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WND Associates offers the following services:
Planning Approvals
• Low-Rise, Mid-Rise and High-Rise Residential and Mixed-Use Buildings
• Infill and "Greenfield" Townhouses
• Commercial Office Buildings
• Renewable Energy Developments, including solar and EV charging stations
• Retail Commercial
• Industrial
• Institutional
• Cemeteries
• Low-rise Plans of Subdivision, Including Subdivision Design
• Large-Scale Master Planning
• Secondary Plans
Minor Variances and Consent Applications
• Conceptual Design and Development (in collaboration with the project architect)
• Pre-consultation with Municipal Planning Departments and Committees of Adjustment
• Public Outreach and Communication Strategies
• Planning Rationale Preparation
• Application Co-ordination, Preparation and Submission
• Post-Submission Processing
• Presentation at Committees of Adjustment
Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) and Toronto Local Appeal Body (TLAB) Appeals
• Preparing Research, including Written and Visual Evidence, for Hearings
• Preparing or Assisting the Project Solicitor with Preparation of Hearing Materials
• Providing Strategic Advice
• Providing Professional Planning Evidence to Tribunal Panels
Expropriation
WND Associates’ unique familiarity with respect to the evolution of the policy framework in Ontario makes us uniquely qualified to assist clients involved in expropriation and lease arbitration matters, which often requires an understanding of past policy frameworks and approval environments, sometimes extending back many years. This knowledge is supplemented by our extensive planning library which allows WND to go "back in time" and prepare reports that assist appraisers with their valuation assumptions at certain key dates. WND is also able to prepare conceptual development scenarios that aid this research.
Feasibility Analysis
WND Associates often assists its clients during their due diligence or site-selection phase so that they understand the opportunities, as well as the risks, associated with a potential acquisition. WND’s Preliminary Planning Opinion Reports provide a summary of the existing and emerging planning framework for a particular site, and provides guidance with respect to possible development options and the potential issues that could arise through the approval process. Our team of urban designers are also able to quickly and cost-effectively prepare high level development massing concepts to assist with understanding various development options.
Andrew has over 20 years of planning experience both in the public and private sectors. In 2015, Andrew became a Principal of the firm. Andrew has been, and continues to be, involved in a broad range of projects in the City of Toronto and throughout the Greater Toronto Area with a particular emphasis on urban redevelopment and intensification projects including low-, mid- and high-rise residential, office, mixed-use, retail, institutional, and plans of subdivision. Andrew is also involved in Lease Arbitration and Expropriation cases and is often retained by clients to provide general advice on emerging planning policy issues. Andrew regularly appears before Councils, Development Committees, Committees of Adjustment and the public relative to a wide range of projects. Additionally, Andrew has participated in numerous Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT) and Toronto Local Appeal Body (TLAB) proceedings and has been called to testify in defense of his planning opinion on many occasions. Andrew possesses the analytical, communicative and organizational skills necessary to undertake and manage planning projects from start to finish. Andrew is passionate about the role of cities in improving quality of life and promoting economic health and sustainability. A lifelong Toronto resident, Andrew strives to gain an understanding of urban issues from a first-hand perspective, and apply those observations to each assignment. Andrew is a full member of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and Canadian Institute of Planners and a Member of Lambda Alpha (Simcoe Chapter).