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Elevation 2.0 - SS-41: Everyday Engagement: Inclusive Planning Lessons - the Local Planning Appeal Support Centre
July 08, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2.0, Elevation
In this session, Matt Alexander will provide scenarios and strategies for improving your work practice when engaging with residents who are concerned about new development but may feel excluded from the planning process. Learn what it takes to help residents feel heard and understood, diffuse volatile opposition and foster greater understanding of the planning process. Matt will share what he learned from his experiences at the Local Planning Appeal Support Centre (LPASC), responding to requests for assistance with everything from minor variances to major high-rise development and comprehensive zoning bylaw updates from across Ontario.
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Elevation 2.0 - SS-40: Flood Risk – Elevating Our Response As Planners
July 08, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2.0, Elevation
This session will be a panel presentation on how two northern Ontario First Nations, Marten Falls First Nation (MFFN) and Webequie First Nation (WFN), are leading the development of multiple road projects within their traditional territories as proponents. It will provide insight into MFFN and WFN’s experiences as project proponents, and what their status as proponents means for building capacities to facilitate their long-term visions for community development and self-determination. With panellists including representatives from both First Nations, the session will explore how Indigenous-driven development is a path forward for self-determination and reconciliation.

Elevation 2.0 - SS-37: Urban Forestry & Material Carbon Emissions
July 07, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2.0, Elevation

Guiding Urban Forestry Policy into the Next Decade: A Private Tree Protection & Management Toolkit

This presentation will introduce a toolkit that explores tree protection and management in mid-size municipalities. It identifies bylaws, programs and strategies being used to protect trees on private property, and includes specific Ontario case studies highlighting the successes and challenges of different approaches. 

Why Embodied Carbon Matters to Planners

This presentation will explain what material carbon emissions are, why they matter to planners, what barriers exist to integrating their consideration into planning processes, and what actions planners can take to reduce them. It will use the City of Nelson and its work to reduce material carbon emissions as a case study for how planners can help reduce consumption-based emissions. While there is no panacea, we aim to offer planning professionals insight into work currently being done on this topic, and inspiration on how to tackle the overwhelming task of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Elevation 2.0 - SS-39: Indigenous-Driven Infrastructure Development: Insights from Proponent First Nations
July 07, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2.0, Elevation
This session will be a panel presentation on how two northern Ontario First Nations, Marten Falls First Nation (MFFN) and Webequie First Nation (WFN), are leading the development of multiple road projects within their traditional territories as proponents. It will provide insight into MFFN and WFN’s experiences as project proponents, and what their status as proponents means for building capacities to facilitate their long-term visions for community development and self-determination. With panellists including representatives from both First Nations, the session will explore how Indigenous-driven development is a path forward for self-determination and reconciliation.
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Elevation 2.0 - SS-36: Housing & Social Policy in Halifax & Understanding Barriers To Intensification in Regina
July 07, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2/0, Elevation
Elevating Housing and Social Policy in the Halifax Region
Halifax has often been called a mid-size city with big-city housing problems. Recent population growth and the COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbate the lack of access to affordable housing, with a marked increase in homelessness. This presentation will share the city’s experience of moving from playing a minimal role in housing to taking a leadership position in housing studies, policies, partnerships, and developing local solutions to the “housing crunch.” We will discuss how several years of building community understanding and growing calls for social justice have led the municipality to address today’s rapid growth and change, stretch its mandate, and consider equity and access more fully in planning policies. This includes recent efforts to update and simplify planning policies, increase housing supply, remove barriers to many forms of housing, and support the non-profit sector.

Towards Intensification: Understanding the Barriers
Like many Canadian cities, Regina has set a policy agenda to attract a greater share of population growth and development to the existing urbanized area (intensification). However, despite a major shift in policy nearly a decade ago, Regina has failed to implement its 30% annual intensification target and is lagging behind on its target of attracting 10,000 new residents to the city centre. This presentation explores why both policy objectives are failing to meet their goals – or what factors are driving further evidence of the ‘say-do-gap’ and share the key findings that have emerged through a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with Regina’s planning and development industry, highlighting the most significant barriers to implementing the City’s intensification objectives. Moreover, we speculate on possible solutions to the ‘say-do-gap.’

Elevation 2.0 - SS-35: Legal Tools for Climate Action
July 07, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | -, 2.0, Elevation
Numerous local governments have passed climate emergency resolutions and explored policies, but to take action, they need legal tools. In total, local governments could prevent up to 55% of all Canadian greenhouse gas emissions in the areas of planning, transportation and buildings. This legal presentation will provide an overview of best practices to support climate action, along with a look at the regulatory and other legal tools available in different jurisdictions.

Elevation 2.0 - SS-34: Asking the Tough Questions: Using an Equity Lens in Social Planning and Poverty Reduction
July 07, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2.0, Elevation
Planning is about working for the public interest to improve quality of life and the built environment. But whose interests are being served? As many planning leaders have noted, planning requires thoughtful consideration of equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism. That’s easier said than done, even in social planning. Inequities lie at the root of poverty and other social and health challenges that communities face. Yet, poverty reduction work can sometimes be limited to quick ‘downstream’ fixes: food banks, shelters, providing services. To make a real difference in the long term, our work must also focus on broader, more ‘upstream’ approaches. We need to identify and tackle racism, colonialism, ableism, and other forms of discrimination – forces that have led to poverty. This session will offer ideas for integrating equity into social planning and poverty reduction work, in part by profiling our work in BC. Through interactive discussions and small group work, we will explore ways to integrate equity into preparing community profiles, engaging community members, analyzing data, reporting your findings, creating an action plan, and identifying your metrics of ‘success.’
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Elevation 2.0 - SS-31: A City Without Art?
July 07, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2.0, Elevation
Vancouver's Eastside Culture Crawl Society recently reported on the displacement of artists from the district with the highest density of visual artists in Canada. The case study, which won awards from CIP and PIBC, discusses the key role of artists in building community, fostering creativity and spurring economic activity. Artist and planner John Steil describes a comprehensive 'no net loss, plus!' strategy to protect, enhance and grow the supply of artist production space. This session will provide an update on subsequent steps taken to develop an Eastside Arts District, addressing Steil's experience in the overlapping realms of art, volunteering, and planning practice.

Elevation 2.0 - SS-30: Integrating Trees in Land Use Planning: Case Studies from Regional to Municipal Planning
July 07, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2.0, Elevation
In the wake of a hot, dry summer across Canada – extreme heat events led to nearly 600 excess deaths in BC alone – planners must consider how their practices should evolve in the context of a changing climate. Trees and urban forests provide essential ecosystem services that planners should consider and balance with other priorities in land use decisions. This session will include three presentations providing an overview of how regional and municipal actors in BC have worked to overcome barriers to tree protection and planting. Metro Vancouver staff will present an overview of the regional role in urban forestry and climate adaptation, and how it has informed regional planning. Diamond Head Consulting staff will present the Tree Regulations Toolkit. Published by Metro Vancouver in 2021, the toolkit guides planners to consider trees in higher-level policies, land use and tree bylaws. Finally, City of Victoria staff will offer a case study on how the municipality has integrated trees into land use decision-making from its Parks and Planning departments. Victoria’s initiatives include the new ‘Missing Middle’ zoning, tree bylaw update, and tree management in the public realm.
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Elevation 2.0 - SS-29: Implementing Climate Change Policy at the Municipal Level
July 07, 2022 | Posted byPublié par : CIP | 2.0, Elevation
Canadian municipalities have worked hard to respond to climate change over the past 15 years, and policies are now included in most comprehensive municipal plans. In the face of increasingly disruptive climate change-related events, more than 500 municipalities across Canada have declared climate emergencies – but the bigger question remains: are they delivering or able to deliver change? Municipal knowledge of sustainable and climate-conscious land use policymaking is extensive. Less extensive is their ability to implement those policies on the ground. Many municipalities have created community energy plans, but few have been implemented, let alone integrated into planning policies and practice. This presentation will reflect our experience with Simcoe County and other municipalities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe as they work to comply with recent provincial climate change policy requirements. It will highlight the challenges for urban and rural communities seeking to create actionable policy at the local level. The session will also cover best practices and lessons from current scholarship and project experience on implementation strategies.
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