Uptown Brampton Transit-Oriented Communities Toolkit Unlocking Value through Collaboration, Alignment and Empowerment Implementing “20-min Walkable Neighbourhood with Community Hub” as the New Growth Model for Transit-Oriented Communities ULI Toronto Getting to Transit-Oriented Communities Initiative About the About the Building Healthy About the ULI Toronto Urban Land Institute Places Initiative District Council The Urban Land Institute is a global, member- Around the world, communities face pressing ULI Toronto mission is to provide driven nonprofit research and education health challenges related to the built environment. leadership in the responsible use of organization whose mission is to provide For many years, ULI and its members have land and in creating and sustaining leadership in the responsible use of land been active players in discussions and projects thriving communities worldwide. and in creating and sustaining thriving that make the link between human health and We provide our members with communities worldwide. The Institute development; we know that health is a core independent forums for discussion maintains a membership representing a component of thriving communities. In January and debate about city building issues broad spectrum of interests and sponsors 2013, ULI’s board of directors approved a focus and best practices. ULI Toronto carries a wide variety of educational programs and on healthy communities as a cross-disciplinary forth that mission, while helping to forums to encourage an open exchange of theme for the organization. Through the Building shape a sustainable and thriving ideas and sharing of experience. ULI initiates Healthy Places Initiative, launched in July 2013, ULI future for the Toronto Region. We are research that anticipates emerging land use is working to promote health in projects and places supported by over 2000 public and trends and issues, provides advisory services, around the globe. Through the Building Healthy private sector members. and publishes a wide variety of materials Places Initiative, ULI is leveraging the power of ULI’s to disseminate information on land use global networks to shape PROJECTS AND PLACES development. in ways that improve the health of PEOPLE AND About the ULI SDRC COMMUNITIES. The organization is focusing on Established in 1936, the Institute today has four main areas of impact: Product Council more than 45,000 members and associates ULI SDRC Suburban Development and from some 92 countries, representing the entire • RAISING AWARENESS. Raise awareness of Redevelopment Product Council plays spectrum of the land use and development the connections between health and the built a key role in providing leadership in disciplines. Professionals represented environment in the real estate community, the responsible use of land and include developers, builders, property owners, and work to make sure health is a mainstream creating and sustaining thriving investors, architects, public officials, planners, consideration. communities worldwide. Through the real estate brokers, appraisers, attorneys, • DEFINING THE APPROACH. Help define and exchange of information and the engineers, financiers, academics, students, and share information about the design elements, sharing of best practices, SDRC offer librarians. programming strategies, materials, and other industry leaders vital opportunities to approaches that improve health for people. further ULI’s mission: ULI relies heavily on the experience of its • EXPLORING THE VALUE PROPOSITION. Build members. It is through member involvement understanding of the market and nonmarket • PROVIDE FOCUS on the major and information resources that ULI has factors at play in building healthy places, and social and economic goals and been able to set standards of excellence the value proposition of building and operating issues of the day in development practice. The Institute is in health-promoting ways. • PROVIDE INPUT to influence recognized internationally as one of America’s • ADVANCING THE STATE OF PRACTICE AND community attitudes and lifestyles most respected and widely quoted sources POLICY. Using the ULI membership as a lever, regarding development of objective information on urban planning, and in partnership with others, advance the • APPLY RESEARCH to innovative growth, and development. state of policy and practice. applications in land use planning About the City of Brampton About the University of Toronto About the City of Helsinki Ontario, Canada School of Cities Finland City of Brampton is Canada’s second fastest The University of Toronto School of Cities’ City of Helsinki is the capital of Finland and growing and the 9th largest city with a mission is to convene urban-focused the centre of the Helsinki Region, with some population of over 692,000 and 62% labour researchers, educators, students, practitioners, 600,000 inhabitants. In the 1960s, City force participation in 2020 (source: Esri). With institutions and the general public to explore Council made the shift to focus on building 20,000 new population per year, Brampton is and address complex urban challenges, with transit-oriented communities connected the fastest growing city in Ontario, growing at the aim of making cities, urban regions and by public transit. Design is a significant 3 times the Provincial average. It is also the communities more sustainable, prosperous distinctive factor that makes Helsinki stand youngest, most diverse city with 73% visible and just. Using a team-based approach out internationally. A good user experience minority, 115 languages spoken, and is a that spans disciplines at the University of of the city to its citizens is created through favourite landing ground for new immigrants. Toronto and involving partners from leading a combination of design, digitalism and international institutions, large-scale, long- dialogue. Helsinki strives to enable equality In 2018, City of Brampton Council endorsed term projects will tackle the most vexing and wellbeing in all districts. Social inequality the ‘Brampton 2040 Vision’, a forward-thinking urban challenges by seeking to understand the is reduced through high-quality teaching and blue-print for a new growth model based on fundamental components of a city and how early childhood education for children and transit-oriented communities connected by they interact. adolescents. The city promotes measures rapid transit systems, and a City ‘By-Design’, to help as many as possible get a foothold where design excellence is led by City Hall to School of Cities’ Creative Mixed-use Initiative in working life and be able to manage their ensure public interests, completed through develops framework for partnership through and their families’ lives on their own. Making co-design with developers and citizens, and a digital matchmaking platform and lays the use of immigrants’ knowledge and skills on made a prime factor in all approvals and groundwork for collaborations that transform the labour market and in society at large is a decisions for change. the region’s approach to city building. condition for successful integration. About This Report Contributing Authors Uptown Brampton Transit-Oriented Communities Toolkit explores a Yvonne Yeung collaborative city-building model to empower effective collaboration Manager, Urban Design, City of Brampton and alignment among public sector, private sector, non-profit and local Vice-Chair, ULI SDRC Product Council, Board member, ULI Toronto communities. Through an integrated design-based strategic framework, the Lead, ULI Toronto: Getting to Transit-Oriented Communities Initiative Toolkit aims to shift development culture and accelerate implementation by Ken Greenberg amplifying synergies, creating new combined benefits, and fostering lateral Member, ULI Toronto Advisory Committee thinking where solutions to one problem may reside in a different area. Principal, Greenberg Consultants October 16, 2020 by the Urban Land Institute Toronto District Council, Matti Siemiatycki Urban Land Institute SDRC Product Council, City of Brampton and University Interim Director, University of Toronto School of Cities of Toronto School of Cities Opportunity to deliver a Healthy, Transit-Oriented Region for GGH, the fastest growing global city region in North America. 7.6 million population & 4.7 million jobs 13 million Growth Public Health in 2020 population & • 2/3 of the growth is outside • $4 billion annual costs due to 6.3 million jobs of TO at TOCs connected by physical inactivity & obesity. rapid transit • $1 billion annual cost due to in 2041 • 3/4 of the growth are traffic related pollution. immigrant families Source: Statistics Canada Affordability Transit Investments • 1/3 to 1/2 of after-tax • $45+ billion capital program income is spent on cars for Regional Express Rail, Subways and Rapid Transit Source: Land Information Ontario, Metrolinx, Statistics Canada “Brampton is the fastest growing city in Ontario. We are growing at 3 times the Provincial average. We are working hard at City Hall to build champions across all levels of government and sectors to support smart growth and to advance collaboration and innovative partnerships.” Regional Councillor Martin Medeiros City of Brampton 4 Introduction The Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) is The Urban Land Institute (ULI) Toronto, in accelerating a transformation that could the fastest growing Global City Region in collaboration with the City of Brampton, apply to 80% of the developed world. North America,