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Sea, land, river

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PR OCP Official Community Plan	Looking at future growth
	2 perspective

OCP

--is the basis of all zoning in Prince Rupert – and thus ‘implements’ the vision that planners/ citizens have for the development of Rupert over time – here is good external What is an OCP?

AS I said in previous—the problem is that PR did not grow – actually it shrank --- thus in 1992 the OCP saw a population in PR of at least 19,014 by 2005 – and that was only a 1% growth rate --- but by 2001 had lost 2,000

In 1992 all those new people translated into a minimum of 372 new housing units --- and the question then became where will we put the new houses?

In 1992 there was a ‘housing stock’ of 5,790 -----(2005 numbers from PR Engineering dept; yellow was given- others computed) -----In 2005 the numbers have grown—to 6,461 ‘housing units’ of which

2005	Single Family	3,339	52%
2005	Two Family (Duplex)	1,049	16%
2005	Two Family (suite)	12	0%
2005	Multi Family Units	1,860	29%
2005	Mobile Homes	201	3%
1992	Detached	3127	54%
1992	Semi-detached	926	16%
1992	Multi Family Units	1563	27%
1992	Mobile Homes	174	3%

Tomorrow town??

Huge population ‘soon’

But see Book Thousand Blunders –where RR one of the greatest failures in Canadian entrepreneurial history.

Versus

Making PR more liveable / sustainable

Figures taken from PREDC document

Interesting how the demographics have changed over time

In 1971 was a young person’s town

Source: 2005 - University of Northern British Columbia Report on Shopping and Commuting Patterns in Prince Rupert, B.C.

Demographics

With the recession caused by Skeena Pulp mill closure the town has lost its younger adult population as people move elsewhere to find jobs

Rupert population

PR Population over time

Census data shows 3% increase per decade and a 12% decline to 2001— I have used same rate to estimate 6% decline to 2005

I was sceptical of this approach –but perhaps this is the intended direction

QUALITY OF LIFE REPORTING SYSTEM --- Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), the Quality of Life Reporting System (QOLRS) measures, monitors and reports on the quality of life in Canadian urban municipalities using data from a variety of national and municipal sources.

Here is Burnaby OCP online

What’s a ‘Quality of Life’ – survey??

Indicators used in FCM report card—Indicator (sub-categories)

Demographic & Background Information - (DBI) (10) --- Affordable, Appropriate Housing (AAH) (8) Civic Engagement (CE) (5) Community and Social Infrastructure (CSI)(7) Education (ED)(8) Employment (EM)(4) Local Economy (LE)(5) Natural Environment (NE)(5) Personal & Community Health (PCH)(6) Personal Financial Security (PFS)(7) Personal Safety (PS)(4)

11 indicator groups and 100 (sub categories) in report card

Customers or Citizens?

Conclusion (for now) – hold off on alarm bells

If this is direction PR taking (Quality life as in FCM) then looks like can throw away the Ouija Board and we will get to real information / choices

Still most the indicators on FCM site are not the kind of thing one gets from a phone survey—perhaps Pond et al are doing a ‘customer satisfaction’ survey masquerading as QoL.

Created by LG on Nov 2, 2006

Last updated on Saturday, November 04, 2006

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For earlier materials see Table of Contents

Looking at future growth

What’s a ‘Quality of Life’ – survey??

Conclusion (for now) – hold off on alarm bells