PCP & Sustainable Neighbourhood Plan

The City of Pickering is committed to providing the leadership, guidance, and support required to make Pickering a sustainable City, taking into account the reduction of corporate and community carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through its enrolment in Partners for Climate Protection (PCP). The focus of this planning study is to prepare a Sustainable Neighbourhood Plan (SNP) as part of the City’s growth management strategy and to complete PCP milestones one to three, which will provide accurate baseline data and a summary of recommendations for corporate, community, and institutional GHG emission reductions. Pickering has committed to reduce GHG emissions from municipal operations by 20 per cent by 2010 based on 1990 levels and community emissions by 6 per cent by 2010 based on 1990 levels. Within the context of Pickering’s growth management strategy, the SNP is to create a proposed residential development. One of the concept plans for its new development includes a baseline scenario to help evaluate energy options other than nuclear power generated electricity. Design standards for new housing developments will address the improvement of energy and water efficiency, the building retrofits for energy and water savings and the identification of additional methods to reduce GHG emissions. The project could serve, in part or in whole, as an example of a municipality-supported comprehensive green development plan for other Canadian municipal governments.