Category: POLICY

Greenspace Alliance activities in relation to the new Official Plan over the summer of 2019 The Greenspace Alliance participated in the second FCA/GOHBA stakeholder meeting organized by the City on June 11 at the Jack Purcell Centre. This was an opportunity to exchange with senior city planning staff and representatives of several developers on key issues regarding growth, intensification and affordability. The People’s Official Plan informal group met on June

Oral presentations were made by the following members of the People’s Official Plan team: Mitchell Beer (The Energy Mix), Paul Johanis (GA), Daniel Buckles (CAFES), Moe Garahan (Just Food), Sally Thomas and Trevor Hache (Healthy Transportation Coalition), John Woodhouse (Council on Ageing), Heather Pearl (Champlain Park Community Association) and Sheila Perry (FCA). Four high level strategic direction papers were submitted on the following themes: Growth management (Greenspace Alliance) Intensification and Climate

In late February, word came around that the newly created Support Centre to help communities in provincial planning matters would shut down by June and would not take on any new clients. Since it opened its doors in April, it has dealt with 570 requests from 168 communities!  What better proof that this kind of help is badly needed. So we’re not taking this lying down: Here is a press

A most interesting discussion panel was assembled for an NCC Urbanism Lab on November 20, 2018.  The event took place at the new headquarters of the Canadian Geographical Society, 50 Sussex Drive (the former International Pavilion).  It was co-sponsored by the Canada Green Building Council and the Embassy of the U.S. Speakers were: + Doug Farr (Farr Associates, Chicago, a company that bills itself as “a firm of optimistic architects and planners