I thought I would restart this thread since I was doing some research that lead me to the City of Regina's homepage. They are doing a new regional plan, called Design Regina. But on the website, they had this great program where there was a list of priorities (I'm assuming based on their vision) which you could rate in importance (high to low) and then based on how you felt the on transportation and development options - it gave you the trade offs to achieve what you visioned. It was quite an interesting exercise, because it shows you the trade offs of sprawl versus compact form.
Here is the link to their website...it's pretty cool and I encourage you to try it. It's a program like this I'd like to see incorporated for the regional plan process when a new one is required.