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Email this pageMunicipal challenges in the 21st century


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Municipalities, like businesses, are faced with many challenges in the new millennium: competing in the global economy; accommodating changing demographics; and implementing a fundamental shift in the provincial-municipal relationship. Many are seeking ways to capitalize on their advantages, maintain their quality of life, and strengthen their communities in a rapidly changing environment.

This booklet is designed for small and medium-sized municipalities. It provides useful information on industrial development trends in southern Ontario, ways to attract development to your municipality, and a self-assessment questionnaire for municipalities to determine their economic readiness.

Municipal Economic Readiness is designed to assist small and medium-sized southern Ontario municipalities to:

  • identify the changing needs of business
  • assess individual planning and development systems
  • identify opportunities for improvement and for attracting new development