Getting To Know Us: Protecting the Environment
The environmental benefits of smarter planning are considerable, and can form a key plank in addressing climate change and ensuring healthy communities for all.
Barrie’s Housing Community Improvement Plan
Our policy brief on Barrie’s Housing Community Improvement Plan (CIP), which is meant to support its goal of ensuring 15 – 20% of all new housing is affordable.
Getting To Know Us: The Benefits of Smarter Planning
Discover the benefits of smarter planning in Simcoe County. Learn how strategic planning can lead to a more sustainable and vibrant community. Explore our initiatives and join us in shaping a greener future."
The Ford government has made a mess of planning. Now, municipal governments have a chance to correct some of that.
Official Plans are among the most important components of planning and building our communities, the places where we live, play, and work. They deserve to be given the highest level of consideration, which includes the best possible process of deliberation.
Research: Air Quality Impacts of the Bradford Bypass
It is increasingly clear that policies that promote increased vehicle traffic should be seen as a last resort, and implemented only where no other options are possible.
Analysis: More Homes Built Faster Act
Recent moves by Ontario’s government seem likely to create conditions for a number of crises in the next few decades that, when combined, are greater than the sum of their parts. This is what’s known as a “polycrisis”, a term popularized by economic historian Adam Tooze.
Simcoe County 2022 – 2051 Land Needs Assessment
…value in the context of a community is achieved through livability, which in turn drives economic and social dynamism. Propinquity, or the accessibility of the areas we inhabit, whether that’s for people we socialise with or for consumer good or employment, is the key metric to achieve in this regard. Build communities for people and good things happen.
