The City of Port Moody commissioned CitySpaces Consulting to provide community engagement planning, conceptual development scenarios and strategic advice, collectively identified as a City Land Strategy Initiative, on the City’s Community Investment Plan. This City Land Strategy Initiative centred on three sites and involved three separate community engagement events. The first was a Community Fair Ideas Fair that focused on the most integral component of the City Land Strategy Initiative. Which was the potential sale or lease of a City-owned land assemblage (the current Works Yard and former Fire Hall sites) to fund amenity and infrastructure requirements identified in Council’s 2015 – 2018 Strategic Plan. This Fair provided for participant input on the different funding mechanisms available, including the sale/lease of the referenced lands, thoughts on three conceptual development scenarios, pedestrian, urban realm and community benefits that could accompany redevelopment.
The second Community Ideas Fair of the City Land Strategy Initiative was designed to seek input and ideas from the community on the redevelopment of the Kyle Centre, which included interior spaces and programming, and the redevelopment opportunities for the surrounding City-owned lands. This event also provided feedback on three conceptual development options.
The third event of the City Land Strategy Initiative was an Open House to seek input from participants plans to relocate the current Public Works Yard to the former Barnet Landfill site. The Open House also presented residents with the opportunity to share their thoughts on the remediation of the former Barnet Landfill site and the subsequent relocation of the Works Yard.
The City Land Strategy Initiative was a comprehensive process that incorporated a large spectrum of community planning and development consulting areas of practice. From concept development to public engagement to report writing and strategic advice, the City Land Strategy Initiative provided the City with a sound foundation to advance the City’s Community Investment Plan.
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