Board Agenda
26 May 1993

Board of Directors
Strategic Planning Committee
13 May 1993

Endorsement of Extended Service Establishment Bylaw for Regional
Strategic Planning

2_____ Purpose

To recommend the next steps in the consideration of the regional mandate for strategic land use and
transportation planning.

2, Background

In 1990, the Board adopted Creating Our Future Action 52 to "undertake, in consultation with
municipalities and the provincial government, a review of the need for renewed GVRD regional
land use, transportation and social development mandates." The review was initiated by a
Discussion Paper approved by the Board in July 1991 and discussed with municipal councils in the
Chairperson's meetings with them in the fall of 1991.

Municipalities responded with written comments on the Discussion Paper in early 1992. These
were used to prepare a proposal for a consensus-based regional strategic planning mandate which
was considered by the Board in July 1992. The Board adopted this approach and established a
Task Force of municipal elected representatives and staff to review and refine the proposal. The
Task Force completed its report in November 1992; it was tabled at the 12 December 1992 Council
of Councils and forwarded to member municipal councils for comment.

Municipal comments on the Task Force report were considered by the Strategic Planning
Committee at its meetings in February and March 1993, and it was decided to hold a Council of
Councils meeting on 27 March 1993 to consider the planning challenges facing the region and the
role of regional strategic planning in responding to them. At its March meeting, the Committee
agreed to forward to the Council of Councils a Revised Proposal for a Consensus/Partnership
Mandate for Regional Land Use and Transporiation Planning in Greater Vancouver which
responded to many of the comments received from the municipalities and the public within the
spirit of the original Task Force report.

At its April meeting, the Board approve the minutes of the Council of Councils meeting and
directed that these be circulated to member municipalities together with a summary, in question and
answer format, of the major issues raised and the responses given.