Damascus Design Team

The Institute has been an active participant on the Coalition for a Livable Future’s Damascus Design team to ensure the 16,000 acre Damascus area is built with parks, trails, and greenspaces as a central theme. In 2002, CLF hosted a design workshop to demonstrate how things could be done differently to create complete communities in Damascus. The CLF Damascus design team participated in the Damascus design process, with assistance from Patrick Condon of the University of British Columbia that developed a CLF preferred future development scenario.

More recently the CLF submitted its recommendations to the Damascus Concept Plan, that will be used by the newly incorporated city of Damascus to guide its comprehensive planning effort over the next two years. Among the Coalition’s recommendations: Damascus should create a complete community, where natural areas are protected, green building practices limit environmental impacts, vital neighborhoods provide healthy transportation choices and a range of housing types for people of all incomes, employment and commercial areas are integrated parts of town centers, and there continues to be a place for small farms.

The CLF's recommendations on the Damascus Concept Plan can be seen here.

Damascus residents gather around a concept map depicting the new city's green infrastructure of parks, natural areas, and trails.