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Title: Achieving Sustainability in Niagara: An Evolution


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Achieving Sustainability in Niagara An Evolution
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
Niagara-on-the-Lake Wainfleet Lincoln
Welland Port Colborne St. Catharines
  • Patrick Robson
  • Director of Community Integration
  • Niagara Region
  • April 17, 2007

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Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
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  • Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by
    walking.
  • Antonio MachadoSpanish Poet
  • Aspirations for importance or significance are
    the illusions of the ignorant. All our hopes are
    minor, except to us but some things matter
    because we choose to make them matter. What
    might make a difference to us, I think, is
    whether in our tiny roles, in our brief time, we
    inhabit life gently and add more beauty than
    ugliness.
  • Interview with James G. March, Harvard Business
    Review, Oct. 2006.

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  • Strong communities, a clean and healthy
    environment and a strong economy are inextricably
    linked. Long-term prosperity, environmental
    health and social well-being should take
    precedence over short-term considerations. PPS
    2006

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Thinking in the Long-term Smarter Niagara
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Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Refocusing on Planning Policy
  • Linking Infrastructure to Land Use
  • Reclaiming Urban Areas
  • Protecting Sensitive Resources
  • Inspiring Innovation
  • Engaging Citizens in Planning

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Reclaiming Urban Areas
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Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Brown/greyfield Redevelopment
  • Infill / Intensification
  • Offering Incentives Smarter Niagara
  • Locating Public Uses Downtown
  • Compact Development
  • Mixed Use Development

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Protecting Sensitive Resources
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Agricultural Land for Agriculture (Ag. Action
    Plan)
  • Water Quantity and Quality (NWQPS and Childrens
    Water Festival)
  • Buffering Environmental Features
  • Conserving Heritage Resources
  • Alternative Energy Sources - Wind

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Inspiring Innovation
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Building Techniques - Green Roof
  • Recycling
  • Energy Efficiencies - LEEDs
  • Mixed Use Facilities / Areas
  • Good Urban Design
  • Culturally-sensitive design (e.g. Soroti, Uganda)

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From Smart Growth to Integrated Community
Sustainability
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Using the Melbourne Principles
  • UN-endorsed, based on Cities as Sustainable
    Ecosystems (CASE) concept flowing from
    Johannesburg
  • Niagara as one of several pilots

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Melbourne Principles
Principle 1 Provide a long-term vision for
cities based on sustainability
intergenerational, social, economic and political
equity and their individuality. Principle 2
Achieve long-term economic and social
security. Principle 3 Recognize the intrinsic
value of biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and
protect and restore them. Principle 4 Enable
communities to minimize their ecological
footprint.
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Principle 5 Build on the characteristics of
ecosystems in the development and nurturing of
healthy and sustainable cities. Principle 6
Recognize and build on the distinctive
characteristics of cities, including their human
and cultural values, history and natural
systems. Principle 7 Empower people and foster
participation. Principle 8 Expand and enable
co-operative networks to work towards a common
sustainable future. Principle 9 Promote
sustainable production and consumption, through
the appropriate use of environmentally sound
technologies and effective demand
management. Principle 10 Enable continual
improvement, based on accountability,
transparency and good governance.
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Thinking in the Long-term Integrated Community
Sustainability Planning
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Integrate 1. to combine or form into a
    whole 2. to bring or come into equal membership
    of a community
  • The term itself is agreeable to most so what is
    holding us back?
  • It is not a concept its a verb

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Thinking in the Long-term Integrated Community
Sustainability Planning
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Community can defy definition or agreement on
    who/whats in out
  • No community is easier to govern than the one
    that rejects the very Concept of community
    Stephen King
  • How many different communities of interest are
    there to engage in your ICSP process?

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Thinking in the Long-term Integrated Community
Sustainability Planning
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Sustainability derived from sustain v. 1.
    to support. 2. to keep alive. 3. to keep (a sound
    or effort, etc.) going continuously (ital added)
  • Various definitions from predictable financial
    capacity, to social equity to First Nations
    Seven Generations

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Thinking in the Long-term Integrated Community
Sustainability Planning
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Planning n. making plans, especially with
    reference to the controlled design of buildings
    and the development of land
  • Traditional land use policy regulation vs. a
    broader application
  • When we have the Plan are we there? How will we
    know?

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Research Be Creative!
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Networks PLUS, FCM, LivCom, smart growth (US
    and Can.), Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Cities, etc.
  • Best Practices and Best Failures!
  • Scholastic Vancouver Urban Observatory, UBs
    Regional Institute and proposed Niagara
    Observatory

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Linking Infrastructure to Land Use
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Size and Location Meet Needs
  • Context Sensitive Design
  • Transit Efficient Densities
  • Providing for Pedestrians, Cyclists and Transit
    (e.g. Greater Niagara Circle Route and Stuttgart
    Daimler-Chrysler)

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Engaging Citizens in Planning
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Annual Summit events
  • Facilitated exploration (e.g. 1812-2012)
  • Workshops Charettes (Honolulu, HI -TV and
    arena Nieuwlande Council, Netherlands local
    tavern Castle Cove, Ireland community suppers)

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Engaging Citizens in Planning, contd
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • Citizen-centred Governance (e.g. SNSC, Culture
    Committee Niagara Neighbors Building
    Neighborhoods Rochester, NY)
  • E-democracy opportunities Websites and
    Visualization/3-D applications
  • Contests and Competitions!

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The Community Must Own It!
Fort Erie Niagara Falls West Lincoln
Pelham Thorold Regional Municipality of
Niagara Grimsby Lincoln Welland
  • when Dialogue is done skillfully, the results
    can be extraordinary long-standing stereotypes
    dissolved, mistrust overcome, mutual
    understanding achieved, visions shaped and
    grounded in shared purpose, people aligned on
    objectives and strategies, new common ground
    discovered, new perspective and insights gained,
    new levels of creativity stimulated, and bonds of
    community strengthened.
  • Daniel Yankelovich, The Magic of Dialogue

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