Growing With The Flow: Planning For Smart Growth In Ontario Through Water & Wastewater Infrastructure Service Provision

10.32920/ryerson.14646207 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jeffrey J. Thompson

Keyword(s):

Rapid Growth ◽

Service Provision ◽

Management Strategy ◽

Regional Growth ◽

Growth Management ◽

Smart Growth ◽

Adequate Supply ◽

Wastewater Infrastructure ◽

Water And Wastewater

Ontario’s Greater Golden Horseshoe is experiencing rapid growth that if unchecked could perpetuate "sprawl" and threaten the Region’s sustainability. To manage this growth, the Province adopted a program of "Smart Growth" and prepared a regional Growth Plan amidst a suite of complementary legislation. Municipalities are now expected to accommodate high levels of growth with an adequate supply of water and the necessary infrastructure to support increased demand. This invites the question of whether growth can be sustained through infrastructure upgrades, or whether absolute hydrologic limits will reshape regional growth. To investigate this, two strands of research are merged, which have traditionally been carried out individually - Smart Growth and "Planning by the Pipe". This paper argues that Ontario should align its growth management strategy with the servicing capacity and lifespan of water and wastewater infrastructure as well as the finances required for their maintenance and expansion. This consideration must not only reflect preferred areas for growth but the region’s hydrological capacity to support the increased demand in these areas.

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Protecting water and wastewater infrastructure from cyber attacks

Frontiers of Earth Science ◽

10.1007/s11707-011-0199-5 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Srinivas Panguluri ◽

William Phillips ◽

John Cusimano

Keyword(s):

Cyber Attacks ◽

Wastewater Infrastructure ◽

Water And Wastewater

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Smart growth characteristics and the spatial pattern of multifamily housing in US metropolitan areas

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098016676008 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 54 (15) ◽

pp. 3500-3523 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Andrew McMillan ◽

Sugie Lee

Keyword(s):

Growth Management ◽

Smart Growth ◽

Growth Index ◽

Physical Characteristics ◽

Growth Characteristics ◽

Multifamily Housing ◽

Development Patterns ◽

Suburban Areas ◽

The Usa ◽

Us Census

This paper examines the relationship between smart growth policies and other social and physical characteristics and the supply of multifamily housing units in 202 core-based metropolitan statistical areas (CBSAs) in the USA. Data for this study were gathered from the GeoLytics Neighborhood Change Database for the 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 US Census. The smart growth characteristics of each CBSA are determined by a smart growth index and a catalogue of urban containment rankings, while other social and physical characteristics are obtained from the US Census. This allows us to examine potential differences in development patterns between CBSAs with varying levels of sprawl and growth containment policies. Two regression models are used to determine statistically significant relationships between multifamily development patterns and growth management policies, as well as other social and physical characteristics. The results indicate that high levels of sprawl are associated with relatively fewer multifamily units, especially in suburban areas. In addition, several population demographics that may potentially benefit from multifamily units, such as senior citizens, the population in poverty and smaller households, are less likely to live in areas with higher rates of multifamily units. These findings indicate that planners and policymakers should consider the needs of more diverse communities when planning for housing, especially in suburban areas, where housing diversity is constricted.

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The Transition of Growth Management Policy and Smart Growth Policy in Oregon State

Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan ◽

10.11361/journalcpij.46.1 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Kota Kawasaki

Keyword(s):

Growth Management ◽

Smart Growth ◽

Management Policy ◽

Growth Policy

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Assessing growth management strategy: A case study of the largest rural-urban region in India

Land Use Policy ◽

10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.10.025 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 81 ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Manisha Jain ◽

Artem Korzhenevych ◽

Karina Pallagst

Keyword(s):

Management Strategy ◽

Growth Management ◽

Urban Region

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Detroit’s bankruptcy: treating the symptom, not the cause

Why Detroit Matters ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447327868.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

George Galster

Keyword(s):

Federal Government ◽

Regional Growth ◽

Growth Management ◽

Tax Rates ◽

Tax Base ◽

White Middle Class ◽

Death Spiral ◽

Expressway Construction ◽

The City

In 2013 Detroit became the largest municipality to declare bankruptcy. Unfortunately, bankruptcy does not treat the long-term cause of Detroit’s financial crisis: the ongoing fiscal death spiral triggered by loss of industrial, commercial and residential tax base starting in the 1950s. The first loss came from manufacturers who abandoned older factories in the city in favor of suburban locations. The second came from the federal government, whose guarantees for FHA-VA mortgages and subsidies for expressway construction spurred suburbanization of Detroit’s (overwhelmingly white) middle class. Detroit trimmed services and raised tax rates in response. But this made it an increasingly uncompetitive location, thereby further contracting its property and income tax bases, forcing still more cuts in services and increases in tax rates. What is required to break out of the fiscal death spiral in which Detroit finds itself is substantially more federal and state revenue sharing and regional growth management.

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