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Burnaby Community Assembly
Help Shape Burnaby’s Future
The Burnaby Community Assembly is a broadly representative group of 40 residents selected by civic lottery to create recommendations for the City of Burnaby’s Official Community Plan under the guiding question: How should Burnaby grow and change by 2050 to create a city where everyone can thrive?
Assembly Members worked together over 7 full-day sessions between February 24 and June 15, 2024 to learn about their city, hear each other’s perspectives and work through trade-offs. Issues tackled included density, livability, housing, climate change and transportation in the context of a growing city.
The Assembly process was designed and overseen by Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in a collaborative but arm’s-length partnership with the City of Burnaby. The City of Burnaby committed in advance to receive and respond to the Assembly’s recommendations, ensuring the process is transparent and accountable. City Council remains responsible for final approval of the Official Community Plan.
Founding and Partnerships
The Burnaby Community Assembly was part of the three-year Urban Resilient Futures Initiative. The founding partners for Urban Resilient Futures are the City of Burnaby, Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and Vancity, initiated by a generous contribution from an anonymous donor. This was also supported by the Civic Innovation Lab, and a contribution from the Renovate the Public Hearing Initiative. For this project, the Centre for Dialogue had full editorial autonomy from its partners and funders in running the Burnaby Community Assembly.
Reports
The Burnaby Community Assembly Final Report provides an overview of the Burnaby Community Assembly process, as well as the Assembly’s 24 final recommendations. The Burnaby Community Assembly was a broadly representative group of 40 residents selected by civic lottery to create recommendations for the City of Burnaby’s Official Community Plan under the guiding question: How should Burnaby grow and change by 2050 to create a city where everyone can thrive?
Burnaby’s Official Community Plan Explained is the comprehensive learning materials supporting Members of the Burnaby Community Assembly as they developed recommendations for Burnaby’s Official Community Plan. These written materials were among a number of sources of information for the Assembly, which also included input from the general Burnaby community, engagement with knowledge holders and technical experts, and third-party information sources.
Both reports are available here.
Case Study
Read the case study of the Burnaby Community Assembly here.
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