The City of North Vancouver is currently undertaking a review of its Official Community Plan – or in less bureaucratic terms, it’s engaging the citizenry in ‘City Shaping’.
Given the City Of North Vancouver (NVC)’s often precedent-setting achievements in planning, district energy and design, I was pleased to be asked to give an opening address a few weeks ago at the launch of this next stage in community involvement.
It’s a challenge to condense all the issues that have to be considered when contemplating the future of an urban area (and then translating them into a legal document). So I chose three themes: Affordability (of course), Sustainability, and Activability (which you can find out about by checking the video.) Plus a few other thoughts at the end of this half-hour presentation (with no PowerPoint!):
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