New: Downtown Salmon Arm Smart Growth Process Complete!

To download the final Report for this CAP Plus project click here.

Over the course of two and half years staring in 2007, the community of Salmon Arm has been engaged in a process to plan and develop differently. The intention was to improve public engagement to ensure that new development reflects the values of a wide variety of stakeholders, while protecting those aspects of the community that are highly-valued by residents and ensuring development meets the current and future needs of the community.

Limited resources and the intention for this to be a demonstration project meant that the focus of most of the project activities were on the downtown area.  Through the course of eight workshops and a final design charrette, residents of Salmon Arm articulated a future vision of downtown that would:

• Meet a range of housing needs for a changing demographic
• Strengthen downtown as the commercial and cultural centre of the community by creating new commercial spaces
• Create better non-vehicular linkages between nodes of activity in downtown
• Identified potential future sites for Okanagan College in the downtown