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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Visioning phase of the project. Your contributions are instrumental in shaping the future of our community. We are currently reviewing feedback received during the process and will release a comprehensive What We Heard Report alongside a Visioning Document later this spring.
Follow this page as we prepare for the next engagement phase of the project this summer where we will seek your input on potential policy options for downtown.
What is Connect Downtown?
A Plan for The Future of Our Downtown Area
An ARP lays out a comprehensive vision supported by a land use concept, a public realm plan, and a set of supporting development policies that will work in unison over the next 25 years to the year 2050.
The project's name, Connect Downtown: Planning a Vibrant Town Centre, reflects the intent of the plan: to reimagine how people can access, gather, and interact with a network of public spaces to support a thriving mixed-use area over the long term.
Connect Downtown will span 18 months from public launch to completion with a final product — an ARP— that will explore a variety of interconnected questions, including:
What is the future function and role of Main Street?
What is the look and feel of the public realm and open space network?
Where is future development and what should it look?
Are there opportunities to achieve more attainable housing?
What is the future demand for services and infrastructure?
What will the transportation network and transit system look like?
How can the long-term demand and supply of parking be managed?
Study Area
The study area is the general area that will be examined through the planning process. Connect Downtown considers a study area beyond the current downtown commercial core to acknowledge the impacts that changes to the Main Street and the commercial area of Downtown may have on the surrounding community.
While we anticipate that only certain locations within the study area will be identified for land use changes (which will be informed by research, analysis, and engagement), this approach allows us to consider the experience of Downtown as a whole.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Visioning phase of the project. Your contributions are instrumental in shaping the future of our community. We are currently reviewing feedback received during the process and will release a comprehensive What We Heard Report alongside a Visioning Document later this spring.
Follow this page as we prepare for the next engagement phase of the project this summer where we will seek your input on potential policy options for downtown.
What is Connect Downtown?
A Plan for The Future of Our Downtown Area
An ARP lays out a comprehensive vision supported by a land use concept, a public realm plan, and a set of supporting development policies that will work in unison over the next 25 years to the year 2050.
The project's name, Connect Downtown: Planning a Vibrant Town Centre, reflects the intent of the plan: to reimagine how people can access, gather, and interact with a network of public spaces to support a thriving mixed-use area over the long term.
Connect Downtown will span 18 months from public launch to completion with a final product — an ARP— that will explore a variety of interconnected questions, including:
What is the future function and role of Main Street?
What is the look and feel of the public realm and open space network?
Where is future development and what should it look?
Are there opportunities to achieve more attainable housing?
What is the future demand for services and infrastructure?
What will the transportation network and transit system look like?
How can the long-term demand and supply of parking be managed?
Study Area
The study area is the general area that will be examined through the planning process. Connect Downtown considers a study area beyond the current downtown commercial core to acknowledge the impacts that changes to the Main Street and the commercial area of Downtown may have on the surrounding community.
While we anticipate that only certain locations within the study area will be identified for land use changes (which will be informed by research, analysis, and engagement), this approach allows us to consider the experience of Downtown as a whole.
We are developing an Area Redevelopment Plan for Canmore’s downtown, a project named Connect Downtown. The Area Redevelopment Plan will support the continued evolution and long-term vibrancy of the Town’s coreto the year 2050. As we develop the plan, there is an opportunity for the public to shape the future of the area – how people experience, interact, and travel downtown.
About this Survey
The first phase of Connect Downtown is to learn from you: what you love, what you don’t, and what you want your future downtown tobe. Your feedback will help shape the concepts we bring to the community for input in the summer of 2024 and will contribute to the final vision for the future of downtown.
This short and anonymous survey contains27 questions and will take up to 15 minutes to complete.Questions are optional and may be skipped.The survey is divided into two main sections: Your ExperienceDowntown Today– to share your current experience of downtown,and Your Visionfor a Future Downtown– to imagine what you want to see in the downtown of 2050.
If you complete this survey and provide your email address, you will be entered to win a $100 gift card to a downtown Canmore business of your choice. The winner will be contacted directly the week of March 4, 2024.
The Town of Canmore is collecting your personal information under the authority of section 33c of the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This information will be used to develop a Downtown Area Redevelopment Plan. If you have any questions about the collection of your personal information, you may contact the Town of Canmore Planning Department at 403.678.1543, 902 7 Avenue, Canmore, AB, T1W3K1.
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Page last updated: 08 Mar 2024, 10:45 AM
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Pre-Launch
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Open
Connect Downtown: Planning a Vibrant Town Centre has finished this stage
This consultation is open for contributions.
Under Review
Connect Downtown: Planning a Vibrant Town Centre is currently at this stage
Contributions to this consultation are closed for evaluation and review. The project team will report back on key outcomes for the Visioning phase with a What We Heard Report and a Visioning document.
Final report
this is an upcoming stage for Connect Downtown: Planning a Vibrant Town Centre
The final outcomes of the consultation are documented here. This may include a summary of all contributions collected as well as recommendations for future action.