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STADIUM NEIGHBOURHOOD PUBLIC CONSULTATION • Provide Opportunities to Share Your Ideas and Help Shape This Process from Fall 2 Welcome! Join us in shaping UBC’s next neighbourhood… Stadium Neighbourhood is a chance to build on the success of the past, shape an inspiring new future, and contribute to UBC’s excellence in research, learning and engagement. THIS 18-MONTH PLANNING PROCESS WILL: • Provide opportunities to share your ideas and help • Create a detailed plan that sets direction for housing shape this process from Fall 2017 until Spring 2019 types, amenities, academic and recreational uses, • Develop scenarios and options that will be used as open spaces, transportation connections and more tools identifying opportunities and soliciting input • Determine the location of a new Thunderbird Stadium PHASE 1 | FALL 2017 we are PHASE 4 | W INTER 2018/2019 2019 TO 2021 Guiding Principles + Terms of Reference here Neighbourhood Plan finalized STADIUM DESIGN + CONSTRUCTION PHASE 2 | SPRING 2018 PHASE 3 | SUMME R TO FALL 2018 BEGINS 2022 Key Directions and Scenarios Neighbourhood Plan Options NEIGHBOURHOOD CONSTRUCTION Share Your Ideas and Insights In this phase, we are seeking your input on How You Can Participate key directions and scenarios for planning the Use sticky notes to share your feedback on: future neighbourhood. We want to know how • The Plan Scenarios • What’s Important our ideas match your vision for the future and the Big Moves to You? neighbourhood. Your experience and insight Complete a survey here or online at April 15, 2018 can help us understand what can work, what is planning.ubc.ca/stadium missing, and where we should strive to do better. Join us for a deeper conversation at the Ideas Workshop on April 7, 12-4 pm Engagement Principles All of our consultation processes are guided by our Engagement Principles. These principles define how we engage the public and campus community in an open conversation about the design, implementation and conclusion of public engagement. STADIUM NEIGHBOURHOOD PUBLIC CONSULTATION About Stadium Neighbourhood is an opportunity to complete the South Campus, connect neighbourhoods and destinations, and create a next generationSCHEDULESCHEDULE A - LAND A USE - LAND sustainablePLAN USE PLAN community. PacificSpirit PacificSpirit Acadia Road Acadia Road Park Park Regional Regional Stadium is one of eight neighbourhoods University Lands University Lands SCHEDULE A - LAND USE PLAN Endowment Endowment identified in the UBC Land Use Plan. We develop Wesbrook Mall Wesbrook Mall Wesbrook Mall Wesbrook Mall PacificSpirit Park Acadia Road Regional Chancellor Blvd Chancellor Blvd campus neighbourhoods in order to create East Mall East Mall University Lands Endowment Main Mall Main Mall vibrant, sustainable and complete communities; Wesbrook Mall Wesbrook Mall Stadium Road Stadium Road Agronomy Road Agronomy Road NW Marine Drive Marine NW Drive Marine NW West Mall ThunderbirdWest Blvd Mall Thunderbird Blvd Chancellor Blvd West 16th Avenue West 16th Avenue University Boulevard University Boulevard Lower Mall Lower Mall SW Marine Drive SW Marine Drive to provide a place for the UBC community to East Mall Main Mall Pacific Pacific live, work, learn and play; and to build a financial Spirit Spirit Park Park Regional Regional Park 500 500 Spirit 0 0 Stadium Road Regional Regional Agronomy Road Pacific NW Marine Drive Marine NW West Mall Thunderbird Blvd Fraser River Fraser River m m West 16th Avenue University Boulevard Legend Legend Lower Mall SW Marine Drive endowment to support UBC’s academic mission. 500 UBC'sm VancouverUBC's Campus Vancouver CampusStadium NeighbourhoodStadium Planning Neighbourhood Area Planning Area Wesbrook Mall Academic Academic Village Centre AcademicVillage Centre Academic PacificSpirit Park Regional Acadia Road 0 500 0 Greenm Academic Green Academic Neighbourhood HousingNeighbourhood Area Housing Area SCHEDULEFraser River A - LAND USE PLAN Legend SW Marine Drive West 16th Avenue 16th West UBC's Vancouver Campus Stadium NeighbourhoodRoad Stadium Planning Area Academic Wesbrook Mall Village Centre Academic Lands University University Endowment Endowment Thunderbird Blvd Thunderbird Green Academic NeighbourhoodRoad Agronomy Housing AreaStadium Neighbourhood Planning Area East Mall Village Centre Academic Main Mall Neighbourhood Housing Area Fraser River West Mall Lower Mall University Boulevard University Chancellor Blvd Chancellor Park Spirit Regional Regional Pacific Pacific NW Marine Drive Marine NW Guiding Principles East Mall UBC's Vancouver Campus Main Mall Academic Legend Wreck Beach Green Academic Neighbourhood planning at UBC W est Mall FP Innovations is guided by the following set of Thunderbird Park Hawthorn Place Rhodo Woods principles, which were adopted Wesbrook Place by the UBC Board of Governors in St. John Hospice December 2017. These principles Botanical Garden SW Marine Dr ve est 16th A reflect what we heard in Phase 1 of W the consultation process and are UBC Farm part of the Terms of Reference for the Stadium Neighbourhood. 1. Build long-term value 4. Be a great neighbour 7. Promote a high efficiency and low Be responsible stewards of Respect and contribute to impact transportation network the land and ensure the long- the livability and desirability Manage increased demands on term social, economic and of established and new the transportation network by environmental sustainability of the neighbourhoods. prioritizing walking, cycling and university. 5. Use the site to shape the place transit, and reducing reliance on 2. Prioritize affordable living Allow the surrounding natural and the car. Plan and design for affordability cultural features of the campus to 8. Design for flexibility and and access, aligned with the shape new development. resilience Housing Action Plan directions and 6. Enhance the ecology & Balance the needs of today with implementation. reduce our carbon footprint adaptability for the future. 3. Create a community for & of UBC Embrace whole systems thinking 9. Engage the campus community & Help build a thriving campus and move towards resource stakeholders in a meaningful way community that supports local self-sufficiency. Achieve a high level of needs first, enhances well-being, community participation in this and attracts and retains university process, consistent with Campus talent. and Community Planning’s Engagement Principles. STADIUM NEIGHBOURHOOD PUBLIC CONSULTATION Process We are into the second phase of the Stadium Neighbourhood planning process and we need your input and insights. we are here PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3 PHASE 4 Setting the Stage Key Directions Option Development Finalize Plan Fall 2017 + Scenarios + Evaluation Winter 2019 Phase 1 Consultation Create a green development, which encourages An ideal location for a second transit hub on campus. The community through activity and places main transit hub is relatively to linger. far for all neighborhoods at this end. Strongly recommended! Has to meet the needs of the UBC community – a ordable accessible flexible. HOW CAN WE PLAN FOR A GREAT COMMUNITY AT STADIUM ROAD? In the first phase, we listened to the community on the current experience of living at UBC and priorities for the We are looking to understand what activities and spaces can future neighbourhood. What we heard was included in support and foster an active community life and we want your help. our Guiding Principles and informed the plan scenarios. We want to hear from you about: • How we can plan for a livable • How to plan for an innovative Who We Heard From and inclusive community. community, including leveraging UBC’s research • How to plan a neighbourhood We have many stakeholders in neighbourhood community and facilities, to that benefits from, and planning at UBC. For Stadium Neighbourhood, we create a unique place that contributes to, its natural supports intellectual and have a Planning Advisory Committee with neighbourhood environment. neighbourhood life. resident, faculty, student, and staff representatives, We see a number of important opportunities on this site: we held open houses to engage faculty, students • Increasing non-market • Integrating the neighbourhood and neighbourhood residents, and we engaged housing options (above with the UBC Botanical representatives from the Botanical Garden, UNA, the Housing Action Plan Garden through public space, UBC Athletics, and the Musqueam First Nation. To learn commitments) for faculty, landscape, and rainwater staff, and students management design more visit planning.ubc.ca/stadium • Moving towards carbon • Using food and the food What We Heard neutrality for new development cycle (including a role for UBC Farm) as an opportunity • Using a new stadium as Based on what we heard, we revised the guiding to support social gathering, a catalyst for community health, and sustainability principles. We also identified some big challenges to be well-being addressed through the planning process, including the More ideas are presented here: on how we live, move, and care for high cost of housing, the value of the natural environment, our place and each other. and the need for better transportation options. Building on what we heard, we have developed planning scenarios to identify and illustrate different ideas of POTENTIAL LAND USE AMENDMENT how Stadium Neighbourhood could be designed. These scenarios, and the big moves they contain, are presented UBC’s Land Use Plan is a general guide to how the campus evolves. here for your review and input. We will use your feedback Through the Stadium Neighbourhood Plan, we’re exploring changes to to inform the development of detailed plan options.
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