Vancouver Sport Network

Quality Facilities For Participation And Performance

• Goal
• Objectives
• Working Committee
• Your Input
• Meeting Schedule
• Work Plan
• Links

An infrastructure of quality sport facilities is key to the success of the VSS's goals of active participation and event hosting. Although Vancouver has an established network of community centres, the city's sport and recreation infrastructure is aging. The need for facility renewal also presents a significant challenge to municipal budgets. Renewal plans for Park Board community centres, aquatic services, rinks and playing fields are in place; other facility types have not yet been addressed.

GOAL: QUALITY FACILITIES FOR PARTICIPATION AND PERFORMANCE

A diverse range of accessible and welcoming facilities encourage all Vancouver residents to pursue sport at any level of the Canadian Sport for Life model: Physical Literacy, Excellence and Active for Life.

OBJECTIVES

1. Expand developmental and renewal planning to cover all public recreation and sport facility groups (e.g., dedicated indoor and outdoor spaces, linear [road] and water sports in addition to playing fields, community centres, pools and rinks). Update all facility planning on a 10-year cycle.
2. Complete an analysis of gaps, challenges and opportunities in relation to the development and renewal of Vancouver's sport facility base; set investment priorities to achieve maximal benefit in relation to cost to the City.
3. Consolidate information on city public sports facilities into a single GIS based inventory, sustained as an ongoing reference to guide future investment/re-investment priorities as well as allocation decisions.
4. Engage in a variety of partnership approaches to develop sport and recreation infrastructure, such as lease/licensing of sport facilities on parks to non-profits, lease of existing facilities for adaptive re-use, and multi-party financing of facilities.
5. Pursue opportunities to address VSS strategic objectives and sport facility gaps in the context of city planning initiatives and regulation of development.
6. Identify and pursue alternative (i.e. non- tax based) funding opportunities applicable to sport and recreation infrastructure development, such as charges and incentives applied to development, foundation and corporate support.
7. Continue the development and implementation of centralized booking for Vancouver Park Board and School Board facilities and expand the system over time to link to other provider agencies.

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VSN QUALITY FACILTIES WORKING COMMITTEE

Simon Litherland (Chair)
Darren Peterson, Vancouver Park Board
Keith Jacobsen, community centres
Gayle Uthoff, pools
Barbara Wagner, rinks
Anne Thompson, field sports
Clayton Munro, Langara College
Tennis rep
Running/linear rep
On-Water rep
Specialized Sports rep

WE WELCOME YOUR INPUT

We invite you to participate and provide input, feedback and suggestions on the issues you would like to see addressed by this working committee. Send us an email at sportnetwork@vancouver.ca

COMMITTEE WORK PLAN

Working committee action plan (draft)
Strategies and implementation ideas

DOCUMENTS AND RELATED LINKS

We would like to be a hub for information sharing. Please send us any related links or PDF's that can be legally posted on the web.

Vancouver Active Communities Facility Inventory
BCRPA Community Facilities Inventory Report
VSS GIS mapping

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