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Whether or not all the efforts are being effective will
be determined, Mackin said, by a would-be increase in
annual development permits and their collective value,
by metrics that are in place to measure the economy’s
diversity and by rises or dips housing starts. The feder-
al census counts of 2016 and 2021 will ultimately be
indicative of growth strategy success as well, he said.
“This was our step back and pause year, to get ready,”
Mackin said. “Now we need to start pushing the enve-
lope and looking at the sort of the dashboard metrics
that’ll determine how well we’re performing. The dy-
namics set forth in the strategic plan are making it an
exciting time here.”
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AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Town of Hinton
WHAT:
Municipality in Yellowhead County that
was formed by the amalgamation of the village
of Drinnan and the hamlet of Hinton in 1957; the
town was home to 9,640 residents at the time of
the 2011 federal census
WHERE:
West-central Alberta; about 286kilometers
west of theprovincial capital inEdmontonand80kilome-
ters northeast of Jasper
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