[Bcma-l] (Fwd) Heritage Conservation Planning - a learning opportunity

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From:           	Cultural Resource Management <crmp@uvcs.uvic.ca>
To:             	Cultural Resource Management <crmp@uvcs.uvic.ca>
Date sent:      	Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:39:31 -0700
Subject:        	Heritage Conservation Planning - a learning opportunity at UVic!

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The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of 
Victoria
is pleased to offer the following 6-day immersion opportunity for
professionals and volunteers working in museums, heritage sites, and
cultural centres. HERITAGE CONSERVATION PLANNING AND 
LEADERSHIP HA
489L (1.5 units); on-campus offering

This course focuses on approaches to heritage conservation
revitalization and decision-making, and discusses the components of
planning processes that include community involvement and
consultation, the acquisition and integration of technical information
and professional expertise, and the integration of conservation
planning in the long-term management of heritage resources.

Through a focused examination of the process, tools and strategies to
revitalize heritage resources and advance proposals through the
regulatory and political processes, you develop your capacity to:

 *   Lead the planning process to develop solutions to retain at-risk
 heritage properties, *   Advance proposals efficiently through the
 political and regulatory processes, *   Identify and conserve the
 core heritage values of properties undergoing redevelopment, *  
 Reconcile heritage interests with other competing interests, *   Plan
 public consultation processes and gain the collaboration of diverse
 stakeholders, *   Integrate Federal Historic Places Initiatives tools
 into the rehabilitation process, *   Overcome systematic obstacles to
 heritage conservation, and *   Shift political perspectives of
 heritage as a liability to an asset.

 Dates: May 12 - 17, 2008

Please register by: April 14 (late registrations accepted if space
permits)

To register in this course please visit
https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/forms/crm/online_reg.aspx. Fee: CDN$630,
including a CDN$70 materials fee (Canadian funds, credit and
non-credit participation options) A CDN$160 registration deposit is
required with each registration form.

The Cultural Resource Management Program is an Architectural 
Institute
of British Columbia registered provider offering an AIBC-accredited
activity for continuing education learning units. This course is
assigned 36 AIBC core learning credits.

Planning Institute of British Columbia members may earn Continuing
Professional Development (CPD) credit by attending and participating
in this activity. This activity has been assigned: 36.0 Lus.

Instructor: Gerry McGeough, MAIBC

After graduating with a bachelor of architecture from McGill
University in 1986, Gerry McGeough practiced architecture in Montreal
specializing in the rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of heritage
buildings and infill development in historic contexts. His work
involved the rehabilitation of historic landmarks such as the Ritz
Carlton Hotel, Daly Building, Faubourg Ste. Catherine, and Dominion
Building. To be able to better facilitate the rehabilitation process,
he completed a master's degree in real estate development at 
Columbia
University, New York City, in 1992.

Gerry is the University Architect and Landscape Architect for the
University of British Columbia. Prior to this, he served for 12 years
as the Senior Heritage Planner with the Heritage Conservation 
Program
at the City of Vancouver. In this position he was able to apply his
interdisciplinary skills to advance a broad range of conservation
projects and to develop new heritage policies and processes. A 
primary
component of this program is working with the multiple stakeholders to
develop economically viable solutions for preserving heritage
buildings. Gerry helped to lead a $70-million municipal incentive
program for the preservation of heritage buildings in the Downtown
East Side of Vancouver.

Draft Course Outline

Day 1 - Integrated Conservation Planning

 *   Introductions.  Course objectives and learning approach.
 Challenges and obstacle to revitalizing heritage sites. *   Overview
 of integrated planning model and illustrations of its applications
 for diverse heritage projects.  Discussion on value-based
 conservation, and integrated conservation planning.

Day 2 - Step one: Project scoping and process set-up:

 *   Project scoping: identifying stakeholders and issues, assembling
 a team, planning the process, engaging the public, setting the tone
 and guidelines for the process. *   Introduction of group case study.

Day 3 - Step two:  Exploring heritage and non-heritage interests.

 *   Exploring the heritage interests: role of heritage in the
 community, heritage registers, discovering and documenting 
community
 heritage values, Statements of Significance, character defining
 elements, levels of intervention & conservation principles, Federal
 Standards and Guidelines. *   Understanding and integrating
 non-heritage interests: economic viability, program needs, condition
 and seismic upgrading, community planning objectives. *   Group case
 study.

Day 4 - Step three: Generating options

 *   Brainstorming and generating options. Land economic and 
heritage:
 CHIPF, zoning and subdivision relaxations, bonus density.  Building
 codes and heritage: obstacles and alternatives compliance measures. 
 Interventions and additions to heritage sites and districts. *  
 Group case study.

Day 5 - Step four: Testing options and forming agreements.

 *   Testing options: principles and interests, performance measures
 such as economic viability.  Forming an agreement. *   Securing the
 heritage interests: legal tools - designation, heritage
 revitalization agreements, rezoning, registered covenants;
 conservation plans and specifications; project implementation and
 supervision. *   Group case study.

Day 6 - Presentations and reflections

 *   Presentations of group case studies.  Debrief on the process and
 strategies in the context of participants' home case studies.

Enrollment options allow you to choose to take courses either to
enhance professional development or to build academic credit.
Individual course descriptions and registration forms are available by
contacting us at crmp@uvcs.uvic.ca or by visiting our web site at:
http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/home.aspx

For more information, please contact:

Anissa Paulsen, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
PO Box 3030 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3N6
Tel: 250 721-6119 Fax: 250 721-8774
Email: apaulsen@uvcs.uvic.ca
Visit our Web site! http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp
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