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Investors want to talk to municipal representatives who are knowledgeable, accessible and authorized to make decisions.

Investment readiness means capitalizing on your community's resources – its land, people, unique characteristics and planning system - and communicating their strengths effectively.

Are you ready?

Understanding these resources and working to ensure they are well known and valued ensures they're put to the best use. To take full advantage of existing resources, a municipality needs to evaluate its potential and make decisions about its future development. The questionnaire on the following pages will assist your municipality in determining its level of investment readiness. Remember to look beyond municipal boundaries to the market area of an employer.

Take the Test!

The following questionnaire is designed for municipal officials and staff as a tool to quickly and easily determine your community's investment readiness. It deals with key municipal contacts for information, land use planning, industrial land inventory data, marketing, and other local resources that can be tapped. Questions are divided into three sections: people, resources, and communication.

There are three steps:

  • Work through the questionnaire
  • Total your answers
  • Analyze your municipality's results


The above document is available in Acrobat (*.pdf) format. If you do not have the Acrobat reader you can obtain it free of charge from Adobe at www.adobe.com



For more Information

Also available through MAH Municipal Services Offices is the economic readiness workshop kit. The kit elaborates on material contained in this booklet, providing more detailed information on:
  • What investors want and need to know
  • How to develop an industrial land inventory
  • Municipal Land Use Planning considerations
  • Case studies across southern Ontario
  • Ontario business and investment trends

Please contact the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing to obtain more information on arranging a full-day workshop or to discuss issues concerning economic readiness.



Municipal Services Offices:

Southwest - London
(519) 873-4020
Toll-free 1-800-265-4736

Central - Toronto
(416) 585-6226
Toll-free 1-800-668-0230

East - Kingston
(613) 548-4304
Toll-free 1-800-267-9438

Northeast - Sudbury
(705) 564-0120
1-800-461-1193

Northwest – Thunder Bay
(807) 475-1651
1-800-465-5027

Provincial Planning and
Environmental Services Branch
Toronto
(416) 585-6014