| Official
Community Plans are written to guide future development within a community. A
plan provides a degree of certainty about the location and nature of community
change to residents and landowners. Community plans serve as a guide to municipal
Councils when making decisions regarding zoning, development and servicing requirements
to accommodate growth. The policies within a community plan will also help
guide the decisions of the building industry in a positive way. They reflect the
broad consensus of community opinion that is transformed into a framework for
future development and into a strategy for managing growth of the community. The
Official
Community Plan has been prepared with the involvement of council, local businesses
and residents of Invermere and the Upper Columbia Valley. The consultation process
has been a five year long project (1996-2001) and has involved the public in different
forums. Council, business owners, residents and community interest groups have
supplied input to this community plan through focus groups, telephone and mail-in
surveys, public workshops/open houses and advisory committees. The complete
ocp is available online. Since it is a very large document it is maintained in
separate PDF files, shown below. Please click a topic from the list below to download
the PDF file. | 
