Prepared for

the City of
Surrey's Public
Art Advisory
Committee with
the cooperation
of Surrey's
Parks,
Recreation, My practice as an interdisciplinary artist
Culture, and and cultural producer is rooted in my
Engineering
ongoing interest in the relationship between
Departments.
urban dwellers and their surrounding
landscape. My critique is inherent in my
investigations and explorations of the
landscape through photography, video,
archival research, and interviews.

As the Artist in Residence for the Surrey

Greenway Art Plan based out of the
Engineering Department I explored maps
as documents and images of different
planning era's and concerns. I looked at
maps in the Surrey Archives that showed
early Surrey development through
preemption properties. And as I
photographed and travelled around Surrey
Focus projects
I began to grow fond of certain places,
trails, roads, hills, and the magnificent
natural areas that combine with an
ever-growing urban environment.
Continued...
www.city.surrey.bc.ca/parksrecculture/arts
www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/publicart
www.cityofseattle.org/arts
Feature design & layout by neal@socialconstruct.com
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Artist Statement, Anne Marie Slater, Continued.

In piecing together concepts and ideas for the Greenway Art Plan, community
members, naturalists, archeologists, planners, engineers, and residents revealed
their “special Surrey places” to be included in the Greenway Art Plan. Maps were the
beginning reference, the history of the local landscape and its natural heritage
shaped by the process of settlement, and the transition to a city expanded the
interrelationships that transect Greenway sites past and present. The Greenway
sites revealed more natural and cultural stories and prompted reflection as stark
landscapes and the sounds of electrical corridors generated both connections and
questions.

The Greenway Art Plan and the five master templates began to develop conceptually
and reveal facets of the relationships and complex systems that exist between the
environment and the urban landscape. I continued to research and engage a diverse
range of participants in questioning and making connections between Surrey’s
Greenways landscape, and identifying art opportunities within that context. Many
ideas were generated by participants and then were narrowed down based on co-
created site criteria developed in consultation with community members and staff. I
then refined and developed the final template concepts. The Surrey Greenway
system is an opportunity to connect parks to greenways linking fragmented bio-
systems, wildlife, neighbourhoods, and neighbours to natural areas. How we
interpret the landscape is reflected in how we preserve and protect the natural areas
in our community. Artists can work to create artworks for Surrey Greenways that
engage Surrey residents in making their own connections to the landscape of the
natural and urban world and to the place they live.

Anne Marie Slater, Artist in Residence, Greenway Art Plan.

New FleetDale Greenway 168th Street, looking south from 78th Avenue

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Contents

Artist Statement 1-2

Summary Introduction Greenway Art Plan 4-5
Connections and Intersections
Approach and Process
Mapping Inventory and Visual Resource
Existing Conditions 7
Ongoing Funding Strategy
Bringing Artists into the Greenway Process 8
Bringing the Artist In at the same time 9
as other Design Professionals
Address Timelines and Construction Plans
Source Documents Reviewed 10
Community Consultation 11-14
Findings and Themes
Mapping and Visioning
Site Considerations and Criteria 15-16
Template Design Introduction 17
Greenway Art Plan Themes 18-19
Infrastructure Integrated Art and Design Template 20-27
Greenways Identity Design Template 28-30
Placemaking Connections to Community Template 31-35
Interventions & Celebrations 36-38
Intersections 39-40
Summary of Recommended Priority Sites and Projects 41
Map Appendix 42
Focus Projects 43
Greenway Art Plan 10 Year-Map 44
Trans Canada Trail Link 45
Heritage Register Houses & Buildings
Topography 46
Blueways 47
Greenways and Town Centres 48
Green Timbers Pathway Aerial 49
Green Timbers Pathway through Green Timbers Forest 50
Boundary Bay Dyke 51
Mapping Special Places, Community Public Comments 52
City of Surrey, Aerial Photo with Greenway Routes 53
Population Density 54
Salmon in the City 55
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Summary Introduction Greenway Art Plan

BACKGROUND

Greenways are a vast and growing web of linear park spaces that serve
as linkages and passages in the form of bikeways and footpaths
connecting neighbourhoods, schools, recreation centres, cultural
facilities, Town Centres and neighbouring Cities.

The Surrey Greenway system connects

neighbourhoods and Town Centres through
linear green corridors and further links
these corridors to park and natural green
space. These multi-use recreational
pathways connect people to the landscape. Nicomekl River meets the Pacific Ocean
The pace is slower, there are no cars.

Greenway routes offer physical connections between neighbourhood

communities and green spaces. Metaphorically, the routes also make
˘connections with natural and cultural history and the invisible layers of
time and geography as routes traverse many different communities and
landscapes. (Link Heritage and Topography map)

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CONNECTIONS AND INTERSECTIONS

Surrey is the fastest growing Municipality in British Columbia’s lower
mainland. Landuse strategies and land development have changed
and shaped the urban landscape in Surrey yet residents point to
nature and access to natural areas as their number one value. 1

The Greenway system’s 10 year plan (link to 10 year plan map) is

shaping future community connections, alternate transportation
routes, and access to natural areas and open space for Surrey
residents. The Greenway system is the new country pathway and art
on the Greenways will help define this future heritage.

Based on maintaining and reflecting nature’s delicate balance the

Greenway Art Plan recommends that artworks created for the Surrey
Greenways be developed from an ecological perspective. When
possible, artworks for Greenways will make natural cycles and
relationships visible and further address society’s interaction and
stewardship of nature.

Approach and Process

The Template Design and Focus Projects identify concepts and
themes drawn from community consultation and public workshops.
As the Greenway Art Plan Artist in Residence, I have worked
closely with City Staff in a design team process to identify existing
conditions. I have conducted archival research, and surveyed current
planning documents. Additional consultation was undertaken with
external municipal staff, curators, and managers from other Public
Art Programs. These consultations combined with observations
drawn from my own visual mapping, site visits, and journey into the
past and contemporary landscape of Surrey has provided a
continuing context in developing and gathering the ideas and
concepts for the Surrey Greenway Art Plan.

Mapping Inventory and Visual Resource

Maps have been a central focus in organizing and looking at the
Surrey landscape, and in the creation of the Greenway Art Plan
during my artist residency working with the City of Surrey
Engineering Department. Municipal structure relies on maps to
capture and log a variety of land use development details and
themes.
1 City of Surrey Website

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The Greenway Art Plan draws on research and the creation of theme maps
that describe the Greenway System as it relates to built heritage, planning
districts (Neighbourhood and Town Centres), transportation, topography,
and Greenway intersections with habitat as illustrated in the Salmon in the City Map
The maps in the Greenway Art Plan Appendix provide a rich and
diverse picture of Surrey and act as visual text to be explored and
referred to throughout the creation of art projects for Surrey
Greenways.
The Master Templates are designed to function as flags and
indicators for developing art projects by City Staff. Template projects in
the Greenway Art Plan were created drawing on information and
research gained in community consultation workshops. The
templates provide “show me” examples of approaches, projects, and
sites that are models for the future implementation of Greenway Art
Projects.

Greenway Art Plan, Mapping Special Places Workshop, October 24, 2001

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EXISTING CONDITIONS

The 10 year conceptual, Greenways Plan is constructed in stages as

budgets, land acquisition, timing, and resources converge. The City
of Surrey, Engineering, together with Parks, Recreation, and Culture
are regularly involved with partners like Trans Link, BC Hydro, and
the GVRD to lever funds and create the most effective public works
projects. There is a spirit of collaboration in the public realm and a
commitment to retain Surrey's natural areas while protecting
environmentally sensitive sites that promote biodiversity, salmon
spawning, and bird nesting.

The Public Art and Community Art Program rising from the City's
Public Art Policy (adopted in May 1998), represents a growing
commitment to the Arts In Surrey. The City of Surrey’s, Public Art
Policy funds the Program through the following: “the percentage for
Public Art is a flat rate of 1.25% of the total construction costs of
selected capital projects which have been processed through the
Long Term Capital Planning Model, and privately constructed projects
for which the city has made significant contributions.” The Public Art
Master Plan summarizes the projects supported through the policy
and is updated by the Public Art Advisory Committee on an annual
basis.

The ongoing funding strategy for art on Greenways includes the

1.25 % for art program. Additional funding may be explored with
corporate partners and community based agencies for community
arts development projects.

This report recommends a budget approach that builds on the % for

art allocation by including artists in the infrastructure planning
process for each Greenway. The inclusion of an artist during the
design phase would expand artistic possibilities by utilizing
Greenway construction budgets to enhance typical features with
artistic treatments in a revenue neutral way.

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BRINGING ARTISTS INTO THE GREENWAY PROCESS
The Greenway Art Plan Templates present the following
considerations and points of entry for involving artists in producing
public art for Greenways. First let’s differentiate the timing of
bringing an artist into the Greenway Process with particular
reference to infrastructure templates (Infrastructure Art & Design,
Greenways Identity Design)

Infrastructure items such as pedestrian bridges, landscaping,

retention ponds, bollards, entry plazas and log rails are all regular
considerations of a Greenway design tender package. Reviewing
tender packages for Greenway construction revealed the design
process, typical project timelines, and opportunities for artist
involvement in the implementation of a Greenway. Two points of
entry for artist involvement in infrastructure related projects are
identified.

1. Pre-Tender Package.
Artist engaged recommends design criteria for site.
Incorporating art into design of site. Artist design included
in tender package. I.e. Treatment pertaining to entry plaza
and construction specs. Add to tender package, included in
infrastructure budget.

2. Post Construction.
Artist engaged in site appraisal, retrofit art treatment,
project draws on 1.25% for art budget. I.e. excavation
design not applicable as construction is completed and was
not included in infrastructure budgets.

Artist fees in line with other design professionals as specified for

infrastructure projects in design tenders averages for preliminary
analysis and proposal design an hourly rate or a design fee
dependant on the design scope of between $6,000 and $10,000 and
upwards if timelines and consultation increase. The
1.25% for public art allowance is in addition to the total
infrastructure design budget giving more flexibility to project
creation, material, and construction budgets and the ability for artist
fees to reflect professional scales.

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Bringing the artist in at the same time as other design professionals
during the design and planning phase of a Greenway Project
accomplishes aesthetic advantages and budget opportunities as the
artist can specify some overall site solutions in the tender package
and design these based on utilizing overall construction budgets.
Example: Depending on the size, the plaza entry feature typically
costs between $5,000 and $10,000. If the site is designed,
excavated, and prepared to artist specifications the Artist, City Staff,
and Contractor are working to address the site collaboratively. The
public works budget then is working to optimize public art works
being produced. The artist engaged during the planning and design
phase will ensure an integrated approach to designing art for
infrastructure projects.

The process for artist selection needs to address the timelines

associated with the Greenway construction process and the powerful
opportunity of integrating art into infrastructure projects and
budgets. It is recommended that when possible artists be engaged in
the design process for infrastructure projects that appear as
consistent components of Greenway design and construction i.e.
pedestrian bridges, entry plazas, pathway design, drainage retention
ponds, fencing, bollards.

Timelines and construction plans are dependant on planning cycles

and budgets that are influenced by internal and external conditions
such as funding year-ends. Change is inherent in factors that
influence planning, and engineering concerns and the lead-time
required to select an artist for Greenway projects.
Recommendation: In order to realize and implement opportunities
for artists to be involved in Greenway Infrastructure Projects, a
review of processes that involve bringing artists into Greenway
planning and implementation needs to be addressed in an inter-
departmental municipal workshop that includes decision makers and
staff from the departments of Engineering, Planning, and Public Art.
Recommendations to facilitate bringing artists into the Greenway
planning process then need to be added to municipal work plans,
regular communications, and external tenders.

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Source Documents Reviewed:

City of Surrey

Green Timbers – Tynehead, Multi-Use Pathway: Urban Systems, March
1996

Proposed Alignment for the Trans Canada Trail South for the Fraser
River Between Tsawwassen and Fort Langley, Quadra Planning
Consultants Ltd. And Legacy Heritage Consultants, April 1999

British Columbia Parkway Preliminary Study Document, October 1991
Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd

Tender Proposal for Wildflower Greenway, Civic Consultants, January
2000.

British Columbia Parkway, Preliminary Study Document, Aplin &
Martin, October, 1991

City of Surrey Official Community Plan, 1996

City of Surrey, Parks,Recreation, Culture, Master Plan 1996-2006.

A Look at Four Neighbourhoods 1980-2001, Greenway Proximity
Study, City of Surrey Parks, Recreation, and Culture

Maps.
City of Surrey Engineering, and Planning Maps, Greenways Art Plan,
Appendix

External Source Documents & Books

The Stewardship Series, Community Greenways; Canada, Province of
British Columbia

Green Timbers Urban Forest Heritage Society: A Nature Guide To The
Green Timbers Urban Forest in Surrey, British Columbia, 1998

Green Links, Connecting Ecosystems in the City Volume 1. February,
1997, Institute of Urban Ecology, Douglas College

The Institute of Urban Ecology: Green Links: Ecosystem Fragments in
the City, Volume 5 – Surrey-Delta Demonstration Project, 1997

Semiahmoo First Nation, A Bioregional Resource Atlas, Students of the
School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC.

Anthropology in British Columbia, Memoir No. 3, 1955, The Faith of a
Coast Salish Indian by Diamond Jenness, British Columbia Provincial
Museum

Rivers Roads and Railways, 100 Years of Transportation, G. Fern
Treleaven, 1981, Surrey Museum and Historical Society

Public Art:
Phase One: A Call for Ideas, Public Art Project for Keefer Triangle
City of Vancouver, Public Art Program
Public Art Policy, City of Surrey
Ridgeway East Greenway, Public Art Prospectus, City of Vancouver, Karen Henry, Mike Banwell
Juried Call, City of Vancouver, Public Art Program, Infrastructure Catalogue

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Community Consultation
The Greenway Art Plan was developed within a four-month
timeframe and was organized based on informal and formal
consultations with community members and representatives of civic
committees and community groups.

Two workshops were held to gather resources, input, and ideas for
the Greenway Art Plan: a City of Surrey inter-departmental workshop,
and a public workshop. Participants utilized mapping techniques in
the workshops to identify special places and themes for the
Greenway Art Plan.

Participants in the public workshop made a Public Comments Map as

they identified their special places. Focus group participants in the
public workshop also added to Site Criteria and Themes identified in the
(September), City of Surrey inter-departmental workshop. (Link
Public Comments Map*note as comments were handwritten the final map can
only partially be viewed)

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 Community Consultation Some of the findings and themes
“Surrey is the largest community at low tide”
Ed Milaney, Workshop Participant

Special Places

1001 steps, views of Semiahmoo Bay

Hillcrest Drive In

Crescent Beach, marine life, Elgin Park, heron rookery,

Brownsville Bar, historic, Gateway to Surrey

Clayton Bridge & Ravine

Fraser River Access, Surrey Bend Park, Barnston Island

Cornfield Maze.com

Peace Arch Park, International Border and Pacific Ocean

Blackie’s Spit, Pacific Flyway

Themes

First Nations Roots, River systems, Semiahmoo, Royal

Kwantlen, Katzie

Ethnobotany, native plant theme, Douglas College,

Green Links, http://www.douglas.bc.ca/iue

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Themes continued .

Art in Community Gardens along Greenways

Youth Voices

Ethnic transition, immigrant communities

Earthworks – Berms

Surrey has a high traffic UFO corridor

History

First Nations, 5,000 years

Brick plant on 140St. made from local clay

West of 160St. Puff Wheat Factory

Paddle Boats used to run up the Serpentine River

Heritage Trails – Semiahmoo Telegraph Trail to New

Westminster/Royal Engineers Trail to Fort Langley

Hazelmere, Clover Valley – Farming history

Cloverdale

Logging trains

Strawberry Hill, History of Japanese Community

Many thanks to the following people who were contacted or

participated in walks, talks, and workshops that have helped shape,
inform, and direct the development of the Greenways Art Plan.
Karen Henry, Curator, Consultant, City of Vancouver, Art on
Greenways
Bryan Newson, Public Art Coordinator, City of Vancouver
Don Welsh, Anthropologist, Semiahmoo First Nations
Debbie Miller, Katzie First Nations
Mina Singh, Surrey, Delta, Immigrant Services Society
Dr. Val Schaefer, Executive Director, Institute of Urban Ecology,
Douglas College, New Westminster
Brenda Clark, City Architect, City of Surrey
Dr. Roy Strang, Sunnyside Acres, Urban Forest Heritage Society
Thanks to Frank Ducote, Alan Duncan, City of Vancouver and
Leesa Strimbicki, City of North Vancouver for the use of audio visual
materials for print and workshop presentations.
Alan Yu, Mapping Technician, City of Surrey, Engineering Department
Thanks to the Public Art Advisory Committee and the Selection Panel;
Amy Rybacki, Tony O’Regan, and Don Lymes
A special thanks to Michael von Hausen

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COMMUNITY CONSULTATION, October 24, 2001 Focus Group
Mapping and Visioning the Surrey Greenway Art Plan

Pamela McKeown, Community Arts Coordinator

Marge Kaye, Clayton Community Association
Lianne Payne, Public Art Coordinator, City of Surrey
Elena Middlecamp, Environmental Coordinator, City of Surrey, Parks,
Recreation, and Culture
Tony O’Regan, Community Member
Mike Bose, City of Surrey, Agricultural Commission
Ed Milaney, Member, Public Art Advisory, Committee
Elaine Wismer, Green Timbers Urban Forest Society, Coordinator, Trail
Guides
Gerry de la Garza, Diversity Advisory Committee, City of Surrey
Peter Maarsman, Green Timbers Society, Surrey Community Policing
Office
Donna Roach, Surrey Aboriginal Cultural Society
Alan Clegg, City of Surrey, Heritage Advisory Committee
Dr. Roy Strang, Environmental Advisory Committee, City of Surrey
& Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest Park and Heritage Society.
Bob Paterson, Manager Park Development Services, City of Surrey,
Parks, and Recreation, and Culture
Nicole Lee, Institute of Urban Ecology, Douglas College, New
Westminster
Mabel Bishop, Tynehead Pioneers
Brad Fisher, City of Surrey, Engineering, Transportation Division
Anne Marie Slater, Artist in Residence, City of Surrey,
Greenway Art Plan

City of Surrey, Interdepartmental Workshop, September, 2001

Bev Sommers, Manager, Heritage Services, City of Surrey
Hernan Bello, Senior Planner, City of Surrey, Area Planning, and
Development Division
Francisco Molina, Senior Planner, City of Surrey, Area Planning, and
Development Division
Jean Lamontagne, Manager Planning, Design, and Research, City of
Surrey, Parks, Recreation, and Culture
Brad Fisher, Transportation Technologist-Bicycle Co-ordinator, City of
Surrey, Engineering and Transportation
Pamela McKeown, Community Art Coordinator, City of Surrey, Parks,
Recreation, and Culture
Anne Marie Slater, Artist in Residence, City of Surrey,
Greenway Art Plan

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Criteria

The overall Greenway Art Plan template design, themes, focus projects
and site selection address special places, site character and qualities of
place as identified through consultations with both city staff and
community representatives. The following types of sites, qualities, and
themes were developed in a City of Surrey, inter-departmental, Art
Plan, Visioning, and Resource Workshop held in September of 2001.
Participation included representation from Parks Planning, Community
Public Art, Heritage, and Planning staff. Input was also gathered from
participants in a public mapping workshop held in October of 2001.
The overall brainstorming responses and discussions drew on qualities
associated with place as well as site related values and criteria.
The following categories and qualities combined to create site
criteria, that was useful as a tool for refining and selecting
projects and template concepts.

PHYSICAL INTERSECTIONS: STREETS, ENTRY PLAZAS,

GATEWAYS, JUNCTIONS

MUNICIPAL CROSSOVER••LINKS

Specific Sites: Trans Canada Trail
Hwy 1, Patullo Bridge
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Site
Criteria

SELECTION CRITERIA: PLANNING PRIORITIES, TIMELINES

SITE QUALITIES:
RARE, UNIQUE, SECRET GEMS
STORIES
JOURNEY
CHANGE, PACE
SOUND

SUGGESTED THEMES:
ENVIRONMENT, PLACE, NATURAL RESOURCES
GRAPHIC IDENTITY, INFRASTRUCTURE, INTERPRETIVE

PROCESS:
COMMUNITY CONSULTATION
COMMUNITY CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT

GREENWAY SITES THAT TRANSECT VISTAS

CONVERGE (BLUEWAYS)
AND HAVE HERITAGE AND CULTURAL STORIES

SITE CONSIDERATIONS:
VISIBILITY
ACCESS
MARKINGS
SCALE
COMMON ELEMENTS

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TEMPLATES: PROJECTS AND CONCEPTS

INTRODUCTION: TEMPLATE DESIGN Template For Artist Involvement
The following Surrey Greenway Art Plan Master
Templates are designed to provide creativity and
The five master templates define concepts
flexibility in planning Greenway Art Projects with a and themes that viewed as a whole provide an
focus on actions and long term planning that overall template for artist involvement in
maximize opportunities for artist involvement. producing public art works for Surrey
Greenways.
The templates take into account the conceptual
Greenway development 10-year plan, and the need for
artist involvement in specific site related projects to
coincide with pre-construction and design timelines.
(Link, Greenway, 10-year development map) There
are also many opportunities to engage Artists in
retrofit artist treatments that occur post construction
and address site specifics, community interests and
Greenways identity.

The overall Greenway Art Plan layers themes that

frame the templates and encourage artist responses to Price Creek
invisible and visible aspects of the Surrey landscape.
GREENWAY ART PLAN MASTER TEMPLATES
Major themes include: a) Habitat and the
Environment b) The Natural and Cultural History of 1. Infrastructure Integrated Art & Design
Surrey c) Pre-Settlement History, First Nations Roots 2. Greenway Identity Design
d) Land Use and Transportation e) Contemporary 3. Placemaking Connections to Community
Reflections of Surrey Landscapes are referenced 4. Interventions & Celebrations
visually in the master templates through symbols,
5. Intersections
photography and in text titles such as Intersections
and Placemaking. These visual references are part of
incorporating visual literacy in the overall design of
the Art Plan.

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GREENWAY ART PLAN THEMES: Surrey is a City of Parks with more

than 400 parks, and plans through the Greenway System to
interconnect park and open green space for both access by residents
for recreational purposes and to connect habitats and currently
fragmented bio-systems. Working to celebrate nature in the City with
the benefits of improving long-term air quality, urban livability, and
alternate transportation routes has influenced overall Greenway Art
Plan themes. Template Projects draw on the overall themes while
adding other thematic layers based on overall site criteria and site
specifics. The Greenway Art Plan aims to connect artists and Surrey
residents in creating public art for Greenways that fosters a more
intimate relationship with nature and place.

a) Habitat and the Environment

The Greenway trails and routes provide connections to Park green
space by utilizing right of ways and BC Hydro electricity corridors.
Creating artworks on the Greenways from an environmental
perspective provides opportunities to restore and connect urban
ecosystems and to engage Surrey residents in the inter-
connectedness and understanding that their health and that of their
City is related to the health of other living
organisms and natural processes.

Connecting biodiversity, wildlife corridors, aquatic habitat, riparian

buffers, stormwater, water processes, and native vegetation are the
success markers of an integrated urban ecosystem in an expanding
City like Surrey. The Greenway Art Plan encourages artists to work
in a compatible way with the local area’s natural habitat and to bring
attention to the ecology of the urban environment through habitat
enhancements, infrastructure treatments, installations, and
celebrations. Theme Applied to Templates: Infrastructure, Identity
Design, Placemaking, Interventions & Celebrations.

b) The Natural and Cultural History of Surrey

The relationship between the built and natural environment is often
witnessed in historic interpretations of cultural milestones and events
that shape place. The natural history of the Surrey area includes its
great old growth forests, bogs, river estuaries, wildlife, salmon and
berries, lowland prairies and highland hills. Interrelationships
between nature and culture embodied in place based artworks can
inspire and engage future visions for local communities by expanding
interpretations about heritage and the local environment. Greenway
Art Projects reference the diverse natural and cultural history of
Surrey that informs changes that occur to the Surrey landscape.
Specific themes to be explored include: Ethno botany, native vegetation,
sustainability, the history of water, rail, and road transportation, topography,
wetland and aquatic habitat, heritage trails, transition to ethnic communities,
place names, farming and rural heritage
Theme Applied to Templates: Infrastructure, Identity Design,
Placemaking, Interventions & Celebrations, Intersections.

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c) PRE-SETTLEMENT HISTORY, FIRST NATIONS ROOTS
The Greenway Art Plan recommends when possible to reference the rich
history of First Nations in the Surrey area. The Semiahmoo, Royal Kwantlen,
and Katzie Nations have had a continuous presence in the area for over
5,000 years.2 Traditional land use favoured seasonal harvesting of native
food resources and travel to those places for harvesting. An example is the
Semiahmoo fishery and summer camp that had continuous use for 5,000
years. First Nations foods included five types of Pacific Salmon, Trout,
Sturgeon, Eulachon, plus berries, plants, herbs, shellfish, and meat.
Mirroring the land, rivers, and waterways were the dominant mode of
transportation and canoes made it easy to navigate the intertidal rivers and
portage trails when necessary. The cultural symbols, masks, celebrations,
markings, and stories of the area’s First Nations reflected the natural world
and the roots of this place we now know as Surrey. It is recommended
when possible that First Nations culture, place names, stories, and history
be referenced in artist projects by working in collaboration with local First
Nations, Band Offices, and artists.
Theme Applied to Templates: Infrastructure, Identity Design, Placemaking,
Interventions & Celebrations, Intersections.

d) LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION

The land that is Surrey has experienced many changes due to land use and
transportation development. The history of land use and transportation as a
theme for Greenway Art Projects provides the opportunity to explore the
environment and land use as interdependent systems. Greenways are re-
linking green space and bio-systems while creating alternative
transportation routes through Surrey. Greenway art projects can investigate
and reflect geographic characteristics of the land and how development can
work with these to effect long term sustainability.

Flooding in early Surrey was frequent due the combination of inter-tidal

rivers, topography, and the clearing of the land. Today Surrey is a leader in
drainage and stormwater management, and drainage solutions, dykes, and
barriers form the history of this place. The following additional place-based
themes and topics inform the current Greenway Art Plan and are
recommended as the basis for creating future projects.

The Surrey area has a long association with railways

Railway logging and its effect on place

The topography of Surrey, place names, The 7 hills of Surrey
(Woodward’s, Shannon, Peterson, Enderby, Strawberry, Clayton, and
Snake Hills, Reference: Rivers Roads and Railways, Treleaven p. 46)

Heritage Trails

Utility Corridors, Urban Energy, Alternate Energy

Surveying and The International Boundary Commission, Segmenting
the Land
Theme Applied to Templates: Infrastructure, Identity Design, Placemaking,
Interventions & Celebrations, Intersections.
Links additional themes, Community Consultation
Notes: 2 The Faith of a Coast Salish Indian, Anthropology in BC, Memoir #3,1955, Diamond Jenness
and interview notes with Don Walsh, Archaeologist, Semiahmoo First Nations, 2001.

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1. INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATED ART AND DESIGN

Pedestrian Bridges, Fences, Screens, Landscaping, Berms, Native Plants,
Buffers, Benches, Pathway Design, Paving Treatments, Stormwater
Retention Ponds & Facilities.

NEIGHBOURHOODS as GATEWAYS.
Neighbourhoods are symbolic gateways
to community and greenway routes
physically provide passages that
interconnect open green space and
nature to neighbourhoods. Within Quibble Creek, Surrey
Greenways design, Infrastructure
projects provide opportunities for artists
to utilize design interventions and in
these designs integrate environmental
and cultural references that will engage
and inform pathway users as they move
through Greenway routes.

The Infrastructure and Identity Design ˆ Jordan

Dragonfly, Seattle > Lorna
templates address design elements that
are consistently present throughout the
Greenway system. Recommended
Greenway projects reference the
Greenway Art Plan, Site Criteria. (Link
to Site Criteria)

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Integrated art
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES
Pedestrian bridges are typical features of Greenway Design providing
pathway links across water systems, salmon bearing creeks, and
crossings over highways. The high visibility of a bridge and the
symbolic access of connecting pathway users through greenways to
other green spaces and linking people to nature ensures that resulting
art treatments will mark and identify a greenway. For pathway users
the pedestrian bridge can be a focus for destination and a site for
reflection. Pedestrian bridges are present throughout the Greenway
system and provide repeated opportunities for artist involvement.

Reflective Refuge, Meadowbrook Pond, Seattle Arts Commission. Sound Sanctuary

and Bridge, 1999 – Artists, Lydia Aldredge, Peg Gaynor, Kate Wade

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FENCING/SCREENS
Screens and fencing are specified for residential areas where pathway
design may comprise resident privacy. It is recommended when the
situation is applicable that artists be engaged to develop living, plant
based privacy screens, and design fencing that reflects natural forms
and references that integrate into the surrounding natural environment

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Heron railing- Seattle

Price Creek – NewFleetDale Greenway, Surrey

LANDSCAPING/PLANTING/BERMS/HILLOCKS/BUFFERS
Opportunities exist to soften edges in Greenway corridors by creating
and enhancing native habitat, and aesthetically to utilize landscaping
and native plants as sculptural and contextual elements. Berms and
buffers can incorporate an artist’s vision and incorporate landscape
themes in flat utility corridors where topography can be addressed
with the use of hillocks and berm treatments.

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PATHWAY DESIGN AND TREATMENTS

Pathway design expenditures are the greatest cost of Greenway
design. Art costs integrated into design and construction budgets provide
opportunities to specify particular art treatments for pathway design
and surface treatments. A surface treatment could include the use of
colour or pattern installed in increments through the pathway and the
use of inlaid paving stones and artist-created markers that focus
awareness on the surrounding environment and the often hidden
symbols of natural and cultural history.
Rio Salado, Linear Park, Arizona, 1999
Inlaid markers, paving treatment

Artist, Laurie Lundquist

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 . INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATED ART AND DESIGN

• DRAINAGE RETENTION PONDS

Serpentine Greenway, Surrey

Drainage is a constant feature of the overall Surrey landscape both
past and present and is a key component of Greenway design.
Surrey’s lowland and inter tidal rivers combined with the region’s
precipitation and inherent topography is marked and shaped by land
use and development.
In the development of Surrey early settlers prepared the use of
lowlands for agriculture by building dykes. In contemporary times as a
solution to high runoff and natural topography
drainage retention ponds and stormwater facilities are
regular facets of Municipal Engineering. Both the Serpentine
Greenway and the about-to-be constructed Wildflower
Greenway have wet and dry retention ponds.
(Link to Greenway Map and 10 Year Plan Map)

Focus Project Site ­ Price Creek ­ Applicable infrastructure items:

pedestrian bridge, privacy screening, pathway treatment, and fencing.
As this site requires considerable removal of trees and established
habitat, it is recommended that an artist be engaged to focus on
environmental characteristics and the creation of habitat, through
infrastructure treatments and environmental artworks. Project
parameters and budget to be determined in collaboration with
Engineering and Public Art Staff dependant on construction timeline.

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PUBLIC ART PROGRAMS
Infrastructure Examples.
Public Art Programs in Seattle and Olympia, Washington are utilizing
the collaborative design team model for infrastructure and public
works projects that involve similar trail and greenways systems. In
Olympia, Washington, an artist was engaged to work on a design
team that included City engineers, transportation planners,
landscape architects, and drainage specialists to design and
implement a 2-acre storm water treatment facility and greenway trail
off Interstate 5. The collaboration was successful and the artist’s
vision along with other design team members was incorporated
throughout the site.
Currently the City of Vancouver has created a catalogue of pre-
qualified artists for Gateway infrastructure projects. This process
will facilitate bringing the artist in to the public works,
infrastructure process at an earlier design stage than the public
calls for submissions process can provide. This artist selection
process also takes into account internal and external variables
based on construction, funding, and municipal timelines.

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1. INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATED ART AND DESIGN

Integrated art

BUDGET

Infrastructure budgets need to include art specifications as part of the

overall construction and design budgets. An example of this is the
Wildflower Greenway budget that is approximately $600,000 and
includes an entry plaza on 134th Street, a drainage pond, and
extensive pathway construction. Addressing art features as part of
overall Greenway infrastructure budgets allows for more developed
aesthetic treatments over a greater area resulting in a wider visual
impact. Drainage infrastructure budgets can also be included in this
approach and to allow for artist, designed projects.

PARTNERS Overall infrastructure projects can draw on local

neighbourhood organizations for support and for budget enhancement
the following potential sponsors and organizations

Friends of the Environment, Environment Canada

The BC Real Estate Foundation

For specific site related projects including plantings and
restoration habitat The Institute of Urban Ecology at Douglas
College

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RECOMMENDED PROJECT(S) infrastructure

1. All future Greenway Pedestrian Bridges, Artists to be involved at

the design stage. Greenways Site to be identified by City
Engineering and Public Art Staff notified prior to final tender
package. Example: Price Creek Pedestrian Bridge.
2. Trans Canada/Port Kells: Overpass pedestrian bridge, art treatment
for chain link fence specified as safety requirement for existing
bridge that if approved will be installed as link to Trans Canada
Trail system.

Artist designed chain link fence, Laurie Lundquist,

Mountain Pass, Pedestrian Bridge, Phoenix

3. Artist interventions in Landscaping and native plantings.

Examples include berms, hillocks, and design for native
plantings, community gardens.
4. Engage artist in design and art treatment of stormwater and
retention ponds as they are identified within the Greenway
system. Sites recommended Wildflower, Serpentine Greenway.
5. Plan an inter-departmental Artist Selection Workshop for City Engineering,
Planning and Public Art staff.
Link to appendix maps: greenways & ten year plan

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2.GREENWAYS IDENTITY DESIGN

Bollards, Entry Plazas, Benches, Log Rails,
Bollards, Entry Plazas, Benches, Log Rails, Plantings, Identity Signage
(vertical or inlaid)

VISUAL LINKAGES
Creating artist inspired Greenway Identity features that draw on
thematic links based on nature and the environment will form visual
linkages between Greenway corridors and build an overall identity for
the Surrey Greenways system. Bollards are highly visible pathway entry
points and appear throughout the Greenway system.

It is recommended that an art treatment for bollard design reflect habitat

symbols such as birds, animals, and First Nations references to nature.
Bollards designed with an art treatment are to replace existing bollards
in priority locations that have high visual impact such as Greenway
entrance sites that intersect with high traffic street crossings. Log rails
are another consistent design feature that currently identify and link a
Greenway. An artist treatment for log rails would visually strengthen and
lend character to this type of fencing and build on creating Greenway
Identity.
Link to off road pathway, Log rails Entrance, Green Timbers Pathway

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 Greenways Identity Design••Entry Plaza

Example­Serpentine Greenway Entry Plaza. Identity Treatment: Features;

log rails, plaza treatment, bollards, signage, and plantings.
Greenways Identity Design: It is recommended that identity art
enhancements remain consistent to strengthen Greenways Identity.
This however does not preclude the addition of site related themes and
interpretations to individual Greenways identity features.

Example of inlaid markers,

paving treatment featuring natural history. Seattle Art Commission

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THE GREENWAYS IDENTITY DESIGN Template draws on the
rich and diverse natural history of early Surrey to convey site
specific references. Greenway Identity Signage can function as
educational and interpretative markers that signify and help visually
define and map Greenway routes and neighbourhoods through
present and past natural and cultural history. Visual identity
signage could also take the form of vertical symbols such as
appears in the City of Vancouver Greenways Program. Another
approach would incorporate text and visuals in markers that could
either be installed vertically or inlaid in pathway surfaces.

GREENWAYS IDENTITY DESIGN FOCUS PROJECT

Wildflower Greenway, Infrastructure Budget: $600,000

Wildflower Greenway: length 1700m from 126St. to 134St. from

89ave at 126A St. to 92Ave at 134St. Tender package #7162
Infrastructure features: plaza, pathway/paving treatments,
seating, log rails. Geographic features: wetlands, meadows,
detention pond near Hydro Sub-station.
Approach: Apply Identity infrastructure art treatments
throughout Greenway. Reflect native flowers in paving
treatments, plaza entry, plantings, and in wind powered
flower sculptures that would examine alternate power sources.
Suggested Partners: BC Hydro, Rogers, Cantel

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3.PLACEMAKING CONNECTIONS TO COMMUNITY

Community Involvement, Cultural Connections, Heritage Context:
Natural, Cultural, and Built.

CULTURE AND NATURE

This template identifies placemaking by connecting to the community as
another approach to creating artwork for neighbourhood Greenways.
This approach connects artists and residents in community public art
enhancement projects that through art practices such as Community
Cultural Development encourages the community to explore the many
factors that influence place and the environment. The opportunity in
Placemaking Connections to Community is to facilitate artist and
community investigations of natural and contemporary cultural heritage
and to understand the relationships and effects of the human mark. The
experience of working with professional artists offers community
members an opportunity to express their experience of the environment,
place, and nature, and to make these connections in site-specific artwork
for their local Greenway.

Two recommended priority project concepts are introduced in the

Placemaking Connections to Community Template. The projects reference
natural and cultural history, the environmental impact of development and
settlement, and the contemporary Surrey community.

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RECOMMENDED SITE(S) Based on Site Criteria and Themes.
1. Site: Green Timbers Greenway, The Green Timbers Urban Forest
Society and Community.
Specific Project: Giants The Memories of Trees, the history of first
growth forests that enabled Surrey’s initial settlement and
development.
2. Site: Serpentine Greenway, The South Asian Community
Specific Project: Cultural Art Walk, Sounds, and Patterns

THIS PLACE
Site 1. The Green Timbers Urban Forest Society currently runs guided
interpretive walks through this second growth forest and
encourages active stewardship of, and lobbying activities for the
maintenance, and protection of this substantial and important
Surrey green space.

Green Timbers Urban Forest Society, Open House 2001

The Green Timbers Forest has a unique history as both being the
first site of Provincial forest replanting, and the site of a resident
standoff to protest against the logging of the last stand of
Surrey’s old growth forest, in the 1930’s.

This historic site borders Old Yale Road and is adjacent to a

Provincial run tree nursery and arboretum that was host to an
experiment of replacing indigenous trees with European and other
tree species in an effort to study their suitability and growth rate
for tree farming.

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Site 1 Cont. The Green Timbers Greenway cuts through the Green Timbers
Forest (Link Green Timbers Map & Aerial) The specific priority
project suggested in this template addresses scale and time
through the creation of life size markers that visually create the
memory of trees that used to be in this place. Particularly
poignant is the notion that within the next twenty years children
and adults alike may not even know how really big original forests
were as the only visual reference to trees will be the scale
provided by second growth trees. This template project also
connects to the history of this place as a major tourist attraction
in the early 20th Century attracting visitors to see accessible old
growth forests and to witness log felling.

Photo courtesy, City of Surrey Archives

The Green Timbers Greenway public art project will provide a

destination for Surrey residents and others to wonder and protect
the trees of today by remembering the trees of yesterday.

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Site 1 PROJECT PARAMETERS
Address Scale and time in artworks to be installed in the Green
Timbers Greenway and developed with reference to the natural
heritage and biodiversity of the Green Timbers Forest, past and
present. To develop this project in collaboration with the Green
Timbers Urban Forest Society. To draw on the history of Green
Timbers as a popular destination to see the big trees of an old
growth forest and the current forest as an outdoor classroom.

.
Photo courtesy of Surrey Archives, Jimmie Dick, Joe Ralph, Bert McIntyre

References: The City of Surrey Archives, Green Timbers Urban Forest

Society Video, Green Timbers Heritage Society

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Site 2: Serpentine Greenway, The South Asian Community

Specific Project: Cultural Art Walk, Sounds, and Patterns
Below, Guru Nanak Sikh Temple, 72/Scott Road)

Rich Contributions to Place

The Serpentine Greenway is located near two South Asian Temples.

Everyday elders from a nearby senior’s home and people leaving the temple
walk the Greenway. Enjoying the green space and a chance to walk and talk,
the Serpentine Greenway’s highest user group originates from the South
Asian community. The South Asian community has a strong history in the
development of Surrey’s farming and agriculture and has also made rich
contributions to the cultural life of Surrey.

Surrey as it has evolved is home to a diverse range of cultures and

immigrant communities. From the Greek Orthodox and Russian churches to
the sounds of a South Asian Temple, diverse cultures contribute
to defining a place. The Serpentine Greenway Project hopes to
involve the South Asian Community in a Community Cultural Development
process that will explore nature in the Serpentine Greenway and illuminate
in public artworks reflections of South Asian Culture through sounds and patterns.

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4. INTERVENTIONS & CELEBRATIONS

Involvement, Cultural Connections, Heritage: Natural, Cultural
Native Ecology, Waterway Systems

RIVER WALK THROUGH TIME

The Interventions and Celebrations Template introduces project concepts
that focus on temporary public art on Greenways. There is a solid history
in public art of artist interventions like the L.A. River Walk that can take
the form of temporary installations that address social and environmental
concerns, in this case the pollution of the Los Angeles River.

Interventions, environmental art

walks, installations, and
community celebrations promote
and build Greenway explorations
and offer the community a chance
to participate in a site specific
experience that actively connects
people to the landscape through
environmental art and events.

These celebrations and installations can reflect the

fragility, seasonal changes, and interdependent nature
of healthy natural systems.

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The Greenways Art Plan identifies as
a priority sites that embody the convergence of Greenway routes
with blueways/waterways, heritage values, and unique
environmental qualities. This template draws on these criteria.
RECOMMENDED SITE(S)
1. ON THE RIVER, Nikomekl Greenway. Elgin Heritage Park
2. NATIVE PLANT ECOLOGY, BERRY FESTIVAL, Blueberries, Cranberries,
Salmonberries, Salal, Red Elderberry, Native Plants, Non Native Plants,
Himalayan Blackberry Ethno botanical theme, Early food systems,
Stories, Jam, Jamborees. Boundary Bay Greenway
Blueways Map

Before European settlement the rivers and waterways of Surrey

provided food and transportation for this area’s First Nations
settlements, the Katzie, Royal Kwantlen and Semiahmoo.
The rivers continued to be used to transport food, and goods for
settlement. As the land was cleared for agriculture, settlement, and
industry, logs were floated down the river to market as they are
today. As fish returned to their river spawning grounds, the
abundance of this seasonal phenomenon encouraged settlers to
create large industrial fisheries and shipping yards in contrast to
long established native fisheries that depended on canoes, nets and
special tools that were developed over 6,000 years of fishing local
waters.
The power and effect of inter-tidal river ecology is woven into the
identity past and present of Surrey’s landscape, and its residents.
The force of nature’s cycles and the effect on the landscape is
evident in floodplain habitat and the current Surrey dyke system that
protects agricultural land, roads, and housing from nature’s tides and
precipitation.
The Surrey Blueways system gives access to these historic and
environmentally sensitive areas. A paddling circuit
the Surrey Floating Trail, the Serpentine Paddling Circuit and
the Fraser River Challenge are planned to give access to Surrey’s
river waterways .

Two projects are proposed in this Template.

Site 1. On The River, Nikomekl Greenway. Elgin Heritage Park and 2. Native Plant
Ecology and Berry Festival on the Boundary Bay Greenway (that is also a link
to the Trans Canada Trail, and a municipal link to Delta).

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INTERVENTIONS AND CELEBRATIONS
Site 1
On the River – Nicomekl Greenway intersecting with the historic
Elgin Park site and converging with Blueways, Nicomekl River, Floating
Nature Trail.

Artist’s work developed in installations, celebrations, and demonstrations.

On the River is an environmental river festival that proposes to bring artists
together to focus on intertidal river ecology, the history of rivers in Surrey
as transportation routes, and current community, prevention/conservation
practices in the care of sensitive river ecosystems. On the River would focus
on First Nations history, names of rivers, use of waterways, and the historic
link of trails to rivers. A variety of artists and community would also be invited
to paint and decorate boats and canoes for an annual On-the-River parade that
would address celebrating and preserving the health of local waterways and
wildlife habitat.

Artist’s work developed in sculpture installations, celebrations, and

demonstrations would reference the rich ecological and cultural history of
the Nicomekl River. (I.e. Boat building, Steam Sternwheelers like the - “Port
Elgin”, and biological concerns like keeping Birds in their Nests) Guided
walks and river journeys will increase awareness of the Greenways, Elgin
Park, and Blueways trails while engaging participants in experiences that
will strengthen their connection to natural processes, aquatic habitat, and
the cultural history of the area. On the River will foster ongoing awareness,
stewardship, and long term care of Surrey’s waterway and greenway
habitats. Potential Partners: Friends of Boundary Bay, Local First Nations

Site 2
Berry Festival - Native Plant Ecology
Boundary Bay Dyke/Greenway a continuation of the Serpentine
Greenway and a link to the Trans Canada Trail System.

Temporary art affords the community and artists projects that gather
information, stories, and people as a beginning to creating more permanent
public art works. The Boundary Bay Dyke is a site that is close to the old
Colebrook Rail Station and is currently a favourite blackberry-picking site.
The project concept of Surrey's history as a berry source is connected to the bog
and wetland geography of the area.

Through archival research and consultation with naturalists the theme of native plants
and non native plant species (Himalayan Blackberry) began to develop.
The theme of native plant ecology through the story of the abundance of berries in Surrey
past and present, and the changes to native plant communities and habitat due to non native
plant species is recommended.
A Berry Festival and celebration is recommended for the Boundary Greenway site that
is being developed within the next three years. Storytelling about berries,
favourite recipes, jam jamborees, native plant propagation, food source/gathering history,
and plant identification are concepts to be referenced in artist projects.
Potential Partners:The Surrey/Whiterock Naturalists, Institute of Urban Ecology, Douglas College

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5. INTERSECTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT

Transportation, Crossings, Trading, Distribution Networks, Gateway, Municipal

Boundaries, Land use, Interchanges, Exits and Entrances
Railway, Junction, Crossroads, Car Culture/Bike Friendly
Farming, and Hydro Tower, Symbols of Urban Growth.

GATEWAYS TO SURREY
Transportation and the story of getting to Surrey is founded on crossings
and interchanges; from urban to rural heritage, from water to roads, by rail
or trail. Exits and entrances typically mark municipal boundaries.
Junctions can conjure the past smoke of
logging and passenger trains, farmers
markets, and the sound of horses carrying
wares to the dock at Brownsville Bar.
From there steamboats crossing the
mighty Fraser, chugged along carrying
passengers, and farmers goods to their
final destination, the weekly Farmers
Market in New Westminster.

The Intersections Template organizes

Greenway Art Plan Projects around the
themes of Gateway, and Crossing Projects
that transect boundaries and junctions
both physical and metaphorical. The
template also encourages explorations of
contemporary symbols and juxtapositions
that define the rural/ urban landscape.

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INTERSECTIONS Focus Projects

Site1. Surrey Parkway, Patullo Bridge, South side bicycle/walkway path

Gateway to Surrey - Municipal boundary, entrance to Surrey.
Patullo Bridge, a major transportation link over the Fraser River, is
undergoing an intensive re-design in the near future. Artworks could reveal
a number of characteristics of this place by reflecting Surrey’s heritage
trails & crossings, transportation, settlement and development history, the
metaphors of crossing and junctions and the physical convergence of
bridges, roads, and water, both visible and invisible. This Bridge site is also
above an underdeveloped area and an adjacent urban stream that is
showing some signs of pollution. It is recommended that the Bridge
pathway entrance site be looked at as a whole and include these adjacent
site factors. The project can draw on the rich history of this place and
reference Fraser River bridge crossings and Patullo Bridge as the first main
thru link to the 49th parallel. The Patullo Bridge was the first car bridge built
to service increasing traffic and to bring car traffic directly from the U.S. to
the lower mainland following in the history of previous heritage trails
(Semiahmoo Trail) that started at Brownsville Bar and continued to the US
border. Boundaries, (municipal, international), and the juxtaposition and
reference to cars as a strong symbol in the landscape with the increase and
use of bikes due to Greenways are just a few considerations for the
development of this Intersection Focus Project. Potential Partners: Translink, BC Hydro
.

Site 2. Brownsville Bar Park, Connection to Surrey Parkway and link to

Crossing the River - Fraser River Boardwalk, Waterfront Park.
This project will focus on the history of Brownsville Bar as the first
settlement community in Surrey and an early gateway port into Surrey from
New Westminster prior to rail and road bridges. This project will model
Greenways (Surrey Parkway) as connectors as a visual connection will be
created to link the Brownsville Bar Park, Fraser River Boardwalk
Waterfront Park, and the Surrey Parkway Greenway. These connections
follow the original water/trail link of the Semiahmoo Heritage Trail that ran
from Brownsville Bar, South to the Serpentine River and beyond to the
Border. Infrastructure identity treatments for the new Greenway link can be
extended to these parks creating physical as well as symbolic links. Project
research needs to include reference to the use of this site by the Royal
Kwantlen, First Nations. Potential Partners: First Nations, Surrey Museum, Rivtow

Notes (Reference, p17 –18, Rivers Roads and Railways, G. F, Treleaven, 1981,
published by the Surrey Museum and Historical Society)

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SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDED PRIORITY SITES & PROJECTS
1) Infrastructure Integrated Art & Design p. 20-27

PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES - Priority Sites throughout
Greenway System as they are identified during site
analysis. Focus Project: Price Creek Pedestrian Bridge
(Greenway 10-year Map)

TRANS CANADA LINK – Priority Site Port Kells Greenway.
Overpass pedestrian bridge, Highway 1 - art application.
Example of artist working with structural engineer to
design safety fencing.

DRAINAGE RETENTION PONDS
Applies to whole Greenways system.
Priority Sites Wildflower Greenway, Serpentine Greenway,
future Bothwell Park, Green Timbers Greenway link.
2) Greenway Identity Design p.28-30
Template to be applied throughout Greenway System.

BOLLARDS throughout Greenway system. Priority sites at
major intersections, interchange existing bollards with art
ones at high traffic and street crossings.

APPLY GREENWAY IDENTITY DESIGN FEATURES
Priority Sites Wildflower Greenway, Serpentine Greenway,
Surrey Parkway, new construction and retro fit: bollards,
retention pond, entry plaza, log rails, vertical sculptures,
berms, and identity signage.
Boundary Bay Greenway, pathway treatment, bollards, log
rails, entry treatment, identity signage.
3) Placemaking Connections to Community p. 31-35

Focus Projects: GIANTS: MEMORIES OF TREES
Green Timbers Greenway

SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY, SOUND SCULPTURE
Serpentine Greenway
4) Interventions & Celebrations, Art on Greenways p. 36-38

Focus Projects: ON THE RIVER, Nicomekl Greenway.
Waterways, Elgin Heritage Park

NATIVE PLANT ECOLOGY, BERRY FESTIVAL, Blueberries,
Cranberries, Salal, Blackberries Ethno botanical theme,
early food systems: Celebrations, Stories, Jam Jamborees.
Boundary Bay Dyke Greenway extension of Serpentine
Greenway.
5) Intersections, Junctions and Crossings p. 39-40

Focus Projects: Gateway to Surrey, PATULLO BRIDGE, -
Surrey Parkway Municipal Boundary, Link to Surrey
Crossing the River to BROWNSVILLE BAR - Surrey Parkway
Link to Fraser River, Historic crossing, History of water
transportation, bridge construction, energy, development.

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Appendix Summary of Maps

Focus Projects Map

Greenways Art Plan 10 Year-Map

Trans Canada Trail Link

Heritage Register Houses & Buildings

Topography

Blueways

Green Timbers Pathway

Green Timbers Pathway through Green Timbers Forest

Boundary Bay Dyke

Mapping Special Places, Community Public Comments, Map

City of Surrey, Aerial Photo with Greenway Routes

Population Density

Salmon in the City

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