Provincial Planning: What’s New
Ontario East
Municipal Conference
September 12, 2012
Kingston

Global Provincial Municipal
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Deep River
Ottawa
Bancroft Cornwall
Peterborough Kingston
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Demographics
By 2025, 1 in 5
Ontarians will be 65
Toward 2025: Assessing
years or older Ontario’s Long-Term Outlook
Ontario’s population is projected grow over the
next 25 years, rising 32.7 % , from an
estimated 13.4 million on July 1, 2011 to
17.7 million by July 1, 2036.
Growth Plan for the Greater
Golden Horseshoe
Source: Ministry of Finance. Towards 2025: Assessing Ontario’s Long-Term Outlook. 2005. 7
Ontario Population Projections Update, 2011 – 2036, Spring 2012

Housing
60000
Housing Starts in Ontario Single
Multiple
50000 Semi
row
Apartment
Long-Term Affordable
Number of Housing Starts
40000
Housing Strategy
30000
20000
10000
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Municipal Tools for Affordable
Housing Handbook
Year
Source: Statistical Bulletin of Selected Housing Market Indicators for Ontario and Census Metropolitan Areas 8
– Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Health
Health sector spending
will increase its share
on Ontario’s budget from 42%
42% to 70% in less than 70%
15 years if health costs Planning by Design: a healthy
continue to rise at the same communities handbook
pace. 2012 2025
From 2010 to 2020,
another 700,000
people are expected
to be diagnosed with OPPI “Healthy Communities”
Call to Action
diabetes.
Sources: Ontario Ministry of Finance, 2011 9
An Economic Tsunami: The Cost of Diabetes in Ontario, Canadian Diabetes Association, 2009

Water
Less than 3% of water on earth is fresh –
and most of that is ice
In the 20th century, the world’s population
Lake Simcoe Protection Plan
grew 3x whereas water usage grew
6 fold
Ontario Great Lakes
Protection
Sources: United Nations . State of World population 2001 10
USGS Where is the Earth’s Water http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html

Climate Change
Average annual temperature increase of
c
1.4° per year since 1948
The annual costs of extreme weather brought on by Ontario Adaptation Strategy
climate change in Ontario could equate to about and Action Plan
$5.66 billion per year
Ontario Climate Action Plan
Source: Ministry of Environment, Climate Ready, 2011 11

Natural Heritage
Between 1982 and 2002, Southern Ontario lost 25 acres
of wetlands every day.
Ontario Biodiversity Strategy
That’s 25 soccer fields per day
There are currently
94 endangered species and
53 threatened species
MNR Natural Heritage
listed on the Species at Risk in Reference Manual
Ontario list as of June 2011.
Sources: Southern Ontario Wetland Conversion Analysis, Ducks Unlimited Canada, 2010 12
Ministry of Natural Resources, 2011

Agriculture
Over 1.5 million hectares of agricultural lands
have been lost to non-agricultural uses in
Ontario since 1966
OPPI “Planning for Food
Systems” Call to Action
Agriculture and agri-food is Ontario’s second
largest industry, producing over $10 billion in
gross farm receipts annually
Foodland Ontario
Sources: Preservation Agricultural Lands Society, 2002 13
Ontario Farmland Trust’s report Planning Regional Food Systems, August 2011

Energy
Canada has the world’s third highest
per-capita consumption of energy, higher than
the United States
Single-use, dispersed neighbourhoods produce Ontario’s Long-Term
Energy Plan
nearly three times more annual emissions
per household than mixed use, compact
neighbourhoods near the downtown
Feed-in Tariff Guidelines [2.0]
Sources: The World Bank International Energy Agency Statistics © OECD/IEA 14
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Urban Travel: Tool for Evaluating Neighbourhood Sustainability, CMHC, 2000

Active Transportation
MTO Transit-Supportive
Guidelines
79% of Ontarians commuted to work by car in 2006
OPPI “Healthy Communities”
Only 9% of boys and 4% of girls aged 6 to 19 meet the Call to Action
Canadian guidelines of 60 minutes of daily physical exercise
Sources: Statistics Canada 15
Shaping Active, Healthy Commujities, Heart & Stroke Foundation

Infrastructure
Ontario’s Infrastructure deficit is estimated to
exceed $100 Billion
Long-Term Infrastructure Plan
Municipalities own about 40% of Ontario’s
public infrastructure.
Guide for Municipal Asset
Management Plans
Sources: Renew Ontario Progress Report 2006 16
MOE ROMA-OGRA 2012

Resources for Municipalities
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Resources for Municipalities
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Policy Integration
watershed
cultural
housing heritage mineral
population
growth
hazards agriculture
water
ecosystem
natural heritage
waste
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Contact Us
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Provincial Planning Policy Branch
14th Floor, 777 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M5G 2E5
Ontario.ca/mah
416.585.6014
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