The document outlines Toronto's official plan to guide sustainable growth over the next 30 years. It establishes a vision for intensifying development within the city's centres and along major avenues to reduce sprawl and auto dependence. The plan aims to accommodate 3 million residents and 1.835 million jobs by 2031 through policies that encourage compact, mixed-use and transit-oriented development. It also establishes sustainability standards and targets for new construction to reduce fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector.
5. Toronto Official Plan
• guides growth for the next 30 years
• articulates a vision and outlines the
principles for a successful city
• develops a strategy for directing growth
and sets out policies for managing
change
• contains policies to guide decision
making based on the Plan’s goals for
human, built, economic and natural
environments
• contains land use designations
7. Development Activities
• 135,700 residential units in
pipeline
• 2,190 development proposals
since Council adoption of the
Official Plan in 2002
• 89,379 units (65%) proposed in
priority growth areas
(Downtown, Centres and
Avenues)
• 4.5 million sq m of proposed
non-residential GFA
8. Sustainability must consider local context
New Construction in Toronto
• Toronto has more high rise construction than any
other North American City
200 178
150 January 2011
• Toronto has more high rise construction
than any other North American City
97 88 88 95 January 2012
100 74
50
16 24 22 1616 12 8 9 10 8 9 7
4 7 9 4 24 33 22
0
9. THE 2030 CHALLENGE
All new buildings, developments and major renovations
shall be designed to meet a fossil fuel, GHG-emitting,
energy consumption performance standard of 50% of the
regional (or country) average for that building type.
The fossil fuel reduction standard for all new buildings and
major renovations shall be increased to:
60% in 2010
70% in 2015
80% in 2020
90% in 2025 Carbon-neutral in 2030
(using no fossil fuel GHG emitting
energy to operate).
15. Designing A Sustainable City: 3 Scales
Site/
Building Neighbourhood
LEED TGS
TGS GREEN LEED
CITY
City
Transit City / Avenues
/ Mid- Rise
16. City Scale: Response to Environmental
Challenges
Site/
Reurbanization Policies: Toronto will …develop a framework for dealing Building
Neighbour-
with growth which: hood
• focuses urban growth into a pattern of compact centres and corridors
connected by an integrated regional transportation system City
• makes better use of existing urban infrastructure and services
• reduces auto dependency
• increases the supply of housing in mixed use environments to create
greater opportunities for people to live and work locally
Toronto should accommodate a minimum of 3 million residents and 1.835
million jobs by 2031 Reurbanize
The Plan Building a
sustainable city with
75% Stable
transit and
Provide
25% Growth supportive land Transportation Options
uses.
19. The Toronto Green Standard
More than just buildings Site/
Neighbour-
Building
hoods
LEED
OP TGS
TGS LEED
Background City
Transit Avenues
Voluntary
Green Development Standard:
- Council Approved July 2006
New Toronto Green Standard:
-Council Approved December
2008
- Revised October 2009
- Required January 31, 2010