The Landing - A Unique Approach to Community Involvement in Design and Development
The Landing at Little Lake is located on an environmentally sensitive lakeside site nestled in an established residential area.
Rather than the traditional developer approach of preparing plans and options for submission and approval directly to the city, the Architect suggested a series of community meetings take place prior to any submission, in order to allow the community to speak to the design and built form that they would like to see on the site.
In a virtually unprecented way, The Architect presented no designs in the first community meeting, instead choosing to listen to the needs, desires and wants of the community.
Allowing the community to speak to the project in this way, opened the door for more dialogue and increased community involvement in the project.
Concepts based on the early feedback were subsequently produced and discussed with the residents of the Little Lake area in further meetings - again allowing for extensive community involvement in the development's use, design, built form and direction.
This approach further smoothed the way for unanimous approvals at the municipal level.
