The Village of Binbrook, located in the southwest portion of the newly amalgamated City of Hamilton in southwestern Ontario, is a standalone community of under 1,000 people separated from the Hamilton urban area by 6 km of countryside. The City of Hamilton commissioned a Transportation Master Plan to be prepared by Stantec Consulting Ltd., with the original intent being that the study be coordinated with an Urban Design Guidelines Study for the Village core to be undertaken by Planning staff of the City. City and consultant staff involved in the project determined very early on that a completely integrated approach should be adopted to realize a number of benefits, including: integration of public involvement events and contacts; efficient iterations of successive transportation and urban design alternatives; and, a richer and more adoptable product because of the synergies of one approach continually informing the other and vice versa. The integrated study approach was unique, and resulted in a plan that recognized and resolved competing transportation and urban design issues in the Village of Binbrook.
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