West Jasper Place, Edmonton

West Jasper Place
Neighbourhood
The MacEwan University Centre for the Arts is located in West Jasper Place
West Jasper Place Location of West Jasper Place in Edmonton
Coordinates: 53°32′13″N 113°35′06″W / 53.537°N 113.585°W / 53.537; -113.585
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
City	Edmonton
Quadrant[1]	NW
Ward[1]	1
Sector[2]	Mature area
Area[3][4]	Jasper Place
Government[5]
• Administrative body	Edmonton City Council
• Councillor	Linda Sloan
Area[6]
• Total	0.89 km2 (0.34 sq mi)
Elevation	673 m (2,208 ft)
Population (2012)[7]
• Total	2,966
• Density	3,332.6/km2 (8,631/sq mi)
• Change (2009–12)	-2.9%
• Dwellings	1,696

West Jasper Place is a residential neighbourhood in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Originally part of the Town of Jasper Place, West Jasper Place became a part of Edmonton when Edmonton and Jasper Place amalgamated on August 17, 1964.

While most of the neighbourhood is residential, there is some commercial development, with most of this adjacent to Stony Plain Road at the neighbourhood's north end. This development includes the Jasper Gates shopping centre.

Note that, during the 1980s and 1990s, Edmonton Transit System buses travelling out to locations west of 170 Street showed a destination of West Jasper Place. This meant a bus route with a destination west of the old Jasper Place townsite, rather than a bus route with the neighbourhood of West Jasper Place as the destination. Bus routes terminating in the old townsite area usually showed a destination of Jasper Place.

The neighbourhood is bounded by 149 Street on the east, 95 Avenue on the south, 156 Street on the west, and Stony Plain Road on the North.

The community is represented by the West Jasper/Sherwood Community League. Which maintains a community hall, outdoor rink and tennis courts located at 152 Street and 96 Avenue.^[8][9] The West Jasper Place Community League operated as a separate entity from 1950 until 1985 when it merged with the Sherwood Community League.^[9]

Demographics

In the City of Edmonton's 2012 municipal census, West Jasper Place had a population of 7003296600000000000♠2,966 living in 7003169600000000000♠1,696 dwellings,^[7] a -2.9% change from its 2009 population of 7003305500000000000♠3,055.^[10] With a land area of 0.89 km² (0.34 sq mi),^[6] it had a population density of 7003333260000000000♠3,332.6 people/km² in 2012.^[7][6]

According to the 2005 municipal census, one in five (17.9%) of the population moved into the neighbourhood within the previous 12 months. Another one in four (23.9%) had moved within the previous one to three years. Only two out of every five (42.7%) had lived at the same address for five years or more.^[11] This is similar to the city at large.^[12]

Just over half (51%) were male and just under half (49%) were female.

Residential development

According to the 2001 federal census, just under one third (29.4%) of the residential dwellings in the neighbourhood were built prior to the 1964 amalgamation of Jasper Place and Edmonton, with a significant number of those being built prior to the 1945 end of World War II. Approximately half (48.2%) of the residences were built between 1960 and 1980. The remaining 22.4% were built after 1980, with a particular spike in residential construction occurring in a short span during the early 1990s, when one in ten (11.7%) of residences were constructed.^[13]

In 2005, three out of every five residences (59.3%) were rented apartments, including a small number of apartment style condominiums. Most of these are in low rise buildings with fewer than five stories. Another third of the residences (35.5%) were single detached houses. A small number (5%) were duplexes.^[14]

Approximately two out of every three (68%) of all residences are rented.^[15]

Schools

There is a single school at the southern edge of the neighbourhood, Sherwood Elementary School, operated by the Edmonton Public School System.

The now-closed Centre for the Arts Campus (formerly Jasper Place Campus) of MacEwan University is located near the north west corner of the neighbourhood.

Parks and green space

There is a single park in the neighbourhood, Arthur Elliot Park.

Bike trails in the MacKinnon Ravine, located just across 149 Street in the Crestwood neighbourhood, provide access to the city's River Valley Park System.

Jasper Place Transit Centre

The Jasper Place Transit Centre is located on the northern end of the neighborhood at 157 street and Stony Plain Road. There are few amenities at this transit centre except for a shelter and pay phone (there are no washrooms, park and ride, drop off areas, or vending machines).^[17]

The transit centre is currently undergoing an overhaul of the bus ways, sidewalks, medians, and shelter, among other changes as part of a city-wide $37.75 million transit centre improvement initiative.^[18] $3.639 million in funding for the Jasper Place Transit Centre renewal project was provided by the federal government.^[19] Reconstruction is scheduled to finish on October 1, 2018. During this construction all bus stops are temporarily located on Stony Plain Road and 100A Avenue.^[17][20]

The following bus routes serve the transit centre:^[21]

School special routes that arrive/depart from Jasper Place Transit Centre include routes: 706, 708, 802, 808 and 819.^[22]

Surrounding neighbourhoods

Adjacent neighbourhoods are Crestwood, Parkview, Sherwood, Meadowlark Park, Glenwood, Britannia-Youngstown, Canora and Grovenor. These are all residential neighbourhoods.

See also

• Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues
• Edmonton Transit Service

References