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63rd Avenue and Yukon Street green rainwater infrastructure plaza, vancouver Canada
Public space improvements with green rainwater infrastructure features have arrived at the 63rd Avenue and Yukon Street Plaza.
The boulevard was identified in the Marpole Community Plan as an opportunity to:
Increase access to green space
Enhance rainwater management
Improve neighbourhood amenitiesConstruction was completed in Spring 2018. About the plaza
The plaza features:
Sidewalks
Seating areas
Bike racks
A drinking water fountain
A rain garden
A bioswaleThe rain garden and bioswale at this plaza collectively clean and manage 90 per cent of average annual rainfall runoff from surrounding roads, resulting in improved water quality and reduced combined sewer overflows.
These green rainwater infrastructure practices combine native and non-native plant species and provide enhanced habitat for pollinators in addition to their rainwater management functions.
The plaza also has five sculptures designed by nine Indigenous youth as part of the Reconciled Futures Art Camp.
The 63rd & Yukon project, located in Vancouver’s Marpole neighbourhood, was first articulated in the Marpole Community Planning Process as a new neighbourhood plaza. An historic stream runs underground in the vicinity of the practice, and this informed the design of the plaza, which evokes the image of fallen trees across a typical British Columbia creek. The soils and plantings in the practice clean pollutants from road runoff and allow water to soak back into the ground; restoring a more natural water cycle. Plantings are redominantly native species, supplemented with non-native species to improve practice performance and resiliency. In addition to GI, the plaza contains seating, bicycle racks, trees, and a drinking water fountain
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63rd Avenue and Yukon Street green rainwater infrastructure plaza, vancouver Canada
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