Climate-Friendly New Development
Have Your Say on Caledon's Draft Green Development Standards!
Thank you to everyone who provided input to Caledon's Green Development Standards. Staff are finalizing the draft for Council consideration this Spring.
What are Green Development Standards?
Green Development Standards are voluntary or mandatory climate-friendly standards implemented by municipalities to encourage sustainable community design. These standards are integrated into the planning approvals process for development applications and have been established in various municipalities including the City of Brampton’s Sustainable Development Guidelines, the Toronto Green Standard and more.
What could climate-friendly new development look like in Caledon?
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Have Your Say on Caledon's Draft Green Development Standards!
Thank you to everyone who provided input to Caledon's Green Development Standards. Staff are finalizing the draft for Council consideration this Spring.
What are Green Development Standards?
Green Development Standards are voluntary or mandatory climate-friendly standards implemented by municipalities to encourage sustainable community design. These standards are integrated into the planning approvals process for development applications and have been established in various municipalities including the City of Brampton’s Sustainable Development Guidelines, the Toronto Green Standard and more.
What could climate-friendly new development look like in Caledon?
Climate-friendly design standards can include, but are not limited to, the following features:
- High efficiency, low carbon buildings and energy systems;
- Buildings constructed with materials that have a reduced carbon footprint;
- Adequate electricity capacity for the installation of a electric vehicle charging stations;
- Communities with amenities (stores, schools, parks) within walking and/or cycling distance;
- Bike lanes and appropriate infrastructure to make it easy to cycle and walk to your destinations;
- Enhanced green space, healthy and mature trees and natural infrastructure to help manage stormwater; and
- Compact community design that offers more diverse housing options, enables greater walkability and helps preserve surrounding agriculture and green space.
Why does Caledon need climate-friendly design standards?
The Town’s population is expected to triple by 2051. In January 2020, Council declared a climate change emergency and passed greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets of a 36% reduction below 2016 emission levels by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. Caledon also needs to prepare for the impacts of a changing climate such as intense storms, greater flood risks and hotter summers.
These standards will be a critical policy tool to ensure that growth does not jeopardize the Town’s ability to meet its climate targets and that new development will benefit current and future residents.
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Imagine yourself moving to or starting a business in a brand new community. Consider what would be most important to you...
1. In your new home or business? (E.g. energy efficiency, low carbon and renewable energy sources, electric vehicle charging capability, resiliency to climate impacts like wind and flooding).
2. In your new neighbourhood? (E.g. shade from plentiful tree canopy, easy access to parks and green space, variety of housing types, sizes and costs, active transportation infrastructure, off-road bicycle and multi-use trails, enhanced stormwater capacity and green infrastructre to help reduce flood risk).
3. In the surrounding community? (E.g. close to transit and carpool/carshare lots, extensive bike lane network for commuting and recreation, access to a range of amenities like stores, schools, services and employment within walking/cycling distance, preservation of agriculture lands and natural heritage, urban agriculture opportunities)
Add your ideaannmabout 1 year agoRemove the exemptions for development
Don’t allow developers to pay a price for not supplying enough parkland or for flouting other by-laws.
0 comment1MShaikh9 months agoDevelop zoning for housing and more within the government
Instead of selling land to developers, I think we can take a huge step to create and develop zoning within our government. Instead of focusing on profits, we can alter the focus onto our residents and keep costs low, provide affordable and social housing. And with the addition of walkable communities, we can develop neighborhoods that provide a supportive and connective environment to schools, grocery stores, libraries, parks, and offices. In connection with developing the 407 ETR, it was initiated with toll charges to help pay off the debt acquired during its construction. Though, it was later sold to a private firm located outside of Canada for approximately $3 billion. Developed for $1 billion by the Ontario government, the 407 ETR is now estimated to be worth $30 billion. The 407 ETR is an amazing resolution to the traffic issues the province faces, however, its privatization has dwelled the state of Ontario's traffic allowing it to worsen. It's important that we consider the government's proposal on spending a budget of $8 billion on constructing Hwy 413 through the protected Greenlands. A plan that has been proven to be corrupt by the Auditor General. Protecting our community and its development is a social responsibility, and this idea construes the importance of maintaining and developing infrastructure within the government in an effort to learn and improve from past occurrences.
0 comment0Betty de Grootover 1 year agoIncentives for offsetting development charge
Offsetting new development charges by retrofitting existing communities with geothermal energy and/or fossil-gas free appliances. When a new development lot is approved (using the rigorous new GDS that you’ll be putting in place), facilitate a meeting between the developer and existing neighbouring community/ies that needs similar infrastructure to wean from fossil gas dependency. Because they’ll be either putting in underground geo-thermal heating and cooling systems, and the range of capacity of these systems can exceed the needs of just their new plot, they should be able to offset some development charges by helping neighbours also achieve their climate goals through channeling it outwards to include the existing neighbourhood. Alternatively or additionally they could offer to replace neighbours fossil gas appliances with heat-pump systems, induction stoves, electric instant hot water tanks, etc, since they are bulk buying these items anyway for their homes. No items should be installed or purchased without warrantees and existing neighbourhoods should participate in workshops that teach about the benefits of and how to use these new appliances (facilitated by the Town & the developer in tandem).
0 comment4hark9 months agoProvide resources and incentives for residential owners to increase native plant pollinator gardens...
...and provide the same to take actions to remove or reduce invasive species in and around homes and communities
0 comment0mark howardabout 1 year agomandate district energy system for dense development.
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