PLAN103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Urban Design
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Point sources: factories and sources of pollution. Non-point sources: pollution coming from cars across the city. Federal - international trade, defense, macroeconomic policy. Provincial - health care, transportation, education, resources, local governments. Federal - funding, owned lands, infrastructure, housing. Laid out levels of government and their responsibilities. Municipalities not mentioned except one phrase, that they are creations of the province. Require express authority to enact bylaws, through enabling legislation . Provincial government says what power municipalities have. Enabling legislation put in place by the province that enables planning at the local level. Tells us what were allowed to do in terms of planning. Cannot people zone, only for land uses. Tells us what planning can do it and how it can do it. More detail about what planning should address. Establish links between land use and social provisions. Community vision that includes a series of values. Municipal hierarchy of plans and policies: regional official plan, official plan.