Places to Grow Implementation Fund Projects for 2013-14

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

• Delivering Change on the Ground: A summit on urban design that shared new practices that helped demonstrate tools and polices that promote growth planning. (City of Guelph)

• Airport City: A three-day stakeholder design exercise that explored growth options for Pearson airport’s future evolution. (George Brown College School of Design)

• Imagining My Sustainable City: A workshop that provided grade 7 students the opportunity to work with professional architectural educators and urban planners to design a sustainable neighbourhood. (No.9 Contemporary Arts and the Environment)

• Shift the Market and Market the Shift: 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. (Regional Municipality of York)

• Sustainability Metrics: Training and education was provided to municipal staff, planning consultants and members from the development industry on implementing sustainability metrics as a planning tool for assessing new development. (Town of Richmond Hill)
  
  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.