Investments into Science-Based Solutions for Smart, Healthy Cities
Over 80 per cent of Canadians lives in cities. Our health depends on environmental factors such as air quality, transportation options, and access to healthy food, green space, safe and affordable housing, and social services.
The redevelopment of brownfield sites often offers benefits for the community, the creation of jobs, and utilizing existing infrastructure for increased density.
Climate Resilience and Coastal Brownfield Redevelopment
Brownfield regeneration poses unique challenges to cities around the world; climate change and sea-level rise (SLR) make the regeneration of waterfront sites increasingly complex.
Social sustainability in brownfield redevelopments
Brownfield redevelopment projects can have a lot of economic and environmental benefits, but can these projects be a tool for achieving social sustainability too?
Robert Sroka (2016) shares important insights on Tax Increment Financing (TIF) tools used to facilitate urban brownfield neighbourhood remediation and redevelopment in North America...
Affordable Housing on Brownfield Sites
Brownfield sites are already perceived to be financially risky for development due to the costs of environmental assessment and remediation. As a result, the possibility of including affordable housing...
FCM Launches Brownfields Roadmaps Tool
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has launched the 2021 Brownfield Roadmaps to provide an overview of the processes, regulations, and funding for brownfield redevelopment projects.
Guides to processes, regulations and funding for brownfield redevelopment projects
Ontario has finalized amendments to the On-Site and Excess Soil Management Reg, the Record of Site Condition Reg, and the General Waste Management Reg.
$2-billion Brightwater project to rise from Mississauga brownfield site
The 72-acre, $2-billion mixed-use Brightwater development on Mississauga’s waterfront has taken two significant permitting steps this summer...
New excess soil rules take a big step forward in Ontario
By Mark Sabourin: Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has released a plan to make it less costly for builders to reuse excess soil, more costly for builders and haulers who break soil management rules, and easier for developers to redevelop some brownfield sites.
