PLAN103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Site Plan, Smart Growth
12 Mar 2017
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Someone has to explicitly tell you what you can do before you do it: a community vision document. Planning for sustainability: what does this mean, combats sprawl, planning for public transit, planning to avoid detrimental impacts that we are putting on the environment. Smart growth: reduce sprawl due to its negative environmental, social and economic effects, what tools can planners use to attain this, mixed-use, higher density, multiple centers, re-urbanizations. Municipal hierarchy of plans and policies: official plan (two-tier municipality - provincial and several local governments, overall intent and use of land. It is very specific - covers the entire municipality - every parcel of land needs to be zoned: so that every property owner knows what is allowed to be done to their land, size/type/placement of buildings. Special area designation for an area that requires special attention: what you can and cannot do for areas with special heritage, additional detail to zoning for small areas.
