"Create the Oceanfront" will ultimately result in a new, sustainable plan for the peninsula that reflects Squamish residents' thoughts, ideas and interests contributed over the coming months. As such, it aims to benefit all residents of Squamish and to be a showcase of a sustainable community.
To ensure we meet these goals, planning will be guided by sustainable planning principles.
These are drawn from the draft Official Community Plan and the Downtown Waterfront Concept Plan and related Charette, and are based on community goals and principles developed by Smart Growth BC.
The sustainable planning principles for Create the Oceanfront are:
- Contributes to Squamish: enhances the vitality of Downtown, Squamish as a whole, and the Sea-to-Sky corridor.
- Strong Identity: Enhances the sense of community, history, and connection with the natural world, celebrating the uniqueness of Squamish and the Oceanfront itself.
- Complete Community: Encourages a healthy, diverse, and vital mix of uses.
- Economic Viability and Vitality: Ensures the plan is viable, and supports long-term economic prosperity and resilience through diverse business and employment opportunities.
- Housing for the Whole Community: Provides a diversity of housing to match community needs.
- Access for All: Ensures public access to the waterfront, and emphasises options to the car.
- A Model of Green Development: Buildings and infrastructure that are greener, smarter and cheaper; support for a secure and resilient local food system.
- Environmentally Restorative: In harmony with natural systems, protects and enhances the environment.
- Enhanced Livability: Designed for safe, healthy experiences, and facilitates social interaction.
- Everyone has a Voice: Base planning decisions on an effective, transparent and inclusive public process