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1 Sustainable Community Development Guidelines

Sustainable Community Development Guidelines Presentation to

MLF Working Group Meeting February 2013

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Why Sustainability? Why Brampton? Why now?

Convergence of initiatives:

• Strategic Plan renewal

• Official Plan – moving forward Sustainable City Concept and policies

• Environmental Master Plan (EMP) with focus on environmental performance

• DDG’s – transit supportive development, Downtown Mobility Hub

• ROP – Public Health HDI, Climate Change, Active Transportation Plan, Road Characterization Study

• HOT/Queen Street Business cases, Pearson Eco–Business district, SNAP

• Brampton Cycling Plan, Liveable/Complete Streets (TBD)

Advantages of a comprehensive Sustainable Development Framework:

• Economic impact, use of development as engine for change, basis for funding (FCM, CMHC, Feds, Province transit, etc)

• Leverage funding (FCM), opportunities, develop partnerships (e.g. ROP, Peel Health)

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Sustainability in Municipal Planning and Urban Design Process, Sustainability Framework

Sustainability Guidelines

Sustainability provisions

Public Health



Measurements Incentives (LEED, FCM)

Environmental Master Plan (EMP)

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Sustainability requirements

Public Buildings policies and practice

Operation policies and practice

Financial and Ec. Dev. policies

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Framework and Guidelines

Phase 1 - Sustainable Community Development Guidelines (SCDGs)

• Chapter of the DDGs to assist in development application approval, CDGs, SPA

• Focus on Secondary Plans; Block Plan/tertiary plans; Draft Plans & Site Plan scales

• Identifies gaps, needs, list of issues, process: indicators, guidelines & checklists

• $50k - 2006 gas tax funding, leveraged as Brampton’s contribution for the FCM grant; potential for up to $10k ROP Health contribution

• Consultation with the development industry (BILD) and other public stakeholders

Phase 2 - Measuring Performance of New Development (partnership with Vaughan, Richmond Hill, & FCM)

• City wide policy / metrics and criteria (based on $85k FCM grant)

• Focus on GHG reductions

• Build on Phase 1 Indicators to develop metrics and targets

Phase 3 - Sustainable Development Standards

• Focus on Central Area sustainable infrastructure

• $100k - 2010 Gas tax funding - to be initiated in 2013 /completed in 2014


Brampton: Achievements in Sustainable and Healthy Development The City of Brampton has achieved a lot of progress in the following areas of sustainable and healthy development: 1. Environmental preservation, enhancement and integration 2. Sustainable transportation: Transit, active transportation 3. Infill and intensification, redevelopment, transit supportive and transit-oriented

development 4. Compact, denser, complete urban extensions 5. Sustainable energy 6. Green development 7. Heritage preservation and reuse 8. Public realm for social balance 9. Policies, Process for Sustainable and Healthy Development 10. Key Projects from sustainability perspective


Phase 1: Background Summary and Principles Outline

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Sustainability Principles, Initiatives, Approach


DRAFT Guidelines: Scales, Themes and Indicators

Sustainable Community Development Guidelines

Guidelines:


Compact Development • Create opportunities for growth that is

sustainable. The compactness of urban form and the concentration of housing and jobs creates the necessary critical mass to support transit and retail, ultimately reducing car dependence and traffic congestion.

• Use existing infrastructure to promote density and intensification.

• Enable better transit systems.

• Improve enhanced economies of scale in the delivery of soft and hard services, and make district energy more viable.

• Multi-storey buildings help create compact neighbourhoods by maximizing site and service capacities, minimizing floor areas, and contributing to an urban street condition through well proportioned façades that add a sense of enclosure at the street.


• Street layout designed with efficient walking routes to schools, centres, transit and other key destinations.

• Encourage walking / Reduce vehicle use.

• Mix of uses and density.

• High degree of connectivity.

• Easy access to transit, schools, retail.

• Sidewalks on both sides of streets.

• Sidewalks on one side for local streets other than major pedestrian links to a schools, centres, or retail.

• Block lengths of 150 to 180 m in length (no more than 250 m) to promote active transportation and dispersed traffic movements. Block length is generally shorter at NH centres.

Walkability


• Frequent local street connections along collectors enhance connectivity and permeability within Secondary Plan areas.

• Promote higher densities and compact development to support existing and planned transit services, reducing the need for automobile use.

• Support community health and improve air quality by promoting walking, cycling, and transit as primary means of transportation, reducing car dependency for daily activities.

• Street and block pattern should emphasize connections and walkability, both internally, and with surrounding neighbourhoods, through a grid or modified grid pattern discouraging cul-de-sacs, p-loops and crescents.

Street Network, Active Transportation, Transit Supportive Design


• Protect natural heritage systems and minimize development encroachment that negatively affects the health and diversity of the NHS, including noise and light pollution, debris, pathways and unauthorized access.

• Integrate natural features, stormwater management facilities and community agriculture as part of neighbourhood character and open space system can provide a transition from natural to built environment.

• Increase urban canopy cover through street tree and reforestation programs to mitigate heat island impact.

• Increase tree cover and shading to reduce heat island impact in surface parking lots.

• Encourage Innovative stormwater management design by incorporating stormwater management ponds as part of the open space system, integrated as a community amenity.

Natural Systems, Open Space, Urban Forest & Storm Water


• Parks for all age groups. Co-locate physical activity spaces for children and adults to promote physical activity.

• Integrate community agricultural within parks and open space.

• Encourage healthier diets by providing access to fresh food options within walking distance of residents.

• Support urban agriculture through initiatives such as small organic farms as a component of a new development.

• Locate community gardens, farmers markets, and roof gardens within the community context to further community food security.

Urban Food and Parks


• Provide alternative energy delivery systems such as renewables-based district energy for heating and cooling.

• Conserve energy through passive solar orientation, high albedo roofs and free cooling from shade trees.

• Implement Low Impact Design Standards.

• Retain stormwater on-site through bio-retention and harvesting, on-site infiltration, and evapo-transpiration (green roofs, rain barrels, permeable paving, green streets, infiltration trenches and absorbent landscaping).

• Implement a rainwater harvesting program for the irrigation of all public open spaces.

• Bioswales, within the public ROW enhance ground water infiltration and improve water quality.

Energy Conservation / Water (Stormwater) Use


• Use 25% recycled materials for new infrastructure i.e. roadways, parking lots, sidewalks, unit pavings, curbs, water retention tanks / vaults, SWM facilities, sanitary sewers, and/or water pipes.

• Keep existing heritage buildings in situ through retention, restoration, and adaptive reuse to avoid / reduce construction waste.

• Provide recycling/reuse stations, hazardous waste drop-off area and compost stations to reduce waste volume.

• Encourage development of ‘complete’ communities that have higher densities at centres, mixed use nodes, transit facilities; mixed land uses; a diversity of housing types; connected and walkable road patterns in order to reduce GHG remissions and the impacts on air quality.

Material Resources & Waste Reduction


• Reduce parking spaces to minimum required. Dedicate 5% of spaces for car-pool, car-share & low E vehicles.

• Reduce parking ratios in areas served by public transit.

• Design street lights to reduce energy by at least 15% of baseline annual energy use by such means as LED street lights.

• Encourage Multi-unit residential Mid-Rise buildings to achieve enhanced EnerGuide rating (83 +)

• Promote green roofs, especially for large high-density residential, office, public, institutional or employment buildings to minimize surface runoff, reduce heat islands, provide noise insulation, and improve local air quality. Provide green roofs for 80% of all high density development.

• Dark Sky Compliant lighting, encourage Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) in tall building development

Air Quality / Green Buildings


Next Steps

• Presentation to PDD Committee - March/April 2013

• Adoption of guidelines

• Incorporation into Development Design Guidelines.

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