A group of 40 Burnaby residents participated in a unique exercise called 'Burnabopoly' to help shape the city's future. Through this board game, they explored how to allocate a budget for the next 25 years, considering various public amenities and infrastructure projects. The insights gathered from this exercise will guide the development of Burnaby's next Official Community Plan.
Sitting around tables at Bonsor Community Centre in June, 40 Burnaby residents played the world première of the boardgame Burnabopoly. A large poster board listed an array of public amenities: community centres, public libraries, parks, green spaces, affordable housing and more. Then the playing cards were doled out. Each represented a different piece of community infrastructure – a destination playground; a theatre; a rec complex with pools and an NHL-sized ice rink – and a price.
Players must decide: given a budget for the next 25 years, what should they spend it on? It was one of many questions posed to the Burnaby Community Assembly, a group of Burnaby residents tasked with developing recommendations to council on how Burnaby should grow and change by 2050. The recommendations will guide the development of Burnaby’s next Official Community Plan, a critical map for the next 25 years of growth in the city. The assembly spent seven Saturdays this year from February to June listening to experts, and then discussing and debating what the city should look like come 2050. “It’s been really phenomenal just to see the creative energy that came out of everyone, all 40 assembly members,” Robin Prest, chair of the assembly, told the Burnaby NOW at the launch of the recommendations in July. Led by Prest’s SFU Centre for Dialogue, as part of a $150,000 three-year partnership with the city and Vancity, the community assembly is a new way to do democracy. Prest said the assembly members contributed about 2,500 person-hours to the process. “It just really speaks to the comprehensiveness and the quality and the grit and the work ethic that went into this and just – a bunch of people who really care about their community,” Prest said. The lottery Prest said the group of assembly members was “probably the most representative body of people you’ll find anywhere in Metro Vancouver.” The members were chosen by civic lottery, also called sortitio
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