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Envelope A Proposal Section NRFP 917843A 21 January 2011 ECCA Land Master Plan BNIM |

4.1.1 CONTACT PAGE B: Proponent Contact

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Proponent Point of Contact Stephen Hardy, Associate, AICP BNIM 106 W. 14th Street, Suite 200 Kansas City, Missouri 64105 USA d. 816.783.1596 f. 816.783.1501

Proponent Authorized for Contract Negotiations Steve McDowell, Principal, AIA BNIM 106 W. 14th Street, Suite 200 Kansas City, Missouri 64105 USA d. 816.783.1553 f. 816.783.1501

BNIM 106 W 14th St, Suite 200 Kansas City Missouri 64105 USA bnim.com Snohetta 25 Broadway, 2 nd floor New York, New York 10004 USA snoarc.no

ARUP 155 Avenue of the Americas New York New York 10013 USA arup.com

Atelier Dreiseitl Portland 735 NW 18th Avenue Portland Oregon 97209 USA dreiseitl.net

BioRegional Development Group BedZED Centre, 24 Helios Road Wallington, Surrey, SM6 7BZ United Kingdom bioregional.com

BuildGreen Solutions 153 Bridgeland Ave, Unit# 12 Toronto, Ontario M6A-2Y6 Canada buildgreensolutions.com

Crandall Arumbula 520 SW Yamhill, Roof Suite 4 Portland, OR 97204 USA ca-city.com

FVB Energy Inc. Ste 350, 13220 St. Albert Trail NW Edmonton, Alberta T5L 4W Canada fvbenergy.com

Manasc Isaac Architects Ltd 10225 100 Avenue NW Edmonton, AB T5J 0A1 Canada manascisaac.com

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It is with great excitement that the Align Collaborative submits our team’s concept master plan for the Edmonton City Centre Airport. We have very much appreciated the opportunity to get to know Edmonton, its history, and its possibilities for the future, and we applaud the vision to see this site take on new life as a model urban community. It will surely serve as a catalyst to inspire positive change in Edmonton, throughout Alberta, and beyond.

Our team (the Align Collaborative), comprised of BNIM, BioRegional (One Planet Communities), Snøhetta, Crandall Arambula, Atelier Dreiseitl, Manasc Isaac, Windmill/ BuildGreen Solutions, ARUP and FVB Energy, represents rich global expertise and precise local knowledge. Our unparalleled practical experience delivering on the world’s greenest neighbourhood scale projects uniquely qualifies us to help realize the vision to place Edmonton “at the forefront of global cities that are seeking to establish the highest standards for sustainability.” Additionally, we have had great fun working together and rigorously “aligning” the many possibilities and challenges for this site into a holistic solution.

The community described in the following pages represents the acknowledgement that it is possible, and even necessary, to redesign the cities of the future to both function sustainably and better nurture their inhabitants. By creating healthy, lively, thriving communities, Edmonton will become a leader in North America in providing a model for 21st century city living. The four themes of our concept include: • Making the Invisible Visible – The invisible constraints of the historic airport overlay are reinterpreted through built form to become visible and iconic.

• Living in Nature in the City – Restored natural ecosystems and extensive open space create a beautiful setting that reinvents the relationship between citizens and natural habitat.

• A One Planet Community – One Planet Living principles provide target metrics, design strategies, and innovative social programs to ensure a high performance and truly sustainable way of life.

• Catalyzing Transformation – The ECCA lands are substantial in size and visibility.

The sustainable development created on the site will be a healthy virus capable of infecting greater Edmonton, Canada, and North America with the quality of life it provides.

After five months of hard work we look forward to hearing your thoughts about our proposal. We know that great things are ahead for Edmonton, and we are excited about the opportunity to engage in an open dialogue with the larger community if given the chance.

With appreciation and hope. We offer you our very best.

Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell, Inc.

Steve McDowell FAIA LEED AP Principal | President

4.1.3 proponent profile

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a. Correct Legal Name:

Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell, Inc. b. Location of Headquarters & Offices:

Headquarters: Kansas City, Missouri, USA Offices: Des Moines, Iowa | Houston, Texas | San Diego, California | Los Angeles, California c. Team Member’s Legal names:

Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell, Inc. Snøhetta Atelier Dreiseitl, LLC Crandall Arambula Manasc Isaac Architects Ltd. BioRegional Development Group FVB Energy Inc. Arup USA, Inc. BuildGreen Solutions, Inc. d + h: Team Roles and Qualifications:

BNIM: BNIM will serve as project manager, master planner, and urban design and architectural lead on this project. The firm has 41 years of experience creating and managing diverse collaborative, and looks forward to bringing our best to this work.

In a marketplace where many claim to be green, BNIM set the standards and pioneered projects, methods and research that shaped the direction of the sustainable movement. Founded in 1970, BNIM is multidisciplinary architecture, planning and design firm offering a comprehensive menu of services and specialties: Architecture, Planning and Urban Design,

Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Workplace Planning, Sustainable Community Consulting, Research and Existing Building evaluation and renovation.

BNIM’s commitment to sustainability is embedded in all aspects of the firm’s work.

Architecture cannot be contained simply by rules of order, instead it must accommodate the restless mind of human society. It must accept associations developed by larger numbers of characters beyond the discipline of the architect.

Regenerative design is BNIM’s response to the requirement for a bold approach in establishing higher levels of sustainable design. The firm’s current pursuits are establishing what will be possible with sustainable design in the years to come, and our efforts will ensure that other practitioners readily have the tools to do the same. An inherent commitment to community, along with pioneering leadership in sustainable design, awards BNIM a clear vision and philosophy that informs each design.

ATELIER DREISEITL: With expertise beyond any other in iconic landscape design and artistic expression of water features, Atelier Dreiseitl will provide the inspiration and brains behind the water strategy on site. From stormwater, to wastewater they bring their absolute best to this project.

Snøhetta: With cold weather roots and extensive experience in cold climate, innovative architecture and design, Snøhetta will serve as architecture design consultant and cold weather innovation specialist for this project.

An integrated Architecture, Interior Design and Landscape Architecture practice established over 20 years ago in Oslo, Norway, Snøhetta has developed a reputation for maintaining a strong relationship between landscape and architecture in their design solutions which closely consider site and context.

Snøhetta’s successful practice relies on the close collaboration observed between design team, client and community in their projects.

The Atelier is a multidisciplinary practice specialized in integrating art, urban hydrology, environmental engineering and landscape architecture within an urban context.

With a particular focus on water, one of the most essential and threatened natural resources on the planet, the practice seeks to awaken a new understanding of sustainability while implementing comprehensive design solutions.

CRANDALL ARAMBULA: Crandall Arambula is known worldwide as a leader in transit oriented development, transportation planning and land use and will serve as the team’s resident expert on all things transportation as well as supporting land use and density issues as they relate to transportation infrastructure.

The office of Crandall Arambula integrates urban design, planning, architecture and economics to create

redevelopment strategies for cities.

Today’s cities must have a human scale, an efficient transportation system and a thriving downtown core to meet the needs of residents, businesses and visitors alike. George Crandall and Don Arambula have been actively involved in many of the projects that make Portland and the state of Oregon national planning models. In addition, they have been responsible for numerous awardwinning revitalization projects across the country.

MANASC ISAAC: An Edmontongrown architecture firm with their pulse on the possibility for Green design as well as the cultural evolution of Edmonton itself, Manasc Isaac will serve as the local professional voice and will also review and consult all architectural and master plan moves to ensure the final plan is authentic to place.

the process, and will continue to collaborate with the team on how to appropriately integrate strategies that will ensure a one planet lifestyle for future residents and business owners.

BioRegional is an entrepreneurial charity that initiates and delivers practical solutions that help communities to live within a fair share of the earth’s resources – what they have coined “one planet living.” The group works in partnership with organizations around the world, and helps those they serve to achieve sustainability through consultation, education and informing policy.

FVB ENERGY: With extensive experience designing and installing renewable energy solutions throughout Canada, and with headquarters in Edmonton, FVB energy will ensure the Master plan solution is not only energy efficient, but ultimately carbon positive.

Designing high-performance buildings in Canada’s Arctic 30 years ago, they translated the knowledge they developed in working in extreme climates with limited resources, into a commitment to be frugal with resources while creating great environments for people. Manasc Isaac adopted the 2030 Challenge and remains at the forefront of this ambitious global architecture and building initiative to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from buildings.

Integrated design and community engagement are hallmarks of Manasc Isaac’s design and construction approach and they are leaders in design methods and processes that involve many participants.

Founded nearly 30 years ago, FVB Inc., is an international company whose employees have focused on the district energy industry. FVB Energy Inc. brings the benefits of European experience and expertise in district energy systems, particularly hot water district heating and CHP, together with North American business, financial and marketing expertise to assist clients in energy system planning, development and implementation. FVB Energy serves energy companies, educational campuses, health care centres, municipalities, building developers and industrial plants.

BIOREGIONAL: The creator of One Planet Living and One Planet Communities BioRegional will serve as the glue for Align Collaborative’s sustainable initiative. They will help facilitate the creation of a Sustainability Action Plan for the site, early in

ARUP: As an innovator in green building technology, water strategies, and sustainable technology, Arup will serve as an engineering consultant without bounds. Whether building technologies or water, energy, and waste strategies, their progressive,

problem solving team will ensure that solutions on site are at once progressive and feasible.

Founded in 1946 with an initial focus on structural engineering, Arup first came to the world’s attention with the structural design of the Sydney Opera House, followed by its work on the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Arup has since grown into a truly multidisciplinary organization of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists offering a broad range of professional services globally.

Most recently, its work for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing has reaffirmed its reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs that reinvent the built environment.

BuildGreen Solutions: BuildGreen Solutions has developed some of North America’s most sustainable development projects. They will serve as market analyst, cost adjustors, market rate gurus, and overall economic arm of the team.

BuildGreen Solutions is a sustainable development services company and provide advice on high-performance development choices in our roles as managers, educators, and facilitators.

This advice centres on green design, from materials to energy efficiency, from finance to operations, and from strategic policy to implementation. Key services include facilitating integrated design and helping clients achieve carbon-neutrality in their developments.

BuildGreen understands and provides new and innovative green development frameworks, such as One Planet Communities and the Living Building Challenge, for clients whose aim is to build regenerative, zero-carbon buildings and communities.

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e. Management, ownership, financial and legal relationship between team members:

Each of the team members are independent organizations and do not have common ownership, financial or legal relationships. The extended project team will be managed by BNIM who will serve as the point of contact for the City.

BNIM has been in business for 41 years and has a sound financial record. If selected, BNIM will enter into a financial agreement with the Client. BNIM will ensure proper agreements between sub consultants and will make disbursements to them as those contracts require. f. Headquarters and office locations for team members:

BNIM Headquarters: 106 W. 14th Street, Suite 200, Kansas City, Missouri 64105, USA Branch Locations: Houston, TX | Des Moines, IA | San Diego, CA | Los Angeles, CA Atelier Dreiseitl Headquarters: 735 NW 18th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209, USA Branch Locations: Ueberlingen, Germany| Beijing | Singapore Snøhetta Headquarters: Akershusstranda 21, N-0150 Oslo, Norway Branch Locations: New York, NY Crandall Arambula Headquarters: 520 SW Yamhill, Roof Suite 4, Portland, Oregon 97204, USA Branch Locations: none Manasc Isaac Architects Headquarters: 10225 100 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 0A1, Canada Branch Locations: none BioRegional Headquarters: BedZED Centre, 24 Helios Road, Wallington, Surrey, SM6 7BZ, United Kingdom Branch Locations: Ottawa, ON | Durban, KwaZuluNatal [S. Africa] FVB Energy Headquarters: Suite #350, 13220 St Albert Trail, Edmonton, AB T5L 4W1, Canada Branch Locations: Minneapolis, MN | Bainbridge Island, WA | Vaughan, ON | Vancouver, BC | Vasteras [Sweden] Arup Headquarters: 155 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10013, USA Branch Locations: New York, NY | San Francisco, CA | Los Angeles, CA | Chicago, IL | Seattle, WA | Boston, MA | Washington DC | Toronto, ON | several locations in UK, Europe, Asia and Australasia BuildGreen Solutions Headquarters: 1749 Woodward Drive, Ottawa, ON K2C 0P9, Canada Branch Locations: none

g. Team Management Approach

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BNIM will lead the Align Collaborative team through all phases of the project.

As demonstrated in the following diagrams, Stephen Hardy of BNIM will serve as Project Manager and as the team’s single point of contact for the City of Edmonton and all client-related representatives. Through decades of relevant project experience, we have learned that this approach to team management streamlines communication between client and project team members.

Perhaps most importantly, this approach greatly reduces the potential for communication-related error throughout the life of the project.

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If selected for this work, BNIM will enter into a contract with each subconsultant and will include any and all stipulations of the Prime contract with the City. Each team member has the same long-term commitment to this project, and each has a long history of successful performance in similar partnerships.

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City of Edmonton

POINT OF CONTACT Stephen Hardy, AICP Project Manager | BNIM

Design and Planning Team

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Steve McDowell | Principal-in-Charge Bob Berkebile | Principal Advisor Laura Lesniewski | Resource Craig Scranton | Resource

Greg Searle | Executive Director Pooran Desai | Cofounder

Eric Bode | Landscape Architect Dieter Grau | Landscape Architect

Scott Denmark | Partner Jonathan Westeinde | Partner Rodney Wilts | Partner Katie Paris | Associate

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Craig Edward Dykers | Director, Architect Anne Camille Lewison | Senior Design Leader Claire Fellman | Landscape Designer Takeshi Tornier | Architectural Designer

George Crandall | Principal Donald Arambula | Principal + Project Manager Erin Carter | Urban Designer + Project Coordinator Jessie Maran | Urban Designer

Ashok Raiji | Mechanical Engineer Trent Lethco | Transportation Planner Tom Kennedy | Civil Engineer Al Lyons | Tech. Engineer + Communications Fiona Cousins | Sustainability Consultant Leo E. Argiris | Structural Engineer

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Vivian Manasc | Principal Shafraaz Kaba | Principal

Richard Damecour | CEO Robert Doyle | Sr. Consultant Jim Manson | Sustainable Energy Specialist

TEAM PHILOSOPHY

One Planet This project is emerging at a time of great need for global leadership. An economic recession, environmental tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico, and an increased yearning for strong local community raise new questions about the way cities need to function. Achieving “true sustainability� means stretching beyond the highest green building standards. It also means having more local, organic and fair trade products in restaurants and shops, providing cleaner transportation options, creating quality affordable housing and green jobs, and making it easier to adopt healthy, green lifestyles. There is a clear challenge and a great opportunity.

To answer the call we offer the One Planet Community framework as the guiding beacon toward restorative living.

Ten One Planet Principles

Zero Carbon Making buildings more energy

efficient and delivering all energy with renewable technologies.

Zero Waste

Reducing waste, reusing where possible, and ultimately sending zero waste to landfill.

Sustainable Transport Encouraging low carbon modes of transport to reduce emissions, reducing the need to travel.

Sustainable Materials

Using sustainable healthy products, with low embodied energy, sourced locally, made from renewable or waste resources.

Local and Sustainable Food

Choosing low impact, local, seasonal and organic diets and reducing food waste.

Sustainable Water Using water more efficiently in buildings and in the products we buy; tackling local flooding and water course pollution.

Land Use and Wildlife Protecting and restoring biodiversity and natural habitats through appropriate land use and integration into the built environment.

Culture and Heritage

Reviving local identity and wisdom; supporting and participating in the arts.

Equity and Local Economy Creating bioregional economies t hat support fair employment, inclusive communities and international fair trade.

Health and Happiness

Encouraging active, sociable, meaningful lives to promote good health and well being.

Our project approach and work plan are based on the benefits of integrated systems and the importance of a collaborative process. This integrated approach unites all of the various project issues, design tasks, key team members and stakeholder input and planning components into a single working model to ensure that we achieve the project vision and goals. Our proposed approach is holistic, considering all aspects of the project, all voices and a rigorous, scientific examination of community issues and systems. You will find a detailed proposed scope of work in the appendix of this submittal.

Integrated design process

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The five phases of the project approach overlap in a fifteen month process for completing the master plan for the ECCA Lands.

Align & Implement

achievement & excellence

Our team has extensive experience building high performance sustainable communities, and working in integrated teams. Some of us have worked together in the past, and we have all studied each other’s work for inspiration and guidance.

This summary reveals the impressive nature of our collective body of work and the sustainable practices we employ. All of these projects will serve as precedents for the ECCA lands, and the team stands tall on the shoulders of our past experience.

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

Isaac Newton

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Greater Downtown Area Plan Petite Riviere Redevelopment Plan Greensburg Sustainable Comprehensive Plan North Charleston Master Plan Oberlin Green Arts District Sonoma Mountain Village Dockside Green Fornebu Airport Redevelopment BEDZED Masdar City One Brighton Barangaroo Karl Johans Gate Nat’l Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion Umea Cultural Meeting Place Bibliotheca Alexandriana Solar City Arkadien Housing Estates Platz Stadium Station Area Plan Transit Oriented Development Guidelines Fairbanks Downtown Master Plan Aurora TOD Station Are Plans Interstate MAX LRT Revitalization Strategy Waterfront Toronto Revitalization SE False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility Regent Park Revitalization Treasure Island Sustainability Planning Yongsan Int’l Business District Master Plan North Innisfil Lands Sustainable Master Plan Cornfield/Arroyo Seco Specific Plan

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Align Collaborative has used their integrated design process to create a concept for the ECCA lands Master Plan around these four design principles. We are honored to share with you our ideas, our process, and our passion for this work.

The invisible constraints of the historic airport overlay are reinterpreted to become a visible, iconic development on the site.

Restored natural ecosystems and extensive open space create a beautiful setting that reinvents the relationship between citizens and natural habitat.

One Planet Living principles provide target metrics, design strategies, and innovative social program concepts to ensure a high performance and truly sustainable way of life.

City Centre Airport’s substantial size and visibility gives this project the potential to redefine perceptions about what is possible with sustainable urban living. Providing unparalleled quality of life, this development will put into motion a deeper understanding of what is possible.

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Challenges & Opportunities

Identifying the challenges is half the battle of designing solutions. Through our conversations with the City and our preliminary research, we understand that the Master Plan for the ECCA lands comes with its fair share of challenges and opportunities. We are already working diligently to address the following challenges in an authentic, realistic, and creative way, and we look forward to further developing the Master Plan together with the City and the greater Edmonton stakeholders.

01_New Development on ECCA lands should complement (not compete) with Downtown Revitalization 02_Community Involvement process must be sensitive to the community’s emotional attachment to the Airport lands, its history, and the political implications of its closure.

03_Edmonton’s residential lifestyle is based on the suburban typology, and the selected team is faced with the special challenge of creating a new paradigm for family living in Edmonton.

04_The site’s long history as an airport, with appropriate restrictions on adjacent development creates an invisible barrier between the site and surrounding neighbourhoods.

The design solution must explicitly respond to this, and address the need to break these barriers.

05_What happens on the ECCA lands should be a catalyst, a healthy virus that influences the future of the entire region.

06_The climactic extremes in Edmonton create is character, and provide a design challenge of creating year round active living and active transport in the development.

07_The high performance, One Planet Community, should be replicable, measurable, and inspiring beyond the site limits.

08_Being iconic and authentic is perhaps the biggest challenge and the biggest opportunity. The final Master Plan should provide an iconic landmark for Canada, but must simultaneously be true to its place in Edmonton’s landscape.

eCCa planning principles

Align Collaborative recognizes that The Master Planning Principles outlined in the NRFP are critical to reaching the City’s vision for this site. The Principles will guide development throughout the site. As a reflection of our teams understanding of the Principles we have outlined how they are integrated into each of the 9 Identity Districts.

history & site context

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In an effort to get to know Edmonton and the site, Align Collaborative first explored the history and characteristics influencing the site. We are in awe of the rich history, the community pride, and the collective willingness to move responsibly into the future.

Edmonton’s history is one of crossroads. From the earliest settlements, Edmonton was a place of gathering, rich in food, and shelter. First Nations people gathered and met and traded here. Fur traders came and built forts here to take advantage of the world’s demand for beaver pelts.

When oil was found at Leduc in 1947, Edmonton became a hub of energy, fueling the post-war generation’s ever-growing appetite for cheap fuel, cars, and commodities.

Blatchford was the first licensed airfield in Canada (1929) and was important in terms of aviation history, WWII, and as a gateway to the north.

Legends of Alberta’s aviation history, including Wop May and Max Ward have been colourfully described in numerous histories of the region.

The influence of aviation and of the airport has shaped Edmonton, physically, in terms of defining and limiting the heights of buildings in the flight path, and culturally, in shaping the sense of this place as being connected more than isolated.

Hangers 8 and 11 are on the City’s Inventory of Historic Resources, and future uses for both buildings will be considered. The Aviation Museum in Hangar 14 is a provincial and municipal historic resource .

Amiskwaciy Academy is the only First Nations educational institution in Edmonton. The Airports lands provide an opportunity to continue the trade in culture, community and to create a “meeting place” – a true crossroads of cultures.

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Edmonton lies in the aspen parkland biome, a transitional ecological zone that alternates between prairie and boreal forest. Four distinct habitats occur in the Aspen parkland: prairie, the forest, wetlands, and ravine systems such as the one created by the North Saskatchewan River and its tributaries. In the years since European settlement, much of the Aspen parkland has been altered or destroyed by agriculture and development.

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The development of the ECCA lands presents an opportunity not just for vibrant new neighbourhoods, but also for the restoration and reclamation of rich ecosystems and habitat within the city. In a larger context, the site has the potential to become a core area in Edmonton’s ecological network, providing a critical link to the river and regional habitat via ecological stepping stones and corridors in the city.

Regional Connections

The need for the site to connect to its surroundings transcends ecology. It is influenced – psychologically, culturally, and physically - by the extended Edmonton region, and in turn, has an impact on the larger urban and regional order. The team’s intention is to use the development of the site to strengthen and transform the existing order of the city.

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The site’s role as an urban and ecological connector occurs at the scale of the site, the city, and the region.

Of the two runways, one is aligned with the city grid and one with natural systems. Long before the airport, migratory birds flew over this site. The winds they used were eventually inscribed on the city: the diagonal runway is oriented for airplanes to use these same wind patterns. The North-South Runway is aligned with the order of the city grid: when extended it passes through downtown to the River, and North through parks and neighbourhoods to the forests and agricultural areas beyond the city.

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Fountain Park Recreation Centre - Day Care Sturgeon River

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The runways are Connectors by definition. The team was struck by their power both as a massive built form and as a symbol. Even as their current function becomes obsolete, they can provide a powerful foundation for a new urban order.

We have reinterpreted the runways as major habitat and transit corridors that link the city and region. Their form remains inscribed on the site as both a memorial to the airport and as the open-space amenities that provide the basis for new development.

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Reinterpreting the Airport

The Airport lands represent a significant urban artifact. Listening to the city officials, the local media and public opinion, the team realized our biggest challenge was how to transform the memory of the airport into a living framework for new development.

The site is expressly flat. It appears to be a void amongst a thriving City - but one that has had a surprising impact on the surrounding urban form.

The typical approach of simply filling this void with an extension of the surrounding urban fabric felt disingenuous and uninspiring.

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The Airport Protection Overlay became the impetus for a design concept.

The Airport Protection Overlay map limits the height and growth of the city within the flight and landing paths of airplanes. These building limits are expressed as contours in the air, and emanate from the runways into the city.

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The team interpreted the invisible contours created by the Airport Protection Overlay as a physical form. This form makes visible a virtual topography that has been inherent in the site.

This virtual topography represents the total developable volume of the site. The forms of buildings, streets, and spaces are created through subtraction and removal. Consequently, these elements of the city are integrated into a continuous and habitable whole.

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In response to the design concept for reinterpreting the zoning overlay of the Airport lands, the necessary layers of the site—streets, water flow, buildings, and functional infrastructure—were created and tested in this series of operational diagrams.

#03_By extruding the formerly hidden topography, the invisible is made visible.

Runway take-off/approach surfaces are made legible within the site boundary, creating an envelope that celebrates the former use of the site.

#01_The transformed runways provide the founding framework for a new urban order.

#02_The Airport Protection Overlay

#07_A network of both primary and secondary ravines are cut through the prairie, serving as important site connectors. These corridors are populated by species native to the ravines, including poplar, spruce, birch, willow and river alder.

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#04_The habitat in and around Edmonton

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has been heavily altered by farming and development. In an effort to restore natural conditions, the entire site is draped with prairie.

biodiversity on the site, allowing for the return of native species that rely on the grasslands for shelter and food.

cross-site connector and completes a loop that encircles and reinforces the heart of the site.

#10_A dense aspen woodland is introduced into the diagonal runway. The extensive mixed wood understory supports a great diversity of forest wildlife.

#11_The green systems of the site migrate beyond its boundary. The water ways and natural habitat connect the surrounding neighbourhoods with nature and the new community of the airport.

#12_The new development becomes an important urban node that connects to the city and region, and a catalyst for sustainable change.

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The historical (both human and natural), cultural, and ecological layers create a composite form that will guide the regeneration, restoration and population of the site. Together, these abstract layers become a complex living organism that is the framework for sustainable development. The waterways, open spaces, block structures, corridors and critical connections of the site provide the amenities that will attract people to this place.

Site Morphology

The primary block morphology consists of three strata: the roof surface plane which defines the inhabitable green domain of the restored prairie; the building block mass that defines the volume from which buildings and other forms are carved; and the ground plane which creates the spatial order of urban spaces and circulation corridors.

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Site Morphology A smaller group of blocks helps visualize the amount of variation possible on site.

Different designers or developers would be allowed freedom within the form, while maintaining the consistent iconic topography.

Prairie Plane The draped prairie plane is a unifying site element and is part of both the architecture and the topography of the site. This plane defines the roofs of buildings and forms inhabitable bridges between buildings. As prairie, it is both a restored native habitat and a high performance architectural component that provides substantial thermal mass and stores water.

Building Block Mass The mass between the prairie plane and the ground evolves and erodes into smaller forms that become blocks, buildings, courtyards and open space on site. The large courtyards are eroded into each block, governing building width and optimal solar access. The mass itself becomes functional, inhabitable, and provides an edge for circulation systems.

Ground Plane At the ground level the grid establishes a rational and easily navigable framework for streets of different scales and purpose. Secondary paths facilitate pedestrian, bike, and transit circulation and are more intimate and local in scale. In addition to the movement of people and vehicles, the ground plane grid provides corridors for water conveyance, treatment and storage as part of the site-wide water system.

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The block structure that evolves from the larger mass of the site is cut away further to create building forms. Within the constraints of the block structure, an endless variety of architecture is possible. This diagram demonstrates how a number of different housing types can be integrated into the overall form with the roof planes acting as a high performance unifying skin.

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Landmarks Key existing structures are preserved or repurposed in meaningful ways.

To test design concepts against the technical and tactical implications of the site we juxtaposed the site layers: infrastructure, land use, habitat, open space, transportation, housing types, water, waste, and One Planet concepts to help find synergies across systems resulting in an truly integrative plan.

This integration on site reveals efficiencies and establishes the basis for the highest performing master plan possible.

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PLAN FRAMEWORK The circulation grid of roads and paths throughout the site is aligned with the surrounding city grid, and acts as a unifying and connecting element. A basic block and courtyard structure provides a logical and flexible basis for development. The average block size is 110 meters by 70 meters, a scale suited to creating great pedestrian spaces, while the courtyard concept ensures permanent semi-public open space.

The simple block structure also creates a unifying platform for architecture, regardless of use.

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Open Space The Open Space plan is designed to balance restored native habitat with passive/active recreation and urban agriculture. The airport runways are transformed into the major green spines of the site; they form the ecological heart and lungs. The North/South runway and Delta mix urban park land with wetland zones and community garden plots. The diagonal runway is an Aspen parkland forest. Clearings in this forest habitat occur organically, containing agriculture plots and both active and passive recreation zones.

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The street network, pedestrian paths, trails and transit are also integral pieces of the open space plan. They connect the places where people live and work to open spaces, adding a level of richness and complexity to the interaction between people and the landscape.

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Site Hydrology Because open space and site hydrology are inextricably linked, the Open Space Plan is also the framework for comprehensive ecological water treatment and conveyance systems.

For our plan water treatment begins at the scale of the individual block. Water absorbed by greenroofs is stored for reuse or released into the courtyards, which purifies the water.

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Transit Three layers of public transit work together with pedestrian circulation to create a comprehensive transportation plan for the Airport lands.

The streetcar loop encircles the heart of the site. Its frequent stops and slow speed make it ideal for local commuters. Its strategic location within the runways and delta make it accessible to pedestrians in less than 5 minutes from every location on the site. Future expansion would integrate the site and surrounding neighbourhoods and provide greater access to the LRT and site amenities.

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The LRT connects the Airport lands to the rest of Edmonton. In addition to neighbourhood stops along the North/South runway, major stations occur at the north and south ends of the site.

The South Station occurs at the convergence of NAIT, the community centre, the wetland and the more intensive office and retail uses on the site. The North Station is part of a Multi modal Potential High Speed Rail Hub that connects the LRT with the Light Transit loop, structured parking and a High Speed rail Street Car station serving central Alberta. The LRT continStreet Car Expansion ues north over the rail yards onFuture a bridge that also serves as a pedestrian and habitat corridor.

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The primary circulation network consists of Car Free Corridors and Green Streets. Car Free Corridors are neighbourhood streets and trails exclusive to pedestrians and bikes. The access they provide to amenities and transit enables a car-free lifestyle. Green Streets are designed as green infrastructure that allows safer interaction between cars, bikes, and people. Both of these corridor types are envisioned as an integrated system that expands and connects into the surrounding neighbourhoods.

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The large size of the site and the varying conditions between adjacent neighbourhoods provided the impetus for breaking the site down into distinct districts, each with a unique consideration for architectural form, block structure, use mixtures, and edge conditions.

Every district includes a mix of uses, all the components of a sustainable community, and diverse housing choices. Ideally the public will define the neighbourhoods and district characteristics. This will provide authenticity and promote community ownership.

While strategies for all 10 OPL principles will be integrated in each district and across the entire site, for illustrative purposes within our submittal we have chosen to showcase specific strategies from one principle for each district.

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The south crossing of the existing runways is envisioned as the civic centre and economic crossroads of the site. This is the premier connection between the existing City and the new development. It is the place where water infrastructure becomes an iconic wetland and public amenity. A community centre brings together people from throughout Edmonton to shop, to play, and to learn. This is where all of the City’s big ideas about the redevelopment of the ECCA lands come together to create a truly stunning vision of sustainable living. The view of downtown Edmonton is homage to the City’s beginnings and a look toward the future of both downtown and the ECCA site. Transportation of every kind is found in this area from LRT to bike paths, to electric vehicles. People gather to study for finals, do their Christmas shopping, or to enjoy a family picnic. As important as the view from this area, is the image it creates from the surrounding areas; inviting the greater Edmonton community to come into the site and experience a new way of living.

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left: A fetid irrigation canal in Tianjin was designed by team member Dreiseitl. The canal restores a 1 kilometer community river, where residents play and engage the natural habitat. The banks, sculpted and rebuilt with vegetation, now rebalance the natural biology of the water. right: Like the Omega Centre for Sustainable Living, it is possible for 100% of the stormwater and wastewater on the ECCA site to be handled through building technologies and/or chemical free neighbourhood treatment systems.

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FEATURED MASTER PLAN PRINCIPLES Urban Planning and Design 01_The retail and commercial density in this area is synergistic with the existing economic base surrounding the Kingsway Mall.

02_The wetland feature and community centre facility create a landmark for all of Edmonton.

Infrastructure 01_The comprehensive stormwater and wastewater system of the site becomes a public amenity and learning opportunity at the water feature located in this area.

02_The iconic, diverse nature of this district could provide an opportunity to incorporate signature energy generation technology such as visible solar arrays.

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SUSTAINABLE WATER The Crossroads is the appropriate place to tell the story of water on the site as it is the place where the water infrastructure culminates into a large iconic wetland that expands and recedes with the seasons and rainfall throughout the site.

The Challenge The average person in Edmonton uses about 223 litres of water per day – better than the average Canadian, but far less than residents in Sydney, Australia who use 155 litres/person/day.

The Target Create a meandering net zero water system and 30% reduction in water consumption per person.

How Edmonton Wins Lower water and energy bills, cleaner water for wildlife and recreation.

The wetland that occurs at the intersection of the runways is the centrepiece of the Crossroads, and a collector of the site’s water. The central plaza is a vibrant civic space, surrounded by NAIT, restaurants and offices, and the LRT and streetcar stations.

Across the water downtown Edmonton provides the backdrop for the iconic community centre building, a structure which provides recreation, community facilities and direct pedestrian links to the (mall) and the parklands to the south of the site.

Strategies • Water Efficient Buildings • Biological filtration • Biological treatment trains throughout the site • Lifestyle changes • Water efficient landscape design • Capture, storage, and reuse systems • Habitat enhancing water systems and recreation opportunities on-site

runways

The proposed design for ECCA memorializes the history and character of this unique area. The runways were historically a prominent feature of the site, and are transformed into the primary green corridors anchoring the ECCA Master Plan. The North/ South Runway becomes an urban park with integrated Streetcar and light rail transit and an urbane character. The diagonal axis becomes naturalized aspen parkland. Both of these spaces inspire movement through the site: movement of people, transit, and animals. The runways will include iconic wetlands and restorative ecologies that bring harmony between city and wildlife spaces. These dynamic landscapes provide potential research partnerships with NAIT to advance the understanding of the interaction between urban space and natural habitats.

The Aspen Parkland is interspersed with gardens, sports fields and wetlands.

Trails and transit weave through the forest, which is an outdoor ecological laboratory for students and researchers. Residential courtyards open out into the forest and its amenities. In the winter (Right), water channels become paths for ice skaters, and the forest becomes a place for skiers. The phase-changing skin of the buildings adjusts to the winter climate.

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FEATURED MASTER PLAN PRINCIPLES Open Space 01_The runways provide the signature open space connection and link to secondary and tertiary green connectors.

02_The restored aspen parkland provides open spaces that are wild as well as green spaces that are urban in form. All of the restored areas provide an amenity for play and enhance the environment.

Planning and Design 01_The restored forest runway will become a landmark in Edmonton.

02_The north – south axis is an urban linear park that is ideal for integrating public art.

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Land Use & Wildlife This zone will have a restorative effect on both wildlife and people, creating an important new greenspace amenity for the City of Edmonton. Zones are set aside for birds and amphibians to thrive undisturbed.

The Challenge_30% of global species lost over the last 33 years* (World Wildlife Fund’s 2006 Living Planet Report,); Canada has suffered a 26% drop in Biocapacity since 1975, including key habitat. Only 30% of Alberta’s natural habitat remains in its natural state.

The Target_Create an urban eco-park with “high, medium & low biodiversity” zones, equal to a minimum of 40% of the site. Restore ecosystem services to predevelopment conditions.

How Edmonton Wins More nature in the city, helping reduce habitat loss and creating beautiful places to live.

Strategies • Restore 4 ecosystems of the aspen parkland: prairie, woodlands, ravines, wetlands and lakes.

• Regenerate habitat space • Allocate sufficient ecosystem services • Increase biodiversity with native trees and grasses • Provide opportunities for community education

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The diagonal runway axis is envisioned as a naturalized zone bringing nature and habitat back to urban Edmonton.

Children will be able to bird watch, and count fish species. The regenerated aspen parkland will provide passive recreation for the entire region. This corridor will be home to new aquatic habitats, enhanced parks with native flowers/ trees/grasses, edible landscaping and pollinator gardens. The restored ecosystems will encourage migratory birds to return to the site. These amenities will be right outside the front doors of sustainable family housing.

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The North-South Runway is urban parkland fronted by a mix of housing, retail and commercial uses that bring it to life. The LRT, streetcar, pedestrian promenades and bike paths circulate people, while structured urban wetlands collect and filter water. The parkland is dotted with active recreation zones such as soccer fields, community garden patches, and native habitat. On the west side of the runway, houses and small offices are interspersed with local retail and cafe’s that spill into the sidewalk. On the east side, NAIT students live and study.

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FEATURED MASTER PLAN PRINCIPLES Open Space 01_A tight knit series of individual and community gardens and green houses in this area will not only provide fresh produce, but could also provide linear pathways that keep pedestrians and bikers warm in the coldest months.

Infrastructure 01_Delta serves a key role in the Transportation Design Plan as it is a primary east west connector and carries vehicular, pedestrian, bike, and transit systems.

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Supporting Programs: The high-density urban infill One Brighton project in Brighton, UK provides all residents a trail for local foodbox delivery through an on-site concierge service. Rooftop “mini-allotment gardens” are a key part of the shared space strategy (pictured above).

Local and Sustainable Food The Delta district is one demonstration of the availability of local and sustainable food at the ECCA. Community gardens and farms in residential neighbourhoods along with edible street trees will create a revolutionary food system based on Alberta’ agricultural roots. The on-site food networks will connect to the wider network of local farmers. The landscaping of the ECCA will feature allseason edible plants, such as fruits, nuts, and berries.

The Delta district is where all these sources come together and food is sold in grocery stores, restaurants and food vending stalls, and in an active daily farmer’s market. These bustling markets on this vibrant urban corridor will showcase and enhance Edmonton’s worldclass sustainable food network.

The Challenge_Agriculture contributes 22% of Canada’s total CO2e emissions. Most of the 36% growth in emissions from animal production over the 1990–2006 period occurred in Alberta (Environment Canada, 2008).

The average food item in North America travels 25 percent farther than in 1980. (World Watch Institute) The Target_Achieve a minimum of 40% of food consumed from local farms and onsite gardens (<200 miles). Reduce carbon impact of meat and dairy consumption by 70%. Every household has access to a dedicated garden space.

How Edmonton Wins_Fresher, healthier diets that strengthen local farms and connect neighbors around a gardening lifestyle.

Sonoma Mountain Village: Sonoma Mountain Village set a target for 65% of all food consumed to come from local farms and onsite gardens. The project is in negotiations with a grocer to source at least 25% of vegetables, fruits, dairy, and meat products from within 50 miles and 75% from within 300 miles. The developer is furthermore exploring plans for a professionally-run “micro-farm”, CSA, and mini-gardens and orchards for interested residents.

Strategies • Comprehensive neighbourhood food system • Edible streets • Integration with Regional food system • Farmer’s markets • Educating residents about food footprint and healthy diets • Reduce food waste • Neighbourhood canning/preserving kitchen

aviation heritage district

The Aviation Heritage District will pay homage to the original character of the ECCA while providing amenities for current and future Edmontonians and visitors. Furthermore this area serves as an anchor for the neighbourhoods to the west of the site. The reuse of existing buildings, including the airport control tower, gives this area its historic character. This area features the Aviation Museum alongside other museums and educational institutions on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Museum Row.â&#x20AC;? Amiskwaciy Academy, a public high school with a foundation in aboriginal culture and spirituality, also forms an anchor to the district. The Master Plan concept provides opportunities for this school to expand its sports facilities as well as hold traditional ceremonies in the public space around the school.

The district creates synergy between the academy, the museums, and a potential relocation for the Native Friendship Centre.

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Featured Master Plan Principles Planning and Design _The existing aviation museum will be enhanced and incorporated into the broader site redevelopment making it integral to the new community. _Historic buildings will either be repurposed for new uses, or components of the buildings will be used to build new structures that memorialize the past and Edmonton’s historical character.

History _It is expected that elements of aviation heritage and Edmonton’s culture are used to name significant roadways and iconic structures in this diverse new development. _The planning team will explore the feasibility for a “mall of museums” that would exist in this area and potentially be housed in existing hanger / aviation buildings on site, including the control tower.

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Culture & Heritage As Edmonton is a city with an especially strong commitment to local culture, the Airport Lands community will build upon this tradition and provide the premiere location in the City showcasing the emergence of a new ecoconscious culture. The Aviation Heritage District illustrates the ECCA’s embrace of the past and view of the future.

The Challenge_Local cultural heritage is being lost throughout the world due to globalization, resulting in a loss of local identity and wisdom.

Acknowledging and learning from our past is essential to creating a healthy relationship to the environment and local geography.

The Target_Evoke a sense of place, identity and belonging, with references to local history and culture in an attempt to interpret and rediscover the area’s local cultural heritage, while creating a fertile environment for new cultural endeavours and healthy green living.

How Edmonton Wins_Local artists, markets, concerts, and neighbourhood events; a top urban eco-tourism destination Strategies • embrace and enhance local culture • provide an eco-tourism destination • create a nationally-recognized eco-culture for Edmonton • regularly survey the success of cultural and heritage initiatives • devise a cultural preservation strategic plan • use aviation history to inspire place and street names

blatchford

Blatchford is the residential heart of ECCA with the highest density of residential units on site, this is a great place to include all the other amenities that are important to the heart of a community: schools, hospitals, and lots of neighbours.

This completely car free district features diverse housing types, daycare and K-12 schools, neighbourhood retail and services, and access to transit. To ensure the long term success of the district, this neighbourhood will have affordable housing options and opportunities for low income residents.

Large internal courtyards and occupiable green roofs provide resident amenities and are part of the larger site-wide water system.

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FEATURED MASTER PLAN PRINCIPLES Open Space 01_This new type of residential area will provide adequate open space and pedestrian connections to adjacent amenities.

Planning and Design 01_Diverse housing types and diverse price points will ensure an inclusive, sustainable residential neighbourhood that allows residents and families to “age-in-place” on the ECCA lands.

Family Housing 01_The public spaces in this dense residential district are designed to be gathering spaces and contribute to a vibrant street life and community interaction.

02_Family housing in this area will allow for proper access at grade, as well as private gardens and play areas. To facilitate community interaction a majority of entrances will face the street.

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Zero Carbon Blatchford will be a zero carbon neighbourhood, where heat and electricity is generated with clean energy onsite, distributed through an intelligent network and consumed in some of the most energy efficient buildings in Canada (Beating the Model National Energy Code by at least 50%) The Challenge_Alberta is ranked #1 in Canada for production of CO2 emissions.

Commercial and residential buildings. account for approximately one-third of Edmonton’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The Target_Reduce building emissions by 100% and create a national model for climate change adaptation in cities.

How Edmonton Wins_Lower utility bills, future-proofed against rising energy costs.

The team will analyze the opportunity for some of the world’s most innovative, efficient renewable energy systems on site.

Possibilities include: distributed on-site energy production for buildings, central thermal plant to provide heating and cooling to buildings, solar technology, control and metering systems, etc.

Strategies • design high performance buildings using passive systems to the greatest extent possible • scale up emerging technology • provide renewable energy for the entire urban district • generate clean, reliable energy using biomass from urban, agricultural, and forestry waste • analyze the most appropriate / feasible energy system for the site • use smart grid technology to optimize energy use, production and distribution

nait west

This neighbourhood connects to NAIT and draws in creativity and talent from the institution. The design and architecture forms a prototype for how institution and urbanity are united on the site. The neighbourhood will include innovative student housing options â&#x20AC;&#x201C; such as dormitories made from shipping containers that are manufactured on site. The site has two historic hangers that could be used for green job training, green business incubation, or even commercial office uses. This combination of students and startup space creates an entrepreneurial environment and sets the conditions to ignite a new, green, creative economy. This will be the seed to transform Edmonton in preparation for the post carbon economy.

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Sonoma Mountain Village has established a non-profit green business incubator with goals to assist 100+ startups to create 2,000+ jobs. With over 20 small business tenants now (logos shown above) in the facility, the program has been a tremendous success.

Technology 01_The partnership with NAIT, University of Alberta, and EPCOR will transform this district into a regional hub for innovative green technology in energy, transportation, and manufacturing.

02_Through this research partnership, Edmonton can ensure that each new piece of development on site pushes the limits of sustainable innovation.

Planning and Design 01_Historic hangers and other airport buildings are repurposed as business incubators for a new green tech economy.

02_This district finds synergy with NAIT and breaks down the barriers of the site by synthesizing old with new.

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Equity and Local Economy The Airport Lands community will invest in broader societal goals, promoting equity and fair trade. Our approach is centreed on creating economic opportunities for the diverse community who will live at ECCA. The NAIT West district is a perfect example of this principle; the area includes low cost housing for students and others, and provides opportunities for a business incubator that assists green start-ups with training, management, and support.

The Challenge_Current development patterns are not designed to meet broader societal needs: affordability, equity, and economic development.

The Target_Create thousands of new jobs and affordable housing by creating a Canadian prototype for a 21st century green economy where people live, work, and play in one integrated neighbourhood.

How Edmonton Wins_New green jobs close to affordable homes, daycare, and locallyowned shopping; access for all Strategies _Ensure up to 30% affordable rental and forsale housing; _Target a 50% jobs/housing balance _Plan for the creation of a substantial green jobs district in partnership with NAIT _Create a business incubator for green and cleantech companies _Promote fair trade products in onsite retail

creative centre

The Creative Centre district is envisioned as an arts district with light manufacturing where artists can weld, sculpt and create large installations. This area is ripe for revitalization. The large warehouses in this area have great reuse potential for artist live/ work units. Grassroots performance spaces can spring up and form synergies with the North Light Theatre and the Victoria School. The neighbourhood will be anchored by an arts centre; this amenity will attract visitors and provide foot traffic to support galleries and small shops.

The Community Arts Centre location at the end of the Diagonal Runway makes it an important opportunity for iconic architecture.

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Planning and Design: • The northwest gateway will be a landmark on site and in Edmonton for its extensive use of reclaimed and reused building materials.

• As a distinctive arts district, where visitors can see art being created first hand, this area integrates extensive opportunities for public art installations.

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The gritty feel of this neighbourhood is marked by the active artist community, and the rustic nature of reclaimed materials and building reuse.

Zero Waste The Northwest Gateway Neighbourhood serves to illustrate the comprehensive zero waste program at ECCA and will integrate seamlessly with Edmonton’s acclaimed waste management system. This district will be known for its extensive use of reclaimed building materials and architectural salvage, and for enlisting property management and commercial tenants in piloting a zero waste program that engages commercial and retail tenants around packaging and procurement policies.

The Challenge_Waste from discarded products and packaging creates a huge disposal challenge. Despite Edmonton’s extraordinary success with residential recycling, only 20% of commercial waste is diverted.

The Target_Reduce waste by 98%.

Decrease construction waste by at least 90% How Edmonton Wins_Smarter recycling, less packaging, and using compost in onsite gardens and waste-to-energy.

Strategies_ • Recycle, reclaim or reuse 70% of district waste • Explore hi-tech (eg.ENVAC) and low-tech solutions to zero waste • Develop leasing requirements for commercial participation in Zero Waste program • Design facilities to make zero waste practices convenient • Design education programs for residents and business owners • Reduce the amount of potential waste brought onto the site • Create technical specifications / requirements during the construction phase • Develop a comprehensive and diverse collection plan

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With adjacency to Kingsway and significant existing residential population, the west gateway is an important connection between the site and the greater Edmonton community. A newly created built gateway will provide an iconic entrance to the site for those traveling on Kingsway and will connect to the east west vehicular access through the site. A signature building will be home to community services, retail, and education, and provide an entrance through which pedestrians, bicyclist, and vehicles enter and exit the site. Surrounding the gateway are primarily residential uses that provide continuity with the surrounding neighbourhoods.

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BedZED, the prototype One Planet Community, was built in 2001 with high volumes of local and sustainable materials: 52% of materials from within 35 miles, 100% of all structural steel was reclaimed, and 83% of all timber was reclaimed or FSC certified.

Technology • The use of innovate phase change materials will ensure this development is a pioneer in sustainable building technology Transportation Design • This district is an iconic piece of the transportation design plan and forms a gathering place and a critical connection to surrounding neighbourhoods FEATURED ONE PLANET LIVING PRINCIPLE

Sustainable Materials The Challenge_The construction industry alone is responsible for 40% of solid material flows on the planet and no more than 10-15% of construction and demolition waste in Alberta are currently recycled.

Sonoma Mountain Village is retrofitting 750,000 square feet of existing buildings using steel frame manufactured in an on-site factory. Pictured here: before and after pictures of adaptive reuse of an existing ‘big box’ building.

Innovative High Performance Materials Phase change materials (PCM’s) are an exciting new innovation in building material. Our team will explore opportunities to suggest PCM’s that will add to the iconic beauty of the site and enhance the efficiency of the high performance buildings.

Materials Red List One possible metric, or guidance for the materials use on the ECCA lands could be the Living Building Challenge’s Material’s Red List. This list indicates “red” items—materials that contain harmful chemicals that can leach into the environment or threaten the health of building inhabitants—that are prohibited from use on the project. Materials sourced for the Omega Centre for Sustainable Living (Living Building Challenge Award Winner, 2010) followed the red list criteria and were sourced locally.

The Target_Achieve 20% of materials sourced, or manufactured on site, with 40% coming from within a 350 km radius.

How Edmonton Wins_ local jobs, better indoor air quality, sustainable harvesting and jobs in Alberta forestry Strategies / Case Studies_ • Create building guidelines that require using innovative, local, reclaimed, renewable, durable, recycled and low environmental impact materials in construction • Emphasize use of FSC-certified Alberta lumber in construction • Establish Property Management and business procurement policy for local, sustainable materials and products.

• Track the embodied carbon and lifecycle costs of all materials.

• Use the rail system to bring building materials onsite

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Although this area could be viewed as the terminus of the site, it is envisioned as a multi-modal terminal, a habitat corridor and signature connection to the north. The Yellowhead Bridge signifies both an end and a beginning: an arrival and a departure.

The district will include a light rail stop, a park and ride lot, and a high speed rail connection that brings in regional visitors and provides a quick connection to Jasper’s mountain resorts. Indoor greenhouse streets radiate out from the transit stop, allowing people to bike and walk regardless of weather conditions. Within the site, proximity to amenities, the design of the built and natural environment and specific transportation strategies will eliminate the need for polluting forms of transportation entirely. The park and ride lot will include spots designated for electric vehicles and car share vehicles. There will also be a host of programmatic, educational, and lifestyle decisions that cumulatively will contribute to the ability of residents to achieve the necessary emissions reductions.

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features MASTER PLAN PRINCIPLES Infrastructure 01_The site Transprotation Design Plan joins with regional transportation opportunities at the multi modal hub in this district.

02_In addition to moving people regionally, this hub is also important for materials and waste management during construction and throughout the life of the development.

Open Space 01_The multi-modal hub creates a bridge over the existing heavy rail service and provides a habitat corridor and public green space to connect the site and existing development to the north.

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Sustainable Transport Yellowhead Bridge, as a multi modal hub, embodies the principle of car-free, healthy mobility, providing multi-modal options and making car alternatives attractive through urban design and planning. The community’s European-style streets will give priority to pedestrians and cyclists, and create safe places for children to play and neighbors to meet friends. A system of cycle paths (groomed for cross-country skiing in the winter) will interconnect the site and transit nodes.

The Challenge_Transport is the fastest growing contributor to C02 emissions. Between 1995 and 2005, travel by automobile increased by 32% in Edmonton, and auto emissions account for 30% of the 19 million tonnes of greenhouse gases produced in the city.

The Target_The ECCA will eliminate car emissions from travel within the site, and reduce emissions to and from site by 70%. above: Looking North to the Multimodal and the Transit Bridge below: Looking South across the Transit Bridge

One Brighton is a car-free development that has been officially recognized as having the highest sales absorption in the SouthEast of England. Residents and tenants benefit from using a carsharing club, which allows them to use a car as and when they need it, at a fraction of the price of conventional car ownership, and secure bicycle storage.

How Edmonton Wins_ Safer streets, less time stuck in traffic, more exercise & less smog.

Strategies / Case Studies_ • Integrated Light Rail and possible High Speed Rail options linked to the site • Internal Trolley Loop allows for short trips on site • Complete streets allow for bikes and pedestrians to move safely: the “People First” principle • Low-car districts designed to emphasize transit and car-sharing over car ownership • Loops around site in winter for cross-country skiing and canal skating • Density of residential uses mixed with neighbourhood shops, schools, and commercial nodes foster short trip living on site

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The way we’ve designed our cities and buildings in the past has created a template for living that makes it inconvenient to live sustainably. Building designers and operators have tremendous influence to rewrite this template, and to make it easier for ordinary people to change their lifestyles. Our team has extensive experience implementing design measures and service partnerships that make the adoption of sustainable behaviours as ergonomic and convenient as possible at ECCA.

Neighbors gather at BedZED, the prototype One Planet Community.

Since 2002 residents have joined the car sharing club, which gives them access to a car when they need one and helps them save money; more often they make good use of the public transport links and cycling facilities. There are fresh local, organic fruit and vegetable deliveries each week, and recycling and composting are made easy with segregated bins in kitchens. All this helps create a real sense of community.

Residents know 19 neighbors on average neighbors known by BedZED 65% less vehicle miles travelled 20% resale premium on homes

In 2002 BioRegional began pioneering a sustainable lifestyles program at London’s new BedZED eco-neighbourhood, with surprising results. Monitoring found that 42% of total1 CO2 savings was attributable to behavior change in the waste, transport, and food categories. Research showed that adoption of sustainable behaviors was driven by : 1) ergonomic design, like under-sink waste separation 2) provision of key services such as an on-site car share club 3) a full-time ‘eco-concierge’ whose mission was to make ecolifestyles easy and convenient for residents 4) a high rate of community connect-edness that spurred participation and the spread of a sustainability epidemic 5) community champions: volunteer residents who helped organize composting, local food box delivery, lobbying for a bicycle lane on the adjacent main street, etc.

ECCA COMMUNITY LIFE IN 2020

ECCA will set an ambitious new standards for healthier, happier lifestyles to ensure that each district is designed, built, and operated with a higher quality of life in mind: friendlier places, safer communities, cleaner water and air, fresher, healthier food, and a more productive, more wealthy economy.

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Health & Happiness The good health and happiness of residents will be promoted through multiple design and community features based on findings from emerging “happiness” and biophilic research, current research on the effect of the built environment on public health and case studies.

How Edmonton Wins_ Residents are safer, in better shape & know their neighbors

I like living at ECCA. Mom doesn’t mind me skateboarding or biking to school because there aren’t many cars and they go real slow on our special streets.

We moved to ECCA because of the quality of the home (and the amazing architecture!), the access to nature right in the city and the active lifestyle enjoyed here.

We live in one of the townhouses near the soccer field. There’s a big playground I like that Dad says is totally made from stuff people didn’t use any more – he says it’s like recycling, only better.

In the mornings my husband has this little routine walking to work through Blatchford Circle. He goes by the newsstand and picks up organic fair trade coffee at the corner cafe. He chats with neighbors before heading off to work at his company’s office just down the street. Sometimes he goes to lunch with colleagues at my favorite restaurant at the Crossroads – it’s a microbrewery with delicious food, and in season it’s all exclusively from Alberta. Our diets have really improved here, with the convenient delivery of organic vegetables each week, dabbling in the gardens and orchards with neighbors, and even getting unusually healthy “fresh fast food” sometimes from one of the many market stalls (reminds me of Portland!) at the train station to take home to the kids.

School is pretty fun here. At lunchtime, we eat a lot of vegetables that we’ve grown in the school’s garden. Last week we went to the composter to learn about how worms turn old food into fertilizer. And in the summer we went on a school trip to a farm that sells its fruit and vegetables at the farmer’s market.

When we go to visit my aunt in Spruce Grove, Mom and Dad take one of the car-sharing club’s electric cars parked on our street. The car is kinda cool because it gets its electricity from the sun and is really, really quiet.

Mom and Dad seem less stressed since we moved to ECCA. They might finally even let me get a dog. This is the coolest place I’ve lived!

We know far more neighbors than where we used to live. Perhaps it’s because everyone is out on the street instead of in their cars; you just don’t need to drive when everything is within walking distance!

The Challenge_Out of a ranking of 143 countries, Canada is 89th in the Happy Planet Index, which incorporates three separate indicators: ecological footprint, lifesatisfaction and life expectancy. Regionally, Edmonton is known for its high quality lifestyle, yet with long commutes, many residents have less time for leisure activities.

The Target_Design a plan to increase the health and quality of life of community members by promoting healthy lifestyles and well-being through well-designed places.

Strategies / Case Studies_ _Foster community beyond boundaries _Promote healing and cultivate a community of care _Proactively promote a strong sense of community and social capital

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Discover | 3 months

During this phase our team will gather additional data to help produce metric baselines for the One Planet Communities process, and to help us ensure the plan solutions adhere to a rigorous performance metrics of One Planet Living. Discovery isn’t all about data, it is also about discovering the place of Edmonton, talking to people, and getting to know the climate, the way of life, the food, the music, and everything that makes this a place where people find happiness and build their lives and livelihoods.

Continue gathering technical data The team will compile existing plans, reports, demographic, infrastructure, economic, cultural housing and market data. We will create a series of diagrams and existing conditions maps to establish baseline characteristics that will define future work.

Trends and Baseline Metrics – Our team of experienced sustainable design professionals will review the City’s metrics, identify trends, and begin to understand goals for the Master Plan. There are hundreds of metrics that could be used, and our team will work with City staff to identify Edmonton’s key metrics that allow the City to track success on the site, and ensure a high performance development. The initial metric analysis will contribute to the creation of a One Planet Living Sustainability Action Plan (SAP) in Phase II. Kick-off Meetings: Building on the findings of initial data gathering and analysis, we will conduct our first team

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workshop in cooperation with you, our client. Some combination of meetings and workshops will be held with City staff, elected officials, the Steering Committee, Project Team, and Project Office representatives.

Visioning: The kick-off visioning meeting is a public forum for understanding the hopes and concerns of the public for the ECCA lands. This meeting allows our planning team to ascertain the priorities and the personalities of the surrounding neighborhoods and understand the diverse needs and concerns of greater Edmonton.

Online Forum (Optional): This optional service will give community stakeholders the opportunity to provide early input and guide the planning process.

Discover Phase Deliverables

• Final Public Involvement Plan • Graphic representations of data,

existing conditions, site conditions and challenges • Confirm the Vision for the site, the Master Plan Principles, and gain momentum for public involvement • Complete preliminary drafts of required ASP/NSP technical studies: Community Knowledge Campus Needs Assessment, Ecological Network Report, Geotechnical Report, Historical Resources Overview, Hydraulic Network Analysis, Neighbourhood Design Report, Phase I Environmental Assessment, Transportation Impact Assessment

Analyze | 4 months

Stakeholder Interviews: Civic and business leaders selected by the Steering Committee will provide their input in a series of one-on-one interviews. These sessions allow the team to make connections between the many ongoing initiatives happening citywide and to ensure that the diverse group of stakeholders is heard from children and young adults to political leaders and aborigines.

Area/Neighborhood Structure Plan Process: Prepare ASP document Area/Neighborhood Structure Plan Process: Initiate Technical Studies

During the technical analysis phase, the planning team will begin to analyze and synthesize all of the data and input collected in Phase I to ensure a holistic, final plan document. With One Planet Living as the organizing principle, the technical analysis will look at natural, built, social and economic systems, considering many dimensions including: building performance, infrastructure, urban design, renewable generation, density and land use, transportation, policy, economic development, cultural resources, housing, and many more.

Interpret Data & Establish Planning Alternatives: The BNIM team will synthesize the research, existing plans and public input from Phase 1

to identify the opportunities that have the largest impact on the Master Plan.

We will develop solutions to address the community’s concerns regarding energy, housing and neighborhood vitality, the demographics of the city, transit and telecommunication infrastructure, and infrastructure needs such as sanitary sewers, water and transportation corridors an energy generation and transmission. Review existing market conditions and as required complete a Market Study for the site. Any additional studies that are needed will be identified at this time.

Sustainability Action Plan: Develop a sustainability action plan through the One Planet Communities process

Define Targets: As we are wrapping up the analysis phase, and dialoguing with the community about One Planet Living and their vision for ECCA site, our team will review baseline metrics, and establish targets that will ensure a highly sustainable development, and allow the City to celebrate its success.

The targets will then translate directly into specific strategies and policies for the development of the ECCA lands. Some targets will be quantitative, and some qualitative, but all of them will be measurable and in line with the community vision and economic realities.

Analyze Phase Deliverables

• Formal Submission of Plan

Complete the Technical Reports required by ASP / NSP process: Community Knowledge Campus Needs Assessment, Ecological Network Report, Geotechnical Report, Historical Resources Overview, Hydraulic Network Analysis, Neighbourhood Design Report, Phase I Environmental Assessment, Transportation Impact Assessment, Commercial/Retail Market Needs Assessment, Noise Assessment Study, and Risk Assessment

Application for Area Structure Plan • OPL Targets Defined • Reveal additional Feasibility Studies needed • Kick start Implementation: At this point it is feasible that the team, in collaboration with the City and stakeholders may be able to identify a few quick win’s for the plan, programs, or events that can be held to help kick off development or promote the vision.

Review and synthesize the Technical Studies Prepared for ASP / NSP: The team will review the studies and identify any unknown issues, challenges, or opportunities for the Master Plan.

Plan | 5 months

Community Forum: Identify key drivers, priorities, and goals for the site: A second round of community feedback will allow Align Collaborative to report on their findings and educate the community about opportunities for creating a first class sustainable development. The community stakeholders will then help priorities the strategies that are most inspiring to them, and identify goals for the performance of the development.

During the Plan phase, the community vision, analysis and metrics come together to create physical designs, policies and programs. The planning team will create conceptual sketches, identify precedent strategies and align the community input around real, implementable ideas.

Programming and Land Use - Align Collaborative will synthesize the economic market data, and the community vision into a series of plan solutions that integrate the Seven Master Planning Principles already identified by the City. Appropriate amounts of commercial, retail, and residential, and civic uses and appropriate synergies with adjacent

areas will be considered. The master plan program will be presented graphically to the public through site-specific drawings, and project precedents from around the world, and will be tested against the One Planet Targets set in the Analysis Phase.

Develop Scenarios - Align Collaborative will develop two to three visionary design scenarios for the ECCA lands. The scenarios will include considerations for transportation, infrastructure, energy waste, water, growth, density, education, housing, social services and more. Sketches, diagrams and precedent studies will all contribute to the presentation of plan scenarios for community and stakeholder review.

Explore Plan Directions - Guided by public involvement, the team will continue to solicit and respond to community input. Through public meetings and workshops the community will continually have the opportunity to react to research, preliminary scenarios and the illustrative designs created by the project team. The team will use maps, drawings, web sites, multimedia presentations, newsletters and community-wide venues such as local news publications, radio and television to communicate the opportunities for the site.

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Economic Feasibility –The team will be analyzing the various plan scenarios on their financial feasibility and economic sustainability throughout the planning process, as the final scenario is established, the economic team will step in for a rigorous analysis

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Plan Development - During this final planning stage, the team will refine scenarios into one final design recommendation, and use all of the analysis, study, and testing of the scenarios to create the following Plan components: Identify Iconic features and design guidelines for development, Renewable Energy Plan, Comprehensive Stormwater and Wastewater Plan, Wastewater Servicing Plan, Waste Management Plan, Transportation Design Plan, Health and Happiness Plan, Urban Design Standards, Street Design Standards, Technology, Open Space, Housing

• Final Plan Recommendations

In addition to the plan document and all related guidelines and policy, the team will create large format presentations or marketing brochures as needed and requested by the City.

Final Town Hall Meeting - During the closing public forum the team will present the final draft of the Master Plan. This will be one more opportunity for the general public to participate and ensure their vision has been properly recorded. One possible format for this meeting is an open house. Feedback will be noted and incorporated where appropriate.

Present Final Master Plan to Leaders – After adjusting the planning scenario to reflect community feedback, final presentations will be held with various committees, City Planning, and City Council. The purpose of this presentation is to celebrate the good work of the plan participants and solicit any outstanding feedback and identify any potential needs that have not been properly addressed

• Final Plan Presentation • Economic Feasibility Report

Implement | 3-6 months

Implementation Framework – The Align Collaborative plan will include a strategy for implementation to ensure the hard work, commitment, and vision of the Master Plan is realized.

The Implementation Framework will include project phasing recommendations, and identification of catalyst projects that can be used to kick start development. The team will identify project time lines, champions, and strategies to move the project along over the next five or ten years and give guidance about how to review progress over the entire build out of the site.

Documentation - The planning process is, in many ways, more important than any document could ever be. However, it is critical that the concepts we develop together are recorded in a way that is accessible and can be easily referenced.

Documentation will be continuous throughout the duration of the project and will include diagrams, maps, anticipated benefits to the community, strategies for implementation, the rationale for recommendations, and an executive summary of the Plan’s purpose, goals, process, plan recommendations and implementation

Plan Approval - Align Collaborative will work diligently to ensure the Plan is ready for adoption at the time of documentation, however we understand that the political infrastructure often requires more time to digest plan recommendations and work through project specifics.

The planning team will be available to make additional presentations as needed leading up to plan adoption.

In addition we understand that the finalized ASP / NSP submission is a requirement of this work, and we will work together with City Planning and elected officials to make that process as seamless, and expedient as possible.

Implement Phase Deliverables

• Final ASP / NSP submission • Final Plan Document • Implementation Framework • Adopted Plan Document

Community Involvement Approach Informed City: A Community Led Process

Align Collaborative will build a model for “Informed Edmonton” where citizens learn from the project team, and become a partner in building a sustainable master plan. We believe that well-designed urban spaces originate from a collective vision for a better future. We will work together with the City to create a Public Engagement Plan that leverages resources, excites the public, and results in an authentic plan supported by extensive public momentum.

The foundation of an effective outreach strategy is the ability to situate information within the context of a participant’s life. People enjoy access to an enormous amount of information, furthering their need to filter, aggregate and make sense of it all. Our team’s understanding of outreach tells us that simplifying products and messages, uncluttering communications and condensing information into “snack-size” makes everything we do more memorable and more effective.

At the core of successful outreach efforts is authenticity. Through authentic engagement, the community and participants can be strengthened—even built from the ground-up. Most importantly, authentic engagement leads to new relationships, new shared norms and values and an evolving social network around a common cause.

Our approach balances high-tech engagement efforts with hightouch engagement efforts. The off-line strategies help to build trust, one-to-one connections and

build a small community of loyal participants. The online strategies provide an opportunity to forge deeper relationships, create larger networks and interact in ways that are convenient for the participant—leading to more frequent engagement.

Our Team’s Public Participation Process will: • Create meaningful public participation opportunities • Build excitement and interest for the ECCA Lands Master Plan • Manage public expectations of the planning process • Lead the Master Plan to the road of implementation

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CREATING A COMMUNITY OUTREACH PLAN

We know from experience that every community is different and that the best outreach techniques depend greatly on existing cultural and social networks.

We will customize a community outreach plan for this project and work with the City to ensure the plan follows the City of Edmonton’s Public Involvement Initiative. The following items are examples of techniques that could be used: Public Meetings We typically hold a series of dynamic meeting opportunities to invite diverse points of view on a variety of topics.

In the beginning of a project, these sessions are geared toward highlevel brainstorming and visioning.

As the project proceeds, we mix conversation, education and exercises to move the community vision to influence the identification and prioritization of specific projects.

Online Forum Public meetings are not for everyone and do not allow for the constant feedback that drives 21st century community conversations. An online forum provides a virtual place for collective community innovation and input. We will work with the City to understand the need for and cost of developing an online forum for this project. Our team has experience working with innovative online solutions to public participation.

Media Outreach Media outreach will be conducted throughout the project as they will be treated as a key stakeholder. Activities

could include issuing media advisories and press releases to announce the project prior to public meetings and events; producing fact sheets, graphics and news releases to provide progress updates and responding to reporters’ requests.

Progressive Meals Effective communication starts with a foundation of trust between the communicating parties.

Sharing a community meal can be a powerful way to break down barriers and establish a comfortable standard of dialogue between people who are bringing their own issues to the table.

A common meal can also be a way to spread understanding and broaden the expectations of all those involved.

The BNIM team can design the dinner’s format, as well as specific tools used at the dinner to induce constructive conversation from the participating members. We will use tools such as the physical location of the dinners, graphic place mats and dinner cards.

Steering Committee The City’s appointed Steering Committee serves as a project advisor and will have a pivotal role in this process. The project team will facilitate Steering Committee meetings every other month to discuss project progress and next steps. The Steering Committee also serves a critical role in providing guidance for the project, helping to identify key issues and reach all key interests and groups to ensure that they are given opportunities to participate in the process.

Key Stakeholder Interviews In addition to the Steering Committee, the team will also engage Key Stakeholders through one-on-one interviews, to ensure the plan update reflects the vision of the civic and business leaders in Fargo. These sessions will help us distinguish what the stakeholders need from our team, as well as provide needed information.

The project team anticipates having approximately ten Key Stakeholder meetings at the beginning of the project, or as issues arise.

Elected Officials Briefings The BNIM team will conduct elected official briefings with City Council members and the mayor as necessary throughout the process.

Having buy-in from elected officials will jump-start implementation of project recommendations.

One Planet Framework ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT AS A DESIGN TOOL

According to the Canadian Living Planet Report 2007, if everyone lived like Canadians, we would need 4.3 Earths to support us. With an Ecological Footprint of 7.6 global hectares (gh) per person, Canada is using resources and turning them into waste at a much higher rate than the global average. Edmonton’s footprint of 8.56 gh per person is even higher: a 4.84 planet footprint, due largely to food imports and the unusually high GHG intensity of electricity.

Conventional thinking in the green building movement favors green infrastructure and compact urban form to reduce footprint – but as the below graphic illustrates, measures like the Zero Carbon community we propose in this document will only get us roughly one-third of the way to a truly sustainable footprint in Edmonton. One Planet Communities is the only green neighborhood program that uses ecological footprinting as a decision-making framework to assist neighborhoods to produce fewer impacts in all categories of consumption.

A PRELIMINARY ONE PLANET ACTION PLAN FOR ECCA

One Planet Communities are an international network of the world’s greenest masterplanned communities. One Planet Action Plans such as the preliminary document on the next 10 pages are roadmaps that set deeply ambitious performance targets and strategies for each of the 10 One Planet Living principles, tailored to the unique context of the site. Through a participatory workshop process with the City and community stakeholders, our team will help the City plan beyond design and construction to emphasize cost-effective methods in operation to A) increase quality of life, health, happiness and interaction among residents and B) to gently persuade residents to lower their ecological impacts to a truly sustainable level (a 79% reduction in Edmonton), and provide the infrastructure and social programs that make sustainable behaviours easy, affordable, and practical.

BREAKDOWN OF EDMONTON’S ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT

FOOD: 1 Planet. Our food footprint is one of the most difficult challenges we face. Our research in California, under optimal growing conditions, suggests that food footprint may be reduced by about 40% on average through a combination of consumption of local food and, more importantly, reducing about half the animal protein in our diets per person.

HOUSING: 1.5 Planets. The Zero Carbon strategy for buildings proposed in this submittal will eliminate all direct emissions, and roughly 93% of indirect emissions.

TRANSPORT: 0.4 Planets. Reducing the impacts of this significant component of our footprint to a truly sustainable level (about .7 tons per person in North American cities by 2020) require a fully integrated portfolio of infrastructure, services, and social marketing programs. Solutions to be include excellent transit, compact urban form, living streets, decoupled parking and low parking ratios, protected bicycle paths and excellent pedestrian options, jobs located near housing, and vigorous promotion of car alternatives.

GOODS & SERVICES: 0.5 & 0.7 Planets. Solution: social programs aimed at reducing overconsumption, and direct engagement with businesses and their supply chains to reduce the impacts of their goods and services.

GOVERNMENT: 0.7 Planets. This “personal share” of societal footprint cannot be influenced directly on the ECCA site. However, by providing a model for truly sustainable operations, a One Planet Community at the ECCA lands can inspire governments at all levels to embrace more sustainable practices.

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Health and Happiness Residents are safer, in better shape & know their neighbors Design a plan to increase the health and quality of life of community members by promoting healthy lifestyles and well-being through well-designed places. and fitness/wellness programs.

Alberta Health Alberta Recreation and Parks Association - active living strategy

Champions BNIM Global & National Context Out of a ranking of 143 countries, Canada is 89th in the Happy Planet Index, which shows the relative efficiency with which nations convert the planet’s natural resources into long and happy lives for their citizens – incorporating three separate indicators: ecological footprint, lifesatisfaction and life expectancy.

Provincial & Edmonton Context Regionally, Edmonton is known for its high quality lifestyle, yet with long commutes, many residents have less time for leisure activities Site Context The openness and possibility for a lot of greenspace and networks of walking/biking/skiing/etc paths are a major asset of this site. Even in its faux-green current state, the site provides opportunities for physical exercise and the development will only improve upon that.

Potential Local Partners Glenrose rehabilitation Norwood esenio/extended care Central Lions Research effort out of the U of A around active living tied to Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation

Our Approach HH1 Promote a strong sense of community and foster Social Capital.

Community connectedness and social capital are consistently strong indicators of better health status and improved life satisfaction HH2 Proactively promote wellness and health. The Airport Lands community will be a community that promotes health through providing inviting, convenient, all-season access to active lifestyles and healthful diets.

HH3 Proactively safeguard wellness and health by reducing health and safety risks in the built environment: minimizing pollutants, toxins, and dangerous chemicals, maximizing pedestrian safety, etc.

HH4 Promote healing and cultivate a community of care. While goals #2 and #3 will mean a healthier, happier population at The Airport Lands community overall, sickness and stressful life events will still inevitably occur. This goal addresses that inevitability by designing a community that supports residents through difficult times, mitigating the impacts of ill health and promoting healing. An ethic of care will be cultivated at The Airport Lands community.

HH5 Participatory process. The World Health Organization (WHO) includes as one of their prerequisites for health, “political will and public support.”

HH6 Foster community beyond boundaries. In addition to participation in the governance of one’s own community, civic participation more broadly is an important indicator of

happiness. The goal is not to create an enclave or gated community, but to foster flow into and out of community.

HH7 Create a fully accessible community. Enable all people, regardless of age or bodily ability to participate in the community.

HH8 Encourage on-site and nearby work. Working long hours and commuting to work are both cited as major reasons for dissatisfaction with life and compromised well-being. By encouraging on-site work opportunities we can help alleviate those sources of unhappiness.

HH9 Diversity. The Airport Lands community will be a community designed for diversity: people of all ages, backgrounds, income levels and family structures will be welcomed into the community.

HH10 Create sustainable affordability that does not draw attention to difference.

HH11 Enable active living and community connectedness throughout the long winters. The Airport Lands Community must embrace the winter season and should develop an explicit set of winter design guidelines such as the following: • Utilize solar orientation to maximize the penetration of heat and sunlight • Use buildings to protect outdoor spaces from prevailing winds • Design building surfaces to help reduce wind speed • Use bright colors and lighting treatments when designing buildings and landscape treatments in order to offset the darkness and monotony of the winter season • Create active winter boulevards, like the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, that would allow winter travel on skates or cross country skis

zero waste

Example Sustainability Action Plan

Smarter recycling, less packaging, & using compost in gardens Decrease construction waste by at least 90% with smart design. Partner with EWMCE to provide ergonomic facilities, education, and incentives to occupants, limiting waste sent to landfill to 2% by 2020, with at least 70% being reclaimed/re-used, recycled or composted. From date of occupancy of the first units at the Airport Lands will meet or exceed the official Edmonton recycling targets.

Reclaiming concrete at Sonoma Mountain Village.

Champions: BNIM Global & National Context

The majority of the planet’s extracted and refined resources are used once then discarded. Five-fold increases in global waste generation are estimated above 2005 levels by 2025, with disproportionately high increases in industrialized countries. According to the UN, a majority of the world’s ecosystem services are in decline from unsustainable consumption, and the planet’s capacity to absorb current waste production is inadequate. Landfilled organic waste emits methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than C02.

Provincial & Edmonton Context Currently 20% of Alberta’s waste is recycled and recovered while 80% is sent for disposal. Edmonton has an exemplary 60% diversion rate for residential waste, two times the Canadian average waste diversion rate. The City’s target for landfill diversion by 2013 is 90% thanks to Canada’s first municipal waste-tobiofuels facility to accept processed mixed residential waste. However an estimated 60% of all waste comes from the non-residential sector.

The Integrated Processing and

Transfer Facility is where all residential waste and some commercial waste is sorted into 4 streams: composting, some recycling, transfer to landfill and future processing of waste for the biofuels facility. Having a single processing facility allows residents to have minimal sorting responsibilities and has resulted in much higher diversion rates per household.

Site Context The city of Edmonton has shown itself to be a world leader when it comes to dealing with waste streams. Drawing on experiences at Sonoma Mountain Village, the large quantities of paving on site should be stockpiled and recycled into new streets onsite.

Potential Local Partners • Edmonton Waste Management Centre for Excellence (EWMCE) • Alberta Recycling Council • Goodwill/Salvation Army/Value Village for textiles • Free Store and Freecycle (online) • Small Resale Boutiques OUR APPROACH All of our approaches will be designed in partnership with EWMCE, using ECCA as a pilot area for new programs.

ZW1 Minimize waste generation – The initial intent is to reduce the amount of potential waste brought onto the site (such as excess packaging). This can be handled in technical specifications / requirements during the construction phase with careful monitoring during construction, and within lease agreements provides incentives for minimal waste from businesses.

ZW2 Maximize re-use opportunities

within the community - host a materials reuse/reclamation yard onsite.

ZW3 Develop a comprehensive and diverse collection plan for recyclables and compostables that guarantees a high-level participation rate ZW4 Design and build facilities that allow absolute convenience in capturing and diverting waste streams in all homes and businesses, employing best practices and ergonomics.

ZW5 Create and implement a comprehensive waste management plan for the construction phase.

ZW6 Create a culture of zero waste – Provide incentives for waste reduction and disincentives for waste generation.

ZW7 Develop a robust waste education plan – Provide on-going metrics for progress against Zero Waste targets.

ZW8 Explore energy-fromwaste opportunities (eg. clean plasmification) either on-site or off-site ZW9 Explore local and regional byproduct synergy opportunities – invite local and regional industry partners to understand existing waste streams and explore potential synergies.

Wider community engagement

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at ECCA, consider how adjacent neighborhoods could use them.

New and innovative waste reduction and diversion strategies may encourage certain businesses or startups to relocate at ECCA; these should be identified earlyperhaps with incentives such as low-cost rent Build a strong partnership with EWMCE and invite them to use ECCA as a waste innovation hub for the city.

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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT

Preliminary One Planet Action Plan

Safer streets, less traffic/smog, fitness from cycling & walking The ECCA will eliminate car emissions within the site and reduce emissions to and from site by 70%. MobilityOriented Districts, car-free zones, “bicycle arcades” and living streets prioritize all-season access to cycling/ pedestrian, car-sharing and transit options.

Signing out a car-share at BedZED.

Champions: Crandall Arambula Global & National Context Globally, transport is the fastest growing contributor to C02 emissions.

25% of Canada’s C02 emission come from transport. Canadians’ private vehicles consume over 28 billion litres of (fossil) fuel each year (NRCan).

Provincial & Edmonton Context Edmonton’s 2005 Household Travel Survey found that of the 2.5 million trips made each day, 77% were by car, 11% walking, 9% public transportation, and 1% by bicycle. This is one of the highest car dependence rates in Canada. Between 1994 and 2005 Edmonton’s population increased 13% well at the same time the total number of km traveled by automobile in the city increased 32%. Because of such extensive car use, transportation in Edmonton accounts for 30% of the 19 million tonnes of greenhouse gases produced in the city, 4.958 tons per capita. Car ownership and operating costs run between $5000-8000 per year in Edmonton.

Edmonton has some of the highest Light Rail Transit (LRT) ridership in Canada. The LRT has 74,440 daily passengers and there is high LRT ridership along the existing corridor.

Site Context Households adjacent to the ECCA lands travel between 51 and 75 km per day, significantly lower than the 102 km city-wide average. These households produce between 15-18 tonnes of CO2 from transport and housing, which is also below the 20.5 tonne city-wide average. There are 25,200 car trips a day which pass the site on Kingsway, and 20,900 which pass the site along Princess Elizabeth Ave. The fact that the city has recently developed the Cycle Edmonton: Bicycle Transportation Plan is a potential asset, although it could be bolder - eg. doesn’t incorporate protected bikeways.

Parking minimums, development density maximums, shuttles, lane width minimums, street design standards, current zoning restrictions, noise and vibration regulations from the train traffic all create potential barriers and require strategic resolution early in the project.

Potential Local Partners • Edmonton bicycle commuters (formerly ran a bike share program) • Bike Alberta • Edmonton Radial Railways Society • City of Edmonton Transit • ZipCar (currently at UofA) Our Approach ST1 Reduce harmful transportation emissions to sustainable levels ST2 Provide alternatives to automobile transportation, with careful design to promote widespread car-sharing and transit ridership ST3 Minimize the need for personal

automobile transportation ST4 Design the site and Land Use to encourage local business and community interaction ST5 Decrease the percentage of a resident’s income that goes to transportation related expenses ST6 Provide maximum alternatives to mitigate the need for long-distance business travel ST7 Minimize travel distances for goods and services provided on-site ST8 Enable alternative transportation options throughout the long winters.

Sample Strategies • Create active winter boulevards, like the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, that would allow winter travel on skates or cross country skis • Promote a dense compact development pattern that allows for 5 or 10 minute living • Develop a network of all-weather arcades and protected bikeways that comfortably connect residences and businesses to transit, even when it’s -40.

• Car-sharing in every parking garage; decoupled parking • Living streets/woonerfs • Local circulator to NAIT, hospital, etc.

• Yellowhead Bridge district with parkn-ride link to Yellowhead Highway, VIA, and/or hi-speed railway station Wider community engagement The ECCA Sustainable Transportation Strategy will benefit multiple communities. This process should be viewed as one of many opportunities to dialogue with the community.

LOCAL and sustainable materials

Example Sustainability Action Plan

Better indoor air quality, sustainable Alberta forestry & local jobs Source at least 40% of materials regionally and at least 50% of all timber from sustainable FSC-certified sources, and off-set at least 20% of all embodied carbon. A flagship project will visibly prototype the use of reclaimed materials, such as shipping containers. green buildings. We propose to locate a salvage yard on the site to allow for the use of reclaimed materials throughout construction, and (depending on market viability) to continue on post-occupancy as a community asset.

Innovative clay blocks at One Brighton

Champions Snohetta Global & National Context The construction industry alone is responsible for 40% of solid material flows on the planet. Canada’s construction industry generates about one third of the country’s solid waste.

Provincial & Edmonton Context Construction and demolition (C&D) waste makes up close to one quarter of waste sent to landfill in Alberta. It is estimated that no more than 10 to 15 per cent of all C&D waste materials are currently being recycled. A provincial construction and demolition waste reduction program is expected to be implemented by the province in late 2011 or 2012. This program should help provide incentives to reduce, reuse, and recycle more of this waste stream. In 2008, the City started to accept segregated C&D waste at reduced landfill rates at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre (EWMC).

The City also recycles over 100,000 tonnes of asphalt and concrete into aggregate and recycles over 80 percent of its road sand annually.

Site Context A major asset of the Airport Lands site is the existing building stock which can be repurposed into retrofitted

There is the possibility of salvage yard where excavated and other material can be kept on site, and/or an on-site construction industry, waste triage, etc.

The sites proximity to rail gives the opportunity for direct delivery and widens the catchment area for materials.

Potential Local Partners • Edmonton Waste Management

Centre for Excellence (EWMCE) • Habitat for Humanity ReStore • Architectural clearinghouse (for

Local Builders) • NRCan • Province of Alberta • Capital Region Waste Minimization Advisory Committee • NAIT • University of Alberta OUR APPROACH LSM1 Flagship installation: develop an early public project to the highest sustainable materials (and possibly other) criteria LSM2 Performance Specifications & Green Procurement Procedure: write minimum materials performance requirements into a format that can be used effectively by the various parties to the contracts involved. Develop a standardized approach to green procurement.

LSM3 Educational plan: start and develop the educational plan for materials-use, and keep it current as

build-out progresses (include new technologies, adjust targets, etc) LSM4 Materials depot: develop a permanent site for the storage and exchange of materials, and keep it public and interesting LSM5 Partnerships: every year, add 5 potential partners to the local assets column, at least one from each of the four identified categories above Sample Strategies • Modular design with phasing • Use of shipping containers as building material • On-site manufacturing • Develop a center for excellence in sustainable wood construction • Materials reuse & reclamation yard • Make use of rail spur • Higher rise wood construction • Re-use the runways /recycle all concrete • Create a target for % of regional materials supplied to site • Use ground-up concrete for aquifer storage (via porous space) • Embed performance specifications into development, construction, operations and maintenance, and renovations contracts.

Wider community engagement • Performance specifications REQUIRE achievement of targets.

Public can give feedback on performance criteria.

• Educational plan will TEACH the benefits and use of sustainable materials.

• A depot for storing and distributing recycled / recyclable / re-usable building materials will promote stakeholder involvement and build grass-roots, word-of-mouth interest.

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LOCAL & SUSTAINABLE FOOD

Preliminary One Planet Action Plan

Fresher, healthier diets that strengthen farms & community Achieve a minimum of 40% of food consumed from local farms and onsite gardens (<200 miles). Reduce carbon impact of meat and dairy consumption by 70%. Every household with access to a dedicated garden space.

of Canada’s retail food sales, and the processed food industry accounted for $78 B in 2006, which is about 25% of the Canada’s total food industry (Ag Can).

Provincial & Edmonton Context Agriculture, driven largely by beef production, contributes 22% of Canada’s total CO2e emissions.

Most of the 36% growth in emissions from animal production over the 1990–2006 period occurred in Alberta (Environment Canada, 2008).

42% of BedZED residents get fresh weekly produce from local organic foodbox or supermarket delivery

Champions: BNIM Global & National Context A University of Chicago study calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius. According to the USDA, the average distance food has travelled from “farm to fork” in North America is 1,500 miles, with a rapidly increasing proportion of what Americans eat produced in other countries. The result is that over 20% of fossil fuels consumed in the US are used to transport food. The UN estimates that when you take into account the methane released by rearing cattle, the planet’s 1.5 billion cattle are “responsible for 18% of greenhouse gases, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together” and that this is projected to double by 2050. The IDRC estimates that it takes about 1.6 hectares to feed each Canadian.

Organic food represents less than 1%

Site Context The site is well suited for urban gardens, with wide open spaces.

Some community gardening space could be established immediately and offered to Edmonton’s community gardening network. The site’s size and potential for green spaces are assets too, as edible landscaping can be used to inter-mix productive tree species with the existing trees.

Also, the incorporation of gardens and wild areas can create a mixed land management form that encourages bird and insect population essential to pollinating garden crops. Distributing the gardens throughout the site could also bring more people to the hidden corners of the site, increasing security.

Because of the short growing season in Edmonton, there will be a reduced variety or complete lack of fresh produce available from local sources.

Currently, organic greenhouses are limited in the area. Efforts would be needed to expand this production, both in quantity and variety if it were to become a major component of a local food initiative for ECCA.

Potential Local Partners • The Edmonton Community Garden Network (CGN) • Live Local Alberta • EC4: Edmonton City Center Church Corporation • Bedrock Seed Bank • Original Fare • Breakfast Alberta • Operation Fruit Rescue • Food Bank • Community Leagues Our Approach LSF1 Increase access to organic foods on site LSF2 Increase information available on GM content, source, type of production, nutritional qualities, nonmeat protein content LSF3 Increase access to garden spaces for at-home food production, as well as edible landscaping (some all-season) LSF4 Strengthen food security on and around site LSF5 Increase access to quick and easy, healthy meals for urban lifestyle LSF6 Reduce food waste LSF7 Increase access to local inseason foods LSF8 Increase knowledge of how to prepare healthy, nutritious, palatable, local and vegetarian meals LSF9 Encourage resident to resident interaction related to food and diet LSF10 Explore cogeneration possibilities for heating greenhouses Wider Community Engagement • Offer spaces to Community Garden Network, neighbours get access to new garden spaces • Community kitchen/meals-onwheels can strengthen food security in the area

SUSTAINABLE WATER

Example Sustainability Action Plan

Lower water & energy bills, cleaner water for wildlife & recreation Create a meandering net zero water system that biomimics the natural beauty of Alberta’s oxbow rivers. Develop a 30% reduction in consumption of municipal water per person, harvest and clean water for re-use, and create new aquatic ecosystems. the primary concern. Rainstorms, in particular, tend to raise concentrations through both natural processes and urban runoff.” (Mountains to the Sea, State of the Saskatchewan River Basin).

A typical meandering Alberta stream inspiration for our urban water system

Champions Atelier Driesietl Global & National Context Canada is a nation rich in freshwater assets. The average person in Canada uses about 329 litres of water per day – over twice as much as Europeans. Environment Canada states that “Canada ranks second in the world for urban domestic water use per capita with substantial evidence of inefficient use that is recognized as a threat to sustainable water supplies”. Provision of potable water in Canada requires a lot of energy and infrastructure, resulting in GHG emissions; and non-permeable built environments have a disruptive effect on how rain water is absorbed back into the earth and its water systems, which can contribute to flooding, water contamination, and which require significant infrastructural systems to accommodate.

Provincial & Edmonton Context “Municipal discharges from the Edmonton metropolitan area have a significant impact on the quality of the North Saskatchewan River.

These discharges include 238 storm water outfalls, 19 combined sewer outflows, 2 water treatment plants, and 2 wastewater treatment plants.

In general, nutrients and bacteria are

The average person in Edmonton uses about 223 litres of water per day- better than the Canadian average but still far more than cities like Sydney, Australia (155 litres/person/day). Water use in Alberta is predicted to increase to more than 3,998,600 cubic decametres by 2025 – a 21% increase from current use. In Edmonton there are large losses in the delivery of water where the city loses 20-30% of their water in the delivery/transmission pipes.

Site Context There is little existing infrastructure on much of the site which leaves the design team the choice of a ground layer to minimize impervious surfaces and to optimise the stormwater strategy. Few existing buildings also create opportunities to include innovative water efficiency in the design. The site is so large that it can leverage open space to store and treat stormwater (such as water ponds, wetland, rain garden, a natural swimming pond,) and grey water (such as wetlands and living machines).

The flatness of the site can be an asset by allowing water to be slowed and held. Meandering streams can be created, and ‘snow spots’ can be designed into the landscape to allow the water to infiltrate. The area also has slow draining soil.

Potential Local Partners • Epcor • Water for Life • Alberta Geological Survey • University of Alberta: Natural Resources Department • David Schindler • Climate Change Central (NGO) Our Approach SW1 Reduce total water consumption.

SW2 Reduce municipal water withdrawal. The second step for water preservation is to find alternate sources to meet unavoidable water needs, using high-quality municipal water only to meet health standards, such as for drinking, bathing, and dish-washing.

SW3 Protect and enhance the quality of water resources: Protect unity of water resources.

SW4 Foster a water conservation culture.

SW5 Ensure infrastructure effectiveness.

SW6 Use water to create new ecosystems on the site.

SW7 Design percolation of site’s stormwater runoff to a 100-year stormwater event.

SW8A On-site management for grey water SW8B On site treatment for wastewater (grey and black treated together) SW8C On-site treatment for grey and black water (separately) SW8D Promote different innovative technologies for wastewater treatment Wider Community Engagement It will be essential to consult with local communities in envisioning innovative approaches to wastewater treatment which are market-tested but still new to Alberta.

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LAND USE & WILDLIFE

Preliminary One Planet Action Plan

More nature to enjoy in the city, helping reduce habitat loss Create an urban eco-park with high, medium and low biodiversity zones equal to a minimum of 40% of the site.

Restore ecosystem services to predevelopment conditions. Protected habitat zones will be set aside to allow birds and amphibians to thrive undisturbed.

Alberta’s migratory birds follow the same flight axis as the site’s runways

Champions BNIM Global & National Context Each person in Canada is responsible for roughly 23.1 tonnes (NRCan, 2005 data) of CO2e emissions each year.

This rate of GHG emission ranks Canadians as the 9th worst polluter in the world on a per capital basis and second worst of the CH8 countries (WRI, 2000).

Provincial & Edmonton Context Almost all of the area around Edmonton is cultivated, but a mosaic of aspen and prairie vegetation occupies remnant native parkland areas. Aspen forest is dominant and grasslands are restricted to drier areas. Wetlands, containing a wide variety of birds and amphibians, are common. Along the northern boundary, boreal forest species such as woodchuck, broad-winged hawk and rose-breasted grosbeak are more common. Franklin’s ground squirrel and piping plover range primarily in this Subregion as well.

There is an abundance of bird life around the wetland marshes and many species of ducks make their summer homes in these waters.

Canadian geese also nest in the more remote marshes and blackbirds,

marsh wrens and black terns nest in the reeds. Franklin gulls nest in the marsh vegetation, but range over agricultural fields for grasshoppers, crickets, and mice. Black-capped chickadee, hairy woodpeckers, ruffed grouse, magpies, and great horned owls can be observed in all seasons. Summer residents include red-eyed vireo, least flycatcher and northern oriole. The area is also a major flyway for ducks, swans and pelicans. White-tailed deer find shelter in the aspen and graze on the grasslands well coyotes and foxes hunt the resident rodents.

Site Context The large open spaces on the site with its lack of trees and variety of underlying soils allow for creative landscaping, including water retention features. Key challenges must be recognized: The site in its current state is not good habitat and the unknown effect of contaminants from airport operations are a potential problem for future habitats. As well, the site is separated from important greenways and the parkland system along the North Saskatchewan River Valley.

Sample Strategies • survey local environmental NGOs for site knowledge and explore opportunities for their participation in habitat management/monitoring.

• undertake a precise inventory of forest, water geology, water table, water circulation patterns (above and below ground), acoustics, noise, train vibration, light, and wind.

• undertake studies for impact on all inhabitants, human and otherwise.

• Investigate provincial and municipal regulations and incentives on wildlife

and ecology i.e. CLIMASOL, Potential Local Partners • Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Edmonton • Sierra Club of Canada (Prairie Chapter) • North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance • Western Canada Wilderness Committee Our Approach NHW1 Provide significant habitat for urban wildlife NHW2 Restore environmentally damaged areas NHW3 Ensure access to value-added greenspace NHW4 Conserve and incorporate native habitat NHW5 Manage light pollution NHW6 Create wildlife management plan NHW7 Develop and implement education and communication plan NHW8 Ensure meetings between project architects, biologists, landscape architects and/or local groups take place throughout development phases to maximize benefits to wildlife NHW9 Fund implementation of biodiversity research, & partnership development plans NHW10 Reintroduce native species Wider Community Engagement Communicate accomplishments in measurable terms and celebrate key biodiversity indicators. Develop a substantial web education campaign around ECCA habitat restoration.

CULTURE & HERITAGE

Example Sustainability Action Plan

Local artists, markets, concerts, and neighborhood events Evoke a sense of place, identity and belonging, building on the existing rich cultural fabric of the City of Edmonton by celebrating past achievements, while at the same time creating a fertile environment for new cultural endeavours and the emergence of a new, 21st culture of healthy green living that are associated with the culture of Edmonton are the iconic grain elevators, beer bottle stucco, auto and biodiesel racing and the area also has a history of sod houses. The flight corridor of the airport has left its own imprint on the city.

ECCA could provide a venue for Edmonton’s festival city program, including new events such as European-style Christmas markets

Site Context The airport has a rich aviation heritage, being the first licensed Champions Snohetta airfield in Canada in 1929. This will be showcased on an ongoing basis Global & National Context by the aviation museum. There are Local cultural heritage is being existing 1960s and 70s precast lost throughout the world due to buildings and three hangars are globalization, resulting in a loss of local designated heritage at the provincial identity and wisdom. Learning from level. The site has a history of our past can help us live in the future providing needed municipal services in ways more appropriate to our local for the broader community. It is geography, climate and culture. adjacent to major rail lines, which played a tremendous historical role in Provincial & Edmonton Context the founding and evolution of Canada Acknowledging and learning from our as a nation. Locating a new set of past is essential to understanding how transport-themed services on the site we could live in the future in ways that will provide some reference to the fit with our local geography and culture. aviation heritage of the site. St. Alberts trail is also near the site. Our most Edmonton has its own unique culture important asset as related to Culture and heritage. As the provincial capital, and Heritage is the surrounding Edmonton serves as home to a existing neighborhood and NAIT diversity of individuals, organizations Campus within which the new Airport and cultures, including a prominent Lands community will be positioned. and active aboriginal population.

We aim to draw from the existing In fact, Edmonton has the second community and begin to create a largest urban indigenous population sense of identity, tied to a sense of in Canada. The neighbouring First place and an awareness of history.

Nations communities whose reserves The aviation history should be are closest to Edmonton are Enoch, expanded and the railroad is very Alexis, Alexander, and Plains Cree. present on and around site to this Jobs, health, and education are the day. The site should be a celebration draw to the city for 1st Nations people. of the railroad by telling its history, Edmonton is considered the gateway particularly as an element of to the north and the city has a legacy interpretation in the community center. of innovation. Some other features

Potential Local Partners • Historic Association Building Preservation • Neighbouring First Nations communities: Enoch, Alexis, Alexander, Plains Cree • Climate Change Central (NGO) • Aviation heritage stakeholders • US Air Force hangar • Canadian Military • Bush pilots • Tom Hendricks (Aviation museum) director Our Approach CH1 Creating spaces for culture such as farmer’s markets, areas for public art and community gathering places.

CH2 Reference the past in architecture CH3 Promote ‘urban biodiversity’ Create a diverse community that allows for a range of incomes, ethnicities etc. Allow for a diversity of housing-types, jobs and shops within the same ‘pedestrian shed’.

CH5 Getting people connected & on the street – creating neighbourhoods that are walkable and safe, with a range of activities occurring throughout the day.

CH6 By engendering a sense of place and identity through references to local history and culture, commercial and tourist interest can be generated.

CH7 Create a cultural center as a place to promote education, interpretation, understanding, create a model sustainable community.

CH8 Celebrate First Nations heritage: CH9 Celebrate ‘nordicity’ and winter culture CH10 Celebrate the site’s aviation heritage, its rich history, and the industrial heritage on and around the site. Use aviation elements for various public uses.

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Equity & Local Economy

Preliminary One Planet Action Plan

New green jobs close to affordable homes, daycare & shopping Create thousands of new jobs and affordable houses, creating a Canadian prototype for a 21st century green economy where people can live, work, and play in one integrated neighborhood. Ensure up to 30% affordable rental and for-sale housing. Target at least a 50% jobs/housing balancing onsite. income does not give any information about the distribution of income however and Alberta has the second lowest minimum wage of any province or territory in Canada.

Alberta’s migratory birds follow the same flight axis as the site’s runways

Champions Build Green Global & National Context Equity and fair trade covers a very broad range of issues. These include economic disparity between the higher and lower socio-economic strata, discrimination, valuing differences, accessible and safe spaces, responsible consumption and consumerism, and engagement in decision-making, among others.

While there is much to be proud of in Canada regarding equity and fair trade, there is room for improvement.

Provincial & Edmonton Context Edmonton has the most retail per capita in North America and the quality of retail establishments in the city is very high. For many, retail is the number one leisure activity. Two other institutions which define the city are the hospital and The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT).

The hospital is like a City itself with approximately 5,000 employees while NAIT has 16,000 students and about 3,000 employees.

The latest statistics from StatsCan indicate that in 2008 Edmonton had the second highest median family income of any city in Canada. Median

Site Context The neighbouring Industrial zone provides an interesting possibility for new work opportunities.

There is a significant amount of green space on-site from the airport that could be rehabilitated and designated as a public park that neighbouring community members could access and enjoy freely.

Potential Local Partners • OXFAM Alberta chapter • Mountain Equipment Coop • La Siembra co-operative • Ten Thousand Villages: • Etiquette.ca consumer network • American Apparel: Fair trade, organic clothing • NAIT • Kingsway Mall • Chamber of Commerce Our Approach EFT1 A community that collectively acts as a responsible steward of the land in the spirit of how the First Nations acted as stewards of the land.

EFT2 A mixed socioeconomic community with both quality affordable and higher end units.

EFT3 A diverse community base comprising different ages, cultures and lifestyles, which is accessible for people with reduced mobility.

EFT4 A community that takes advantage of the skill set within neighbourhood and surrounding neighbourhoods, and which shares

expertise through service exchanges.

EFT5 A community with robust commercial activity that sets the example for fair commerce practices, and where commercial and retail operations are as much a part of the community as the home owners are.

EFT6 A community where quality employment opportunities within the neighbourhood exceed the demand for community members to fulfill.

EFT7 A community that continually seeks to improve upon the values of equity and fair trade, through reflection and evaluation.

EFT8 A community that provides opportunities for all its members to democratically participate in governing/managing The Airport Lands community.

Sample Strategies • Plan for the creation of a substantial green jobs district in partnership with NAIT • Create a business incubator for green and cleantech startups • Promote fair trade products in onsite retail • Locate NAIT sports facility on site • Student housing for NAIT as an economic driver • Green Economy Research Center • Partner with NAIT on new Economy and entrepreneurship (NOVA NAIT) Wider community engagement • Embody a fair and equitable process that is transparent by engaging surrounding community members in community dialogue sessions and in decision-making. Collaborate with First Nations and immigrant communities.