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Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation
Factsheet: Why equity matters in municipal climate adaptation
Discover how your local government can build equity into its climate resilience activities. Read this factsheet for key definitions and helpful resources.
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Guide
Municipal and community buildings
Municipal and community buildings
Guide: Taking your indoor swimming pool to net zero
A guide with key measures and lessons learned to help you build a plan for net-zero indoor swimming pools.
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Municipal and community buildings
Municipal and community buildings
Guides: Equity and non-energy benefits of community building retrofits
Explore the equity and other non-energy benefits of retrofitting community buildings.
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Trees
Trees
Factsheet: Urban forest planning
Read up on why developing an urban forest plan is important for the long-term success of trees in your community.
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Water
Case study: Bromont 2030 A shared vision for sustainability
The City of Bromont, a tourist haven, is experiencing a population boom. The municipal council is taking steps to ensure that this growth occurs while respecting the environment, the surrounding countryside and the quality of life in the community.
Water
Case study: Regional Integrated Community Sustainability Plan
The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville developed a Regional Integrated Community Sustainability Plan (ICSP) that provides a strategic framework for its 12 municipalities (10 members and two partners) to address sustainability objectives and priorities.
Case Study
Land Use
Land Use
Case study: Aligning policies in an eco industrial zone
Partners in Project Green (a partnership managed by the Toronto Regional Conservation Authority) created tools to help harmonize land-use policies in the eco-industrial area around Toronto's airport.
Case Study
Case study: Campbell River works with First Nations to plan a sustainable future
The Campbell River Community Plan charts a course to preserve the environment, develop the economy and manage growth.
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Land Use
Land Use
Tool: Sustainable remediation
Almost every Canadian municipality is home to a brownfield site.
Case Study
Energy | Housing
Energy | Housing
Plan Parksville – A vision for our future
The City of Parksville has developed a new Official Community Plan to address issues such as smart growth, climate change, downtown revitalization, sustainable tourism and shoreline protection.
Case Study
Energy | Housing
Energy | Housing
Mississauga puts green in its DNA
The City of Mississauga has a master plan to instill environmental consciousness in its corporate DNA.
Land Use
Case study: City of Corner Brook Integrated Municipal Sustainability Plan
The City of Corner Brook developed a 10-year integrated municipal sustainability plan (IMSP) that serves as a hybrid document, combining the goals and objectives of an integrated community sustainability plan with the legislative authority of a municipal plan.
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Case study: Gander seeks to address growth
The Town of Gander grew by 11 per cent between 2006 and 2011 — about 100 housing starts a year over the past five years.
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Case study: Growth plan will guide sustainable development of expanding suburb
The Rural Municipality of West St. Paul, Manitoba, a community north just of Winnipeg, developed a 20-year plan for growth and development in the fast-growing suburb of Middlechurch.