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Colchester Growth Management Strategy

Open House Meeting October 1, 2015

6:00 View panels and meet the consultant team 6:30 Presentation and Q&A 7:30 Informal discussion and fill out comment sheets

The Process

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Colchester will be a unique community distinguished by the area’s moraine landscape. Development will respect Colchester’s natural features and connect people to the environment. Direct road, transit and trail links will integrate the community with its surroundings and the larger region. Colchester will be a welcoming community, providing affordable and diverse housing options for all who choose to live there as well as mixed use centres and a variety of community spaces for people to come together.

Vision

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Principle #1: Acknowledge and Respect Colchester’s Rural Heritage

• Reflect the community’s history as an early settlement area
• Incorporate physical remnants of the past like the Old

Edmonton Trail and Colchester cemetery

• Sensitively integrate existing country residential subdivisions

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• Respect the Beaver Hills

Moraine

• Protect Colchester’s

significant natural features,

• Incorporate the Sherwood

Park Natural Area

• Maintain wetlands and

incorporate best practices in stormwater management

• Use green design and

technologies

Principle #2: Integrate and Protect the Natural Environment

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• Retail and services close to

all neighborhoods

• Employment areas close to

highways

• Easy access to employment

nodes outside Colchester

• Accommodate institutions for

higher learning and skills training

Principle #3: Support the Local and County Economies

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• Places for everyone – all ages,

incomes, cultures and levels of ability

• Housing for all stages of life
• Affordable housing for

households at all income levels

• A mix of housing types and

densities in each neighbourhood

• Architectural diversity

Principle #4: Provide Diverse Housing and Neighbourhoods

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• Compact, walkable

centres where higher density housing, retail, services and community facilities come together

• Access to daily

amenities for all residents

• Strong emphasis on

design and placemaking

Principle #5: Establish Mixed-Use Centres

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• Viable alternatives to the

car—walking, cycling and transit

• Interconnected street

networks and “complete streets”

• Local and regional transit

connections

• Trail network linking

places inside and beyond Colchester

Principle #6: Provide Transportation Choice

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Principle #7: Create a Healthy and Fun Community

• Encourage the enjoyment and

appreciation of nature

• Visible and accessible outdoor

and indoor amenities in all neighbourhoods

• Designed parks for four-season

enjoyment

• Spaces for art, culture and

creativity

The technical analysis of the site identified some challenges

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Transportation Scenario 1: 3 intersections

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Max Population: 28,000

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Transportation Scenario 2: 5 intersections

Max Population: 38,000

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Transportation Scenario 3: 3 interchanges

Max Population: 53,000

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Transportation Scenario 4: 2 intersections & 1 interchange

Max Population: 38,000

Transportation Analysis - Conclusion

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• The Colchester concepts explore transportation scenarios 1-3
• Scenario 4 accommodates the same population as Scenario 2

but at greater cost and disruption to surrounding areas and so does not merit further study

Concept Transportation Scenario Population A 1

• Approx. 28,000

B 2

• Approx. 38,000

C 3

• Approx. 53,000

The concepts share a number of common elements

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• Retain the Provincial land, Sherwood Park Natural Area, and

Deermound Dog Park

• Maintain existing country residential subdivisions
• Consider a 250m setback on either side of pipelines where

adjacent to residential uses to be used as green corridors

• The primary entry/exit to Colchester will be from Township

Road 522

• Locate multiple mixed-use centres with a primary centre

near Gray’s Lake

• Provide for employment lands on Highway 14

The concepts are also distinct from

• ne another

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• Population and density
• Transportation configuration on Township Road 522
• Primary street network and types of streets
• Amount of undeveloped land
• Size and location of mixed-use centres
• Amount of employment land
• Presence and extent of new country residential

A: Small Town Centre

• 30 du/nrha
• Population 28,700
• 2,700 jobs
• 35,660 sq.m. of Retail GFA
• 3 intersections
• Buffering of existing

subdivisions with CR

• Large portion of undeveloped

land

B: Mid-Size Town Centre

• 35 du/nrha
• Population 39,600
• 7,200 jobs
• 98,830 sq.m. of Retail GFA
• 5 intersections
• Buffering of existing

subdivisions with CR

• Small portion of undeveloped

land

C: Large Town Centre

• 40 du/nrha
• Population 51,000
• 4,900 jobs
• 97,320 sq.m. of Retail GFA
• 3 interchanges
• No new CR
• No undeveloped land

Comparing the Concepts

A: Small Town Centre B: Mid-Size Town Centre C: Large Town Centre

Comparing the Concepts

Draft Community Design Concept

Draft Community Design Concept

Draft Community Design Concept

Draft Community Design Concept

Draft Community Design Concept

Draft Community Design Concept

Draft Community Design Concept

• Population

38,600

• 14,800 units
• 31 du/nrha
• 4,600 jobs

Next Steps

• Draft Recommended concept – October
• Prepare draft GMS policy directions –

October/November

• Next Open House – November 26
• Finalize GMS – January 2016

• Do you have any comments on the vision

and principles?

• What do you like about the draft

community design concept?

• What would you like to see changed in the

draft community design concept?

• Are we missing any important elements?

Tell us what you think

Visit the project website:

www.strathcona.ca/imaginecolchester

Project contact: Danika Dudzik Phone: 780-464-8073 Email: imaginecolchester@strathcona.ca

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