CASE STUDY | Guelph's Community Plan: Embracing a Year of Listening

A Community Plan is a comprehensive, long-term planning process designed to set a broad vision and strategic direction for an entire community. Over the past three years, the City of Guelph has undertaken the development of a Community Plan where the process was truly authentic, emergent, community-owned, integrated across City departments and community partners, and anchored in utility.



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