This is a visionary project that understands that a century is required to achieve its goals. It is significant due to its scope and timeframe, and the leadership role of the landscape architects, particularly for their foresight concerning the difficulties of maintaining a continuous supply of locally adapted seed.
The Floodway greenway is the culmination of HTFC's many years of effort as advocate and consultant on site. The plan satisfied the client's engineers with ecologically sound solutions appropriate to the staggering size and importance of the floodway, and found common ground among the competing interests of recreational users and municipalities flanking the channel. It showcases at this unprecedented scale how natural processes can be harnessed to solve a multitude of problems and add value over time. The ecological model was also applied to the recreation and economic development strategy: growing accretively from existing businesses and facilities, instituting a governance system that will be adaptive and resilient, and reaping increasingly diverse benefits as the floodway matures.
