The EFCL has promoted citizen and League involvement in building a connected, liveable and vibrant city for over 100 years now.

While much has changed, one question remains; How can we listen to each other, preserve our stories and manage our existing needs while responding to a growing and changing city of the future?

Community and a collaborative approach to city building

The EFCL has promoted citizen and League involvement in building a connected, liveable and vibrant city for over 100 years. Pressures on Leagues have changed over time but the question remains; How can we as a community of communities, listen to each other, preserve our stories and inclusively manage our existing needs while responding to the needs of a growing and changing city of the future?

While we may not have a perfect answer, we can start assessing our collective responsibilities and developing a vision of wellbeing for Leagues.

This approach recognizes that our Leagues need to be agents of reconciliation, inclusion and active participation.

Leagues have an opportunity to co-create a vision for what an inclusive, healthy, urban and climate resilient city of two million might look like.

Citizens and Leagues across Edmonton have been leading these kinds of discussions. More than ever, we hear Leagues asking incredible questions and championing efforts to create flourishing communities that support our daily needs.

As individual Leagues are exploring these topics, so too has the EFCL. In 2020, the City Plan, the municipal development plan was adopted and with it a new vision for Edmontonians to respond to.

By adopting this new plan, Edmontonians took a big first step towards a city where among many priorities, nobody is in core housing need and where 50 per cent of new housing is added through infill city wide. The City imagined an urban structure where 15-minute districts allow people to complete their daily needs without a car and where two million new urban trees are planted.

While exactly how remains a question for Edmontonians to answer together,  communities are organizing to begin the work.

Thursday, February 24, 2022
6:00–7:30pm

Change to our urban form has an impact on how we live, work, play and relate to our environments. Over the coming months we will begin to explore some of the key questions that we are hearing. From transportation and mobility to mature tree protection. We hope to explore the topics that will improve our advocacy, our decision making and our participation.

We are excited to start this process on February 24 with a conversation about City Plan. We will ask how city projects integrate and complement each other and talk about the City Plan, from Zoning Bylaw Renewal to District Planning. We will hear from City of Edmonton’s Michael Strong, Shauna Kuiper, and Livia Balone, as they share how these projects will engage communities over the next several years.

Discover more of what matters to you. The Monthly Brief provides you opportunities to get involved, stay connected and learn what is going on in Leagues, the EFCL and city-wide.