Green Necklace Greenway
Location
Keith Rd.
City of North Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Certifications & Awards
- 2005: Regional Citation Award, Society of Landscape Architects
- 2005: "Best Neighbourhood Greening" project, Georgia Straight
Project Team
- Design and Management: City of North Vancouver, Engineering Parks and Environment
- Communications: Tom Barratt Landscape Architects
- Structural Engineer: DNA Associates
- Electrical Engineer: DMD & Associates Ltd.
- Landscape Architect: Lanarc Consultants Ltd., Cedar Crest Lands Ltd.
- Contractor: BA Blacktop Ltd.
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Summary
Key Sustainability Features
- Urban greenway integrating recreational, ecological and sustainable transportation components
- Innovative civil infrastructure - traffic calming, stormwater management, urban forestry, naturalized landscapes, alternative transportation
The Green Necklace project is a 7 km long urban greenway that encompasses the Central Lonsdale district in the City of North Vancouver. Originally conceived of as part of the City of North Vancouver's 1907 town plan, the Green Necklace is part of a city-wide Greenways Plan developed in 2002 to integrate recreational, ecological and sustainable transportation components throughout the city. The Green Necklace builds on existing infrastructure to link components of the City's park and open space system in a continuous network of recreational and ecologically planned spaces providing safe, alternative transportation routes.
The project has incorporated civil infrastructure in innovative ways. Traffic calming, storm water management, urban forestry, naturalized landscapes, alternative transportation and recreation amenities are integrated to showcase a sustainable approach to networking a densifying community. Innovative storm water management features such as bio swales and rain gardens expose natural processes that are typically hidden in the urban environment. These features, along with other storm water best management practices such as pervious pavers help to improve water quality and protect the City's fish-bearing creeks from erosion and sedimentation. By diverting storm water that was previously piped to streams and marine habitats these features will reduce the impact of urban runoff.
The Green Necklace project also inspires community development and social sustainability. For example, 250 students from Queen Mary School participated in the design and planting of naturalized areas and rain gardens along the greenway route at the corner of Keith Road and Mahon Avenue. The importance of managing stormwater and providing urban habitat was presented in seminars with seven classes from Queen Mary School. This resulted in Queen Mary students designing and planting five different sites along the Green Necklace, located close to their school. In these ways, the Green Necklace project encourages community interaction, lifetime fitness, and safe, and provides easy access to parks, open spaces, and streets for the residents of North Vancouver.
Phase 1 of the Green Necklace project is located along West Keith Road from Chesterfield to Mahon, at Victoria Park from Chesterfield to St. George Avenue and along East Keith Road from St. George to St. Andrew avenues.
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