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.

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.

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.