The Strategic Planning Component in the Policymaking Process for Municipalities in Canada
Canadian municipalities are the products of precedent and the statute law of their respective provinces. Their nonpartisan politics have focussed on the servicing and enhancement of the interests, largely related to property, of a long-dominant commercial elite. Contrary priorities have been subverted by provincial conditional grant programs and other administrative guidance. Even in the largest cities, the realities of fiscal austerity beginning in the 1980s encountered structures and practices unable to manage imaginatively under conditions of stress.
The Impacts of Land Use Growth Restrictions Upon Municipal Finances: A Comparative Study of a Rural Municipality, an Urban Settlement Municipality, and a Primary Settlement Municipality
The topic of this paper is on the impact of growth controls upon the finances of local government. Growth controls in the form of urban growth boundaries and population allocations can effect changes in the housing market and the value of land. An increase in the density of the urban area in terms of population and building intensity can affect a municipality’s tax revenue and the delivery of public services. A municipality’s ability to deliver public services is largely affected by its fiscal health. The focus of this paper is on the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe and the growth controls imposed through the Growth Plan upon the County of Simcoe and the local municipal governments within the boundaries of the County of Simcoe. The paper examines how growth controls may affect a rural municipality, a high growth urban municipality, and an urban municipality allocated for population intensification. The three municipalities observed are the Township of Tiny, a rural municipality, the Town of Wasaga Beach, a high growth municipality, and the Town of Collingwood, a high growth municipality designated by the Province for intensification of growth. The research concludes that the growth controls of the Provincial Growth Plan may have a minimal effect upon municipal finances and that the true measure of that effect is concealed within factors which have a higher prevalence for affecting municipal finances. These other factors include current high growth financial management practices, the cost of replacing aging infrastructure, and the high number of seasonal population which each of the sample municipalities.
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