Places to Grow Implementation Fund recipients for 2013-14

In 2013-14, five projects were supported through the Places to Grow Implementation Fund:

• City of Guelph: Hosted summit on urban design  to share leading-edge practices that help demonstrate tools and polices that promote growth planning. ($30,000)

• George Brown College School of Design – Institute without Boundaries: Hosted a three-day stakeholder design exercise to explore effective growth options for Pearson airport’s future evolution. ($5,000)

• No.9 Contemporary Arts and the Environment: Provided grade 7 students the opportunity to work with professional architectural educators and urban planners to design a sustainable neighbourhood. This was done in partnership with the Toronto District School Board, No. 9. View photos of students’ work and read more about the exhibition. ($10,000)

• Regional Municipality of York: Completed a report on the retail industry and regional development trends that offers guidance to municipalities on planning for retail that is consistent with pedestrian-oriented and transit-supportive communities. ($30,000)

• Town of Richmond Hill: Provided training and education to municipal staff, planning consultants and members from the development industry on implementing sustainability metrics as a planning tool for assessing new development. ($22,250)
  
  Learn more about the project in the Sustainability Tools for New Developments project highlights paper.  Or, download the full report, Sustainability Metrics: Measuring the Sustainability Performance of New Development.