Community Improvement Plans and Financial Incentives 5-Year Review

What is a Community Improvement Plan?

A Community Improvement Plan (CIP) is a tool that allows municipalities to give funds and add policy to a specific area within the city. The CIPs are developed by the City after a need is identified in a community. A CIP uses techniques, such as providing Financial Incentives or implementing zone changes, to address the unique concerns a community may have.

Some of the CIPs are specific to a neighbourhood (e.g. Argyle), while others are city-wide (e.g. Affordable Housing). Here's a link to all of our Community Improvement Plans.

5-Year Program Review

An important part of having a CIP is to periodically review how well they are doing at meeting the Community's needs. Specifically, this project will review how well the Financial Incentives programs are doing in achieving the goals of re-investment, rehabilitation, and beautification.

Where we are now

A report about the Five-Year Community Improvement Plan (CIP) Review is now available on the June 12, 2023, Planning and Environment Committee (PEC) meeting agenda for public review and comment.

Read the report

The purpose of this report is to provide Municipal Council the recommendations for decision. The recommendations include proposed changes to several of the CIPs, to the scope and terms of existing financial incentive programs, and consideration of new programs and approaches to address community improvement issues. Some recommendations address core area vacancy reduction, which form part of a comprehensive proposed Core Area Land and Building Vacancy Reduction Strategy.