Have Your Say
The City of Thunder Bay welcomes citizen input and participation. Current opportunities to Have Your Say include quick polls, surveys, presentations or deputations to Council and community consultation through public meetings and information sessions.
Urban Design and Landscaping Guidelines Draft
The City of Thunder Bay Official Plan recommends City-wide Urban Design and Landscaping Guidelines to provide detailed direction for the implementation of the policies and objectives of the Official Plan, and as a complement to zoning regulations.
Draft One of the Urban Design Guidelines have been informed through consultation with the City, the Clean, Green and Beautiful Committee, and the public. They outline best urban design practices in city building through innovation in sustainable development and design excellence.
PLANNING DEPARTMENT SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT
The City's Planning Department, as part of the 2012 Official Plan Review process, is seeking public input into food policy, housing, and business & industry. Please visit the Planning Department's Questionnaires page to complete online surveys.
Phase 2 Feasibility Study for Proposed Event Centre
On April 11, 2012, the City of Thunder Bay held a second Event Centre Open House that included concept designs for each of the three shortlisted sites, as well as general commentary on the economic impact, traffic issues, cost implications and site selection criteria from the Phase 2 Feasibility Study.
Our Online Open House is currently available, giving citizens the opportunity to review the materials presented on April 11. For more information visit the Thunder Bay Event Centre page.
URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN OPEN HOUSES
The City thanks those who attended the two Open Houses in March 2012 to learn about the Urban Forest Management Plan. For more information on the Urban Forestry program, visit the Urban Forestry webpage.
the urban design vision for Thunder Bay
The City of Thunder Bay and Brook McIlroy are preparing Urban and Landscaping Guidelines that will apply across the City, including detailed streetscape designs for key Image Routes, including Arthur Street, May/Memorial/Algoma Streets, and Red River Road. These Guidelines will improve the quality of your City’s built environment by guiding development and future Municipal work along each Image Route.
Read more about the Purpose of the Study and learn more about the project approach and schedule, and see the presentations given at the visioning workshops.
CITY BUDGET DIRECTIONS REPORT
(2012 - 2014) - Addressing the Infrastructure Deficit
The City of Thunder Bay held two public open houses on Oct. 25, 2011 to provide information on the proposed budget directions report, an update on the city's infrastructure deficit, and to gather feedback.
Adobe PDF, 6 pages, 343 KBBetween Oct. 27 and Nov. 1, 2011, Ipsos Reid conducted a survey of Thunder Bay residents regarding community attitudes to a range of proposed budget directions.
Adobe PDF, 26 pages, 518 KBA Budget Directions First Report was provided to City Council on Sept. 26, 2011 and will be considered on Nov. 28 by Council’s Committee of the Whole. For the first time, pre-budget open houses/information sessions were conducted.
Adobe PDF, 51 pages, 890 KBCity's Strategic Plan
2011 Citizen Survey
Thunder Bay residents rate the quality of life in the City very high (87%). Residents continue to believe they receive fairly good value for their tax dollars (73%). Those are among the results of the 2011 Citizen Survey conducted in late February 2011. A 'gap analysis', whereby satisfaction that residents have for a particular service is measured against perceived importance, showed that priority areas for improvement are maintenance of streets, roadside maintenance, storm water drainage, recreation programs for youth and neighbourhood parks.
“We are very pleased that satisfaction with services remains high,” said Mayor Keith Hobbs. “As always, there is more work to be done such as improving our roads and Council has taken important steps in this direction by increasing capital spending for roads in 2011 by $1.5 million.”
Every two years, the City of Thunder Bay conducts a statistically valid survey to seek input from citizens on City services and their thoughts on priorities.
Adobe PDF, 60 pages, 1 MB Adobe PDF, 48 pages, 607 KB Adobe PDF, 107 pages, 492 KB2005 Citizen Survey Final Report Adobe PDF, 78 pages, 356 KB
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