Mountain Labyrinths Inc., HB Lanarc - Golder and George Penfold, MCIP are partnered to create a collaborative team approach. We believe that the best solutions in integrated community sustainability come from working across disciplines. As well, one of the primary objectives of the team is to engage local expertise and experience to the maximum extent possible, and to add the appropriate wisdom and experience from outside the community so as to optimize value for money for the community. Therefore, we have assembled a multi-disciplinary team with extensive local knowledge of Revelstoke, its community planning processes, environment, social sector and economy, as well as professional expertise in community sustainability, environmental inventory, rural economic planning, global forest production, tourism, land use planning and social development.
PROJECT CO-MANAGER, SOCIAL & ACTION PLAN LEAD, COMMUNITY ENAGEMENT CO-LEAD Cindy Pearce, Principal Mountain Labyrinths Inc., Revestoke, BC Cindy brings almost 20 years of experience in community and land use planning in Revelstoke and other rural areas in BC to the project – most of that as a resident of Revelstoke. She has been involved in nine major community planning processes during that time, the majority of them as the principal consultant. She has direct relationships with staff in most City departments, as well as the regulatory agencies and community organizations in Revelstoke. Her experience with climate change adaptation planning for rural forest based communities during the past five years will be relevant to the exploration of future scenarios for Revelstoke. Cindy is known for managing complex projects effectively, delivering well- designed community engagement and providing concise, thorough and actionable reports. Her project management experience in government, institutional and contracting settings with budgets in the millions is an asset to this team.
Cindy will co-manage the project in partnership with Peter Whitelaw at HB Lanarc. In addition, she will lead the social inventory, State of Sustainability reporting, and ICSP Action Plan components. She will be responsible for communications with the client and the project Steering Committee, and in partnership with Peter, co-lead the community outreach and engagement.
Most Relevant Experience Revelstoke Community Energy and Emissions Plan community engagement Author – Pathways to Climate Resilience: A Guidebook for Canadian Forest-based Communities for the Canadian Model Forest Network Revelstoke Official Community Plan compilation and editing Advisor to Columbia Basin Trust Communities Adapting to Climate Change Initiative
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Team leader for two Revelstoke Community Development Action Plan processes Appointed member of the Revelstoke Community Economic Development Commission (Volunteer)
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HB Lanarc - Golder is a full-service planning, design and landscape architecture firm specializing in sustainable communities. It is staffed with dozens of planners, landscape architects and related professionals in fields as diverse as community engagement, sustainable buildings, renewable energy, greenhouse gas reduction, food systems and public policy. HB Lanarc Consultants Ltd. joined with Golder Associates in June 2011 to bring clients a broader service package built to proactively address the challenges of our times – urbanization, infrastructure challenges, demographic shifts, climate change, food security, economic vitality, ecological integrity, energy security and engaged governance. Adding to HB Lanarc’s strengths, Golder Associates brings leading technical services in the geotechnical, environmental and energy fields.HB Lanarc - Golder has offices in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo, and Golder Associates has offices in BC, across Canada and worldwide.
Website: www.hblanarc.ca
PROJECT CO-MANAGER, SUSTAINABILITY LEAD, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CO-LEAD Peter Russell, BASc,MSC, MCIP, Senior Planner HB Lanarc – Golder, Vancouver, BC
An award-winning planner and experienced sustainability manager, Peter has a deep passion for addressing pressing planning issues while keeping an eye on long term community sustainability. Peter is implementation-oriented with proven success resulting from a focus on policy innovation, collaborative plan development, and meaningful public and stakeholder engagement. In 2011/12, Peter took a leave to work as a manager in both the sustainability offices of the City of Vancouver and the City of Surrey. In these roles, Peter worked with staff on a variety of sustainability issues and leading key initiatives such as a Community Energy and Emissions Plan, a Climate Adaptation Strategy and a Green Operations Strategy.
As a Senior Planner and Engagement Specialist at HB Lanarc-Golder, Peter’s main roles are twofold: leading or advising on land use and/or sustainability planning initiatives and designing and executing community engagement programs. In all his work, Peter focuses on building strong relationships with his clients, the public, advisory committees and stakeholders to ensure the best possible outcomes. Noteworthy projects include the award-winning Colwood + Langford Official Community Plans (OCP), the Campbell River Sustainable OCP and Integrated Community Sustainability Plan and the District of North Vancouver’s OCP engagement program.
Most Relevant Experience
Integrated Community Sustainability Plan, Campbell River, BC
Greenprint: Integrated Community Sustainability Plan, Markham, ON
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Sustainable Neighbourhood Plan, City of Dawson Creek, BC
Official Community Plan Review (Phase I), City of Kelowna, BC
Official Community PlanReview, Colwood and Langford, BC
ENVIRONMENT LEAD Rachael Jones, RPBIO Golder – Kamloops, BC Ms. Jones is an Aquatic Biologist with over 12 years accumulated experience in environmental reporting, permitting, research, assessment and monitoring throughout BC. She is a registered professional biologist in the Province of British Columbia. Ms. Jones was the Environmental Coordinator for the City of Surrey for over four years. In this capacity, she was extensively involved in both long range and short term environmental planning for the City, including review of and input into Integrated Stormwater Management Plans, Neighbourhood Concept Plans, and Master Drainage Plans. The position involved extensive liaison with members of the public, other municipalities within the Greater Vancouver Regional District, stakeholder groups, and senior agencies. In addition, Ms. Jones has extensive environmental consulting experience with regulatory processes, including liaison with federal, provincial and local agencies to solicit technical input and to facilitate timely procurement of environmental permits and approvals.
Most relevant experience: CEAA screening report for MOT road widening and overhead replacement at the Clanwilliam Overhead on Highway 1 west of Revelstoke.
Identification of permitting issues, requirements and constraints for Phase 2 of BC Hydro’s Arrow Lakes Reservoir: Wildlife Physical Works Feasibility Study.
Conducted an overview assessment of the Hyde Creek watershed in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam to facilitate development of an Integrated Watershed Management Plan.
City of Surrey Project Manager for the Salmon Habitat Restoration Program for several years. This project involved working with the community, regulatory agencies and stewardship groups to identify enhancement and restoration projects that could be completed by university and high school students.
Participated in the development of numerous Neighborhood Concept Plans while working for the City of Surrey.
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GEOTECHNICAL ADVISOR Matt Thibeault, P.Eng., Senior Geotechnical Engineer Golder, Kamloops, BC Mr. Thibeault is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer and an Associate in Golder’s Kamloops office, with 15 years of consulting experience. His area of expertise is in transportation corridor designs for highways and railways, bridge foundations, building foundations, rock/soil anchors, retaining walls, drainage and erosion protection assessments, geohazard assessments, landslide assessments, blasting, and slope stability assessments. Mr. Thibeault’s project experience includes both soil and rock work, and he has been involved with projects in most industry sectors including: land development, transportation, mining, oil and gas, power, manufacturing, water resource management, insurance, and forestry.
Most relevant experience: Williams Lake Fringe Area Official Community Plan, responsible for the geohazards component, including air photo terrain hazard mapping, steep slope hazards, landslide identification, falling rock hazards and the filed component to ground truth the desktop study.
Project manager for geotechnical investigation and design of government for 10 large community and commercial buildings in the Kamloops area
Project manager for geotechnical investigation and design of skateparks in Clearwater and Merritt Preliminary geotechnical investigation for proposed subdivision in Williams Lake
Field engineer and designer for Bella Coola Emergency Response Team
Project manager and designer for major highway and arterial road construction in the BC interior
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS ADVISOR David Van Seters, MBA, Sustainable Economics Practice Leader HB Lanarc – Golder, Vancouver, BC David Van Seters is an experienced business professional and environmental entrepreneur who is now applying his knowledge of business, finance, and economics to make the business/economic case for adopting higher standards of environmental and social performance in communities and organizations. Before joining Golder, David took on leadership roles both as the National Environmental Practice Leader for KPMG Canada (where he practiced for 5 years) and as the CEO of a number of green enterprises. David has launched three businesses, including an organic grocery home delivery service that is now the largest in North America.
For over 20 years, David has pursued his passion for sustainability and is continually seeking out ways to integrate social, environmental, and economic objectives to enhance social well-being and environmental integrity. He has extensive experience in the areas of sustainability planning, sustainable food systems, building energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, waste minimization, community sustainability, and sustainable business.
David has uniquely combined his biology and business administration education to apply innovative business tools such as full cost accounting, total cost assessment, ecological economics, and social
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Most relevant experience: Financial review of environmental costs, BC Government
Overview of environmental business strategies, Industry, Science and Technology Canada
Strategy to create a regional environment industry, Hamilton/Wentworth Regional District
Financial analysis of environmental performance, BC Hydro
Financing environmental sustainability, VanCity
Full cost accounting framework for the Southeast False Creek Flats, City of Vancouver
PROJECT SUPPORT Keltie Craig, MA (PLAN), MCIP, Planner HB Lanarc – Golder, Vancouver, BC Since joining HB Lanarc, Keltie has contributed to various municipal and regional plans including a comprehensive sustainability plan for Canada’s Capital Region and Port Coquitlam’s Environmental Strategic Plan. She recently completed the development of a Healthy Communities Practice Guide for the Canadian Institute of Planners. Her current work in public engagement includes community visioning as part of an OCP update in the Township of Langley, BC, and a city-wide strategic visioning project for the Vancouver Public Library. Keltie has also led a visioning workshop for a hospice in Nelson, BC, and various youth engagement processes throughout BC in Comox Valley, Victoria and Parksville.
Most Relevant Experience:
Choosing Our Future Sustainability and Resilience Plan for the National Capital Region, City of Ottawa, City of Gatineau and National Capital Commission
Environmental Strategic Plan, City of Port Coquitlam
Integrated Community Sustainability Plan, Town of Markham
Horizon 2067: The Plan for Canada’s Capital, National Capital Commission
Community Visioning for OCP update, Township of Langley
Active Transportation policy recommendations, Ladysmith Bike Plan update
Youth-related policy recommendations, Parksville OCP update
ECONOMIC STRATEGY LEAD Comox, BC George specializes in policy and program development and strategic solutions to change issues for regional and local communities and organizations in rural areas. His experience in community and
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Most relevant experience: City of Castlegar Chair, ICSP Steering Committee (volunteer)
Community Futures Kootenay Boundary Business Retention and Attraction Report
Community Futures Central Kootenay, Welcoming and Inclusive Communities and Workplaces Program
Selkirk College Economic Overview: West Kootenay Boundary, Regional economic and demographic overview report
BC Hydro Socio Economic Impact Assessment of Low Reservoir Elevation in the Arrow Lakes Reservoir
Columbia Basin Trust An Economic Development Assessment in the Columbia Basin
Alberni Clayoquot Regional District with Landworks Consulting, background information, consultation and develop a land and infrastructure use strategy for the Tofino/Ucluelet Airport in order to assist in making the airport operations financially viable.
Regional District of Mount Waddington, with Zimmermann Forest Products Ltd., business plan for a Community Salvage License
TOURISM AND AMENITY MIGRATION Dr. Nicole Vaugeois Vancouver Island University, Naniamo, BC Nicole is the Regional Innovation Chair in Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development at Vancouver Island University and Director of the World Leisure Center of Excellence in Sustainability and Innovation. Her work in Canada and internationally focusses on sustainable tourism, innovation in the tourism and leisure industry, and population migration to high amenity communities and regions. Her role as Regional Innovation Chair is to support rural communities throughout British Columbia to diversify through amenity based industries such as recreation and tourism by undertaking research and sharing knowledge and innovation with community leaders, operators and government agencies.
GLOBAL FOREST SECTOR and GLOBAL BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY Dr. David Cohen, Faculty of Forestry, UBC Vancouver, BC After working for the BC interior forest industry for over a decade David returned to school to complete a Bachelors and PhD in the US focusing on the business of wood products production and trade. Since 1989, he has been at UBC with much of his research focused on the forest industries in Canada, Japan and China, highlighting opportunities for Canadian businesses, particularly in value-added products. For
6 the past decade, his focus has shifted to sustainability and globalization such that he now teaches in both the Faculty of Forestry and the Sauder School of Business. He has acted as a consultant to many companies and government organizations in North America, New Zealand, China, Japan, and Europe.
SOCIAL PLANNING Scott Graham, Manager Research & Consulting Social Planning and Research Council of BC, Vancouver, BC Scott has led a diverse range of research and policy development projects in the interconnected fields of education, health and social development. He has served as lead researcher for several community based research projects, including a Canadian Council on Learning project that integrated St’át’imc knowledge systems into K-12 schools in Lillooet, BC. Scott has also authored several reports on poverty, including a report for the Canadian Council on Social Development that examined poverty policies in British Columbia over a thirty-year time frame. He has also led several consultancies for municipal, First Nations and regional governments. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Theory and Policy Studies in Education from the University of Toronto.
ENVIRONMENT DATA AND MAPPING Cooper Beauchesne and Associates LTD, Kootenay Office, Revelstoke, BC
Harry van Oort, MSC, RPBIO Harry completed his M.Sc in 2004 at UNBC, where he studied associations between habitat quality and the behavioural ecology of Black-capped Chickadees, a local species. In Harry’s sixteen years of experience, he has been working primarily in the fields of avian and large mammal biology. He has experience with large multi-year environmental impact assessments, and has worked on human/wildlife conflict studies. Since 2004 Harry’s has been based out of Revelstoke and he has contributed to many wildlife and avian research and management projects, including studies of mountain caribou populations, which have designated habitat on the City’s northeastern border; waterbird and shorebird monitoring, migrating songbird habitat use and nesting communities in the Revelstoke reach of the Arrow Lake reservoir; and wolf census surveys around Lake Revelstoke. He is thoroughly familiar with all the local agencies and staff involved in environmental management. Most of Harry’s current work is in the vicinity of Revelstoke, where he is now focused on mapping avian breeding communities in the lands around the City. Harry is also familiar with the other environmental monitoring projects being completed as part of the BC Hydro Water Use Plan.
Most relevant experience: Mapping avian productivity and migratory songbird habitat in Revelstoke
Habitat use by migratory waterbirds and shorebirds in Revelstoke’s wetlands
Raptor productivity around Revelstoke
Columbia Mountain Caribou Project, Revelstoke
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Lake Revelstoke wolf census
Anchor Loop Environmental Impact Assessment at Jasper
Woodpecker/human conflict management
GIS - RYAN GILL, GIS Specialist Ryan has been a resident of Revelstoke since 2001. Ryan’s area of expertise is in GIS analysis and database administration, but he is also trained as a biologist. Over the last four years, Ryan has mapped wildlife habitat locally and regionally around Revelstoke, and so he is intimately familiar with the project area. Ryan has been conducting biological field work since 1996, and has over 9 years of GIS experience.
Most Relevant experience: GIS support for Revelstoke WLR studies Data management for Revelstoke WLR studies GIS mapping of wildlife habitats along the Peace River WLR field study in the Revelstoke area
LOCAL PLANNING Fraser Blyth, BES (PLAN), MEDES (URBAN DESIGN) Selkirk Planning & Design Fraser moved to Revelstoke in 2008 where he has worked as a planner and urban designer. Fraser is active in community planning, volunteering his time with the North Columbia Environmental Society, and several City of Revelstoke Committees. In early 2010 Fraser started Selkirk Planning & Design, based in Revelstoke. Selkirk Planning & Design is a planning and urban design firm local to the Revelstoke/Columbia Valley area that focuses on physical planning and design for municipalities, regional districts and private developments. Community-oriented design and integration with the natural environment are strongly emphasized in SPD’s work. Fraser has completed several planning and urban design projects throughout Alberta and the BC Southern Interior.
Most relevant experience: City of Revelstoke OCP Land Use Amendments
City of Revelstoke Unified Development Bylaw
City of Revelstoke Public Participation Master Plan
Village of New Denver Resilience Action Plan
Economic Evaluation of Urban Form to Increase Activity (EcoEuforia), team member, The Urban Lab
Urban Form and Social Connectivity – What is the Relationship?, team member, The Urban Lab, for the City of Calgary
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City of Revelstoke Heritage Advisory Committee, Advisory Planning Commission and Enhancement Committees (Volunteer)
Jessica Stuart, UBC Graduate student Jessica Stuart was born and raised in Revelstoke and is currently completing a Master of Arts in Planning at the University of British Columbia where her studies focus on urban design and community engagement strategies. Previously, Jessica worked as a Contract Planner for the City of Revelstoke where she spearheaded numerous public engagement processes related to short and long term planning initiatives. Through this work Jessica gained countless community contacts and developed strong working relationships with many residents of the community and staff of local regulatory agencies and community organizations. Jessica also holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Design from the University of Manitoba, which instilled core environmental and sustainability values related to built form, open space and transportation networks that underpin Jessica’s work and research to date.
Most Relevant experience: 2009 – 2011 City of Revelstoke Planning Department community engagement lead
2010 Unified Development Bylaw charrette coordinator
2011 Community Energy and Emissions Plan workshop coordinator
2012 UBC MyRevelstoke2030 research assistant and local liaison
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