Strategic Growth and Infrastructure Priorities Plan Services

The vendor is required to provide 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.
- Without a coordinated plan to prioritize growth areas, align infrastructure investments, and explore new funding models, the municipality risks falling behind on essential services, worsening housing affordability, and undermining climate, equity, and mobility goals.
- This growth will require major investment in infrastructure—water, wastewater, transit, transportation, parks, and community facilities—to maintain livability, sustainability, and equity.
- 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:
• 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,
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. - The consultant team will play a crucial role in gathering, analyzing, and managing data and information from both internal and external sources to achieve the specified outcomes.
- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: July 22, 2025