Design Workshop Detailed Agenda & TeamJanuary 12-14, 2012

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Master PlanIn 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

Tornado Path

Central Focus

Court HousePark

Nelson St

East StWest St

Elgin Ave E

Anglesea St

Britannia Rd

South StNorth St

Victoria St

Bayfield Rd

Elgin Ave W

Huron Rd

Eldon St

Cambria Rd

Blake St

Bennett St

Wellington St

Suncoast Dr

Saltford Rd

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The following is an outline of the focus of each day and sequence of activities.

Day 1: Thursday, January 12, 2012Vision & 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.

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

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.

Vision&

Principles

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Master PlanDay 2: Friday, January 13, 2012Guiding 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-in-

progress 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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Day 3: Saturday, January 14, 2012Plans & 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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Master PlanProject Team

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 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 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.

Dan

Donna

Wai Ying

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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 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 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.

Harold

Rick

David

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Master PlanRon 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 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.

Michael

Ron

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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 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 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

Max

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Master PlanCarl 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 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.

Carl

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Steering Committee Members

Deb Shewfelt

John Grace

Michele Hansen

Mark Hussey

Christopher Spaleta

Larraine Baechler

Donny Rivers

Bob Davis

Judi Walters

Tom Jasper

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