About Victoria

Conference attendees will be struck by Victoria’s beauty and the extent to which traditional urban form has been sustained in the city. Not content to rest on its past, Victoria has seriously embraced the potential for new development to enrich and restore the values that make it a special place. Both the public and the city leadership have shown great support for ‘triple bottom line’ thinking, policies and practice; and the recent Dockside Green initiative—to be showcased at the conference—will be a compelling demonstration of the implementation of these values. Dockside Green, involving about 20 acres of downtown harbor land, is the result of an ambitious city-developer partnership to restore an ex-industrial site through an intended LEEDS Platinum development program that highlights green building practice, environmental restoration and extensive new community amenities and affordable housing.

The conference will be held at the Laurel Point Inn, on the downtown harbor—not far from Dockside Green and a stone’s throw from Shoal Point, a major commercial-residential development that, when recently completed, took national awards for its innovative environmental assets .

The downtown conference location will make exploration of Victoria’s city center an easy choice for attendees. Municipal and academic resources will be on hand to provide city tours and information about Victoria as a ‘living laboratory’ for sustainable development practice and policy.

Fore more information on Victoria visit the tourism web site.