Whistler2020 is about enriching community life, enhancing the resort experience, ensuring economic viability, protecting the environment and partnering for success through our vision and our 'taking action' programs for achieving a successful and sustainable future.

 

Why is Whistler2020 important?

The global and local challenges that face Whistler highlight the need for an overarching sustainability-based approach to planning. Whistler2020 uses such an approach – to inspire, align and guide our resort community toward a shared vision of sustainability and success. Drawing on local and external knowledge, Whistler2020 informs decision-making, optimizes use of limited resources and provides a framework for aligning community efforts in a common direction.

 

How was Whistler2020 developed?

Inspired by our natural surroundings and heritage, Whistler has always been visionary and thoughtful about planning. Building on the resort community’s previous five-year vision, Whistler2020 was developed in four phases over three years of consultation and community collaboration before it was adopted in 2005. During Phase 1, ‘success factors’ were identified. In Phase 2, five alternative futures were explored and assessed by the community. Phase 3 involved crafting a preferred future and developing the draft plan with the involvement of sixteen community task forces. In Phase 4, the preferred future was transformed into the Whistler2020 vision, and the sixteen strategies were completed with ongoing action-planning by the strategy task forces and on-the-ground implementation through the involvement and commitment of a broad spectrum of implementing organizations throughout the community.

Who is responsible for Whistler2020?

Whistler2020 was developed by the community, and for it to be truly effective it needs to be both supported and implemented by the community. The RMOW manages the work of the Whistler2020 Team, but the creativity, direction and execution of the plan is a product of the ongoing dedication and commitment of Whistler2020 Partners, community task forces, and the many organizationsand businesses that are making its vision a reality on a daily basis.