Renaissance Petitcodiac
http://www.renaissancepetitcodiac.ca/
AN AMBITIOUS STRATEGY TO ACCOMPLISH, BY 2025,
SEVEN MAJOR PRIORITIES FOR THE PETITCODIAC RIVER VALLEY.
MISSION
The Mission of the Renaissance Commission is to assist affected communities along the Petitcodiac River valley to rebuild their public river access infrastructure, renew with their Bay of Fundy maritime heritage and achieve maximum economic and social spinoffs from the River Restoration Project. The Commission will accomplish these objectives by working in close collaboration with community stakeholders and governments to achieve or facilitate the implementation of the seven Renaissance Plan priorities. Its work is expected to be completed by 2025.
SEVEN PRIORITIES
The Renaissance Plan (2015) calls on the Renaissance Commission to accomplish, by 2025, the following seven major priorities:
1. A local Economic and Social Benefit Optimization Strategy for the $50 million Partial Bridge and $80 million Secondary Treatment projects
2. A regional River Access and Navigation Strategy
3. A regional Tidal Bore and Fundy Tide Interpretation Strategy
4. A regional Maritime Landmark Development Strategy
5. A regional Riverfront Trail Strategy
6. A Riverfront District Planning Strategy
7. A Heritage River Development Strategy
Priority 6 is the most exciting in my opinion:
Objective: To design and promote a Riverfront District planning strategy for the communities lining the Petitcodiac River valley.
The successful restoration of the Petitcodiac has sparked a renewed interest amongst residents of the region to live, work and spend quality time in closer proximity to the river.
Over the past 50 years, riverfront planning has however largely been ignored, improvised or sporadically implemented, leaving a patchwork of retail, office, public space and residential zones often lacking cohesion and connectivity. Many riverfront property owners and developers have in the past, nevertheless, expressed the desire to see riverfront district planning strategies developed for the region, an objective to which the Commission will attend to.
A Riverfront District Planning Strategy will deliver the following results:
identify key riverfront districts suitable for riverfront living and implement solutions to promote their cohesive development, in close collaboration with waterfront property developers and owners, planning agencies and municipalities;
create new opportunities for waterfront retail, tourism development and residential living.
My comments: The bolded section (my emphasis) is 100% correct. Our riverfront is completely underutilized or misused to the point of being sad. It's disjointed and bleak.
Completing these goals by 2025 may be realistic elsewhere, but this city and province are notoriously slow in getting things done, so this timeline is pretty ambitious. If only we had politicians with the will and vision to push our communities to change, Moncton could be completely different in less than a generation; the new events centre is a single piece of the puzzle which, in my opinion, will fail to redraw anything unless we line up all the pieces together: investments in riverfront restoration; amalgamation to increase developmental cohesion; and most importantly, property tax reform to incentivize inward growth.
An article from Acadie Nouvelle:
http://www.acadienouvelle.com/actual...e-petitcodiac/
News release:
http://www.renaissancepetitcodiac.ca...mber-2015.html
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