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"Waterfront regeneration is
a project that will never be completed - that's part
of the beauty of it. It's a matter of having a long
term plan and seizing the moment whenever it presents
itself to do the bits and pieces that will add
together to be something truly wonderful. To be part
of something in your time that will make a difference
in times to come."
Suzanne
Barrett works with the Waterfront Regeneration Trust
located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The trust is a
charitable organization bringing together people,
ideas, and resources to regenerate waterfronts and
surrounding areas. Suzanne’s current projects include
the Toronto and Region Remedial Action Plan process,
Direct Waterfront Trail program from
Niagara-on-the-Lake to Kingston, Coordinator of the
Lake Ontario Waterfront Network and implementation of
Lake Ontario Greenway Strategy.
Suzanne
Barrett brings expertise and experience in
environmental planning, nature conservation, landscape
design and management, environmental assessment,
facilitation and public consultation to all her
projects. From 1999 to 2001, Suzanne was Director of
the Environment Program for the Toronto 2008 Olympic
Bid, with responsibilities for the Environment
Committee, Environmental Policy, and Part 1
Environmental Assessment. Barrett’s volunteer
experience includes Director of the Federation of
Ontario Naturalists; Director of the board of Friends
of Second Marsh, and member of the City of Toronto’s
Environmental Task Force.
Ms. Barrett’s
presentation at the Community Open Space Partnership
in October 2001, was entitled “A Decade of
Regeneration Lessons from the Lake Ontario Greenway”,
and discussed the work of the Waterfront Regeneration
Trust in the Toronto area. The presentation began with
the largest to smallest scale of the process to show
how the most urbanized part of a greenway regeneration
process has been approached within the context of the
region. These three scales are: 600 km scale of Lake
Ontario greenway; 325 km scale, zoom down to the
watershed and the importance of watershed and 46 km
scale, within Toronto.
The
text of Ms. Barrett's speech is available
here.
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