405: Getting to Transit Oriented Communities: ‘Living Plan’ collaboration model to accelerate the delivery of a green, affordable, equitable city region

September 21, 2022

4:15PM - 5:15PM

In Canada, over 2/3 of our population live in auto-dependent suburbs. One third of GHG emission is due to transportation, 1/2 is due to buildings, and 3/4 of Canadian children do not walk or bike to school. While rapid transit investment has created the condition for transit-oriented development, many neighbourhoods along rapid transit lines have experienced a reduction of household size since 2016. To turn “TOD” into “TOC,” there is a need to accelerate the alignment of hard and soft infrastructure and the delivery of healthy, family-oriented, walkable, transit-oriented communities along rapid transit lines. Making this shift requires unprecedented cross-sector, cross-jurisdictional, and cross-disciplinary collaborations through a parallel exploratory “Living Plan” tool running alongside and informing the review of formal submissions.

Come join us in this 60-minute interaction session to experience the “Living Plan” collaboration model, covering:

• Walkable neighbourhood on-the-ground need assessment: an evidence-based approach to define on-the-ground needs, addressing the needs of both existing and future populations.
• “Living Plan” collaborative model: a 2D and 3D digital tool that enables stakeholders to test ideas, assumptions and technical performance at the development and neighbourhood scale and think beyond contract lines.
• TOC Cohort: an interactive platform for exploratory discussion and solution testing, with an active-transportation driven approach to knit new and existing neighbourhoods; a program-driven approach to parks and open space planning; and a healthy, high-performance family-oriented built-environment approach to height and massing, addressing 1/2 of GHG emission.
• Community Hub prototype: service delivery based on a “walk to” facility, covering facility design for co-location, operation design for long-term tenancy, resource design for accelerated delivery.
• Child-friendly “Main-Walk” prototype: a creative way to provide an affordable way of life, addressing 1/3 of GHG emission and 3/4 of Canadian children that do not walk to school, addressing global heating and social resilience through “slow spaces” public realm design.

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