CMHC/SRHC - Working Group on Sustainable Community Planning

The November 17, 2000 meeting of the Working Group on Sustainable Community Planning highlighted municipal and professional perspectives regarding designing and building sustainable communities. The meeting included a presentation on the Headwaters Project, specifically, on what is required to maintain a vision for sustainable community planning and implement agreed upon principles. Click below for full summary.

http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/About/whwedo/nahoreco/sucopl_007.cfm

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GEORGIA BASIN ECOSYSTEM INITIATIVE - Stories From the Basin
"Surrey shifts sustainability status quo with neighbourhood concept plan"

- article by Geoff Gilliard

The need for more housing in Surrey brought developers and landowners together with government regulators, City of Surrey engineers and academics from UBC's James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments to create the farsighted East Clayton Neighbourhood Concept Plan (NCP). East Clayton, located in Surrey's South Newton district, will provide homes for over 13,000 people. When the NCP is completed, 20 years from now, it will be a new kind of suburban community where residents can stroll down tree lined streets to nearby shops or follow foot paths along salmon bearing streams.
Click below to see full story.

http://www.pyr.ec.gc.ca/GeorgiaBasin/stories_gbi/surrey_e.htm

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13 ACRES International Design Competition - Winners Announced

In May, 2001, an international and local jury convened in Vancouver to select three winning designs and honorable mentions for the 13-acres international design competition. The competition challenged designers to explore the schoolyard as a site for ecological rejuvenation, expression, and education. The sites for the competition were the two combined park/school sites in the community of East Clayton, which is the focus of the Headwaters Project, and one of the first sustainable demonstration communities in British Columbia. Here, the complexities of park landscape, educational programming, poetics, and ecological design come together in a powerful way to provide inspiration for creative propositions. Click below to see competition site and winning entries.

http://www.13-acres.org/winners.html

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