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Air Force Garden of Remembrance Relocation Plan Park Board Committee Meeting January 28, 2019 Purpose of Presentation To provide background on the Air Force Memorial Garden in Stanley Park Present a rationale for a new, re-located

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Park Board Committee Meeting

Air Force Garden of Remembrance

Relocation Plan

January 28, 2019

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To provide background on the Air Force Memorial Garden in Stanley

Park

Present a rationale for a new, re-located garden in Queen Elizabeth

Park

To request that staff continue to work with the Battle of Britain

Memorial Fund to carry forward with next steps Purpose of Presentation

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Background

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Air Force Garden of Remembrance

Built in 1952 to commemorate pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

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Location

AIR FORCE GARDEN

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Garden as it Exists Today

The garden consists of a looping gravel trail, lined with placed rocks and plaques set underneath a forest of large, mature trees

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Garden as it Exists Today The garden features a small rock-lined pool, along with a wishing well, a flag pole, a welcome sign and four commemorative trees

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Garden as it Exists Today

A total of 22 plaques

are mounted on individual rocks

Commemorates

Canadian, British, French, Polish, and Chinese Air Forces

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Garden as it Exists Today

4 commemorative trees

with plaques dedicated to Canadian and New Zealand Air Forces

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Rationale for a New Garden & Location

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Accessibility Issues

Not accessible to visitors needing mobility assistance
Entry/access to garden creates safety concerns

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Noise & Disruption of Tranquility

Garden located immediately next to two roads and the Stanley Park Bus Loop

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Lack of Visibility

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Lack of Functionality

Lack of event space, staging and infrastructure for annual commemorative events

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Stanley Park is a Sensitive Ecosystem

Stanley Park stewardship efforts
Ecological Action Plan
Forest Management Plan

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Reconciliation Approach

A long and significant history of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh first peoples has been erased from the park

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Opportunity for a New Location

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Queen Elizabeth Park

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Queen Elizabeth Park – “highest point in Vancouver”

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Recommended Next Steps

Develop a scope and timeline for the Air Force Garden relocation

project

Work with the Battle of Britain Memorial Fund to review potential site

locations and initial functional diagram of garden

Integrate location analysis and selection with upcoming Queen

Elizabeth Park Masterplan process

Return to the Board for approval of recommended site location and

concept of Air Force Garden

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Conclusion

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A. THAT the Vancouver Park Board approve the relocation
f the Air Force Garden of Remembrance in Stanley

Park to Queen Elizabeth Park; and

B. THAT the Vancouver Park Board direct staff to work with

the Battle of Britain Memorial Fund to develop options for a new garden plan in Queen Elizabeth Park, as

utlined in this report.

Recommendation

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