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Building a Creative Economy: A Cultural Plan for Lambton County

Community Forums

March 2011

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Overview

1. Why Should We Care?

2. What Are We Talking About?

- Municipal Cultural Planning

- Culture and cultural resources

2. The Cultural Plan Process

3. Questions

4. Breakout Group Discussion

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Overview

"In the landscape of the 21st century, nothing looms larger than culture. It is the new infrastructure, the civic bedrock on which the most successful

modern metropolises are built. Culture is to the contemporary city what roads, sewers and bridges were in the 19th and early 20th centuries. “

Christopher Hume, Urban Affairs Columnist, Toronto Star

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Social and Economic Benefits

• Urban Revitalization and Renewal. • Cultural Tourism. • Quality of Place – Quality of Life • Culture as an Economic Engine. • Building Community Identity & Pride• Addressing Social Issues – Youth, Diversity, Education,

etc.• Personal & Social Development of Youth

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Municipal Cultural Planning

A municipally-led process for identifying and leveraging a community’s cultural resources, strengthening the management of those resources, and integrating cultural resources across all facets of local government planning and decision-making.

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New Expectations of Municipalities

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Ontario Plans

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Larger Urban Centers • Mississauga

Mid-Size Cities• Kingston • Barrie• Oakville • Vaughan

Regional Municipalities • Region of Niagara

Mixed Urban/Rural Areas • Chatham-Kent

Smaller Communities and Rural Areas

• Orillia • Prince Edward County

Northern Municipalities • Thunder Bay• Dryden

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Culture and Cultural Resources

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Culture and Cultural Resources

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Cultural Resources

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Project Overview 1. Start Up - Steering Group Meeting

2. Where Are We Now?

- Review of planning documents + Interviews + Municipal staff meeting

3. Where Do We Want to Be?

- Community Forums > Vision and strategic directions

4. How Do We Get There?

- Prepare draft Cultural Plan > Review with Steering Group > draft Plan to County Council

- Post for community comments and input

5. Final Review and Approvals

- Present to County Council

- Launch at Town Hall Meeting

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Questions

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Questions for Breakout Discussion

1. Identify 3 keywords that should be reflected in the Cultural Plan vision

2. What should be 2 guiding principles for the Plan – here it’s useful to think in terms of ‘We value’ statements

3. What should be the priorities for the Plan? What are 3 ‘big ideas’ or strategies that would advance the vision and principles?

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