Second Meeting: NSEMO

During a meeting at the North Shore office on February 22nd, Mike suggested that we focus on one muster zone and one community distribution zone. One potential site that could be crucial in bringing our emergency personnel from communities outside of North Vancouver is Cates Park. We left this meeting with a better defined scope of the project to use Cates Park as a muster zone and to use Parkgate Mall as a distribution zone to the immediate community. Mike then set the next meeting the week after to go on-site to Cates park and Parkgate mall as a group with various experts.

In our next meeting as a group, we figured out a timeline to follow with dates and deadlines set for various components of the project. All the components that are expected to be completed by us are in the following image.

Project Timeline

There will be a poster presentation done in class followed by a report and a PowerPoint presentation to be done in the North Shore Emergency Management Office.

Third Meeting: Cates Park

On February 27nd, Ibtida and Herman met up with Mike and various experts and park superintendents to review Cates Park as a viable muster zone. However upon detailed analysis on the location and what this park has to offer, Mike advised that the park could act as a muster zone and a distribution zone. This would eliminate the need for Parkgate Mall to act as a separate distribution zone, thus saving time and the coordination of the routes and trucks to move supplies. Therefore we have revised our scope to focus on Cates park alone to act as a muster zone for North Vancouver and as a distribution zone for the immediate 4km area.

Cates Park, North Vancouver, BC

While on-site, we reviewed helipad zones in two areas: the field beside the playground and the small strip of land at the southern corner of the park. The obvious benefits of the park are the numerous parking lots that can be used for various purposes. Limitations such as having only one entrance and having trails that are far from the road could make planning difficult. After concluding this on-site analysis and surveying, we will begin to take what we’ve learned through documents and come up with a plan to combine the muster and the supply distribution zones.