Barrie’s Housing Community Improvement Plan
![Screenshot of artistic rendering of a streetscape, taken from Barrie's Intensification Area Urban Design Guidelines. Credit City of Barrie.](https://simcoecountygreenbelt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/walkable-street-2-1024x527.jpg)
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.
Research: Air Quality Impacts of the Bradford Bypass
![Photo of a highway with vehicles barely visible through heavy smog. Credit Ivan Bogdanov, Unsplash.](https://simcoecountygreenbelt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/smog-Ivan-Bogdanov-1024x576.jpg)
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.