

It should also be a guiding document, informed by your ideas of what you want your community to look like. It will be a community-driven site plan that preserves environmental and heritage assets, specifies land uses on specific parcels including housing, and assigns open spaces, streets, and community amenities to the entire site.Ī Master Plan should be much more than a set of buildings on a map. This plan will be our long-range vision for organizing and planning the use, development, and/or preservation of our lands. Simply put, this Master Plan will be the guiding document for our community’s future. We only tend to think of Musqueam IR2 and the surrounding neighbourhood as our village, but it includes all our Musqueam assets and land around us historically and presently. We placed the term “village” in brackets because it is much more than just our village. Its context includes someone that comes from the land, and/or the place where our village and community is. Many know the term xʷəlməxʷ as a reference to an Indigenous person however, it encompasses much more to its meaning.
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Despite having a “Master Plan”, many things will change, and so we continue thinking of how to move forward and progress with all of our community, and all the generations to follow. All master plans are guiding principles throughout the development process and it is important to understand that this work will carry on for many years to come.ĭuring this time, our resources and assets will change with younger generations coming into positions of leadership. The word “thinking” reflects the concept that the IR2 master plan is a living document. This is the guiding phrase that accompanies the MIB Master Plan. Xʷqʷəlqʷəliwən ct ʔə tə sʔa:nɬ xʷəlməxʷ translates to:
