The Village of Lytton is seeking a qualified consulting firm to provide professional services for the development of a five-year (2027-2032) Economic Development Strategy.
The Successful Proponent shall have:
- extensive experience in Economic Development Strategy formulation in smaller BC communities
- experience in effective and responsive community engagement,
- the ability to formulate a clear set of priorities and actions that will support and advance a sustainable and resilient local economy through to 2031 and beyond.
- worked on similar strategies for communities that have declined due to the loss of a major employer, and/or external factors such as competing transportation corridors, natural disasters, or changing economies.
The Economic Development Strategy is to focus on economic drivers other than tourism, as tourism development was part of a Destination Development Plan completed in 2025 as well as several pre-fire regional plans.
The Village of Lytton is also currently working updating their Official Community Plan which will develop and implement the community vision and policy directions, and actions. The Economic Development Strategy will build upon the comprehensive and extensive engagement (and not duplicate) undertaken in the updating of the Official Community Plan (OCP).