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  • 1.  Examples of equity considerations in AM planning

    Posted 30-04-2022 01:58
    The City of Ottawa is continuing to explore how we can incorporate equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations into our asset management planning. I viewed an IPWEA webinar from last year that had a great example from Portland, and I am hoping to find other examples.

    Does anyone have good examples from Canada or elsewhere of cities that have incorporated equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations into their asset management planning?

    Robert

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    Robert Grimwood
    City of Ottawa
    Senior Engineer, Strategic Asset Management
    Ottawa ON
    Canada
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  • 2.  RE: Examples of equity considerations in AM planning

    Posted 04-05-2022 00:50
    Hi Robert,

    Thanks for linking the webinar, I'm always interested in seeing how other cities and regions meaningfully incorporate DEI considerations.

    These two references are more broad, but I found Seattle Public Utilities has a good overview of how they incorporate equity planning and analysis in their work: https://www.seattle.gov/utilities/protecting-our-environment/community-programs/environmental-justice-and-service-equity/equity-planning-and-analysis

    Metro Vancouver, our regional authority in Vancouver, also has a study from last year about social equity and regional growth: http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/regional-planning/PlanningPublications/MVSocialEquity-RegionalGrowthStudy.pdf. I think this was a good overview for me to look at the different kinds of indicators that could be used to make decisions.

    Sushmitha

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    Sushmitha Karunakaran
    City of Vancouver
    Civil Engineer
    Vancouver BC
    Canada
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