CITB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Transportation Planning, Greater Toronto Area, Smart Growth
Document Summary
Toronto green standard (policy) which provides guidelines for making bird-friendly windows. Survey: understand the status quo of today in a given area of interest. Steps added to the traditional model: create your final plan, explicit development and articulation of planning goals, formulation of planning alternatives, evaluation of different planning options, feedback loops and reviews, community consultation and participation, new hypothetical model: Survey situation ---> develop goals ---> analyze findings ---> formulate alternatives ---> evaluate. Options ---> select preferred choices ---> develop and implement policies ---> measure progress. Periodically and make adjustments: transportation planning, objectives, discuss the relationship between land-use and transportation planning, assess changes in dominant planning ideas on transportation and land-use; In other words, to revitalize an area is to "refresh" it; to give it a "makeover. " Implementation through the official plan: the official plan is a city"s policy vision to manage and direct physical change. It is a blueprint document with a general focus.
