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VICTORIA PARK COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN Final Report • June 2013 Park Vision Victoria Park, often described as the Crown Jewel of Charlottetown, is without question the highest profile public open space in the City. A regional destination that was gifted to the citizens of Prince Edward Island, Victoria Park’s history and heritage are inextricably linked to the City, and held in high esteem in the hearts and minds of the community. As the most prominent open space in the City, Victoria Park must continue to demonstrate the very best of Charlottetown, in a balanced and community-centric approach. The original program of uses contained a mixture of active and passive uses that reflected the community needs of the day, with an eye on public recreation and natural beauty. Moving forward, the same focus must be maintained, seeking a balanced program of both passive and active uses that emphasize public benefit and community desire. The park must be allowed to evolve in keeping with changing demographics and recreational trends, so the program of uses must be adaptable and sustainable. Victoria Park cannot be everything to everyone, so its complement of uses must respect the community’s vision, but in a balanced and restrained approach. Not every facility or idea will be appropriate in the park, so decisions on facilities, infrastructure, and programs must be made in keeping with an overall intent to maximize public good without compromising the core values of the park itself. In the future, Victoria Park will continue to epitomize the very best of Charlottetown. Its spaces will be of the highest quality, in terms of ecology, design, and materials. The park will demonstrate the magic that can happen when a City comes together, showcasing collaborative partnerships and a sense of community revolving around a signature open space. Children will grow up playing under the leaves of the urban forest canopy, boarding at the skate park, and swimming in the pool. Seniors will come back to Charlottetown to enjoy the range of activities and amenities. The park’s core values of balance, sustainability, collaboration, and adaptability will become instilled in the Community through play, and these values will be passed along to future generations of children, and the cycle will continue. In ten, twenty, and thirty years, the park will change, but its role within the City and on the Island will not - it will continue to be the Crown Jewel of Charlottetown, and a source of immense pride for the City. 42
Final Report • June 2013 VICTORIA PARK COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN Management Framework The management plan for Victoria Park is based on its existing pattern of uses. Traditionally a park that accommodated a mixture of passive and active uses, that balance exists to this day. Ball diamonds, playgrounds, and tennis existing within a natural and cultural context, where a managed urban forest adds to the beauty and ecology of the Island, and where valuable heritage assets are preserved and maintained. The parks’ functional areas of active, passive, and cultural spaces can be conveyed graphically, and present the foundation upon which to build a management framework. Using this structure as a basis, and overlaid with the information collected from the public during the consultation, a series of framework plans were developed that further explored the park’s physical and programmatic form. These framework plans were further refined to develop a zone-based management approach to guide future program and infrastructure decisions. Recommendations for the park have been described, based on the five zones articulated, in terms of both management activities and decisions, and future physical projects. The management plan is outlined in this chapter of the report, with written and physical descriptions of the projects in the subsequent chapter. 5.2 Function Plan #1 5.3 Functional Plan #2 5.1 Framework Plan 43
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