1. An Environmental Impact Assessment for the City of TORONTO

2. An EIA for the City of TORONTO
Location & History
Status Quo
Projected Growth
Perceived Impacts
Recommendations

3. Location & History
Toronto is located in the Great Lakes Region of Southern Ontario, Canada
Founded as the Town of York in 1793
Surpassed Montreal as Canada’s largest city in the 1980s
Regional Municipality amalgamated in 1997 to become 5th largest in N America

4. Location & History

5. Location & History
For past 50 years, regional land use planning and transportation have been coordinated by the Province
Metropolitan Toronto Planning Area – 1953
MTARTS – Choices for a Growing Region – 1967
Design for Development – 1968
Toronto-Centred Region Plan – 1970
Central Ontario Lakeshore Urban Corridor – 1975
Central Ontario Smart Growth – 2002
Places to Grow – 2004

6. Location & History
1960s Plan for Development

7. Location & History
Today’s Urban Areas v. 1960s Plan for the Future

8. Status Quo Population Waste Production 2.5 million
5.3 million in the GTA
Waste Production
111 trucks of waste per day to Michigan
down from 142 trucks a day in 2003
enough to fill the SkyDome annually

9. Status Quo
Environmental Practices
Recycling
Composting
Yard Waste

10. Status Quo Official Plans Oak Ridges Moraine Plan
Each Regional Government’s Plan for Development within their Municipality
Oak Ridges Moraine Plan
Niagara Escarpment Plan
Greenbelt Plan
“Places to Grow”

11. “Places to Grow”

12. Projected Growth GTA growth rate is 2nd only to Dallas
immigrants / year in the GTA (55% of Canada’s immigration)
4.0% growth from 1996 to 2001
Ontario has “exhausted” its infrastructure capacity put in place during the 1960s-1980s

13. Projected Growth
The problems facing Ontario today are similar to the late 1960s
Strong economic growth and high immigration levels
Planning/investment for infrastructure
Environmental protection (Niagara Escarpment/Oak Ridges/Greenbelt)
Solution was comprehensive super-regional planning.

14. Projected Growth Year Population Housing Units Employment 2001
2031

15. Projected Growth
Population Growth Shares

16. Projected Growth
Employment Growth Shares

17. Perceived Impacts
To accommodate the population growth of ( ), new residential units will be required.
units will be in new urban areas. (15% high density, 25% medium density, and 60% low density)
Assuming 15 units to the gross hectare, this will require hectares of new residential lands

18. Perceived Impacts
Over the next 30 years, growth forecasts indicate that new jobs will be created in areas that we have traditionally called business parks or industrial areas
At 50 jobs per hectare, with a vacancy rate of 20%, hectares of new employment lands will be required

19. Perceived Impacts
Vacant Land in the GTA

20. Perceived Impacts
Given projected growth rates, hectares of new land is required
hectares is available within 40 kilometres of Pearson Airport
9970 hectares is available beyond 40 kilometres of Pearson Airport
Which leaves a shortfall of hectares

21. Recommendations Waste Diversion
In 2004, 36% of Toronto’s residential waste was diverted
Achieve a diversion rate of 60% by 2008 and 100% by 2012

22. Recommendations Urban Intensification
mix of housing and employment within developments
establishing nodal employment centres

23. ET CETERA… Recommendations
This is where YOUR insight and recommendations come into play (opposed to direct research)
Be DETAILED and THOROUGH with your recommendations at this stage