CitySpaces Consulting, with the support from Boulevard Transportation Group and Matthew Roddis, Urban Design, carried out a main street design workshop on behalf of the District of Lantzville as part of the Village Core Improvement Plan. The focus of the design workshop concentrated on Lantzville Road in the District of Lantzville, on Vancouver Island. For the purpose of this work, the village core was defined as the area from Caillet Road, in the southeast, to Costing Hall, in the northwest. The workshop was an interactive and participatory session with stakeholder representatives.
The Design Workshop is a key step in the development of a Village Commercial Core Improvement Plan. Bringing the Select Committee together with staff and external design experts, allowed the Committee to revisit some of the ideas that had been emerging through Committee meetings and public consultation, and think about them in an integrated way, putting pen to paper and taking the step towards creating a concept plan. The workshop, and the broader plan that will emerge from it, will feed into an iterative process of community planning and change:
The visioning and design workshop identified three key goals:
- Gather knowledge and local understanding
- Identify key interests, goals, and ideas, or principles; and
- Develop vignettes, sketches, and plans to communicate directions or ideas related to context, connections, the pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular environment and character.
PROJECT TEAM:
Shelley Gadsden Palmer