Planners use design guidelines to help shape the built environment. While these tools may address challenges such as accessibility and improve design quality, they don’t often address equity issues. This webinar shows how creating accessible environments is not just about physical changes – it’s about fostering a shared, collaborative mindset of inclusion through a heightened collective awareness of accessibility relevance.
Our panel of diverse professionals will show you how you can create meaningful and inclusive spaces to support everyone in your community! Special consideration will be given to topography, climate, small towns and rural settings.
Our Speakers
Neal LaMontagne RPP, MCIP
ATS Associate Lecturer
Faculty of Science, University of Alberta
Neal LaMontagne is a practicing city planner with a decade and a half of experience in the public and private sectors in California and B.C. Previously the Manager of Long Range and Community Planning for the City of North Vancouver, he seeks to shape the urban environment in a just, sustainable and collaborative manner through policy, regulation and community dialogue. Past experience includes work as a senior planner for the City of Vancouver on civic sustainability, transportation and housing issues, as a consultant on comprehensive city and local area plans, zoning codes, design guidelines, and urban design strategies in the U.S. and Canada, and as an adjunct professor at the New School of Architecture and Design, San Diego State University and the University of California San Diego. Currently he is an instructor at Simon Fraser University (Continuing Studies) and ATS Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta.
Cliff Feng MCP RHFAC
Associate Project Manager
Campus Development
Vancouver Island University
Cliff Feng MCP RHFAC is an Associate Project Manager in Campus Development at VIU and a PIBC candidate member. He was one of the first members of VIU’s Universal Access Team. His passion lies in community planning for marginalized populations and contributing to a more inclusive Canada.
Kate Milne
Founder and Principal Consultant
Cardea Health Consulting
With over two decades of experience working with older adults, Kate Milne is a Healthy Aging Specialist dedicated to transforming workplaces and cities into age-friendly environments. She is passionate about fostering inclusive communities supporting healthy aging and well-being. Kate also has subject matter expertise in health promotion, physical activity, and age-friendly planning. You can learn more about her background and experience on LinkedIn.
Miley Leong 梁伟祺
Engagement Consulting Manager
CityHive | Vancouver, BC
Miley is a facilitator, strategic thinker, and engagement practitioner who is interested in re-imagining the ways that people and spaces are organized. With a background in critical youth engagement at a local and national level, provincial policy and public engagement, transformative consulting, and anti-violence direct service delivery, Miley has a wide range of experience leading community-centered work. A sought after strategic advisor Miley sits on a number of community boards and supports them in aligning strategy with values.
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