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Growth Management, Samboronden, Ecuador
Growth Management, Samboronden, Ecuador
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Gamble, Michael
Roark, H. Randal
Roark, H. Randal
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Abstract
The Canton of Samborondon, over the past nine months, has
undertaken a planning process to determine the course of
growth over the next 25 - 35 years in this rapidly growing Canton
adjacent to Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil. With growth in the
Canton expected to triple in this period (from about 60,000 to 180,000 persons), and with significant changes occurring in land
and construction costs, demographics and the broadening
market for new development, the already high stress on existing
Canton infrastructure and services, and on the rich rice growing
areas of the Canton and the traditional culture it supports, will become even more critical. Wishing to create a plan for orderly
growth and provision of services with the participation of
landowners, citizens and public officials, the Canton has
produced this strategic framework for growth that can be used to
guide land use policies, capital investments, and development
ordinances.
This plan was prepared with the assistance of The Georgia Tech
College of Architecture in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and the School
of Architecture at the Universidad Especialidades Espiritu Santo
(UEES), in Samborondon. In the fall of 2003 faculty and students
from the UEES collected, mapped and analyzed relevant data
with the assistance of both landowners and Canton officials. This
work is presented in a separate document, and is available in the
canton City Hall. During the spring of 2004 a series of planning
workshops with Canton officials and stakeholders were held to
facilitate a consensus on the main elements of the plan and the
means to implement it. This also included a weeklong series of
intensive sessions with planning and architecture students from
Georgia Tech and UEES to help formulate and visualize the
impact of growth in the Canton.
It is our hope that the recommended policies contained in the
plan will be adopted by the Canton and become the guide for
future growth in the Canton to the benefit of its land and its
people.
Mayor Coco
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Ana Maria Leon, Project Director, UEES
Randal Roark, Project Director, Georgia Tech
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2004
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