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Smart Bylaws Guide– Performance Indicators & Quality of Life Monitoring – Resort Municipality of Whistler
After the winter of 2000 when Dr. Karl-Hendrik Robert of Sweden,
founder of The Natural Step, first visited the Resort
Municipality of Whistler, Whistler embarked on a journey toward
adopting The Natural Step framework to guide its planning. The
Natural Step approach uses a backcasting approach, where a
successful and sustainable future is envisioned, and then the
actions to achieve that future are identified. Whistler has
now adopted and is implementing a Natural Step vision and plan known
as Whistler2020, "North America's first comprehensive
sustainability plan to guide all levels of development and
implementation."
In August 2005, a set of 16 strategies were identified for
implementing the Whistler2020 vision, with each managed by a
community task force of 8-15 individuals representing a diverse
expertise and perspective from the community. These task
forces meet on an annual basis to assess progress and prioritize recommended actions for moving forward.
The Whistler2020 monitoring program builds on a monitoring
program and system of annual reporting that had been in place in the
resort municipality since 1993. These annual reports, which gathered statistical
information on a variety of community aspects - social
characteristics and demographics, facilities and infrastructure,
economic performance, pace of development and visitor experience in
Whistler - were used as a key tool for shaping priorities and goals
for the town.
For more information on the current process, visit Whistler2020
- Our Process. Whistler now has an online
interactive browser tool that provides measurements and reporting
on Whistler's progress vis-a-vis a number of indicators (listed
below) - including graphical representations of statistics and
results. For more information on the monitoring program, visit Whistler
- Measuring Progress.
Indicators used by Whistler2020 include:
- Adaptive Heating/Cooling
- Affordability Comparisons
- Business Licenses
- Child Development
- Community Trust
- Commuting Mode
- Cost to Income
- Cultural Experience (Visitor)
- Cultural Opportunities
- Cultural Participation (Visitor)
- Decision Input
- Decision Trust
- Development Footprint
- Drinking water Quality
- Dwelling Density
- Economic Dependency Ratio
- Education Attainment
- Effluent Quality
- Energy Use
- Family Living Income
- Financial Reserves
- Full Time Employees
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Hazardous Materials
- Health Status
- Highway Traffic
- Housing Affordability
- Housing Liveability
- Income Below Costs
- Information Quality
- Landfilled Waste
- Learning Opportunities
- Length of Roads
- Length of Stay
- Length of Tenure
- Local Air Quality
- Local Transport
- Satisfaction
- Local Workforce
- Low Birth Weight
- Market Home Ownership
- Material Use
- Median Income
- MSP Usage
- Number of Partners
- Occupancy Rate
- Park Availability
- Park Satisfaction
- Recreation Injuries
- Recreation Opportunities
- Recreation Participation
- Recreation Pricing (Visitor)
- Recreation Satisfaction (Visitor)
- Regional Air Quality
- Registered Vehicles
- Renewable Energy
- renewable Fuel
- Rental Availability
- Resident Interaction
- Resident Restricted Housing
- Resident Satisfaction
- Restricted Wait Time
- Rooms Sold
- Sense of Belonging
- Sensitive Area Footprint
- Services Proximity
- Single Living Income
- Species at Risk
- Stream Health
- Total Income
- Transit Proximity
- Unemployment Rate
- Unlawful Incidents
- Vehicle Incidents
- Vehcile Occupancy
- Visitor Bus Travel
- Visitor Number
- Visitor Satisfaction
- Visitor Transport
- Volunteer Rate
- Voter Turnout
- Waste Diversion
- Water Use
- Whistler Atmosphere (Visitor)
- Work Environment
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