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Victoria Sustainability Framework Quicklinks
The Sustainable City Project The City of Victoria is committed to making our community sustainable for future generations, so we're looking at how we can improve our daily operations and outline how Victoria can become a healthier, greener, more resilient community based on shared sustainability principles. The City is creating a comprehensive sustainability framework to guide decision-making and operations over the long-term. Building on existing policy, the Victoria Sustainability Framework will identify long-term sustainability goals, priorities for action, and provide measures to help us track progress. As an integrated planning and decision-making tool, the Framework will help us determine how current City initiatives contribute towards sustainability and identify where the municipality can do more. Practical outcomes might be green purchasing policies, new standards for managing stormwater, or new services such as organic waste collection and bike sharing. Engaging public, staff, and key stakeholders in this process will enable the framework to reflect the input of Victoria's citizens, and ensures the City is focusing attention and resources accordingly. The City has engaged a leading sustainability consulting firm, The Sheltair Group, to help us develop the framework. What is Sustainability? Sustainability is all about building a better, more durable city for the future. The City of Victoria is already a municipal leader on sustainability but we want to go further to ensure all of our decision-making and operations are informed by sustainability principles. Sustainability is based on four inter-related concepts:
Victoria must focus its efforts in pursuit of clearly-stated and achievable goals of corporate and community sustainability. This means not only walking the talk in our municipal business practices, but having a clear agenda for long-term community change. What is a Sustainability Framework? A sustainability framework is a high level policy that provides strategic guidance to both corporate and community policy, program and service areas, including the renewal of key City policies, such as the Official Community Plan, the Transportation Master Plan, and the Corporate Strategic Plan. Other communities, throughout the world, are undertaking similar processes as we all realize we must take action now to ensure our resources and quality of life are protected for future generations. The chart shown below indicates how the Victoria Sustainability Framework will affect all aspects of the City's business. 
On February 5, 2009 City Council reviewed public input received on the draft Victoria Sustainability Framework, and a restatement of the sustainability commitment and goals reflecting feedback received. The draft framework was further revised to reflect Council input. Public Involvement The results of community engagement undertaken in November/December 2009 were presented to City Council on February 5, 2009. The engagement activities included a telephone survey of a random sample of Victoria residents, an online survey, two public "coffee talk" drop-in sessions, and drop-in sessions with City staff.
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