Green development standards and Incentives

Timeline: 2021 onwards The Green Development and Environmental Design Guidelines (GDEDG) is a municipal green standard that was initiated to establish sustainability-related design guidelines and perf…

Timeline 2020 onwards. The Whitby Green Standard (WGS) is based on the Town’s vision for a healthy, sustainable and complete community as advanced in the Whitby Offcial Plan. The WGS supports a vision…

Timeline: Started in 2014, Updated in 2018. The Sustainability Metrics program, implemented as part of the review of development applications, meets a specific objective of Green Directions Vaughan, t…

Timeline: 2006- updated 2017. The Toronto Green Standard introduced as a voluntary standard for new development. 2010 – The Standard was structured into two tiers or levels of performance with Tier 1…

Timeline: Started in 2014, updated in 2018. The purpose of the Sustainability Metrics scoring system is to encourage developers and builders to work with Richmond Hill staff to achieve healthy, comple…

Timeline: 2020. The Sustainable King: Green Development Standards program has been developed to expand upon the Township’s sustainability initiatives. The program establishes metrics that will be used…