Implementing the growth plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe

IMPLEMENTING THE GROWTH PLAN FOR THE GREATER GOLDEN HORSESHOE -. FOREWARD The Province of Ontario is set to review the three regional plans in the coming years – The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, The Greenbelt Plan, and The Big Move. [...] Given the lack of clear guidelines on how municipalities should implement the Plan’s policies and battles over the language of the Plan at the Ontario Municipal Board, the adoption of the Growth Plan has produced a patch- work of different approaches to growth management across the region. [...] This finding has implications for the fate of the “Whitebelt” – the unofficial term for the land be- tween the outer edge of the planned urbanized area around Lake Ontario and the inner edge of the Greenbelt. [...] IMPLEMENTING THE GROWTH PLAN FOR THE GREATER GOLDEN HORSESHOE -. CHAPTER 1 2 To provide some context to the findings, this report compares the amount of land designated for development before and after the introduction of the Growth Plan with a forecast of land consump- tion developed in 2002 that assumed a continuation of the development practices and patterns that prevailed in the 1980s and 1990 [...] IMPLEMENTING THE GROWTH PLAN FOR THE GREATER GOLDEN HORSESHOE -. CHAPTER 1 3 Answering the first research question meant studying the different methods used by municipalities to adopt the Growth Plan and identifying the municipalities that have requested and been granted permission by the Province to deviate from certain requirements and targets of the Growth Plan.