Improving health and wellness for residents: designed communities with integrated green Neighbourhoods with a compact, walkable spaces, pedestrian and transit networks, and form and integrated greenspaces can offers a variety of options for housing, improve physical and mental health. [...] GDS can help seniors and an aging population, improve ensure that future service delivery costs are safety for vulnerable transportation users, and factored into new development and defer the create new opportunities for economic need for infrastructure upgrades and development. [...] directs planning authorities towards land use These can include: and development patterns that promote compact form, active transportation and • Maintaining the existing tree canopy transit, and design and orientation that • Enhancing stormwater quantity and quality maximize energy efficiency and • Energy efficiency requirements for buildings conservation and renewable energy systems. [...] The following municipalities in Ontario are to integrate the GDS into the planning developing or using the GDS currently: approvals. [...] The municipality has made the decision to develop a GDS to be integrated into their planning Related Webinars and Further approvals process, and this commitment is Reading supported and passed through Council.
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