CITB01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Big-Box Store, Urban Design, Civil Engineering
CITB01 Midterm Review
• Planning Act- The creation of planning units; The establishment of organizational structures
for planning; • The content, preparation, and adoption of plans; The format for enacting zoning,
building and housing bylaws; The system for subdividing land. An example of this is the Ontario
planning act in which deals with areas of employment that elaborate on clusters for business and
economic uses that are unlimited unless prescribed by regulation. This plan act also covers area
of settlement means an area of land designated in an official plan for urban uses including urban
areas, urban policy areas, towns, villages, hamlets, rural clusters, rural settlement areas, urban
systems, rural service centres or future urban use areas, or as otherwise prescribed by regulation.
Upper Tier Plans / Regional Plans - regional planning is the process by which communities
attempt to control and/or design change and development in their physical environments. These
plans describes your upper, lower or SINGLE–tier municipal council's policies on how land in
your community should be used. It is prepared with input from you and others in your
community and helps to ensure that future planning and development will meet the specific
needs of your community. This plan DEALS mainly with issues such as:
· where new housing, industry, offices and SHOPS will be located
· what services like roads, water mains, sewers, parks and SCHOOLS will be
needed
· when, and in what order, parts of your community will grow
· community improvement initiatives.
Official Plan- An official plan is A city’s policy vision to manage and direct physical change; •
Comprehensive and long range; • A blueprint document with a general focus; • Deals with the
main issues and major proposals; • Development applications are evaluated against the policies
and criteria of the plan; • All by-laws must reflect the “intent of the plan.”
ex. example: Toronto official plan
-land use districts (city has planned or what development they want to see)
-centers (CBD) with low density areas (implement growth centers)
-those centers are designed to re-urbanize
-mixed use areas (want business, residential, institutional)
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-land use map is telling us what the city wants to see happen in certain areas
-intensify along major avenvues, we can export expansion of transport
-development is supposed to happen in centers
-employment (lesiville) film industry, economic development wants to stimulate it
-rejected application for big box store
Secondary Plans - Adapts and implements the objectives, policies, land use designations of the
City's Official Plan to fit with local contexts; • Establishes local development policies unique to
an area to guide growth and change in that area; • Promotes a desired type and form of physical
development in a specific area; • Guides public/private investment in the area.
Site Plans- Involves development of a single parcel of land that may be vacant or will be made
vacant; • These types of plans are usually put forward by private individuals or developers; • The
planner’s responsibility is to assess whether the development meets the “intent of the Plan.”
Development Agreement- This agreement of development is promoted through the secondary
plan.The development agreement is general, in order to guide specific situations we need
secondary plans. Only areas of interests (centers, waterfronts) This is an agreement between an
individual and a construction company, city or builder to develop a parcel of land for the
individual’s personal or commercial use. The Development Agreement involves the submission
of a Development Plan by the Developer to the Owner of the property. The development
agreement sketches out the project and lays down the ground rules of the build, such as the time
frame, property limits etc. Once the owner approves the Plan, the Developer may start work on
the project.
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Document Summary
An example of this is the ontario planning act in which deals with areas of employment that elaborate on clusters for business and economic uses that are unlimited unless prescribed by regulation. Upper tier plans / regional plans - regional planning is the process by which communities attempt to control and/or design change and development in their physical environments. These plans describes your upper, lower or single tier municipal council"s policies on how land in your community should be used. It is prepared with input from you and others in your community and helps to ensure that future planning and development will meet the specific needs of your community. This plan deals mainly with issues such as: Where new housing, industry, offices and shops will be located. What services like roads, water mains, sewers, parks and schools will be needed. When, and in what order, parts of your community will grow.
