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City unveils downtown 3D model prototype to aid planning and public engagement
Summary
Senior urban designer Barrett Armstrong demonstrated a two‑tier downtown 3D model — a lightweight citywide view and a high‑resolution tiled downtown model — intended to be publicly accessible, downloadable in tiles, maintained by staff and used by residents, designers and developers to visualize approved projects and inform planning decisions.
The city presented an in‑progress downtown 3D model designed to help residents, designers and developers visualize approved projects and study how new buildings fit into the existing urban fabric.
Barrett Armstrong, the city's senior urban designer (named in the meeting), said the project began in 2023 and the city partnered this year with Seaman Whiteside to build two versions: a lightweight model that covers the entire city and a high‑resolution, tiled downtown model that users…
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