All posts in NRU Greater Toronto

  • gta-post-2-jan-29-2020
    UNLIKELY DEVELOPMENT
    January 29, 2020, Comments Off

    A unique redevelopment of a former hospital in Peterborough is providing much-needed residential use to the neighbourhood and could provide a model for adaptive reuse of similar sites in larger municipalities ...

  • gta-post-1-jan-29-2020
    EMPLOYMENT LANDS CATCH-UP
    January 29, 2020, Comments Off

    Struggling to attract commercial-industrial development to its designated employment areas, the Town of Whitby is exploring ways to expand the availability and size of serviced employment lands. In a report ...

  • gta-post-jan-22-2020
    OUT OF PHASE APPROVALS
    January 22, 2020, Comments Off

    Three developments in Milton are advancing ahead of an area phasing schedule to ensure a large, predominantly residential community is built out quickly and that development can support planned community ...

  • gta-post-1-jan-8
    OP DESIGNATION OVERTURNED
    January 8, 2020, Comments Off

    A planning designation that would have allowed for a provincially significant wetland and woodland on the shore of Lake Simcoe to be transformed into a residential development has been overturned ...

  • gta-post-1-dec-11
    Cultural Heritage Landscape
    December 13, 2019, Comments Off

    The Town of Oakville is planning to protect the unique character and heritage of the Oakville Harbour to ensure that it continues to represent local history and to attract tourists. ...

  • gta-post-1-dec-4
    DIVERSIFYING EMPLOYMENT LANDS
    December 4, 2019, Comments Off

    In an effort to diversify its employment base and create opportunities for emerging sectors, the City of Brampton is moving forward with an Official Plan Amendment that provides more flexibility ...

  • gta-post-2-dec-4
    FUNDING TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE
    December 4, 2019, Comments Off

    New revenue-generating tools are likely to be needed to make up for a shortfall in fuel tax funding due to a decreasing use of gas-powered cars. A new report from ...

  • gta post 1 jan 16
    INVESTMENTS DELAYED
    January 17, 2019, Comments Off

    As Brampton council attempts to move on from the divisiveness that dominated the last term of council, recently discovered funding constraints, provincial cuts and a renewed appetite to revisit the ...

  • gta post 2 jan 9
    ACCESSING THE HOUSING MARKET
    January 14, 2019, Comments Off

    In innovative mortgage tool could add affordable ownership housing to a Pickering community undifferentiated from the neighbouring houses. Trillium Housing Oak Non-Profit Corporation proposes to build 13 townhouses with a ...

  • gta post 1 jan 9
    TRANSFORMING KITCHENER-WATERLOO
    January 14, 2019, Comments Off

    Amid construction delays and cost overruns, the $868-million light rail transit project in Waterloo is expected to be operational in spring 2019. The Region of Waterloo is testing and commissioning ...