APPENDIX ‘A’ - Response to
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Council Recommendations - |
Provincial Response |
Comments |
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· Time extension to permit comments to be provided within six months time |
· Minister of PIR released Proposed Growth Plan in Nov 2005 six months later |
· Additional two months for comments – Jan 2006 |
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Formation of a Provincial Growth |
· There is no announcement of a provincial growth summit to this date |
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· Continue to provide provincial leadership in strategic growth planning at the inter-regional scale |
· Minister of PIR and the Ontario Growth Secretariat continue to provide a leadership role in coordinating the technical review and sub area assessments are the regional scale as part of the implementation analysis required to implement Growth Plan |
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· Support the general provincial policy direction in favour of intensification and compact urban form, subject to ongoing policy support, infrastructure support and financial support from the Province to municipalities |
· Ministers of the Crown and municipalities will use infrastructure investment and other implementation tools and mechanisms to facilitate the building of complete communities and intensification of the built up areas. ·
Infrastructure priority assessment at the
sub-area assessment stage of the implementation analysis by the
Province. ·
New planning tools and legislation (the
Provincial Policy Statement and Bill 51 |
· There is no commitment by the Province to release a long term, multi-year provincial infrastructure investment strategy to provide sustainable long term funding for infrastructure ·
Municipalities are still awaiting the approval
of changes to the DC Act and TIF legislation |
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The growth forecasts and intensification
targets identified to date in the Draft Growth Plan need to be further
reviewed and refined in consultation with the affected upper tier and lower
tier municipalities, to ensure that the targets are manageable, can be
accommodated based on planned infrastructure improvements, and can be
demonstrated to result in acceptable and sustainable patterns of density and
built form within the affected municipalities, prior to any implementing
Official Plan Amendments coming into effect |
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data gathering and analysis to provide additional guidance to the Province
and municipalities and allow for implementation and refinement of the plan’s
policies will be carried out by the Province in 2006. · The
Minister of PIR will carry out a technical assessment and sub area assessment
carried, in consultation with upper tier municipalities (ie. |
· Proposed plan policies do not provide for specific provincial consultation with lower tier municipalities at either the technical review or sub-area assessment stages of the implementation analysis |
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Council Recommendations - |
Provincial Response |
Comments |
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Introduce
a timeline in the Growth Plan (i.e. no later than final approval of a
sub-area growth strategy) for the delivery of legislative tools and financial
incentives to support implementation of the Growth Plan and sub-area growth
strategies by area municipalities, including, but not limited to: • Legislation
to permit Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in support of urban growth centres
(i.e. Markham Centre) and intensification corridors (i.e. the Hwy 7 Corridor)
and permanent removal of tax capping in TIF areas; • Changes
to the Development Charges Act to support future urban growth and
intensification; and • Empowering
“Downtown Development Corporations” to act as a flexible business model to
promote the provincial growth plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe |
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Ministers of the Crown and municipalities will use infrastructure
investment and other implementation tools and mechanisms to facilitate
intensification ·
The Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
has introduced new planning tools and legislation (the Provincial Policy
Statement and Bill 51 Planning Act Legislation) to support the growth plan
objectives |
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Certain Fiscal and Regulatory legislation is still outstanding · Municipalities still awaiting the approval of changes to the DC Act by the Minister of MMAH Tax Increment Financing legislation by the MOF to provide financial incentives to facilitate intensification of built up areas and development of higher order transit |
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Release for consultation, with stakeholders
and municipalities, the Province’s definitive approach to strategic
infrastructure investment prior to the approval of the growth plan for the
Greater Golden Horseshoe |
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The Minister of PIR released ReNew Ontario 2005-2010 Strategic
Highlights in May 2005. It provides an
overview of five year spending horizon based on current provincial budget
commitments ·
The five year $30 billion infrastructure plan is based on Federal,
Municipal and Private partnership funding.
Infrastructure ·
The Proposed Growth Plan identifies process for infrastructure
priority assessment as part of the sub area assessment stage of the provincial
implementation analysis |
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ReNew · A Long term multiyear infrastructure investment strategy has yet to be released |
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Council Recommendations - |
Provincial Response |
Comments |
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Amend the
Growth Plan Policies to direct that the sub-area growth strategy for the
Rouge River Watershed use the Rouge North Management Plan ecological criteria
to protect Rouge Watershed tributaries and establish a natural system outside
of the greenbelt lands |
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There is no specific mention of Rouge River Watershed in Proposed
Growth Plan or use of Rouge North Management Plan ecological criteria ·
The Minister of PIR will identify natural system in consultation with
upper tier municipalities |
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The Minister of PIR and York Region should
consult with |
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Focus the
provincial role in the development of sub-area growth strategy planning on: • Refining growth forecasts with
Greater Golden Horseshoe upper tier and single tier municipalities; and • Facilitating cross-jurisdictional
infrastructure planning, including an integrated transportation network, and
identifying priorities for phasing of investment at the macro scale across
the Greater Golden Horseshoe |
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The Sub Area Growth Strategies have
now been replaced with technical reviews and regional Sub Area
Assessments with varying degrees of involvement by the Province in
consultation with upper tier municipalities |
· Lower tier municipalities must be consulted during the technical review and sub-area assessment stages of the provincial implementation analysis |
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Appoint an accountable advisory committee for
the GTA and Hamilton sub-area and/or the Greater Golden Horseshoe area, by
way of a public process, and involving representatives from a cross section
of upper and lower tier municipalities in the sub-area, and to provide the
advisory committee with the authority and resources to coordinate, with the
support of the Ontario Growth Secretariat,
the preparation and implementation of a sub-area growth strategy for
the GTA and Hamilton sub-area |
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No specific action taken. ·
The Proposed Growth Plan makes reference to 2005 Throne Speech
announcement to establish a Greater Toronto Transportation Authority that
will ensure coordination of transit and transportation and implement the
transportation initiatives identified in the growth plan |
· Still awaiting GTTA coordinating body for Transportation infrastructure improvements |
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Council Recommendations - |
Provincial Response |
Comments |
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Include a
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No specific action taken |
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