Strategic Growth and Infrastructure Priorities Plan Services

The vendor is required to provide for a future population of one million people, it faces a significant challenge: the infrastructure needed to support this growth—such as water, transit, roads, parks, and community services—requires substantial long-term investment.
- The cost barrier:
• An estimated $100,000+ in infrastructure is needed per new housing unit.
• Municipalities receive less than 10% of all tax revenue.
• Current funding models are insufficient and unsustainable.
- The risk: without a strategic, long-term, and fiscally responsible infrastructure plan, the municipality may:
• Underserve fast-growing areas
• Miss housing and climate targets
• Deepen inequities between communities
• Lose opportunities for coordination and investment
• Fall behind infrastructure demand unrecoverably
- The need: a strategic growth and infrastructure priorities plan (SGIPP) is required to:
• Align growth with infrastructure capacity
• Guide equitable, integrated and cost-effective capital investments
• Leverage new funding tools and partnerships
• Protect community well-being and future-proof services
• Enable an integrated approach to capital planning and asset management
- Requirement
1. Direct growth strategically
• Identify where and how growth should occur to support sustainable, climate-resilient, and efficient communities in alignment with agency regional plan.
2. Prioritize infrastructure investments
• Align long-term infrastructure and service planning with expected growth patterns and community needs.
3. Support housing and affordability goals
• Ensure that infrastructure is more affordable and enables sufficient and well-located housing supply.
4. Advance climate and resilience goals
• Minimize sprawl, reduce emissions, protect ecosystems, and adapt to climate risks through smart infrastructure decisions.
5. Promote equity and well-being
• Target investment in historically under-served communities, and ensure infrastructure supports health, accessibility, and opportunity for all.
6. Improve fiscal sustainability
• Develop funding strategies and tools to deliver infrastructure affordably and responsibly over the long term.
7. Coordinate with regional, provincial and utility planning
• Align municipal plans with broader regional growth, provincial initiatives, utility planning and inter-municipal opportunities.
- Agency provided resources include:
• Copies of relevant municipal strategies and planning documents including:
• Integrated mobility plan (2017)
• Imp update (2025)
• Rapid transit strategy (2020)
• Quantifying the costs and benefits of alternative growth scenarios agency 
• Agency green network plan (2018)
• Regional plan (2025) including housing and population papers and models
• Future service community studies (2025)
• Open data GIS files
• Lidar topographic and topo-bathymetric data (2018)
• Agency activity-based travel demand forecasting model
• Agency ten-year capital plan
• Asset management info from fam
• Parks and rec indoor and outdoor asset strategies.
• Socio-economic status indicators mapping (2024)
• Other climate hazards (WSP, 2023)
o Extreme rainfall
o Extreme snowfall
o Extreme heat
o Meteorological drought
o Changing winter temperatures
o Extreme wind
• Urban heat island vulnerability (evergreen, 2024)
• Flood extent mapping (coastal and pluvial and fluvial) (CBCL, 2024)
• Wave run-up (CBCL, 2025)
• Any other relevant reports and studies upon request.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: July 22, 2025