mackenzie Municipal Services Agency.

If you run into difficulties in completing the online questionnaire please contact the survey administrator: Tom Deming at 780-338-3862 or thomas@mmsa.ca.

The deadline to complete the survey is December 15, 2016.