A Guide to Urban & Environmental Planning

in Ontario

Common Skills for Planners

Urban, Land Use & Environmental Planners

Sample Job Titles: City Planner, Community and Urban Planner, Environmental Planner, Land Use Planner, Community Recreation Planner, Municipal Planner, Heritage Planner, Park Planner, Site Planner, Town Planner, Transportation Planner, Urban Planner

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Ability to compile and analyze data on demographic, economic, legal, political, physical and other factors regarding land use

Prepare development plans for zoning, subdivisions, transportation, public utilities, community facilities, parks, agricultural & other land uses

Knowledge of plan preparation for environmental protection Ability to evaluate plan proposals for land use and development Knowledge of relevant land use and environmental policy, legislation and guidelines Strong computer based abilities including the ability to independently create a variety of Graphic

Presentation Materials Proficiency in AutoCAD, SketchUp Pro, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign),

GIS, Microsoft Office, MS Project Strong computer skills including proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word

SOFT SKILLS

Ability to work closely with municipal, provincial and federal authorities, civic leaders, lawyers, & land developers to develop plans

Ability to present plans to civic, rural, and regional authorities Ability to supervise work of urban planning technicians and technologists Demonstrated enthusiasm and initiative for learning Strong analytical skills Strong Communication, Report Writing, Organization and Interpersonal Skills Ability to complete multiple jobs accurately and in a timely manner Proven oral and written communication skills Ability to work with a team Able to work independently

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Work-related travel may be required Some employers require a Valid Ontario Drivers License

EDUCATION/ MEMBERSHIP

Bachelors Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Engineering, Architecture or a related discipline

Masters Degree may be required in Senior-level positions Membership or eligibility for membership in the Canadian Institute of Planners (MCIP) Membership or eligibility for membership with Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) LEED Membership may be required by some employers

EXPERIENCE

* Because is a non-regulated profession, experience requirements are set by individual employers. Some examples of experience requirements are:

Junior Planners: Generally require 0-2 years of experience Intermediate Planner: 5 years of planning-related career experience Senior Planners: 8+ years of planning-related career experience

ARCHITECTURE

Sample Job Titles: Architect, Architecture Technologist

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Demonstrated technical skills including familiarity and experience in preparing technical working drawings (plans, sections, elevations, wall sections & construction details).

Ability to estimate project costs Renders conceptual design ideas and prepares 2D and 3D presentation/ design drawings Ability to call tenders (bids) Proficiency in AutoCAD, Revit Prepares, corrects and updates documents during schematic design and design development

phases Ability to produce detailed drawings Prepare sketches, production drawings and detailed drawings by hand or using Computer-Aided

Design (CAD) equipment Ability to communicate ideas with freehand sketches

SOFT SKILLS

Ability to lead a team of specialists including structural, mechanical, and electrical engineers Ability to work with and advise clients Strong oral communication skills ability to present at public hearings Strong organizational skills Ability to negotiate with contractors and other professionals Able to coordinate the work of contractors Demonstrated writing ability Ability to thrive in a team-based environment Demonstrated enthusiasm and initiative for learning Able to work independently

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Work-related travel may be required A Valid Ontario Drivers License may be required

EDUCATION/ MEMBERSHIP

Architect: Undergraduate University/College degree in Architecture or equivalent Architect: Requires Licensing as a Licensed Architect in the Province of Ontario (Ontario

Association of Architects) Architecture Technologist: University/College degree in Architectural Technologist Program Architecture Technologist: Requires licensing as a Lic.Tech. OAA (licensed technologist OAA)

EXPERIENCE

Junior Level: 0-3 years of experience in an architecture-related career Intermediate: 3-5 years of experience in a relevant field Senior: 10+ years of experience in a relevant field

Planning Employer List

Environmental Planning

AECOM Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority CH2MHILL Conservation Halton Credit Valley Conservation Delcan EcoPlan International French Planning Services Inc. (in Bracebridge, ON) Grand River Conservation Hamilton Conservation Authority Hazra Consulting (in St. Catharines) Hydro One Jennifer Lawrence & Associates Inc. Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority LGL Limited (Kingston) MacKinnon & Associates (in Waterloo, ON) MMM Group Morrison Hershfield SNC Lavalin Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (Planning, Ecology, Community Transformation, GIS, Conservation Land) Urban and Environmental Management Inc. Urban Forestry

Architecture

architectsAlliance Brook McIlroy Diamond Schmitt Architects HOK IBI Group Montgomery Sisam Architects Roger du Toit Architects Limited Sweeny Sterling Finlayson & Co. Architects Inc.

Construction

Asset Construction Mehak, Kelly, & Associates Inc. MS Builders PCL SmartCentres

Consulting

Andlyn Ltd. Ainley Group Consulting Engineers and Planners BA Consulting Group Clark Consulting Services (in Port Hope, ON) Dillon Consulting

exp Hardy Stevenson and Associates Limited Hemson Consulting Ltd. John Winter Associates Limited Johnston Litavski Planning Consultants LEA Consulting Ltd. LURA Consulting Meridian Planning MMM Group R.E. Millward and Associates Ltd. Urban Metrics Inc.

Urban Planning & Urban Design

Armoclan Engineering Ltd. Bousfields Canadian Urban Institute Dialog Fotenn Planning & Urban Design (in Kingston, ON) G&L Urban Planners Gagnon & Law Urban Planners Groundswell Urban Planners Inc. GSP Group HOK John D. Rogers & Associates KLM Planning Partners Inc. MHBC Neptis Foundation Novatech Engineering Consultants Ltd. Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg (PFS) planningAlliance Stephen Popovich & Associates RMSI Private Ltd. Skelton Brumwell and Associates Inc. Stantec Consulting Ltd. Tridel Urban Strategies Inc. Walker, Nott, Dragicevic Associates Limited Weston Consulting

Transportation/ Transit Planning

Boulevard Transportation Delcan LEA Consulting Ltd. Metrolinx Regional Municipality of Waterloo York Region

Land Use Planning/ Landscape Planning

Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority Conservation Halton Credit Valley Conservation Hamilton Conservation Authority IPLANcorp John P. Gallagher & Associates (in Huntsville, ON) Larkin Land Use Planners Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority Malone, Given, Parsons Ltd. Pound & Stewart Associates Limited Quinn Design Associates Inc. Region of Waterloo Ted Davidson Consultants The Planning Partnership Walker, Nott, Dragicevic Associates Limited

Municipal/ Community Planning

City of Brampton (Planning, Design, Development) City of Burlington City of Guelph City of London City of Mississauga (Planning and Building Department) City of Toronto City of Vaughan Design Plan Services Inc. Diamond Corp DPRA Canada Hemson Consulting Ltd. Macaulay Shiomi Howson Ltd. McIntosh Perry (in Burlington & Kingston, ON) Mehak, Kelly, & Associates Inc. Ontario Public Service Popovich Associates Region of Peel (Planning) Region of Peel (Public Works) SNAP County Court SNAP Black Creek The Municipal Infrastructure Group Ltd. (TMIG) Town of Aurora Town of Caledon Town of Milton Town of Richmond Hill

Planning Profession Overview

Urban, Environmental and Land Use Planning

What is planning? "Planning" means the scientific, aesthetic, and orderly disposition of land, resources, facilities and services with a view to securing the physical, economic and social efficiency, health and well-being of urban and rural communities. Source: http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/3FC2AFA9F72245C4B8D2E709990D58C3/template.asp What is urban planning? Urban planning can be described as a technical and political process concerned with the welfare of people, control of the use of land, design of the urban environment including transportation and communication networks, and protection and enhancement of the natural environment. Source: http://www.mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/planning What is land use planning? Land-use planning is the term used for a branch of public policy encompassing various disciplines which seek to order and regulate land use in an efficient and ethical way, thus preventing land-use conflicts. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land-use_planning What is environmental planning? Environmental planning is the process of facilitating decision making to carry out development with due consideration given to the natural environmental, social, political, economic and governance factors and provides a holistic frame work to achieve sustainable outcomes. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_planning

Planner Job Titles city planner land use community and urban planner community planner community recreation planner environmental planner heritage planner land use heritage work planner land use planner land use specialist long-range planner land use mass transit services analyst municipal park planner municipal planner neighbourhood planner park planner park planner, municipal planner planner, community recreation planner, urban and regional planning analyst land use recreation planner

regional planner senior planner land use site planner town planner transportation planner transportation route planning analyst urban and regional planner urban planner urban renovation planner zoning officer land use

Source: http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/5C3FE72C7A104C358BBC1A81DB5C5741/template.asp

Responsibilities

Create designs and maps using computer programs

Meet with various groups, including other planners, public stakeholders, industrial proponents, developers, city councils, special interest groups, and the general public

Review proposals regarding development and amendments to bylaws, as well as research and review legislation and policies from other jurisdictions

Strategize, develop, and manage planning processes

Develop and implement plans at various levels, including ensuring legal compliance

Present project ideas to individuals and groups

Review and interpret maps, aerial photos, data, and field investigation reports

Participate in public inquiries on land or resource development Source: http://www.eco.ca/occupationalprofiles/profiles/environmental-planner/112/

Job Opportunities

Federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal government departments

Private consulting firms

Universities, colleges, and research institutes

Not-for-profit organizations

Industrial, commercial, and residential development firms Source: http://www.eco.ca/occupationalprofiles/profiles/environmental-planner/112/

Planning Terminology

Planning Terminology

Accessibility: The ability of people to move around an area and reach places and facilities, including elderly and disabled people, those with young children and those encumbered with luggage or shopping. Accredited or Private Certifier: A private sector professional who is accredited to issue certain certificates and perform specific duties under the legislation. Accreditation Body: A professional body that can accredit members with the right to act as a private certifier. The Minister will evaluate a body's accreditation scheme before granting its authorization rights. Adopted Proposals Map: A component of a Local Development Framework and an important part of the development plan, or DPD itself, showing the location of proposals in all current Development Plan Documents, on an Ordnance Survey base map. Adoption: The final confirmation of a development plan or Local Development Document status by a local planning authority (LPA). Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS): Body funded by Government to help unblock the issues holding up decisions on large planning applications, increase the knowledge and expertise of local authorities in handling such projects, share good practice across the sector and act as a partner to local authorities and independent reviewer of large applications and issues Aerobic Digestion: Biological treatment of biodegradable organic waste in the presence of oxygen, producing a residue suitable for use as a soil improver. Aftercare (in terms of minerals operations): The steps to be taken to bring land to the required standard for use for its intended use once mineral working has taken place, and its subsequent maintenance. Aged or veteran tree: A tree which, because of its great age, size or condition is of exceptional value for wildlife, in the landscape, or culturally. Aggregates: Sand, gravel, crushed rock and other bulk materials used by the construction industry. Agricultural (Forestry or Other Rural Occupational) Dwelling: A dwelling which is subject to a planning condition or legal agreement restricting occupation to someone employed, or was last employed, in agriculture, forestry or other appropriate rural employment. Agricultural Waste: Waste from a farm or market garden, consisting of matter such as manure, slurry and crop residues. Air Quality Management Areas: Areas designated by local authorities because they are not likely to achieve national air quality objectives by the relevant deadlines Air Quality Management Strategy (AQMS): A designation made by a local authority where an assessment of air quality results in the need to devise an action plan to improve the quality of air. Amenity Green-space: Open land, often landscaped, that makes a positive contribution to the appearance of an area or improves the quality of the lives of people living or working within the locality. It often provides opportunities for activities such as sports, and can serve other purposes such as reducing the noise from a busy road or providing shelter from prevailing winds. Anaerobic Digestion: Organic matter broken down by bacteria in the absence of air, producing a gas (methane) and solid (digestate). The by-products can be useful, for example biogas can be used in a furnace, gas engine, turbine or gas-powered vehicles, and digestates can be re-used on farms as a fertiliser. Ancillary Use / Operations: A subsidiary or secondary use or operation closely associated with the main use of a building or piece of land.

Annual Monitoring Report (AMR): A report submitted to the Government by local planning authorities assessing progress with and the effectiveness of a Local Development Framework. Appeal: The process whereby a planning applicant can challenge an adverse decision, including a refusal of permission. Appeals can also be made against the failure of the planning authority to issue a decision within a given time, against conditions attached to permission, against the issue of an enforcement notice and against refusals of listed building and conservation area consent. Apportionment (amount of minerals needed): The splitting of regional supply guidelines for minerals demand between planning authorities or sub regions. Aquifers: The special underground rock layers that hold groundwater, which are often an important source of water for public water supply, agriculture and industry. Area Action Plan: A type of Development Plan Document focused upon a specific location or an area subject to conservation or significant change (for example major regeneration). Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO): A company set up by a local authority to manage and improve all or part of its housing stock. Back-land development: Development of 'landlocked' sites behind existing buildings, such as rear gardens and private open space, usually within predominantly residential areas. Such sites often have no street frontages. Best Available Techniques (BAT): In terms of assessing the potential effects of pollution, a system that aims to balance the costs to the operator against the benefits to the environment. Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land: Land in grades 1, 2 and 3a of the Agricultural Land Classification. Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO): There are many different ways of dealing with waste, and the BPEO is basically the waste management option that provides the most benefit or least damage to the environment as a whole, at an acceptable cost, in both the short and long term. For example, recycling versus landfill. Betterment: Means through the tax system of capturing the development value of land for the benefit of the community. Biodegradable waste: Waste that is capable of breaking down naturally, such as food, garden waste and paper. Biodiversity: The whole variety of life encompassing all genetics, species and ecosystem variations, including plants and animals. Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP): A strategy prepared for a local area aimed at conserving and enhancing biological diversity. Biological Treatment: Any biodegradable (breaking down) process that changes the properties of waste, such as anaerobic digestion and composting. Biomass: Living matter within an environmental area, for example plant material, vegetation, or agricultural waste used as a fuel or energy source. Blight: In general terms, blight is the depressing effect on an area or property caused by potential development proposals, for example a proposed major new road. Borrow Pit: A temporary mineral working to supply material for a specific construction project. Breach of Conditions Notice: A notice served by a local planning authority where they suspect that a planning condition linked to a planning permission has been breached. Brief / Planning Brief: A planning brief can include site-specific development briefs, design briefs, development frameworks and master plans that seek to positively shape future development. Bring systems (public recycling facilities): Recycling schemes where the public deliver their recyclables to a central collection point, such as those in supermarket car parks for bottles and cans. Brownfield Land and Sites: Previously developed land which is or was occupied by a permanent

structure, including the curtilage of the developed land and any associated fixed surface infrastructure. Also see 'Previously-Developed Land'. Buffer Zone: An area of land separating certain types of development from adjoining sensitive land uses. Often used in relation to minerals and/or waste development. Building Certificate: A certificate issued by a local council certifying it will not make certain orders or take certain action in relation to a building. Building Preservation Notice: A notice applying to a building all the protection afforded to Listed Buildings on a temporary basis, during which time the Secretary of State will consider whether the building should be granted Listed Building status. The building should be of special historic or architectural interest and be in danger of demolition or alteration harmful to the character of the building. Bund: An artificial mound or embankment used to either screen a site from view, or reduce noise emissions. Business Improvement Districts (BID): Designated town centre management (and sometimes other areas) where businesses agree to pay additional rates to fund improvements to the general retail environment. Business Planning Zone (BPZ): BPZs offer a simplified planning regime whereby specific 'low-impact' development, conforming to a scheme setting out acceptable use classes and general design standards, might not require planning permission. Catchment (in retailing terms): The geographical area from which a retail destination draws its trade. Sometimes measured in terms of 'Drive Time'. Certificate of Immunity from Listing: Certificate granting immunity from listing or the issuing of a Building Preservation Notice for a period of five years. Only granted when planning permission has been granted or is being sought for a development. Change of Use: A change in the way that land or buildings are used (see Use Classes Order). Planning permission is usually necessary in order to change from one 'use class' to another. Coalescence: The merging or coming together of separate towns or villages to form a single entity. Coastal Change Management Area: An area identified in Local Plans as likely to be affected by coastal change (physical change to the shoreline through erosion, coastal landslip, permanent inundation or coastal accretion). Commission of Inquiry: Hearing of evidence by an independent person from interested parties on an issue. Recommendations are then made, usually to the Minister. Community Land Trusts (CLTs): Independent non-profit trusts which own or control land and facilities in perpetuity for the benefit of the community. Compliance Certificate: A certificate that certifies that conditions of consent have been satisfied, that work has been properly carried out or that the plan or design of the development complies with necessary standards. Complying Development: Routine development that can be promptly certified by a council or a private certifier. Complying Development Certificate: A certificate that allows a complying development to be carried out. Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO): An order issued by the government or a local authority to acquire land or buildings for public interest purposes. For example, for the construction of a major road or the redevelopment of certain brownfield sites. Concurrence: The requirement for a government agency to consider development proposals in the light of its specialized functions and policies, and decide whether it agrees with the development taking place.

Conditions (or 'planning condition'): Requirements attached to a planning permission to limit, control or direct the manner in which a development is carried out. Consent Authority: The council having the function to determine the application or (if a provision of the Act, the regulations or an environmental planning instrument so specifies) a Minister or public authority. Conservation Area Character Appraisal: A published document defining the special architectural or historic interest that warranted the area being designated. Conservation Area Consent: Consent required for the demolition of an unlisted building within a conservation area. Construction Certificate (CC): A certificate that allows building or subdivision work to start. Conurbation: A large densely populated urban sprawl formed by the growth and coalescence of individual towns or cities. Conversions: Generally means the physical work necessary to change the use of a building from a particular use, classified in the use classes order, to another use. Can also mean the sub-division of residential properties into self-contained flats or maisonettes. Cost-Benefit Analysis: An assessment method that is sometimes used to compare the benefits and costs of a development proposal, such as a major infrastructure project. Curtilage: The area normally within the boundaries of a property surrounding the main building and used in connection with it. Decentralised energy: Local renewable energy and local low-carbon energy usually but not always on a relatively small scale encompassing a diverse range of technologies. Demand Responsive Transport: A local transport service tailored to passenger needs, operating not unlike a taxi service. Usually provided where there are infrequent bus services, such as rural areas. Departure: A proposed development that is not in accordance with the adopted development plan, but for which the local planning authority proposes to grant planning permission (subject to no intervention from the Government). Designated Development: A development that is likely to have significant impacts on the environment and, as such, is subject to special regulatory procedures. Designated heritage asset: A World Heritage Site, Scheduled Monument, Listed Building, Protected Wreck Site, Registered Park and Garden, Registered Battlefield or Conservation Area designated under the relevant legislation. Development Application (DA): An application for consent to carry out development, but does not include an application for a complying development certificate. Development Consent: Consent to carry out development. Development Control Plan (DCP): Detailed guideline that illustrates the controls that apply to a particular type of development or in a particular area. Disabled Access: The means by which disabled people (as defined in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995) can conveniently go where they want. Dormant Site: A site with planning permission on which mineral operations has now ceased.

Ecclesiastical Exemption: Ecclesiastical buildings (for example some churches) that are being used for ecclesiastical purposes are exempt from listed building and conservation area controls. Edge of Centre: For retail purposes, a location that is well connected and up to 300 metres of the primary shopping area. For all other main town centre uses, a location within 300 metres of a town centre boundary. For office development, this includes locations outside the town centre but within 500 metres of a public transport interchange. In determining whether a site falls within the definition of edge of centre, account should be taken of local circumstances. Employment Land Availability (ELA): The total amount of land reserved for industrial and business use

awaiting development. Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs): Energy Performance Certificates give home buyers and sellers A to G ratings for their home's energy efficiency and carbon emissions. Energy Saving Trust (EST): Non-profit organization, funded both by the Government and the private sector set up to address the damaging effects of climate change. Its aim is to cut emissions of carbon dioxide by promoting the sustainable and efficient use of energy. Environmental Criteria for Road Traffic Noise (ECRTN): Sets non-mandatory goals for road traffic noise, and recommended alternatives for meeting these noise levels - planning, engineering design etc Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): A specialized part of the decision-making process, where the environmental impact is considered in detail, together with other aspects of the development. Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): A formal evaluation of the effect or likely effect of a development or other activity on the environment. This is required as part of the development assessment process for designated development. This is also required for infrastructure (e.g. electricity transmission lines and pipelines, highways and motorways, sewage treatment plants) that does not require development consent. Flood plain: Generally low-lying areas adjacent to a watercourse, tidal lengths of a river or the sea, where water flows in times of flood or would flow but for the presence of flood defences. Flood Risk Assessment: An assessment of the likelihood of flooding in a particular area so that development needs and mitigation measures can be carefully considered. Fly tipping: The illegal disposal of waste on land. Footfall / Pedestrian Flow: The numbers and movements of people to provide an indicator of the commercial health of a shopping centre, whilst also informing potential businesses of the likely level of passing trade. Front-loading: Community involvement in the production of Local Development Documents to gain public input and seek consensus from the earliest opportunity. Gasification and Pyrolysis (Advanced Thermal Treatment): A means of recovering energy from waste, known as advanced thermal treatment. Waste is heated at high temperatures and a useable gas is produced. General Permitted Development Order (GPDO): A set of regulations made by the Government which grants planning permission for specified limited or minor forms of development. Geodiversity: The range of rocks, minerals, fossils, soils and landforms. Geographic Information System (GIS): A computer-based system whereby mapping and information are linked for a variety of uses, such as capturing data justifying Local Development Documents. Green Belt (not to be confused with the term 'greenfield'): A designation for land around certain cities and large built-up areas, which aims to keep this land permanently open or largely undeveloped. The purposes of the green belt is to: check the unrestricted sprawl of large built up areas

prevent neighbouring towns from merging

safeguard the countryside from encroachment

preserve the setting and special character of historic towns

assist urban regeneration by encouraging the recycling of derelict and other urban land Green Belts are defined in a local planning authority's development plan. Green corridor / wildlife corridor: Green corridors can link housing areas to the national cycle network, town and city centres, places of employment and community facilities. They help to promote environmentally sustainable forms of transport such as walking and cycling within urban areas and can also act as vital linkages for wildlife dispersal between wetlands and the countryside. Green Infrastructure: A network of multi-functional green space, urban and rural, which is capable of

delivering a wide range of environmental and quality of life benefits for local communities. Green Wedges: Green wedges comprise the open areas around and between parts of settlements, which maintain the distinction between the countryside and built up areas, prevent the coalescence (merging) of adjacent places and can also provide recreational opportunities. Greenfield Land or Site: Land (or a defined site) usually farmland, that has not previously been developed. Health Check (in terms of shopping areas): A survey, using a variety of indicators, to show the 'health' of a town centre or other shopping area. For example, the quality of the environment, footfall, retail sales, commercial yield or amount of customers. Heritage Asset: A building, monument, site, place, area or landscape identified as having a degree of significance meriting consideration in planning decisions, because of its heritage interest. Heritage asset includes designated heritage assets and assets identified by the local planning authority (including local listing). Heritage Coast: Areas of undeveloped coastline which are managed to conserve their natural beauty and, where appropriate, to improve accessibility for visitors. High Court Challenge: The process by which an applicant may challenge a planning decision or a notice of intention to adopt a development plan in the High Court on a point of law. However, other appeal procedures may apply first and prior legal advice is advisable. Housing Land Availability (HLA): The total amount of land reserved for residential use awaiting development. Incineration: The controlled burning of waste. Energy may also be recovered in the form of heat (see Energy from Waste). Inclusive design: Designing the built environment, including buildings and their surrounding spaces, to ensure that they can be accessed and used by everyone. Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD): A ward-level index made up from six indicators (income; employment; health deprivation and disability; education; skills and training; housing; and geographical access to services). IMD can help to identify areas for regeneration. Wildlife Sites. Inward Investment: New business investment or expansion of an existing investment into an area from outside. Key Diagram: The diagrammatic interpretation of the spatial strategy as set out in a local authority's Core Strategy. (As distinct from a Structure Plan Key Diagram prepared to explain its policy content). Key Worker Living: A Government scheme running since 2004 helping key workers in London, the South East and East of England to buy a home, upgrade to a family home or rent a home at an affordable price. Knowledge-based Industry: High technology industries (such as computers and office equipment, and pharmaceuticals) and knowledge-based services (for example, telecommunications, information technology, finance, insurance and business services), which are important to economic development Land Compensation: Provisions for the compensation of land compulsorily acquired in the public interest. Landbank: The stock land with planning permissions but where development has yet to take place. The landbank can be of land for minerals, housing or any other use. Landscape Appraisal: A method of assessing appearance and essential characteristics of a landscape. Lawful Development Certificate: A certificate issued by a local planning authority, on application, stating that an existing (LDC 191) or proposed use (LDC 192), or other forms of development, can be considered as lawful for planning purposes. This is not the same as planning permission but it is proof that your household building work is lawful. Leachate (usually associated with landfill): Water coming into contact with decomposing waste

materials and which has drawn pollutants out of those materials into solution thereby contaminating the water. Legibility (in terms of settlement patterns): A legible area is one with a strong sense of local identity. Locations, streets, open spaces and places that have a clear image and are easy to understand. For example, a location that is easy to find your way around. Limits of Development: Limits of development identify the area within which development proposals would be acceptable, subject to complying with other policies contained in the Development Plan. They seek to prevent development from gradually extending into the surrounding countryside. Local Development Documents (LDDs): These include Development Plan Documents (which form part of the statutory development plan) and Supplementary Planning Documents (which do not form part of the statutory development plan). LDDs collectively deliver the spatial planning strategy for the local planning authority's area. Local Development Framework (LDF): The Local Development Framework (LDF) is a non-statutory term used to describe a folder of documents, which includes all the local planning authority's local development documents. An LDF is comprised of: Development Plan Documents (which form part of the statutory development plan)

Supplementary Planning Documents The local development framework will also comprise of:

the Statement of Community Involvement

the Local Development Scheme

the Annual Monitoring Report

any Local Development Orders or Simplified Planning Zones that may have been added Local Environmental Plan (LEP):The principal legal document for controlling development at the council level. The zoning provisions establish permissibility of uses and standards regulate the extent of development. They are prepared by councils and approved by the Minister (after public exhibition). Local Environmental Study (LES): Undertaken to gather information needed to draft a new comprehensive local environmental plan. Local Housing Company: A local authority-promoted housing development and management organization, possibly with wider regeneration objectives, likely to be established in partnership ownership between a local authority with other public and/or private sector organizations. Local Landscape Designation (for example, 'Area of High Landscape value'): Non-statutory and locally designated areas outside the national landscape designations, which are considered by the local planning authority to be of particular landscape value to the local area. Local Nature Reserve: Non-statutory habitats of local significance designated by local authorities where protection and public understanding of nature conservation is encouraged. Local Need Housing: Housing requirements generated by the indigenous population rather than by in-migration. Local Strategic Partnership (LSP): An overall partnership of people that brings together organizations from the public, private, community and voluntary sector within a local authority area, with the objective of improving people's quality of life. Low Demand Housing (or areas of housing abandonment): A location where the housing market has collapsed or is close to doing so resulting in a low demand for housing or actual abandonment Low level restoration: The re-establishment of land following mineral extraction, without infilling (filling the hole created by extraction). Main town centre uses: Retail development (including warehouse clubs and factory outlet centres); leisure, entertainment facilities the more intensive sport and recreation uses (including cinemas,

restaurants, drive-through restaurants, bars and pubs, night-clubs, casinos, health and fitness centres, indoor bowling centres, and bingo halls); offices; and arts, culture and tourism development (including theatres, museums, galleries and concert halls, hotels and conference facilities). Management Plan: A plan for the detailed, sometimes day-to-day management or conservation of important areas, including nature conservation, archaeology, or historic sites, in order to maintain and enhance those special features or qualities. Marine Dredged Aggregate: Sand and gravel dredged from deposits on the seabed and landed at shipping wharves for use as aggregate. Marine Nature Reserves: Sites designated under the Wildlife and Countryside Act to conserve marine flora and fauna or geological or physiographical features. Master Plan: A type of planning brief outlining the preferred usage of land and the overall approach to the layout of a developer. To provide detailed guidance for subsequent planning applications. Mast-sharing (including mobile phone masts): More than one antenna sharing a mast or a site, perhaps helping to reduce visual impact. Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT): The treatment of residual waste using a combination of mechanical separation and biological treatment. Mineral Planning Authority (MPA): The planning authority responsible for planning control of minerals development. County councils are normally responsible for mineral and matters for their area. Minerals Local Plan: A statutory development plan prepared by a minerals planning authority under transitional arrangements, setting out policies for the control of development constituting of the winning and working of minerals or the deposit of mineral waste. Mineral Resource: A potential mineral deposit where the quality and quantity of material present has not been tested. Minerals Reserves: Mineral deposits which have been tested to establish the quality and quantity of material present and which could be economically and technically exploited. Mineral Safeguarding Area: An area designated by Minerals Planning Authorities which covers known deposits of minerals which are desired to be kept safeguarded from unnecessary sterilization by non-mineral development. Mixed use (or mixed use development): Provision of a mix of complementary uses, such as residential, community and leisure uses, on a site or within a particular area Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA): An enclosed area, using a synthetic grass or hard surface for playing sports, for example five-a-side soccer or netball. Multimodal Study: A detailed study that considers the problems and solutions affecting all forms of travel along a particular route. Multimodal studies assess against government objectives of accessibility, economy, environment, integration and safety. Municipal Solid Waste (MSW): Household waste and any other waste collected by a waste collection authority such as municipal parks and gardens waste, beach cleansing waste and waste resulting from the clearance of fly-tipped materials. National Land Use Database (NLUD): Government initiative to provide information on the amount of previously developed land (and buildings) that may be available for development. National Nature Reserves: Areas designated with the aim of securing protection and appropriate management of the most important areas of wildlife habitat, and to provide a resource for scientific research. All National Nature Reserves are Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Nature Improvement Area: The protection, management and promotion of wildlife habitat for the benefit of wild species, as well as the communities that use and enjoy them. Noise exposure category (NEC): In terms of planning guidance, when assessing a proposal for residential development near to a source of noise, planning authorities use noise exposure categories to help

consider the effects. Non-statutory nature reserve: Sites established and managed by a variety of public and private bodies e.g. Country Wildlife Trusts or the Royal Society Protection of Birds. Occupation Certificate: A certificate that allows the occupation or use of a building. Offshore Renewable Energy Projects: Projects that involve electricity generation methods such as offshore wind or wave generators. Central government may deal with these rather than local planning authorities. Open Space: All open space of public value, including not just land, but also areas of water (such as rivers, canals, lakes and reservoirs) which offer important opportunities for sport and recreation and can act as a visual amenity. Outline application: A general application for planning permission to establish that a development is acceptable in principle, subject to subsequent approval of detailed matters. Out-of-Centre: A location which is not in or on the edge of a centre but not necessarily outside the urban area. Overbearing: A term used to describe the impact of a development or building on its surroundings, particularly a neighbouring property, in terms of its scale, massing and general dominating effect. Over-development: An amount of development (for example, the quantity of buildings or intensity of use) that is excessive in terms of demands on infrastructure and services, or impact on local amenity and character. Overlooking: A term used to describe the effect when a development or building affords an outlook over adjoining land or property, often causing loss of privacy. Overshadowing: The effect of a development or building on the amount of natural light presently enjoyed by a neighbouring property, resulting in a shadow being cast over that neighbouring property. Passive Solar Heating: A solar heating system using a simple solar collector, building materials, or an architectural design to capture and store the sun's heat. Very simple examples include a garden greenhouse, or a south-facing window in a dwelling. Permitted Development (or Permitted Development Rights): Permission to carry out certain limited forms of development without the need to make an application to a local planning authority, as granted under the terms of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order. Permitted Reserves: Mineral deposits with the benefit of planning permission for extraction. Phasing or Phased Development: The phasing of development into manageable parts. For example, an annual rate of housing release for a large development that may need to be controlled so as to avoid destabilising housing markets and causing low demand. Photovoltaics / photovoltaic cells: Conversion of solar radiation (the sun's rays) to electricity by the effect of photons (tiny packets of light) on the electrons in a solar cell. For example, a solar-powered car or a calculator. Plan-led system: The principle that the decisions upon planning applications should be made in accordance with the adopted development plan, unless there are other material considerations that may indicate otherwise. Planning Certificate: A certificate that provides information on the development potential of a parcel of land, including any planning restrictions that apply. Planning Gain: The benefits or safeguards, often for community benefit, secured by way of a planning obligation as part of a planning approval and usually provided at the developer's expense. For example, affordable housing, community facilities or mitigation measures. Planning Out Crime: The planning and design of street layouts, open space, and buildings so as to reduce the actual likelihood or fear of crime, for example by creating natural surveillance. Planning Policy (SEPP): Policy proposed by the Minister and approved by the Governor. They address

matters of state significance Preferred Areas: An area within a mineral consultation area containing mineral resources which can be identified with a high degree of provision and where there is a strong presumption in favour of extraction. Previously Developed Land or 'Brownfield' land: Land which is or was occupied by a permanent structure, including the curtilage of the developed land (although it should not be assumed that the whole of the curtilage should be developed) and any associated fixed surface infrastructure. This excludes: land that is or has been occupied by agricultural or forestry buildings; land that has been developed for minerals extraction or waste disposal by landfill purposes where provision for restoration has been made through development control procedures; land in built-up areas such as private residential gardens, parks, recreation grounds and allotments; and land that was previously-developed but where the remains of the permanent structure or fixed surface structure have blended into the landscape in the process of time. Primary Aggregates: Naturally occurring sand, gravel and crushed rock used for construction purposes. Primary and secondary frontages: Primary frontages are likely to include a high proportion of retail uses which may include food, drinks, clothing and household goods. Secondary frontages provide greater opportunities for a diversity of uses such as restaurants, cinemas and businesses. Private Open Space: Open space that is usually privately owned and is not usually accessible by members of the public. Proximity Principle: Requires that waste should be managed as near as possible to its place of production, reducing travel impacts. Public Right of Way: A public right of way is a highway over which the public have a right of access along the route. Ramsar Sites: Wetlands of international importance, designated under the 1971 Ramsar Convention. Reclamation (in terms of mineral operations): Operations designed to return an area to an acceptable environmental state, whether for the resumption of the former land use or for a new use. It includes restoration, aftercare, soil handling, filling and contouring operations. Recycled Aggregates: Aggregates produced from recycled construction waste such as crushed concrete and planings from tarmac roads. Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF): A fuel product produced from the combustible fraction of waste. Regional Aggregates Working Party: A working group consisting of local authority officers, representatives of the aggregates industry and central government established to consider the supply and demand for aggregate minerals. Regional Environmental Plan (REP): A plan proposed by the Minister or Director-General and approved by the Minister before becoming law. They address matters of regional significance. Regional Environmental Study (RES): Undertaken to gather information needed to draft a new comprehensive regional plan. Regionally Important Geological Site (RIG): A non-statutory regionally important geological or geo-morphological site (basically relating to rocks, the Earth's structure and landform). Regional Self sufficiency: Requires that most waste should be managed within the region in which it is produced. Remedial work: The work needed to raise the quality of land to an acceptable level before it is used or developed. For example, contaminated land may need pollutants removing. Review of Environmental Factors (REF):A document which identifies and evaluates the impacts of an activity to decide if the impacts are likely to significantly affect the environment. The REF should document environmental management strategies. Government authorities for their own projects usually prepare these documents.

Ribbon Development: Development, usually residential, extending along one or both sides of a road but not extended in depth. Roundtable Discussions: A forum in which people making representations upon a Development Plan Document can express their views before a Government appointed Planning Inspector. Rural Development Area: A rural area suffering a concentration of economic and social needs where regeneration initiatives are focused. Rural Diversification: The expansion, enlargement or variation of the range of products or fields of operation of a rural business (branching out from traditional farming activities, for example new income generating enterprise like renewable energy, tourism and food processing). Rural Exception Site: Small sites used for affordable housing in perpetuity where sites would not normally be used for housing. Rural exception sites seek to address the needs of the local community by accommodating households who are either current residents or have an existing family or employment connection. Small numbers of market homes may be allowed at the local authoritys discretion, for example where essential to enable the delivery of affordable units Safeguarding zone : Safeguarding aerodromes, technical sites and military explosives storage areas, to safeguard such sites. Scheduled Ancient Monument: Nationally important monuments usually archaeological remains, that enjoy greater protection against inappropriate development through the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. Secondary Aggregates: Includes by-product waste, synthetic materials and soft rock used with or without processing as a secondary aggregate. Secondary Shopping Frontages: A retailing area, secondary to the primary shopping frontage, that provides greater opportunities for a diversity of uses. Sequential approach / sequential test: A planning principle that seeks to identify, allocate or develop certain types or locations of land before others. For example, brownfield housing sites before greenfield sites, or town centre retail sites before out-of-centre sites. Setting of a heritage asset: The surroundings in which a heritage asset is experienced. Its extent is not fixed and may change as the asset and its surroundings evolve. Elements of a setting may make a positive or negative contribution to the significance of an asset, may affect the ability to appreciate that significance or may be neutral. Shoreline Management Plans: A plan providing a large-scale assessment of the risk to people and to the developed, historic and natural environment associated with coastal processes. Simplified Planning Zone: An area in which a local planning authority wishes to stimulate development and encourage investment. It operates by granting a specified planning permission in the zone without the need for an application for planning permission and the payment of planning fees. Site investigation information: Includes a risk assessment of land potentially affected by contamination, or ground stability and slope stability reports, as appropriate. All investigations of land potentially affected by contamination should be carried out in accordance with established procedures. The minimum information that should be provided by an applicant is the report of a desk study and site reconnaissance. Site Visit: A visit to a proposed development site conducted by planning officers, councillors or inspectors to clarify the appearance of a site or visualise the effects of the proposal. Sites and Monuments Record: List, description, and assessment of all known ancient monuments and sites of archaeological interest in an area including a map of each site. SME (Small to Medium Enterprise): An independent business managed by its owner or part owners and having a small market share either by number of employees or turnover.

Source Protection Zone: The Environment Agency identifies Source Protection Zones to protect groundwater (especially public water supply) from developments that may damage its quality. Spatial Development: Changes in the distribution of activities in space and the linkages between them in terms of the use and development of land. This will include policies which can impact on land use by influencing the demands on, or needs for, development, but which are not capable of being delivered solely or mainly through the granting or refusal of planning permission and which may be implemented by other means. Spatial Planning: Spatial planning goes beyond traditional land use planning to bring together and integrate policies for the development and use of land with other policies and programmes which influence the nature of places and how they function. Spatial Vision: A brief description of how the area will be changed at the end of a plan period. Special Needs Housing: Housing to meet the needs of groups of people who may be disadvantaged, such as the elderly, the disabled, students, young single people, rough sleepers, the homeless, those needing hostel accommodation, key workers, travellers and occupiers of mobile homes and houseboats. Spot-Listing: The process by which buildings are listed on an individual basis (often in response to a third-party request), rather than as part of a formal review of buildings in a particular area. Standards Authority: A local planning authority producing an improvement plan, having failed to meet one or more government Best Value performance target for development control, relating to efficient planning application processing. Statement of Community Involvement (SCI): The Statement of Community Involvement sets out the processes to be used by the local authority in involving the community in the preparation, alteration and continuing review of all local development documents and development control decisions. The Statement of Community Involvement is an essential part of the new-look Local Development Frameworks. Statement of Consultation / Statement of Compliance: A report or statement issued by local planning authorities explaining how they have complied with their Statement of Community Involvement during consultation on Local Development Documents. Statement of Environmental Effects (SEE): This document is prepared by a proponent and must accompany development applications for non-designated developments unless the proposal is considered to have negligible effects. The SEE should demonstrate that the environmental impacts of the development have been considered and should set out steps to be taken to protect the environment or mitigate any potential harm. State Environmental Statutory: Required by law (statute), usually through an Act of Parliament. Statutory Undertakers / Statutory Utilities: Bodies carrying out functions of a public character under a statutory power. They may either be in public or private ownership such as Post Office, Civil Aviation Authority, the Environment Agency or any water undertaker, any public gas transporters, supply of electricity etc. Stepping stones: Pockets of habitat that, while not necessarily connected, facilitate the movement of species across otherwise inhospitable landscapes. Strategic Employment Site: A key employment site in a strategic location capable of accommodating major investment, often of national or regional significance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): A procedure (set out in the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004) which requires the formal environmental assessment of certain plans and programmes which are likely to have significant effects on the environment. Structure Plan: An old-style development plan, which sets out strategic planning policies and forms the basis for detailed policies in local plans. These plans will continue to operate for a time after the

commencement of the new development plan system, due to transitional provisions under planning reform. Sub-regional partnership: A sub-regional strategic body directing, influencing and co-ordinating a range of economic development and regeneration activities often made up of key private, public and other interests. Sui-Generis: A term given to the uses of land or buildings, not falling into any of the use classes identified by the Use Classes Order, for example theatres, launderettes, car showrooms and filling stations Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD): Documents which add further detail to the policies in the Local Plan. They can be used to provide further guidance for development on specific sites, or on particular issues, such as design. Supplementary planning documents are capable of being a material consideration in planning decisions but are not part of the development plan. Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG): Supplementary Planning Guidance may cover a range of issues, both thematic and site specific and provide further detail of policies and proposals in a development plan. Sustainability Appraisal (including Environmental Appraisal): An appraisal of the economic, environmental and social effects of a plan from the outset of the preparation process to allow decisions to be made that accord with sustainable development. Sustainable transport modes: Any efficient, safe and accessible means of transport with overall low impact on the environment, including walking and cycling, low and ultra low emission vehicles, car sharing and public transport. Terracing Effect: A term used to describe the closing of gaps between houses by extending the houses sideways, for example a double garage between semi-detached properties. Topography: A description (or visual representation on a map) of the shape of the land, for example, contours or changes in the height of land above sea level. Townscape / Cityscape: The general appearance of a built-up area, for example a street a town or city. Town Centre Mall: A purpose-built shopping centres incorporating many individual shop units usually concentrating on comparison goods and sometimes leisure, residential and other uses. Town Centre Management: A forum of traders, businesses and local authorities to agree and undertake co-ordinated management and care the retail area, promote trade and funding improvements. Town Centre Strategy: Action plans to sustain and encourage the growth of services and amenities in a town centre through a partnership of the local authority and various organisations and people. Town Centre Uses: A diverse range of town centre uses including, retail, social, leisure and cultural, housing, employment and other uses. Town Centre: Area defined on the local authoritys proposal map, including the primary shopping area and areas predominantly occupied by main town centre uses within or adjacent to the primary shopping area. References to town centres or centres apply to city centres, town centres, district centres and local centres but exclude small parades of shops of purely neighbourhood significance. Unless they are identified as centres in Local Plans, existing out-of-centre developments, comprising or including main town centre uses, do not constitute town centres. Trade Parks: An out-of-centre mixed-use area of larger retail and light industrial units selling bulky goods. Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA): An assessment of the effects upon the surrounding area by traffic as a result of a development, such as increased traffic flows that may require highway improvements. Transitional Arrangements: Generally used to describe arrangements that are put in place to manage the change from one system of regulations or procedures to another. More recently used to describe government regulations outlining the process of preparing development plans begun before, and to be

completed after, the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. It includes existing "saved" unitary, structure and local plans until new Local Development Documents are adopted. Transport Assessment : A simplified version of a transport assessment where it is agreed the transport issues arising out of development proposals are limited and a full transport assessment is not required. Travel Demand Management: Planning the travel impacts of existing and new developments to minimise travel needs and provide travel choices for example by efficient car usage (including car sharing), bicycles, and walking and public transport. Travel Generators: Areas of land use (or developments) that generate travel demands including places of work, schools and colleges, shops and retail parks, hospitals and leisure facilities. Travel Plan: A long-term management strategy for an organisation or site that seeks to deliver sustainable transport objectives through action and is articulated in a document that is regularly reviewed. Tree Preservation Order (TPO): A mechanism for securing the preservation of single or groups of trees of acknowledged amenity value. A tree subject to a tree preservation order may not normally be topped, lopped or felled without the consent of the local planning authority. Turnover: Amount of sales per unit area of retail floorspace. Unitary Development Plan: An old-style development plan prepared by a metropolitan district and some unitary local authorities, which contains policies equivalent to those in both a structure plan and local plan. These plans will continue to operate for a time after the commencement of the new development plan system, by virtue of specific transitional provisions. Urban Capacity Study: Studies undertaken to establish how much additional housing can be accommodated within urban areas. Urban Design: The art of making places. It involves the design of buildings, groups of buildings, spaces and landscapes, in villages, towns and cities, to create successful development. Urban Extension: Involves the planned expansion of a city or town and can contribute to creating more sustainable patterns of development when located in the right place, with well-planned infrastructure including access to a range of facilities, and when developed at appropriate densities. Urban Fringe: The urban fringe is the transitional area between urban areas and the countryside. It can provide a valuable resource for the provision of sport and recreation, particularly in situations where there is an absence of land within urban areas to meet provision. Urban Housing Capacity Study (UHCS): A study produced for a local planning authority area examining the potential capacity of urban areas to accommodate extra housing on new or redeveloped sites at various densities, or by the conversion of existing buildings. Urban Regeneration: Making an urban area develop or grow strong again through means such as job creation and environmental renewal. Urban Sprawl: The uncontrolled or unplanned extension of urban areas into the countryside. Ward: A small sub-area of a local authority district. Wash-over village: Villages within a designated green belt which are not subject to specific proposals to extend the village boundary for development. Waste Transfer Station: A site to which waste is delivered for sorting or baling prior to transfer to another place for recycling, treatment or disposal. White land: A general expression used to mean land (and buildings) without any specific proposal for allocation in a development plan, where it is intended that for the most part, existing uses shall remain undisturbed and unaltered. Wildlife Corridor: Areas of habitat connecting wildlife populations. Windfall Site: Sites which have not been specifically identified as available in the Local Plan process. They normally comprise previously-developed sites that have unexpectedly become available.

Wind farm: A group of wind turbines located in areas exposed to wind. A wind farm may vary in terms of the number and size of turbines. Wind Resource Area: An area of search (or an area of least constraint) where wind turbines may be built subject to planning permission. Written representations: A procedure by which representations on planning appeals, development plans and Development Plan Documents can be dealt with without the need for a full public inquiry or informal hearing. Zero-carbon Home: Over a year, the net carbon emissions from all energy use in the home are zero. This includes energy use from cooking, washing and electronic entertainment appliances as well as space heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and hot water. Zone of Visual Influence (ZVI): The visual 'line of sight' or catchment area having the potential to be visually affected by a particular site or structure, such as wind turbines. Zoning: The system of categorising land uses as prohibited, requiring consent or not requiring consent within particular areas. Zones (such as residential or commercial) are shown in plan form and explained in environmental plans.

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Planning Events

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Alberta Professional Planners Institute (APPI) Annual Conference http://www.albertaplanners.com/events/appi-annual-conference-0

Atlantic Planners Institute (API) Annual Conference http://www.atlanticplanners.org/

Canadian Association of Certified Planning Technicians (CACPT) PDC Conference http://cacpt.org/category/conferences/

Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS) Annual Conference http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/0691c0b57d684c8c9bbc62edacfdcaa2/template.asp

Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) Annual Conference http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/E410940753F54250831C8C24961AE56D/template.asp

CIP Annual World Town Planning Day Online Conference http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/47866A0A22674754A6DAB17D0FCF1270/template.asp

Land & Development Conference http://toronto.uli.org/events/past/

Municipal P3 Learning Symposium http://www.canurb.com/past-events/municipal-p3-learning-symposium.html

Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Annual Conference http://www.oaa.on.ca/news%20&%20events/oaa%20annual%20conference/2014%20OAA%20Annual%20Conference

Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI )Annual Symposium https://events.ontarioplanners.ca/events/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=26ddf8ae-1144-4760-9ec8-0f2cfa0610a9

Ontario Traffic Council Annual Transportation Planning Workshop http://www.otc.org/workshops.cfm?eventid=91

Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) Annual Conference http://www.pibc.bc.ca/content/annual-conference

Pragma Conference https://uwaterloo.ca/planning/events/pragma-conference-2013

Ryerson School of Urban and Regional Planning SURP Expo http://www.ryerson.ca/surp/news/events/General_Public.html

Urban Land Institute Annual Real Estate Forecast http://toronto.uli.org/events/past/page/2/

Event Pages for Monthly Events

Alberta Professional Planners Institute (APPI) http://www.albertaplanners.com/events/upcoming-events

Canadian Association of Certified Planning Technicians (CACPT) http://cacpt.org/category/conferences/

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Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) http://www.canurb.com/events-awards/past-events/

McGill University: School of Urban Planning http://www.mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/events

Municipal World http://www.municipalworld.com/index.php/ComingEvents/Index

Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) https://events.ontarioplanners.ca/events/eventtypes.aspx

Ontario Traffic Council (OTC) http://www.otc.org/workshops.cfm

Queens University: School of Urban and Regional Planning http://www.queensu.ca/surp/upcoming-events/index.html

Ryerson University: School of Urban and Regional Planning http://www.ryerson.ca/surp/news/index.html

Toronto Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) http://www.tcat.ca/events

University of Toronto: Urban Studies Program http://www.utoronto.ca/innis/urban/events.html

University of Toronto: School of Planning https://uwaterloo.ca/planning/events

Urban Land Institute (Toronto) http://toronto.uli.org/events/

Planning Publications

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Canadian Journal of Urban Research Ontario Planning Journal Plan2Plan Plan Canada (Journal of the Canadian Institute of Planners) Professional Practice Manual Spacing Tower Renewal

International

Berkeley Planning Journal Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning Critical Planning Community Development Journal Dwell Magazine Environment and Planning A (EPA) Environment and Planning B (EPB): Planning and Design Environment and Planning C (EPC): Government and Policy Environment and Planning D (EPD): Society and Space Environment & Urbanization GOOD Magazine International Regional Science Review International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning International Journal of Sustainable Land Use and Urban Planning International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Journal of Architectural and Planning Research Journal of Environmental Planning and Management Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law Journal of Land Use Science Journal of Planning Education and Research Journal of Planning History Journal of Planning Literature Journal of Public Transportation Journal of the American Planning Association Journal of Urban Design Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal Journal of Urban Planning and Development Land Economics Land Use Policy Landscape and Urban Planning Landscape Journal Metropolis Planning Magazine Planning Practice and Research

Planning Theory and Practice Projections Planning Theory Regional Science Policy and Practice Regional Studies The Planning Report Town Planning Review Transportation Urban Affairs Review Urban Design International Urban Geography Urban Land Urban Morphology Urban Policy and Research Urban Studies

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LinkedIn Groups C2 Urban Planning Canadian Association of Planning Students Canadian Institute of Planners CMG Canada CTL Canada Community Engagement Environmental Planning Green Real Estate: Building. Design, Planning, Products, Investment Gladki Planning Associates HOK ITS, Traffic Engineering, Transportation Planning, Parking Management and Public Transit in Canada Land Development Lynch-Stewart & Associates MHBC Planning Municipal Urban Designers Roundtable PMC World Professional Planning Forum Project Planning and Controls Canada Smart Urbanism Sustainable Construction and Planning Sustainable integrated (land use and infrastructures) spatial planning The Planning Partnership (B.E.F Planning International) The Town Planning Market Community Urban Planning Group Urban Planning Ontario Urban Strategies Inc URS Corporation VanGenderen Canada WHW Architects Twitter @ArchDaily @CitiesResearch @DesignPlanAECOM @economicplan @GetUrbPlannJobs @LocalPlan @OntarioPlanners @Planetizen @PlanningMag @RegionalPlan @sustaincities @SPUR_Urbanist @transportdata

Planning Training Opportunities

Planning Training Opportunities

AESOP Training material on Energy in Urban Planning http://www.aesop-planning.eu/news/en_GB/2013/01/25/readabout/training-material-on-energy-in-urban-planning

ASI Group WorkFace Planning http://groupasi.com/about-what-is-wfp.html

Developing Spatial Interventions in Urban Planning and Management http://www.itc.nl/Pub/study/Courses/C14-UPM-SC-02

Inspiration and Intervention in a Downtown Campus https://events.ontarioplanners.ca/events/eventtypes.aspx

Integrating Transportation and Land Use Planning for Sustainable Communities http://cutaactu.ca/en/educationandtraining/training_courses.asp

Ontario Ministry of Environment Planner Licensing http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/environment/en/subject/toxics/STDPROD_093853.html

Project Management for Planners Course https://events.ontarioplanners.ca/events/eventtypes.aspx

Planner as a Facilitator Course https://events.ontarioplanners.ca/events/eventtypes.aspx

Ryerson University School of Urban and Regional Planning http://www.ryerson.ca/surp/current/graduate/

The Planner at the Ontario Municipal Board http://ontarioplanners.ca/Knowledge-Centre/Programs-Events#CourseInfoOMB

Understanding Legislation for Planners http://ontarioplanners.ca/Knowledge-Centre/Programs-Events#CourseInfoOMB

Understanding Legislation for Planners Course https://events.ontarioplanners.ca/events/eventtypes.aspx

University of Alberta Applied Land Use Planning Certificate http://www.extension.ualberta.ca/study/government-studies/alup/ University of Toronto Program in Planning, Department of Geography www.geog.utoronto.ca

University of Waterloo School of Planning (Undergraduate program) http://ugradcalendar.uwaterloo.ca/group/ENV-School-of-Planning

Urban Design Training http://www.urbandesigntraining.com/Online-Courses(2358284).htm

York University Faculty of Environmental Studies fesplanning.apps01.yorku.ca/

Planning Software Training

AutoCad http://www.sheridancollege.ca/programs-and-courses/professional-training-programs/cad-cam-institute/autocad-and-autocad-lt.aspx

Conestoga College Microsoft Office Specialist Certificate http://www.conestogac.on.ca/parttime/1263.jsp

Geographic Information System (GIS) http://training.esri.com/

Humber College Adobe Creative Suite Course http://www.humber.ca/node/7612

McMaster Computer Training Workshops (Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite) http://www.mcmaster.ca/conted/programs/computer-training/

Sketchup Training http://www.sketchup.com/learn/training

Planning In-Class Training

Toxic Substance Reduction Planner Training http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/environment/en/subject/toxics/STDPROD_093853.html

University of Toronto Leading Change in Cities: Skills for Planners https://www.geog.utoronto.ca/graduate/planning/pdp

Planning Software

PLANNING SOFTWARE

Urban and Land Use Planners

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Planning Professional Associations

Planning Professional Associations

Alberta Professional Planners Institute (APPI) Website: http://www.albertaplanners.com/

Association of Professional Community Planners of Saskatchewan (APCPS) Website: http://www.apcps.ca/

Atlantic Planners Institute (API) Website: http://www.atlanticplanners.org/

Canadian Association of Certified Planning Technicians (CACPT) Website: http://cacpt.org/

Canadian Association of Planning Students (CAPS) http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/0691c0b57d684c8c9bbc62edacfdcaa2/template.asp

Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) Website: http://www.cip-icu.ca

Environmental Professional (EP) Website:

Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) Website: http://ontarioplanners.ca

Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) Website: http://www.pibc.bc.ca/

Architecture Professional Associations

Alberta Association of Architects Website: http://www.aaa.ab.ca/website/AAA/The_AAA/AAA/The_AAA.aspx

Architects Association of New Brunswick (AANB) Website: www.aanb.org/

Architectural Association of British Columbia (AIBC) Website: www.aibc.ca/

Manitoba Association of Architects Website:

Nova Scotia Association of Architects (NSAA) Website:

Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Website:

Ordre des Architects du Quebec Website: http://www.oaq.com/

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Website: www.raic.org/

Saskatchewan Association of Architects Website: www.saskarchitects.com/

Planning Job Boards

PLANNING JOB BOARDS & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/6f0c1df52bb24c6c98536e3dd44cc93b/template.asp

Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) http://canadianurbaninstitute.org/general/info_jobopps.php

Conservation Ontario http://www.conservation-ontario.on.ca/jobs/

Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) Canada http://eco.ca/default.aspx

Good Work Canada http://goodworkcanada.com/

Municipal World Job Board http://www.municipalworld.com/index.php/JobBoard/Index

Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI) http://ontarioplanners.ca/Hire-an-RPP/Jobs

Ontario Municipal Jobs http://www.ontariomunicipaljobs.com/

Simply Hired http://www.simplyhired.ca/a/jobs/list/q-urban+planner/l-Toronto%2C+ON

Urban Land Institute http://www.uli.org/about-uli/career-opportunities/

Work Cabin http://www.workcabin.ca/