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April 2010Public Overview and Summary
A Plan for Transformation
1URBAN STRATEGIES INC.
Vaughan continues to be one of the fastest growing cities in Canada.
Vaughan is required to conform to new Provincial and Regional policies
Population is forecast to grow to 418,800 people by 2031 (up 68% from 2006).
Employment is forecast to grow to 266,100 people by 2031 (up 66% from 2006).
Approximately 65,000 new housing units are projected.
The Provincial Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe provides growth forecasts, establishes minimum targets for intensification, restricts urban expansions and requires new communities to be built at minimum densities.
The Provincial Greenbelt Act and Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act establish areas of Vaughan where urban development is not permitted.
The York Region Official Plan translates many of these new Provincial Policies into Regional policies and local municipality requirements. Specific requirements include: population and job forecasts; identification of Regional Centres and Regional Corridors for intensification; minimum densities for the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre and new community areas; and, affordable housing targets and policies.
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Vaughan’s New Official Plan was created with extensive community input
The City has consulted with residents, landowners and business for over two years in order to better understand the issues related to growth and to make sure that the Official Plan policies reflect what matters to Vaughan’s citizens.
The public process that resulted in the Vision for Transformation - the goals for the Official Plan - won the 2009 Award of Excellence for Public Engagement and Communications from the Ontario Professional Planning Institute. The process included multiple formats of consultation and reports such as public lectures, community workshops, youth engagement, videos, open houses, citizens bulletins and public meetings.
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This exercise has been conducted under the banner of Vaughan Tomorrow. Vaughan Tomorrow has consisted of over 20 technical studies and background papers, and attendance of over 3,000 people at more than 100 public events.
Vision 2020
Green Directions Vaughan
The Transportation Master Plan
Active Together Master Plan
Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan
Built Cultural Heritage Study
Archaeology Study
Creative Together Cultural Plan
Commercial Land Use Review
Housing and Employment Land Needs Study
Employment Sectors Study
Social Services Study
Water and Wastewater Master Plan
Nature in the City - Natural Heritage Study
Kleinburg-Nashville Rural Areas Study
Yonge Street Corridor Study
Woodbridge Focused Area Study
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Study
West Vaughan Employment Area Secondary Plan
...and various additional background reports.
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4 BRIEFING NOTES
Vaughan’s New Official Plan protects and enhances the places that make Vaughan great
40% of Vaughan is protected as Natural Areas and Countryside.
36% of Vaughan is maintained as low-rise Community Areas.
20% of Vaughan is designated as Employment Areas to support economic and job growth.
Historic cores remain protected as Heritage Conservation Districts and policies to protect and preserve heritage buildings, districts, landscapes and archaeological sites have been strengthened.
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Vaughan’s New Official Plan provides a balanced and responsible approach to achieve Sustainable Growth
The urban boundary will expand by only 3% in order to protect our Natural Areas and Countryside. This is the smallest urban expansion in Vaughan’s history and a clear signal regarding the City’s commitment to sustainability.
A minimum of 45% of new development will be in the form of intensification. This will make better use of existing services, promote walking, cycling and transit, and help create new mixed-use communities where people can live, work and play.
Intensification will be achieved by using only 4% of Vaughan’s land base. Vaughan’s New Official Plan directs intensification to a limited number areas that will be well served by transit and established clear rules to create transitions into low-rise community areas.
The New Official Plan ensures a sufficient supply of a variety of housing forms in a variety of locations. Vaughan is meeting its Regional obligations and ensuring that it doesn’t shift growth issues to other municipalities.
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6 BRIEFING NOTES
Intensification will be achieved through a variety of mixed-use districts that each have a different scale of development depending on the local context
The Vaughan Metropolitan Centre will be the City’s downtown. It will have the widest range of uses and will have buildings of various size, including the tallest buildings in the City.
Primary Centres will accommodate a wide range of uses and will have tall buildings as well as lower ones to ensure an appropriate transition to neighbouring areas.
Primary Intensification Corridors will link various centres and are linear places of activity in their own right. They may accommodate mixed use intensification or employment intensification.
Local Centres act as the focus for communities are lower in scale and offer a more limited range of uses.
Where detailed local planning has yet to occur, Secondary Plans are required prior to development.
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Vaughan’s New Official Plan shifts transportation policy emphasis from the automobile towards transit, cycling and walking
Transit modal split target for 2031 of 30% Citywide and 50% in Intensification Areas.
50% of residents will be within 200 metres of transit service (less than 5-minute walk) and 90% will be within 500 metres of transit service (10-minute walk).
Land-use policies linked to transit service. Highest densities are provided at rapid transit stations and along rapid transit corridors.
Development criteria and urban design/public realm policies require that new development facilitates transit, walking and cycling.
Controls on drive-throughs, including no drive-throughs in Intensification Areas or Heritage Conservation Districts and development criteria in other places.
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8 BRIEFING NOTES
Vaughan’s New Official Plan ensures it remains one of Canada’s strongest cities for job growth and economic development
Vaughan’s New Official Plan positions it as a leader in environmental protection and sustainability
1200 hectares of vacant Employment Lands are available for development, providing Vaughan with one of the largest supplies in the Greater Golden Horseshoe.
Employment Areas are protected for industrial activities and, in Prestige Employment Lands also for low-rise office buildings.
Major Offices and Major Retail uses are directed to intensification areas.
New hospital and major medical centre will be promoted at Jane and Major Mackenzie Drive in a designated Primary Centre.
The full extent of Vaughan’s Natural Heritage Network has been identified and mapped. This network of streams and valleys, woodlands, wetlands, fish and habitat areas and environmentally significant features has been protected and will be a legacy for future generations.
Areas for enhancing and linking the Natural Heritage Network have been mapped and will be secured through the development process.
Policies have been established to support water and energy conservation and to encourage green and sustainable buildings. New developments will prepare sustainable development reports to identify how they meet sustainability principles. Specific standards will be prepared by the City in consultation with the building and construction industry.
Agriculture will remain a productive activity in Vaughan through protected agricultural lands.
Vaughan’s accommodation of growth and intensification within its borders will also help ensure that agricultural areas elsewhere in York Region and the GGH remain protected.
Vaughan’s tradition of urban and community agriculture is acknowledged and strengthened. Policies to allow for community agriculture opportunities in parks, open spaces and utility corridors have been established.
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Vaughan’s New Official Plan creates an emphasis on design excellence
Emphasis on placemaking. Integrated policies for land use, built form, and urban design will help transform suburban environments into attractive and vibrant urban places.
Design policies to guide public realm improvements (e.g, streetscapes, parks and open spaces, urban squares, etc.).
Introduction of a Design Review Process for major projects and significant buildings.
Promotion of Public Art, including requirements for public buildings and a public art contribution for private developments. A Public Art Program is to be created to enable these policies.
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Vaughan’s New Official Plan ensures the continued vitality of its retail sector
Retail centres will be permitted at specified locations within Community Areas. These can be built as stand-alone shopping centres or in some areas as part of mixed-use developments.
Retail uses will be permitted throughout Intensification Areas. These can be built as stand-alone shopping areas provided that they also provide at least 50% non-retail uses elsewhere on the site. This is to leverage retail uses to help created mixed-use communities.
In certain focal areas, a certain amount of street-related retail will be required.
Retail uses will be permitted in Employment Areas only to support local businesses and will therefore be limited to 20% of the overall GFA on a lot in Prestige Employment Lands and only as ancillary uses in General Employment Lands.
Major Retail uses – those over 10,000 square metres – will not be permitted in Community Areas or Employment Areas. They are permitted throughout intensification areas subject to a Zoning By-law Amendment but must be justified subject to a specific study.
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Retail can be leveraged to create mixed use communities
Vaughan’s New Official Plan responds to community and social service needs
A wide variety of housing types will be found in Vaughan that will allow older people to remain in Vaughan as they age and younger adults to find housing in Vaughan as they leave home.
Vaughan’s New Official Plan reflects the York Region target of 25% affordable housing throughout the Region and 35% within the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.
Policies on Secondary Suites are provided as required per the Growth Plan and York Region Official Plan. Secondary Suites are encouraged and will be permitted in specific areas subject to the outcome of the Task Force and Special Study approved by Council
Policies related to Universal Design are found throughout the New Official Plan in conformity with the Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
Increased accessibility is provided to Community and Social Services facilities by directing them to locate in intensification areas and/or where they are well served by transit.
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