Land-use

Covering 217 hectares, the Blatchford development is an innovative and environmentally-friendly community with a world-leading, district energy system. This district energy system running on rene…

The City of Kitchener has consolidated its maintenance operations into a former Michelin tire plant. The facility, which now features a solar roof, geo-thermal heat recovery and low-flow fixtures. Roa…

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…