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A Sustainable Action Plan for TORONTO

A Sustainable Action Plan for TORONTO. A Sustainable Action Plan for TORONTO. Location & History Previous Planning Efforts Current Planning Efforts Growth Future Needs A New Plan for Toronto. Location & History. Toronto is located in the Great Lakes Region of Southern Ontario, Canada

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A Sustainable Action Plan for TORONTO

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  1. A Sustainable Action Plan forTORONTO

  2. A Sustainable Action Plan for TORONTO • Location & History • Previous Planning Efforts • Current Planning Efforts • Growth • Future Needs • A New Plan for Toronto

  3. Location & History • Toronto is located in the Great Lakes Region of Southern Ontario, Canada • Founded as the Town of York in 1793 • Surpassed Montreal as Canada’s largest city in the 1980s • Regional Municipality amalgamated in 1997 to become 5th largest in N America

  4. Location & History

  5. Previous Planning • For past 50 years, regional land use planning and transportation have been coordinated by the Province • Metropolitan Toronto Planning Area – 1953 • MTARTS – Choices for a Growing Region – 1967 • Design for Development – 1968 • Toronto-Centred Region Plan – 1970 • Central Ontario Lakeshore Urban Corridor – 1975 • Central Ontario Smart Growth – 2002 • Places to Grow – 2004

  6. 1960s Plan for Development

  7. Today’s Urban Areas v. 1960s Plan for the Future

  8. Current Planning • Official Plans • Each Regional Government’s Plan for Development within their Municipality • Oak Ridges Moraine Plan • Niagara Escarpment Plan • Greenbelt Plan • “Places to Grow”

  9. Greater Toronto Area Lake Simcoe Niagara Escarpment Oak Ridges Moraine YORK PEEL DURHAM CITY of TORONTO HALTON Lake Ontario

  10. Greenbelt Plan • A broad band of protected countryside that • Provides for a diverse range of rural communities, agriculture, tourism, recreation, and resource uses • Gives permanent protection to the natural systems, and • forms an environmental framework around which major urbanization in Ontario will be organized • complements existing Niagara Escarpment Plan and Oak Ridges Moraine Plan • is not a “park” – permits existing uses, promotes agricultural and rural uses, and limits urban uses to existing Settlement Areas

  11. Greenbelt Plan

  12. “Places to Grow” • where & how we should grow • critical infrastructure needs • what we need to protect • includes reference to: • “Smart Growth” work, • the proposed Greenbelt Plan, • the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority, and • the GO Transit Expansion Plan

  13. “Places to Grow” • key themes • 30 year planning and infrastructure strategy • focus on strategic investment, growth in “Priority Urban Centres”, “Emerging Urban Centres”, and “Future Growth Areas” • minimum 40% growth to be accommodated through intensification • greater investment in transit and economic corridors for goods movement • streamlining environmental assessment process

  14. “Places to Grow”

  15. Growth • GTA growth rate is 2nd only to Dallas • Golden Horseshoe growing by 110,000 annually (equivalent to Guelph) • attracts 55% of Canada’s immigration. • Ontario has “exhausted” its infrastructure capacity put in place during the 1960s-1980s

  16. Growth • The problems facing Ontario today are similar to the late 1960s • Strong economic growth and high immigration levels • Planning/investment for infrastructure • Environmental protection (Niagara Escarpment/Oak Ridges/Greenbelt) • Solution was comprehensive super-regional planning.

  17. Future Needs

  18. Future Needs • Population Growth Shares

  19. Future Needs • Employment Growth Shares

  20. Future Needs • To accommodate the population growth of 2 400 000 (2001-2031), 1 200 000 new residential units will be required. • 840 000 units will be in new urban areas. (15% high density, 25% medium density, and 60% low density) • Assuming 15 units to the gross hectare, this will require 56 600 hectares of new residential lands

  21. Future Needs • Over the next 30 years, growth forecasts indicate that 600 000 new jobs will be created in areas that we have traditionally called business parks or industrial areas • At 50 jobs per hectare, with a vacancy rate of 20%, 14 500 hectares of new employment lands will be required

  22. Vacant Land in GTA

  23. Future Needs • Given projected growth rates, 71 100 hectares of new land is required • 17 420 hectares is available within 40 kilometres of Pearson Airport • 9970 hectares is available beyond 40 kilometres of Pearson Airport • Which leaves a shortfall of 31 770 hectares

  24. A New Plan for Toronto • Courses of Action • Implementation Procedures • Costs • Benefits

  25. Courses of Action EXAMPLE – need many! • Current plans only call for 40% of growth to built in existing urban areas (intensification) • Vancouver 70% • United Kingdom 60% • Sydney 60-70% • Increase in intensification required

  26. Implementation • How to intensify? • Transit improvements • Environmental assessment streamlining • Financial tools • Revisit Greenbelt Plan areas

  27. Costs • Costs of intensifying • $ for transit improvements • $ for environmental assessment streamlining • $ for financial tools • $ for revisiting Greenbelt Plan areas

  28. Benefits • Benefits of intensifying • Transit improvements • Environmental assessment streamlining • Financial tools • Revisit Greenbelt Plan areas

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