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Getting on Board Acknowledgements Learning from planning and engagement The findings presented in this report were gathered around rapid transit projects in Ontario through background research and 23 interviews with residents, businesses, local groups, city staff, provincial ©2017 The Pembina Institute agencies and elected officials from December 2016 to All rights reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce all or January 2017. Please see Appendix 1 for a full list of part of this publication for non-commercial purposes, as long participants. as you cite the source. A special thank you to Michelle German at Evergreen for Recommended citation: Wiginton, Lindsay. Getting on Board: her partnership and collaboration in this research. Learning from planning and engagement around rapid transit project in Ontario, The Pembina Institute, 2017.
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This report was produced by the Pembina Institute with support from the Government of Ontario and Evergreen.
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2 Getting on Board: Learning from planning and engagement around rapid transit projects in Ontario Getting on Board Learning from planning and engagement around rapid transit projects in Ontario
Contents
Executive summary...... 4 Introduction...... 6 Getting on board: Infographic...... 8
Chapter 1: Public and stakeholder engagement ...... 9 The importance of engagement ...... 10
Engagement challenges...... 11
Success factors ...... 12
Chapter 2: Achieving transit-supportive land use and design...... 19 The importance of land use planning and design...... 19
Tools for transit-supportive planning ...... 20
Land use planning approaches in the case study communities...... 21
Challenges in transit-supportive planning ...... 25
Success factors ...... 25
Where we go from here...... 29 Appendix 1: Interview participants ...... 30 Appendix 2: Case study projects...... 31
3 Getting on Board: Learning from planning and engagement around rapid transit projects in Ontario Photo: City of Mississauga of City Photo: Participants at a stakeholder meeting for the Hurontario LRT.
Executive summary
The current roll-out of rapid transit infrastructure in Ontario is one of the biggest infrastructure builds in the province’s history, with over $30 billion in investment from the Province of Ontario and major inputs from the federal and municipal governments. New transit projects are moving forward in an urban and social landscape characterized by greater public expectations toward governments, changing values around the environment, an increasingly diverse society, and rapid urban growt