20/20 Strategic Plan
Local and Universal Challenges
As a context for planning, Grande Cache recognizes the need to identify both local and universal challenges, such as climate change, resource availability, globalization, demographic shifts and technology, will continue to have an impact on our community presenting both threats and opportunities.
As an example of these impacts climate change could have a fundamental impact on our current vision of creating Grande Cache as an international tourism destination and has already impacted plans for a ski hill and winter resort investment.
Community leaders, since early in the Town’s development, have faced significant challenges of boom to bust economic cycles. These economic patterns have over the long term greatly impacted the social fabric of the community and today permeate our culture and effect decision-making.
Other continuing pressures facing our community that are addressed in Grande Cache 20/20 are:
- Escalating housing prices and business costs, making Grande Cache unaffordable for some segments of the local population.
- Increasing demand to grow and expand all development zones of the community to facilitate current and emerging land needs whilst still maintain our uniqueness and small town feel.
- Changing climate, which may erode or prevent expansion of tourism development in the winter months.
- Dependence on increasingly costly natural resources.
- Health and social issues that result as a by-product of growth.
- Environmental threats to trails and wilderness opportunities by human buildup and competition for resources.
- Pine Beetle infestation which threatens our entire forest eco-systems.