Report: Sustainable land use practices in Canadian municipalities

Municipal and community buildings

Land Use

Factsheets: Working with nature to improve infrastructure project outcomes

Learn how you can integrate nature-based solutions into your community’s infrastructure project planning

Land Use

Webinar recording: Making sustainable land use decisions in your municipality

Watch our webinar to explore tools for sustainable land use decision-making. Learn to assess financial and climate impacts and apply practical strategies for your municipality.

Land Use

Toolkit: Making sustainable land use decisions in your municipality

Solutions for Canadian communities to achieve significant GHG emissions reductions in buildings and meet long-term sustainability objectives.

Municipal and community buildings

Energy | Housing

Webinar recording: How to get a project started, tips for small francophone communities

If you’re a small francophone municipality looking to develop sustainability projects and access funding, watch this webinar to learn how others overcame common challenges.

Land Use

Learning Journey: Brownfields Redevelopment in your community

Find out how to rehabilitate and redevelop brownfields

Land Use

Webinar recording: Benefits of integrated intensification for sustainable community development

This webinar teaches participants how land use decisions are tied to the fiscal health of a municipality and its ability to achieve climate targets.

Land Use

Video: new purpose for a 20-year-old brownfield site

Tara Tran, Senior planner, shares tips on how to sustain your efforts and progress in brownfield (or others) projects.

Energy | Housing

Webinar recording: Take your project from study to capital

Watch this webinar recording and discover how others have successfully converted studies into a capital project that provides social, economic and environmental benefits.

Energy

Webinar recording: The 5 keys to a green municipal project business case

Watch this webinar recording and discover the five critical focus areas you need to address to get your project started, from financing and partnerships to integrating a triple-bottom-line approach.

Land Use

Brownfield Roadmaps

GMF's Brownfield Roadmaps provide a detailed overview of the process of bringing contaminated or abandoned sites back into productive use in your province or territory.

Energy | Housing

Webinar recordings: Best practices in municipal sustainability

How are cities and communities of all sizes tackling their environmental challenges? Find out from our five-part webinar series on innovations and opportunities in municipal energy, waste, water, transportation and land use initiatives.

Land Use

Guide: LiBRe best practices framework

The LiBRe program is structured around a best practices framework for becoming a municipal leader in brownfield renewal.

Land Use

Guide: Getting started on your brownfield sites

Discover how to raise awareness and secure a formal commitment to support brownfield redevelopment in your municipality. Read the guide.

Land Use

Guide: Developing a municipal brownfield inventory

Free guidebook. 10 steps to creating your brownfield inventory. Libre Guidebook series.

Land Use

Guide: How to create and implement a brownfield strategy

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Guide: Building partnerships for brownfield renewal in your municipality

Land Use

Guide: 2018 Sustainable Communities Awards project guide: Brownfields

Energy | Housing

Webinar recording: How to prepare a GMF capital project application

Need advice for preparing your GMF capital project funding application? Watch our webinar recording to hear tips from our staff and find out what reviewers are looking for.

Land Use

Guide: Evaluate and improve your municipal brownfield programs

See how two communities benefit from evaluating their brownfield programs and find tips you can use in your municipality to enhance your offering.

Land Use

Tool: Benefits of Sustainable Brownfield Activities

Cleaning up contaminants and redeveloping a brownfield site can bring communities a number of environmental, economic and social benefits. You can achieve even greater benefits by incorporating sustainable approaches throughout the site remediation and risk management activities.

Land Use

Tool: Sustainable Remediation and Risk Management Options

Any technique that remediates or manages the risk of contamination at a site has an environmental benefit as it eliminates or reduces exposure to contaminants. Some techniques, however, are more sustainable than others.

Land Use

Brownfield Roadmap: Yukon

Land Use

Brownfield Roadmap: Newfoundland and Labrador

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the processes, legislative framework and funding for redeveloping brownfields in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Land Use

Brownfield Roadmap: Manitoba

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the process, learn about the legislative framework and find funding for redeveloping brownfields in Manitoba.

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Brownfield Roadmap: British Columbia

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the process, learn about the legislative framework and find funding for redeveloping brownfields in BC.

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Brownfield Roadmap: Nunavut

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the process, learn about the legislative framework and find funding for redeveloping brownfields in Nunavut.

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Brownfield Roadmap: Alberta

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the process, learn about the legislative framework and find funding for redeveloping brownfields in Alberta.

Land Use

Brownfield Roadmap: Nova Scotia

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the processes, legislative framework and funding for redeveloping brownfields in Nova Scotia.

Land Use

Brownfield Roadmap: Ontario

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the process, learn about the legislative framework and find funding for redeveloping brownfields in Ontario.

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Brownfield Roadmap: Prince Edward Island

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the processes, legislative framework and funding for redeveloping brownfields in Prince Edward Island.

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Tool: Sustainable Site Assessments

You can use various techniques to find out whether a suspected brownfield site contains contaminated soil or groundwater.

Land Use

Tool: Finding Remediation Service Providers

Get a sense of the services required at different project stages and find providers using various directories.

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Case study: Ladysmith Waterfront Brownfield Study

The Town of Ladysmith commissioned three studies of contamination at a former industrial site on its waterfront, to review options for remediation.

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Phase II Environmental Site Assessment and Remedial Action Plan, Cooper Site

As part of a plan to build a University of Waterloo satellite campus next to its downtown core, the City of Stratford completed a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment and Remedial Action Plan for the Cooper Site, a 7-hectare former industrial site.

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Brownfield Roadmap: Northwest Territories

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the process, learn about the legislative framework and find funding for redeveloping brownfields in Northwest Territories.

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Brownfield Roadmap: Quebec

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the process, learn about the legislative framework and find funding for redeveloping brownfields in Quebec.

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Tool: Sustainable remediation

Almost every Canadian municipality is home to a brownfield site.

Land Use

Webinar recording: How to build partnerships to help revitalize your brownfields

Waterfronts were once bustling engines of a past industrial economy; some now sit vacant — void of the productivity that once supported their communities.

Waste

Six sustainability ideas that have gone mainstream in Canada: Article series

In a series of six articles, we explore inspiring projects and sustainability solutions being implemented in cities and towns of all sizes across Canada.

Land Use

Webinar recording: Fostering brownfield redevelopment

Learn best practices in brownfield revitalization you can apply in your municipality, and understand FCM's brownfield funding opportunities and resources.

Land Use

Tool: Evaluation tools for sustainable remediation and risk management

Browse through a range of tools to help you evaluate your options and compare potential benefits.

Land Use

Brownfield Roadmap: New Brunswick

Use this easy-to-follow path to navigate the processes, legislative framework and funding for redeveloping brownfields in New Brunswick.

Land Use

Report: Leadership in Brownfield Renewal Program Annual Review

Discover brownfield redevelopment initiatives and advancements in Canadian municipalities made during the Leadership in Brownfield Renewal program's inaugural year.

Land Use

Webinar recording: Ideas to move brownfield projects forward

Join this webinar to get practical ideas for working with partners and community groups to bring abandoned properties back into productive use.

Waste

Guide: Sustainable Neighbourhood Development

This guide, Sustainable Neighbourhood Development: Practical Solutions to Common Challenges, is designed to help you re-imagine your municipality's approach to planning, development and regulation.

Land Use

Guide: Promoting brownfield programs and opportunities in Canada

Read this step-by-step guide to marketing brownfield redevelopment opportunities to local developers and property owners.

Land Use

Webinar recording: Introduction to the brownfield redevelopment process

Watch this webinar recording for an introduction to the process of developing a brownfield site in your community, from the environmental assessment to site remediation.

Land Use

Guide: Tendering a municipal brownfield project

Conducting an efficient tendering process is a key step in managing a successful brownfield redevelopment project.