Who: 
Participants from Gold Bar, Capilano, Fulton Place, and Forest / Terrace Heights neighbourhoods, including but not limited to community league members.

What:
Gold Bar Community League is championing a project to develop a walking map of our five neighbourhoods, as part of the City of Edmonton's Communities on Foot Series. Gold Bar invites participation from the adjacent neighbourhoods, and believes that this collaboration will result in a rich map that will be useful to all of our residents!

The map will help us to be a more walkable community and to "live locally", and can include destinations, routes with distances, historical points of interest, parks, playgrounds, skating locations, fire halls, police stations, schools, toboggan hills, coffee shops, and so on.

The content of the map is up to the participants -- we decide what is important and what we want to include! See examples!

Where: 
We propose that the mapping area will include the neighbourhoods of Gold Bar, Fulton Place, Capilano and Forest/Terrace Heights; as well as the river valley / parks areas adjacent to our communities.

When:
We are asking for your commitment to participate by November 15, 2011; and to work with us over the next 12 months to complete the project.

Why:
We believe that our communities will benefit from collaborating on this project because we each have unique destinations and amenities that are of interest to all of our residents. People regularly walk or cycle across the region, and would really appreciate a map that includes the whole area. As well, we all border the river valley park area, and so it makes sense to base our geographic boundary on this. Plus, it will be FUN! We understand that people have been asking the City for a map of our area, so the demand is there.

How:
The City of Edmonton has a walking map process manual that we will follow. We need to sign a memorandum of understanding, identify our stakeholders (and whether they want to participate on the steering committee or working group), confirm our mapping area, plan and hold a mapping workshop for the public (with City of Edmonton assistance), walk and measure the proposed routes, select the final routes, and work with the City to print the final product. We then need to "launch" the maps in a public way so that our residents receive them and are aware of the benefits.

Next Steps:
Let us know if you want to be involved and at what level. Refer others from your neighbourhood: community league members, residents, business owners, school running / walking clubs, churches, etc. to participate in the project. Join us in signing the memorandum of understanding with the City of Edmonton.

For more information, please contact:

Veronica Vinge
Vice-President, Gold Bar Community League
District J Director, Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues 
780-991-8871
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See the 17 maps already created and learn more about Communities on Foot.