Chamber releases business platform ahead of municipal election

​SEMPTEMBER 19, 2018, PETERBOROUGH: The Peterborough Chamber of Commerce is releasing its the ‘Building a Community Outside the Ordinary’ platform for the upcoming municipal election.  The platform outlines three pillars of a strong, resilient community and includes ten recommended actions that are needed to support the development of opportunities for everyone in the City and County of Peterborough.

The ‘Building a Community Outside the Ordinary’ platform has been developed through consultation with Chamber member businesses who identified several factors that are limiting our ability to provide opportunity for our citizens. To become a city and county for everyone, we need our candidates and the next council to support a “culture of forward and full circle thinking”. 

The ‘Building a Community Outside the Ordinary’ platform calls for:

Strengthening Peterborough’s Competitiveness, Economic Growth and Job Creation through commitments to:

• Developing Official Plans that reflect the most flexible zoning possible
• Seeing the Tax Ratio Reduction Program through to completion
• Investing in areas of economic growth
• Planning measures that are future focused and proactive and bridge city and county geographical lines

Building Whole Communities through commitments to:

• Building resilient infrastructure
• Building a transportation network that works for all
• Increasing housing stock by supporting the building of a variety of types
• Working with stakeholder groups to develop long-term strategies for addressing mental illness, addiction, and crime in the same way the 10-year Homelessness Strategy was developed

Improving Government Accountability through commitments to:

• Building the business community into the community engagement process
• Creating advisory or sub-committees when bylaws impact the business community

“We are asking all candidates for City and County Councils to endorse our ‘Building a Community Outside the Ordinary’ platform,” says Stuart Harrison, President & CEO, Peterborough Chamber of Commerce.  “We believe that by adopting the pillars of strengthening Peterborough’s competitiveness, economic growth and job creation, building whole communities, and improving government accountability, our next Councils can build a community outside the ordinary for everyone.”

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Read the Platform