CitySpaces is a leading provider of housing and community planning, development consulting, communications and consultation services in communities throughout Western Canada. For more than 30 years, we have been committed to “building lasting, livable communities,” with a spotlight on social sustainability. We take pride in providing strategic, practical advice to our clients in the government, business, institutional, and non-profit sectors, and bring exceptional experience in managing projects from vision to completion. CitySpaces operates from downtown locations in Vancouver and Victoria. We invite you to visit our website www.cityspaces.ca

I am a Registered Professional Planner with more than 20 years of experience in a diverse range of areas including land use and community planning, community‐based climate change mitigation and adaptation planning, asset management planning, and community safety planning. With a focus in engagement and policy development, I bring a climate lens to all project endeavours to increase community resiliency and adaptive capacity.

A senior freelance planner serving your community, region or industry by building processes, structures, policies and infrastructure though innovative and collaborative leadership.

PFS Studio is a Vancouver-based planning, urban design and landscape architecture firm with a professional staff of 35 offering consulting services nationally and internationally to both public and private sectors. PFS Studio’s work is inspired by placemaking, regional cultural landscapes and the visions and aspirations of involved communities.

Nigel is a professional planner and landscape architect registered in British Columbia. He has actively undertaken numerous planning and urban design projects in Canada and the United States since 2000. Nigel’s previous project management experience has included large master planned communities, urban revitalization, community branding & marketing, waterfront and resort scale development. 

Nigel’s early career began in Sacramento, California where he was primarily responsible for building and maintaining relations with clients, directing and completing site / budget feasibility studies, managing an in-house team of junior staff, and ensuring quality control review of project work.

Upon his return to British Columbia, Nigel applied his project management expertise to the oversight of a diverse project portfolio at Lanarc Consultants (now Golder Associates Ltd.) in Nanaimo, BC. His role primarily involved broad scale land planning, urban design & policy development for both government and private clientele. Nigel then moved into a community-planning role at the City of Parksville for several years, where he gained insight into jurisdictional policy and bylaw development based on provincial acts and charter language.

More recently, Nigel established a successful start-up consulting partnership that has serviced the Vancouver Island region for 10 years. Upon the completion of several Municipal long range planning projects as a sub-consultant, Nigel also undertook a contract senior planning role for Stantec Consulting in Victoria, BC. Nigel has extensive experience in the management of planning and development initiatives within the local government context.

SLA is proud to provide Master Planning, Urban Design, Site Planning, Feasibility Studies (working closely with land economics consultants) on Multi-Family, Mixed-Use, Placemaking and Infrastructure projects, providing full services from conceptual, schematic and detailed design; contract documentation; field review; construction contract administration; and, project close-out. SLA focuses on creating great work through collaboration, attention to detail and experience with a keen interest in sustainable master planning, passive house and engineered wood solutions. SLA has extensive experience with complex urban sites in many jurisdictions and a particular passion for mixed-use projects that bring a richness to the urban fabric of the city allowing for people to live, work and play.

Zoë Morrison is a Whitehorse-based community planner with fifteen years of experience. Zoë has worked with communities, First Nations and local governments across Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Northern Ontario. Her experience includes official community plans, neighbourhood designs, strategic plans, land use plans at various scales, active transportation plans, zoning bylaws, and downtown revitalization projects. Zoë is committed to collaborative planning and has managed engagement programs for complex and controversial projects.

Young, Anderson provides legal services to local governments throughout British Columbia. Our work reflects the wide variety of issues addressed by local governments, and our lawyers are equipped to provide timely and comprehensive advice on planning and land use management matters including bylaw drafting and interpretation; jurisidiction and procedure; and enforcement.

Jaleen Rousseau is a Registered Professional Planner (RPP) who has over a decade of experience in municipal planning. She has worked on a variety of community planning projects including, an array of development applications and long range policy and area planning frameworks. As a result, she has a strong background in planning law, Provincial legislation and local government processes. Experienced in leading teams and working within multi-disciplinary collaborations, she has a clear understanding of a planners’ vital supporting role within a variety of planning related processes. She possesses strong analytical and inter-personal skills and is an adept problem solver, which has proven effective in coordinating and collaborating with clients, citizens, agencies and team members. Jaleen is both skilled at and passionate about public engagement and consultation. Her ability to identify and consolidate vital project components coupled with an aptitude for understanding the ‘big picture' has resulted in successful planning outcomes. 

Throughout his 40-year career, John has worked as a consultant for government, land developers, utilities, communities, and First Nations. He has flown, driven, biked, and boated to project sites, working with clients, stakeholders, and other professionals to develop great plans.

His portfolio contains an array of award-winning community planning and design projects that cover the gamut from broad region-wide policy planning and urban design to detailed implementation strategies for specific sites. John has the ability to marry planning, development, community, and environmental concerns in order to instill confidence in his clients and create plans that inspire great communities.

Brittany is a young planner with 4 years of combined public and private sector planning experience. During the completion of her undergraduate degree, she gained a solid understanding of planning in the public context by working for four different municipalities. At Urban Systems Ltd. in the Kelowna branch, she has been involved in the research and analysis stages of numerous municipal planning projects, completing tasks such as best practices research, community and stakeholder engagement, demographic and economic data analysis, and policy development.

Eric Vance has almost 40 years of experience as a professional planner, economist. management consultant and educator, specializing in community and regional planning, urban land economics, real estate development and project management. He has conducted hundreds of consulting assignments for a broad range of clients during his career, including many local governments. 

Eric was a senior member of the management consulting group at Coopers & Lybrand Chartered Accountants for eleven years. He then served as Director of Planning for the City of Port Moody for three years prior to starting his own consulting practice in 1995.

Eric is also an Adjunct Professor in the graduate School of Resource & Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University and was formerly an Adjunct Professor in the graduate School of Community & Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.

Gloria Venczel, BES., B.Arch., MRAIC, RPP, MCIP is an award winning architectural urban designer + urban planner, Principal of Cityscape Design Inc. With over 20 years experience in the development industry in varying roles from the private, public and NGO sectors, Gloria has provided effective + innovative public engagement strategies, results based rezoning development planning processes, providing key insights into what both the public and municipal planners expect, namely sustainability leadership and pedestrian oriented urban design in all its iterations. As necessary, through architectural + urban design, Gloria pulls out her drafting board + pencil to address sensitive placemaking issues brought forward by municipal staff reviews. As a natural mentor and communicator, she continues to provide Industry Coaching to ambitious, young developers as implementers of vibrant, affordable and walkable cities. As a collaborator, she has created design charrettes to problem solve at neighbourhood scales. Gloria was the Founding Executive Director of the Smart Growth Canada Network, an educator at the former Royal Oak College, Vancouver and the Urban Designer/Development Planner at the City of North Vancouver (CNV), directing and providing preliminary design + programming for the award winning Civic Plaza as well as for the associated Vista Commons. As file manager for rezoning applications at CNV from mixed use, commercial to industrial, she had a 99% success rate at Public Hearings.

InterraPlan Inc is a consulting firm with 30 years experience in northern planning and technical extension related to 'integrated community development and resource stewardship' Its principal, Reg C. Whiten is an agrologist, planner and educator with a diverse employment and consulting portfolio with specialization in interest-based negotiations and facilitation. 

I am a planning consultant based in Fernie, B.C., with 10 years experience working with communities across Western Canada on climate adaptation and risk management. I've worked with nearly 40 municipalities in BC and Alberta, supporting climate change risk and vulnerability assessments and development and implementation of climate adaptation and resilience action plans.