City adopts Major Facilities Roadmap and Sports Field Strategy for future development
Coquitlam has introduced two pivotal planning documents aimed at steering the city’s park, recreation, culture, and facility development over the next 10 to 30 years.
The City Council officially endorsed the Major Facilities Roadmap and the 2025 – 2035 Sports Field Strategy on Monday. These documents symbolize a significant advancement in Coquitlam’s dedication to extensive community-centric planning regarding infrastructure and sports services.
Earlier this year, the Major Facilities Roadmap was presented to the council. It serves as a blueprint for the long-term evolution, enhancement, and optimization of Coquitlam’s civic amenities, which encompass arts and culture venues, sports and community recreation sites, and public safety facilities.
The Roadmap is governed by four planning principles, which are designed to guide decision-making and secure the necessary investment in essential facilities for Coquitlam’s residents now and in the future.
The principles include maintaining existing aging facilities, enhancing and expanding current buildings, constructing new facilities to meet community growth, and exploring partnership opportunities that might arise over a 30-year period.
Organized into 10-year increments, the roadmap provides a flexible timeline for addressing the city’s facility needs rather than serving as a fixed plan. The document can be accessed via coquitlam.ca/FacilitiesRoadmap.
Likewise, the Sports Field Strategy, previously presented this year, outlines a vision to improve, sustain, and enhance sport field infrastructure within the forthcoming decade through five key objectives.
The objectives focus on maintaining quality infrastructure, ensuring equity and access for all, providing diverse opportunities, fostering collaboration, and employing data-driven decision-making.
The strategy’s goals aim to optimize the physical and managerial aspects of Coquitlam’s sports fields, prioritizing renovation of existing fields and forming regional partnerships to bolster field availability. The full document is available at coquitlam.ca/PRCplans.
Following review by the council, both draft plans underwent public consultations, including key stakeholders like the Sport and Recreation Advisory Committee and Cultural Services Advisory Committee. Feedback from these consultations was incorporated into the final revisions.
With these strategic documents in place, Coquitlam now possesses a comprehensive vision to guide future civic investments and infrastructure developments, ultimately delivering superior services in sports, arts, public safety, and community programs.
For further information about the plans, visit coquitlam.ca/PRCplans.