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Frank Ducote, BArch, MCP, Principal, Frank Ducote Urban Design
Frank Ducote is the Principal of Frank Ducote Urban Design. Resuming private practice after 18 years at the municipal level, Frank is currently consulting to the City of North Vancouver on two planning and urban design studies for the Lonsdale Town Centres and the Civic precinct. He is also acting on behalf of his former employer, the City of Vancouver, as a consultant to TransLink for the joint federal/regional/municipal Showcase project for the Main Street corridor in Vancouver, now under construction, and other streetscape and urban design projects. An expert in conducting design charrettes and facilitating design workshops, Frank is currently involved in re-visioning and master planning initiatives efforts for the historic precinct of Steveston, BC, a wide range of public and private sector clients in Western Canada. He continues to teach urban design courses at Simon Fraser University's downtown campus, and also at Langara College.
From 1993-2004, Frank was the Senior Urban Designer, City of Vancouver Planning Department, where he was responsible for urban design services for both the City Plans and Central Area divisions. Projects and accomplishments include, among others:
- Oakridge/Langara Policy Statement
- City of Vancouver Transportation Plan – responsible for the traffic calming policy
- Millennium Line SkyTrain stations and 3 station precinct public realm plans
- Neighbourhood Centre Delivery Program – responsible for streetscape and public realm
- Redesign of Commercial Drive, between Grandview Highway North and 12th Ave.
- Redesign of Kingsway at Knight Street (construction: 2005)
- Redesign of West Pacific Boulevard (Allan Jacobs/Elizabeth Macdonald, consultants)
- Broadway/Commercial mixed-used zones design guidelines
- East Fraserlands planning study - combination of brownfield and greenfield development for a new complete residential community for 10,000 people (Rick Hulbert and Don Wuori, consultants)
- Richmond/Airport/Vancouver (RAV) project – preliminary station area studies and waterfront transit hub urban design studies
- Neighbourhood Centres community vision workshops in Kensington/Cedar Cottage, Renfrew/Collinwood, Riley Park, and Kerrisdale
- Transport Canada Showcase Program – Main Street transit/pedestrian priority study, transit village study
- Granville Street Mall redesign (Allan Jacobs & Hotson/Bakker/Boniface/Haden, consultants)
- Southeast False Creek Sustainable Community planning study (Hotson/Bakker/Boniface/Haden, urban design consultants)
Prior to working with the City of Vancouver, Frank was Principal Planner from 1991-1993 at the City of San Diego City Architect’s Office. From 1988-1991, he was the Development Planner for the City of North Vancouver Development Services Department. His professional affiliations include Member, Congress for the New Urbanism; Member, Vancouver Urban Design Forum; and he is a Registered Architect in the State of California.
Frank Ducote completed a Master of City and Regional Planning (with honors), University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley.