Early in 2009, the City of Revelstoke obtained an SHSI Age-Friendly Community Planning Grant to assist the community to address two challenges: firstly, to ensure the new OCP is age-friendly and secondly, to consolidate and supplement previous planning initiatives to focus on the aging population. These challenges would be addressed through reviewing the OCP using age-friendly guidelines, and by completing an age-friendly plan to implement over the next 3 to 5 years that would provide future direction for the community and be incorporated into the OCP as part of its implementation strategy.