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Smart Bylaws Guide – Performance Indicators & Quality of Life Monitoring
Local governments across North America are becoming involved in
quality of life monitoring. Indicators, representing environmental,
social and economic measures can show trends in the health of a
municipality or region. They also help local governments to evaluate
how well they are implementing community policies. Local governments
use the results of monitoring programs to establish priorities and
set policy. Indicators also provide crucial baseline data to
determine changes in environmental and other municipal conditions.
The requirements for municipal reporting under the Community
Charter can be supplemented with a more comprehensive monitoring
program and set of indicators to give an overall picture of
municipal health.
Sample indicators include:
- Urban and rural residential densities
- Housing mix
- Amount of greenspace per capita
- Number of vehicles commuting to the urban core
- Amount of
rural land converted to urban uses
- Number of new housing units
within 400 metres of commercial facilities, schools, transit routes,
and greenspace
- Number of services, households and businesses per kilometre of sanitary sewer line
- Per capita cost of roads and
road maintenance
- Transit ridership
- Water consumption
- Kilometres of bicycle lanes and paths
- Status of endangered
plants
- Intact riparian vegetation
- Number of property related
crimes
- Percentage of building permits that are "green"
buildings
Local Government Indicators Programs in BC
Other Indicators Programs
Resources for developing Indicators Programs
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