Green development standards and Incentives

Timeline: 2022 onwards Ottawa is introducing City’s first Green Development Standard known as the HPDS (High-Performance Development Standard). This is an important foundational step to tackling the 4…

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…