Complete Communities Assessment

We're undertaking a Complete Communities Assessment to better understand the everyday needs of residents and find ways the City can improve and address gaps.

This assessment includes mapping services and amenities in our communities and engaging with residents on what is important to them. The findings will guide updates to the City’s Official Community Plan and inform how we plan our City over the next 20 years.

This work is funded through the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Complete Communities Program.

What is a Complete Community?

Complete communities are neighborhoods where daily needs can be met within a short walk or roll from home. In complete communities people have easy access to grab groceries, see a doctor, play in a park, enjoy a café, get to work and more. They are neighbourhoods where kids can easily walk to school, and everyone has access to a variety of housing options.

By supporting active transportation and reducing the need for cars, complete communities allow residents to save on time and resources, which ultimately leads to a better quality of life for everyone.

How to Get Involved

We want to hear from you! Share your feedback on what makes your neighbourhood complete and where there is room for improvement between January 27 and February 17, 2025. 

Your feedback will help evaluate the City’s strengths, weaknesses, gaps, and opportunities for building a complete community. This information combined with geospatial analysis, research, and best practices will help guide updates to the Official Community Plan to make sure we can meet our community’s needs now and 20 years into the future.

What is the Community Wellbeing Strategy?

Planning for community wellbeing means identifying strategies and actions that will help people live healthy, happy, and fulfilled lives in the City of North Vancouver, even as our community, and the world around us, evolves. 

The Community Wellbeing Strategy will be our guide for civic decision-making that considers important topics, such as:  

  community resiliency
  neighbourhood design
  affordable housing
  public safety
  discrimination, marginalization, and racism
  reconciliation
  health and wellness
  children, youth, families, and seniors
  infrastructure
  partnerships and advocacy
  poverty reduction

How Will the Strategy be Used?

The Community Wellbeing Strategy will provide: 

  a vision and goals for our collective future;
  strategies to help us meet these goals; and
  actions we can take to build a caring City where everyone belongs.

The Process

The new Community Wellbeing Strategy will replace the City's Social Plan developed in 1998. While we have achieved many goals set in that plan, our community and the world around us is evolving. Our community is facing a number of challenges – some are global in nature, many are unique to our region, and others are specific to the City.

A new strategy is needed to provide direction, support decision-making and manage change in this context of changing local needs, shifting demands, limited resources and increasingly complex issues. 

The Community Wellbeing Strategy framework was developed based on:

• existing plans and policies including the 1998 Social Plan and 2014 Official Community Plan
• community input from the You Me Us process in 2018-19, and ongoing stakeholder engagement
• current trends, best practices, and precedent research
• gaps identified in our current programs and services
• public health information
• City’s related work on: Housing Needs Report; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Reconciliation Action Plan; Child Care Action Plan; Mobility Strategy; and Environment Strategy

We’ve Developed a Starting Point for Our Strategy

The initial framework for our Community Wellbeing Strategy outlines our early ideas for a vision, goals and set of strategies to help people live healthy, happy, and fulfilled lives in the City of North Vancouver. The input and ideas shared through the Fall 2021 public engagement will be used to help refine this framework and ensure it reflects the values and priorities of our community as a whole.

Contact Us

Planning & Development Team
Phone: 604-982-9675
Email: planning@cnv.org