b'WCA EDUCATIONRESHAPING OUR CITIESManitoba Building Conference & Expos expert panel shares their insights into designing and building our cities to be transit oriented, accessible and sustainable.PANELISTSElise Finnigan, District Planner, City of WinnipegDom Costantini, Vice President of Operations, Bird ConstructionDarren Klassen, CEO, Concordia Wellness Projects Inc.Moderator: Ron Hambley, President, WCAThe 15-Minute CityWith this concept, residents of urban areas can meet their daily Ive spent time outside of needs (jobs, schools, food, parks,Vancouver, so Ive had a chance community, medical and more) byto experience something very close to the 15-minute city. I either walking or cycling less thanlived in an area called Metrotown, 15 minutes from home. in Burnaby. SkyTrain is six minutes away; you have community centres, shopping [and] all the amenities you could possibly need, including carshare. We only This idea of the 15-minute city, its notwe have three.Dom Costantini brought one car with us, and [in Winnipeg] such a new idea. What it does is it adds a measurable component to an idea that has been around a long time, which is the idea of complete communities. The concept is I think Winnipeg has had that neighbourhoods should be built to allow people to live, work, shop and play within closesome successes in the last proximity to one another. It pretty much forms the basis ofcouple of years in developing all cities in North America [and of] their development plans,the first stage of the rapid including Winnipeg. In 2011, council adopted the Completetransitway and the active Communities Direction Strategy. Weve recently revived ortransportation pathway. They renewed that plan in Complete Communities 2.0. It is verydidnt exist 10 years ago the way much based on the idea that we need to infill or make ourthey do now. Its a long way to getting existing neighbourhoods more complete. With the recentpeople closer to their workplace, and its iteration of the development plan, weve tried to set someconnecting not only to workplaces but to targets that focus on the implementation side of how weshopping I love Winnipeg, and I dont actually get that job done. One of the key changes is settingwant to see us slip further behind some the target that growth in the city should have a 50/50 split.of our counterparts. Now is the time to be So 50 per cent of new residential growth should be locatedaggressive and be thinking [ahead]. We within the built-up area so were making efficient, strategicneed to continue the momentum. These use of our infrastructure. The other 50 per cent would bethings take years to develop, so if we want political will to do that strategy.Elise Finnigan is now.Darren Klassengreen fill development. The challenge comes down to theto have closer communities, the time32 BUILD MANITOBAwinnipegconstruction.ca'