Grant: Planning Grants for Implementing Healthy Urban Policy

The City of Saskatoon (City) is committed to thinking and working differently to address the challenges and opportunities of the modern world as it emerges from a global epidemic. These include growing diversity, climate change, social inequality, the competition for economic investment, technological advancements, and pandemic weariness. The City is taking an intentional approach to shifting how we grow and move around our city, and how we ensure a high quality of life for all citizens. A key part of this shift is oriented around a reimagined public bus system that is reliable and frequent and the creation of public spaces and planning for mixed-use corridor infill development. Saskatoon is working to leverage transformative long-term plans informed by extensive community engagement to achieve its aspirations for smart growth, high civic participation, inclusivity, and community health and well-being. Saskatoon is on the cusp of a major urban transformation that will propel it to the forefront of Canadians cities as a modern, inclusive, equity-driven, and sustainable city. Our team's participation in the Copenhagen study tour and the pre- and post-activities that we described here is timely and presents a significant opportunity to coalesce and work to achieve a transformative, model prairie city here in Saskatoon.