Future Aspirations

View the future that Maroochy Shire's

residents desire...

More than a wish list, community visions chart out how our future is achievable.  They also sketch the future according to priorities defined by the community (ie Key Focus Areas).

To gather the future aspirations - 'visions' - of Maroochy's communities, some 44,000 residents were surveyed and polled.  A Community Task Force (a body of 32 representative residents) was then established.  This Task Force crafted the Vision Statement by carefully sorting and blending communities' responses.

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What is

Visioning?

What are Maroochy's Key Focus Areas?

What was the role of the Community Task

Force?

Maroochy's 2025 Core Vision Statement
Key Focus Area: Our valued natural environ- ment	Key Focus Area: Our healthy vibrant inclusive learning commun- ities	Key Focus Area: Our diverse transport infra- structure & mobility	Key Focus Area: Our responsible participatory decision- making and foresight	Key Focus Area: Our smartly managed rural and urban growth	Key Focus Area: Our innovative and diverse economy
Key Vision Ideas	Key Vision Ideas	Key Vision Ideas	Key Vision Ideas	Key Vision Ideas	Key Vision Ideas

Local children participating in an action planning workshop

In the Core Vision Statement of Maroochy Shire, the future scene is of a self-aware, empowered and 'connected' community.  It is a community proud of its unique 'Bush and Beach' culture.  The community sees this culture as its primary source of wellbeing - economically and spiritually. During the visioning process, images and metaphors were also collected on the communities' underlying values - its 'deeper story'.

Through these images, a journey from the present to the future was constructed around six identified priority areas (KFAs).  For each focus area there were five major Key Vision Ideas (KVIs).  These provide greater detail on Maroochy's preferred future.

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To make this portal into the future more tangible, a 'day in the life of' narrative was devised: We were taken into Maroochy Shire in 2025 through the fictional diary of Maroochy resident Amy Lee.

 

Maroochy 2025 Community Task Force

Book Two: Future Aspirations * Section 4: Introduction to the Community Vision explains the various components of the Community Vision Statement . * Section 5: Maroochy's 2025 Community Vision records the actual Maroochy 2025 Vision Statement, and accompanying visions for each of the six Key Focus Areas . * Section 6: Journey to Our Visions of the Future documents a journey into our preferred future and details the major challenges impeding the realisation of our key visions, as well as strategies by which we may be able to realise this preferred future . * Section 7: Our Deeper Story presents Maroochy Shire's prevailing metaphor, the deeper story, that drives its community to create a better future.  This is expressed in the form of a fictional 'Letter from the future' .. back to top