Whistler, British Columbia

Whistler, British Columbia was first up to give their presentation Thursday on their 2020 community vision plan. The community centered its vision plan on sustainability. Whistler is a small resort town north of Vancouver which has just finished playing host to many 2010 Winter Olympic events. Their presentation on the 2020 plan was outstanding in how it keeps the community involved in the implementation of the plan. The key element of this is an outstanding web application that people can call up to see measureable progress on the implementation of the plan.

The extensive community process they used to develop the plan has spun off the Whistler Center for Sustainability which helps other communities do just this same kind of initiative.

I am wonking about stuff like this and I was absolutely impressed how Whistler grew a community planning process that most of us undertake and made it so much more meaningful to the community.