Enriching Community Life

Our Priorities are the five key areas around which we focus our efforts to achieve the Vision.

In the year 2020, the community is attractive and liveable with a strong social fabric, as the majority of the local workforce and many long-time members of the community make Whistler their home. Residents are able to access and enjoy Whistler’s wide range of activities and amenities, the very reason they were drawn here. They mix with visitors in the village and on the mountain, sharing in the resort vibrancy and cosmopolitan atmosphere.

To ensure that locals can enjoy life in Whistler, a supply of resident employee housing was planned and built in phases as needs were demonstrated through the results of the Whistler2020 annual monitoring program. This includes a mix of resident housing types with a range of prices offering affordable options to both short-term and long-term employees over time. This new resident housing helped achieve the overall goal of maintaining 75 percent of Whistler’s employees living in the resort community, and has remained within the 6,650 resident housing bed units allocated through Whistler2020 as a maximum for new housing.

As preferred by the majority of the community in 2004, community vibrancy has been maintained by securing resident housing within the existing corridor between Function Junction and Emerald Estates. This type of relatively compact development has avoided excessive urban sprawl into natural areas, reduced commuter congestion on the highway, and helped to reduce Whistler’s greenhouse gas emissions. New development locations preserve important open space and natural buffers that maintain the mountain character and ecological systems. Enhancements, upgrades and renovations have kept Whistler’s neighbourhoods appealing and liveable… download the entire Vision Document