Integrated Community Sustainability Plan

The Connecting Devon ICSP is our community’s vision for an inspiring and successful future, and it includes first steps for how to get there. It will guide community decision-making and action for the next 25+ years and we move toward 2045.

The ICSP covers all community systems at a high level. Therefore, it links to all other plans in some manner, whether it is a plan related to land use and conservation, the local economy or arts and culture, or health – and everything in between.

The ICSP includes:

• Where we want to go: Our vision, guiding principles and goals, which together describe our shared community vision for the future.
• Where we are today: A snapshot of what Devon is like today, including our strengths, challenges, opportunities and threats so we have a sense of the present
• How we’re moving forward: Our strategic priorities that will help us focus our efforts and resources over the coming years.

With the ICSP articulating the future we want for Devon, it only makes sense that the plan would also provide guidance and tracking to help us get there. It does this through a practical decision-making framework (see section 5) that can be applied to all levels of decisions and used to guide all types of other plans, policies and programs. Further, a set of indicators (see Appendix A) will help us track progress toward (or away from) the goals.

The Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) was adopted April 24, 2017.