Master Plan Design Workshop Detailed Agenda & Team January 12-14, 2012
Design Workshop Detailed Agenda
aster Plan In the wake of the tornado that ripped through the Town on August 21, 2011, the Town of Goderich is leading an initiative to prepare a Master Plan for the re-building and a landscape design for Court House Park. The goal of the initiative is to prepare an urban design vision and implementation plan for public and private redevelopment in the tornado-affected areas and to prepare a park plan to guide the rehabilitation of Court House Park. The Town has retained a team led by The Planning Partnership (www.planpart.ca). The Planning Partnership is a firm of landscape architects, architects and planners who have prepared Downtown Master Plans and park plans for communities across the Province. They will be assisted by specialists in transportation from Poulos & Chung, retail and commercial strategies from Urban Metrics and heritage from Carl Bray & Associates. Central to the preparation of the Goderich Master Plan and Park Plan is the Design Workshop taking place over 3 days on January 12, 13 and 14, 2012 at the Royal Canadian Legion. The Design Workshop will be a multi-day consultation event during which the team will set up a temporary design studio in the Royal Canadian Legion and develop the framework of the Goderich Master Plan and Park Plan working in consultation with the community. The Workshop includes a series of round table discussions, drop in centres, workshops, presentations and one-on-one meetings.
Study Area Cambria Rd
Victoria St
North St
Anglesea St
Central Focus Nelson St
Court House Park West St
East St Salt
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Elgin Ave E
Elgin Ave W Wellington St
Britannia Rd Bayfield Rd
South St
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Blake St
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Bennett St
Suncoast Dr
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Master Plan The following is an outline of the focus of each day and sequence of activities.
Vision & Principles
Day 1: Thursday, January 12, 2012 Vision & Principles The focus of the first day will be on developing the overarching vision and fundamental principles that will form the foundation of the Goderich Master Plan and Park Plan. In order to develop the vision and principles, we will conduct sequential working sessions. Each session will begin with an introductory presentation where we will share our understanding of the existing condition, opportunities, challenges, case studies and precedents. Following the presentation, The Planning Partnership will lead each group through a discussion aimed at identifying the fundamental principles that should underpin the Plans and a statement that capture the overarching vision of Downtown and Court House Park.
Guiding Frameworks
On Day 1 of the Workshop, the team will be joined by Rowan Faludi, an expert in retail and commercial development strategies from Urban Metrics. While meetings are taking place, some members of the team will be conducting their on-site inventory and will be preparing analysis maps and diagrams. 10:00 am to noon Round table working session with the Steering Committee Noon to 2:00 pm Round table working session with the BIA and Chamber of Commerce
Plans & Guidelines
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Working sessions with Environment Committee and Heritage Committee, and one-on-one meetings with tornado affected landowners 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Round table working session with Community Economic Revitalization Committee and drop in for Councillors 7:00 pm Public Workshop Following the presentation, participants will be invited to work in table groups to identify principles and overarching visions for the Master Plan and Court House Park.
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Design Workshop Detailed Agenda
aster Plan Day 2: Friday, January 13, 2012 Guiding Frameworks The focus of the second day is on preparing plans that identify the “broad strokes” - the big ideas that will shape Day 3’s details of the Master Plan and Park Plan. The team will be exploring ideas that will set the broad framework for urban design, public space, trails, streets and parking, landscape, heritage and economic development. They will also begin to prepare the framework for implementation of the Goderich Master Plan. On Day 2 of the Workshop, the team will be joined by Carl Bray, a specialist is heritage planning and Nick Poulos, a specialist in transportation. 9:00 am - Noon Team’s working session Noon - 2:00 pm Round table working session with the Steering Committee to review work-inprogress on the Guiding Frameworks 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Working session with Heritage Committee, one-on-one meetings with tornado affected landowners, and drop in for Councillors 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Round table working session with the BIA and Chamber of Commerce to review work-in-progress on the Guiding Frameworks 5:30 pm Public Workshop Following the presentation, participants will be invited to work in table groups to review the work-in-progress on the Guiding Frameworks
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Master Plan Day 3: Saturday, January 14, 2012 Plans & Guidelines The focus of the final day is on developing the plans and guidelines that will form the Goderich Master Plan and Park Plan. The plans and guidelines will be based on the vision and principles developed during Day 1 and the guiding frameworks developed during Day 2. This is primarily a day of designing for the team during which anyone is welcome to drop in to review our work-in-progress. The team will arrange for one-on-one meetings with Town staff or others as required to resolve aspects of the plans or guidelines as they evolve. The team will prepare a final presentation that summarizes the outcome of the three day Workshop. 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Team working session Noon - 3:30 pm One-on-one meetings as required by the Team Noon - 3:30 pm Drop in to review work-in-progress 4:00 pm Final Workshop Public Presentation
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Design Workshop Detailed Agenda
aster Plan Project Team
Dan
Dan Leeming
BA, Dip CP, MES, FCIP, RPP
Project Manager Dan is a partner of The Planning Partnership and has led the design and development of new towns and various sizes of planned communities for private and public agencies throughout Ontario and the United States over his 35 years of experience. His areas of expertise include community planning, from regional to neighbourhood scale with the application of sustainable initiatives to create meaningful and complete communities while satisfying the needs of the marketplace. As an active and founding member of the Urban Design Working Group within the Ontario Professional Planners Institute, as well as the new national organization on Canadian Urbanism (CanU), he is currently a member of the Toronto Urban Design Review Board, the Mississauga Urban Design Advisory Panel, in addition to the Canadian LEED-ND review committee.
Wai Ying
Wai Ying Di Giorgio
BLA, OALA
Project Coordinator Wai Ying is an Urban Designer / Landscape Architect with The Planning Partnership. Her experience in the area of urban design includes the preparation of community plans and urban design guidelines for secondary plans, blocks plans and site specific plans. Wai Ying also has extensive experience in landscape architecture and has been involved in designs for parks, streetscapes, commercial sites, institutional sites and mixed-use developments.
Donna
Donna Hinde
BES, MLA, OALA, FCSLA
Workshop Facilitator and coordinator of consultation Donna Hinde is a partner at The Planning Partnership. She is the past president of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects and a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. She has managed design projects for urban centres, waterfronts, parks and streetscapes for the past 30 years. Donna leads the design and facilitation of consultation for all of the firm’s design projects. Her approach is founded on innovative methods of involving business operators, property owners, organized interest groups, residents and municipal staff in decision making. Frustrated by the typical methods of securing input, she developed an open and collaborative approach to design targeted to involve everyone with a stake in the project. Now, she is regularly called upon to provide specialist assistance in consultation for a variety of agencies and other consultants.
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Master Plan
Harold
Harold Madi Urban Design Harold is a partner at The Planning Partnership with an extensive urban planning and urban design background. His insightful, ‘big picture’ perspective on all aspects of urbanism from regional policy to streetscape design has helped him lead large, multi-faceted and visionary projects. With over 18 years of experience gained across Canada and abroad, Harold has developed a respected expertise in master planning, revitalization, intensification and urban design strategies and guidelines for a variety of contexts and scales, including campuses, downtowns, main streets and waterfronts.
Rick
Rick Merrill
BArch, MSc, OAA, MCIP, RPP
Building Typologies Rick is a Partner and urban designer at The Planning Partnership. Rick is trained and has practiced as both an architect and a planner for over 35 years. Rick is well recognized for his skills in developing urban design guidelines, community design plans and architectural controls. Rick is ideally suited to projects that combine design and planning experience. Rick has worked on projects ranging from the design of office, residential and mixed-use buildings to the planning and design new communities to infill housing.
David
David Leinster
BLA, OALA, FCSLA, OPPI, MCIP
Court House Park David Leinster is a partner with The Planning Partnership and leads the landscape architecture group. He is a Past President of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, a Fellow of the CSLA and currently sits on the City of Toronto’s Public Art Advisory Committee, is the Chair of the City of Ottawa’s Urban Design Review Panel and is on the Regent Park Design Review Panel. He has served as a juror for both the City of Ottawa’s and the City of Vaughan’s urban design awards programs and a juror on the City of Toronto Urban Design Awards Jury. Currently he is leading a number of cutting edge public realm projects including the West Don Public Realm Plan for Waterfront Toronto and also the lead landscape architect for the John Street nd the Front Street Environmental Assessments. He recently prepared the public realm strategy for the King-Spadina Secondary Plan and Urban Design Guidelines and a public realm improvement strategy for the Yorkville BIA. David was the Partner in charge and lead designer for a number of park and open space projects in Toronto with strong heritage components, including Victoria Memorial Square, Clarence Square and Wychwood Carbarns Park.
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Design Workshop Detailed Agenda
aster Plan Ron
Ron Palmer
BES, MCIP, RPP
Planning Implementation Ron is a land use and policy planner and a partner with The Planning Partnership. He has over 25 years of experience managing major multidisciplinary planning projects, with a focus in implementation strategies and planning policy. Ron is recognized for his skill in preparing multi-faceted planning policies to implement the firm’ s award winning projects. Most recently he was a project manager on the Houston Urban Corridors project (CSLA, ASLA Awards) and the Markham Environmental Policy Review (CSLA). Other current/recent projects include the Town of Aurora Official Plan Review, Official Plan Reviews for the City of Orillia and the Town of Grimsby, and the Oakville Uptown Core Plan Review. Ron is a current member of the Board of Directors, and chair of the Planning Preservation and Urban Design Committee of the Bloor-Yorkville Business Improvement Area.
Michael
Michael Ormston-Holloway
BSc, MScP, GDHort, MLA, ISA Certified Arborist
Forestry Michael works as both a landscape designer and urban ecologist. His background in biological and ecological sciences provides a strong scientific knowledge set that we apply to our projects to inform our designs with increased attention to the natural environment. We believe that a detailed understanding of the biotic realm of landscape architecture, and a strong understanding of planting design, ensures a more valuable landscape experience. Michael obtained a Bachelor of Science in plant biology, and a Master of Science in forest ecology, and continued to work as a scientist in the forestry and ecology industries; practising in Canada, the USA, and across the Lesser Antilles. Following these experiences, he embraced sustainable design and worked in academic institutions promoting agroforestry in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, before returning to complete a Master of Landscape Architecture, where he received the CSLA Award of Merit, for a distinguished academic record, outstanding imagination, and innovation and ingenuity in the LA field. During this course of study he shifted his attention to the urban environment; striving to better integrate the natural and built form of cities in a sustainable and resilient manner.
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Master Plan
Max
Max Kerrigan
BES, MLA
Support Max is a landscape designer with a background in urban design and planning. He has experience working at a range of scales, from residential design and implementation to master planning and community design. Max has gained invaluable experience working in both the private and public sectors in landscape construction, landscape design and urban design in Toronto, as well as working as a city planner in Whitehorse, Yukon. In Whitehorse, Max was involved in the design and development of a number of community planning projects, as well as being heavily involved in the drafting and implementing of new comprehensive zoning for new neighbourhoods ensuring environmentally and socially responsible community design.
Brett
Brett
BSc, MLA
Support Brett is a designer with The Planning Partnership with professional experience in site and transportation design. He has professional degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Arizona and Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto and his professional experience has been shared between conceptual design, site planning, detailed landscape design, and transportation planning and design. Brett’s park and open space portfolio includes design and tender drawing preparation for parks and public spaces throughout Southern Ontario and Canada, including the Martin Goodman Trail at Ontario Place, Warden Hilltop Community Centre in Scarborough, Mississauga Civic Square, York University Commons, Windfield Farm Community in Oshawa, and the University of Saskatchewan College Quarter.
Nick
Nick Poulos
PEng
Transportation Poulos & Chung will provide the Team with practical transportation advise for the Strategic Plan study area that will enhance its connectivity and accessibility to the wider community.Nick is a Partner of Poulos & Chung and has over 30 years of experience in transportation planning and traffic engineering. As one of Ontario’s leading experts in these disciplines, he is able to direct the effective and efficient delivery of transportation solutions. His advice is sought in the planning of communities, major developments, development of policy and planning initiatives and the delivery of infrastructure investment. Nick will advise on all transportation issues and conduct the review of the Downtown and Waterfront Parking Strategy
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Design Workshop Detailed Agenda
aster Plan Carl
Carl Bray
BLA, MUD, Phd, OALA, CSLA, CAHP, MCIP, RPP
Heritage As a landscape architect, heritage planner and urban designer, Dr. Bray has extensive experience in small town revitalization projects. He has lived and worked in small towns across Canada and in the UK and his Masters and Doctoral research focused on the urban morphology and revitalization practices of small towns in both those countries. His work preparing Heritage Conservation District Plans includes the villages of Barriefield (Kingston), Queenston (NOTL), Brooklin (Whitby), and Orillia. He has contributed to revitalization plans for the Cobalt National Historic Mining District and led a team preparing an urban design plan for the rejuvenation of Cobalt’s historic downtown. In previous consultancies, he has prepared downtown revitalization plans for towns in the Peace River Region (Alberta) as part of the Devonian Main Street Alberta program, for similar programs throughout the Maritimes, and worked as a citizens’ group organizer and urban designer for residents’ groups in the historic oil town of Petrolia (ON). As well as being born and raised in small towns, he lived and worked in the historic town of Perth (ON) and contributed to many revitalization projects there and in towns throughout the Rideau Corridor.
Rowan
Rowan Faludi
CMC, MCIP, RPP
Retail and Commercial Strategies With over 20 years of consulting experience. Rowan has a diverse skill set, including economic impact analysis, municipal finance, commercial needs analysis, economic development, and tourism strategies. His recent downtown projects have included a Downtown Economic Analysis for the City of Peterborough, a Downtown Business Attraction Strategy for the City of Belleville, and a Downtown Master Plan for the City of Lethbridge, Alberta.Rowan has also recently led several major commercial sector and land use studies for a number of municipalities, including Oakville, Windsor, London, Waterloo, Vaughan, and Kingston.
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Master Plan Steering Committee Members
Steering Committee
Deb Shewfelt John Grace Michele Hansen Mark Hussey Christopher Spaleta Larraine Baechler Donny Rivers Bob Davis Judi Walters Tom Jasper
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