scholarly journals Creating “Complete Communities” Through Commercial Land Use Policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey Prentice
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Retail Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
New Form

The Ontario government has provided little guidance for municipalities regarding planning for retail development, despite expecting their land use policies to achieve the goals of sustainable and complete communities mandated through provincial policies. This paper examines the evolution of commercial land use policy over the past twenty years, in order to describe how municipalities have been planning commercial retail development to meet the objectives of the Growth Plan. During this time period, a new form of retail emerged known as “power retail”. This new form of retail has disrupted land use planners’ mandate to maintain the planned function of commercial hierarchies. Case studies of three municipalities in York Region (Vaughan, Richmond Hill and Markham) reveal that commercial land use policy has moved away from creating a commercial retail hierarchy based on planned function and have instead established an urban structure based on a hierarchy of intensification areas.

scholarly journals Creating “Complete Communities” Through Commercial Land Use Policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey Prentice
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Retail Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
New Form

The Ontario government has provided little guidance for municipalities regarding planning for retail development, despite expecting their land use policies to achieve the goals of sustainable and complete communities mandated through provincial policies. This paper examines the evolution of commercial land use policy over the past twenty years, in order to describe how municipalities have been planning commercial retail development to meet the objectives of the Growth Plan. During this time period, a new form of retail emerged known as “power retail”. This new form of retail has disrupted land use planners’ mandate to maintain the planned function of commercial hierarchies. Case studies of three municipalities in York Region (Vaughan, Richmond Hill and Markham) reveal that commercial land use policy has moved away from creating a commercial retail hierarchy based on planned function and have instead established an urban structure based on a hierarchy of intensification areas.

scholarly journals Rethinking planning in a digital marketplace: implications of e-commerce for land use policy in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Federici
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Retail Development ◽  
Goods Movement ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Industrial Real Estate ◽  
The City ◽  
Municipal Level

The intention of the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe is to create a planning framework that achieves complete communities and a thriving economy. However, there is minimal direction for municipalities planning for retail development to realize these goals. This is problematic, as e-commerce is disrupting the retail industry and is transforming the commercial and industrial real estate that support it. This paper examines e-commerce growth over the past thirteen years in Canada and demonstrates how this is prompting changes in both land markets through two case studies. Case studies identify implications that e-commerce will create for land use policy in Toronto moving forward. Recommendations presented to address these implications prompt upper levels of government to collect data to inform decision making at the municipal level. Recommendations for the City of Toronto are aimed at relaxing land use policies to create a strategy to facilitate efficient goods movement. Key words: E-commerce; Land Use Policy; Toronto, Canada

scholarly journals Rethinking planning in a digital marketplace: implications of e-commerce for land use policy in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Federici
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Retail Development ◽  
Goods Movement ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Industrial Real Estate ◽  
The City ◽  
Municipal Level

The intention of the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe is to create a planning framework that achieves complete communities and a thriving economy. However, there is minimal direction for municipalities planning for retail development to realize these goals. This is problematic, as e-commerce is disrupting the retail industry and is transforming the commercial and industrial real estate that support it. This paper examines e-commerce growth over the past thirteen years in Canada and demonstrates how this is prompting changes in both land markets through two case studies. Case studies identify implications that e-commerce will create for land use policy in Toronto moving forward. Recommendations presented to address these implications prompt upper levels of government to collect data to inform decision making at the municipal level. Recommendations for the City of Toronto are aimed at relaxing land use policies to create a strategy to facilitate efficient goods movement. Key words: E-commerce; Land Use Policy; Toronto, Canada

Land Use Policy and Urban Sprawl in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 331-349
Author(s):  
Waziri Babatunde Adisa
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Land Policies

Land use policy is central to the development of urban life and the emergence of cities. In many developed capitalist societies, both the planning and expansion of the cities are usually anchored on sustainable urban land policies such that the growth of urban sprawl is effectively controlled. In most developing countries, land use policies are not only disparate, they are usually not connected to the growth of cities because policy makers are after the money they could make from private investors. This chapter argues that though the coming of the Land Use Act 1978 ended the era of disparate land law regimes, it has, over the years, sealed the control of urban lands to state governors, a development that has created massive corruption and arbitrariness in the allocation and utilization of urban lands. This approach to land administration has also hindered effective and sustainable urban and regional planning in many Nigerian cities. This study suggests the review of the 1978 Land Use Act and effective utilization of modern technologies in the monitoring of urban sprawls.

scholarly journals Land Use Projections Under Alternative Policies: A Transition Matrix Approach

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Lindsay ◽  
Daniel L. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
Insight Into

As a result of accelerated growth during the past decade, land use change over time and its accompanying problems represents a policy area germane to New Hampshire. Accurate projections of the future pattern of land use would be helpful to decision makers responsible for land use policy. Such projections could assist policy makers either directly in formulating land use plans or indirectly in justifying the need (or lack of need) for overt land use planning. Future projections, based upon various alternative land use policy scenarios, will increase the quantitative supply of information to decision makers in a two-fold manner. First, such estimates provide an insight into the current trend in land use mix and, secondly, give an overview of what impacts various policies directly have upon land use change.

scholarly journals Um welchen Schutz der Vielfalt geht es? (Essay) | Which diversity is to be protected? (Essay)

2010 ◽  
Vol 161 (8) ◽  
pp. 291-294
Author(s):  
Mario F. Broggi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
The Moment

In order to operationalise the concept of biodiversity for biological variety, it has been applied at three levels: ecosystems, species and genetic diversity. In most cases the debate has been reduced to the aspect of the variety of species, ignoring the fact that the interactions are considerably more complex. In order to do justice to our responsibility for diversity, further efforts are needed, which could be subsumed under the heading “sustainable development”. At the moment, however, our ecological footprint is clearly too big. A strong focus must therefore be placed on such ecosystem services as fertility of the soil, carbon sequestration, maintenance of the hydrological balance, etc. That ultimately leads to economic arguments, which in turn will have massive impacts on current land use policies. Climate change and the increasing cultivation of biofuels are creating new effects, whose impacts on biodiversity were until recently unforeseeable. The underlying message must accordingly be that in the biodiversity debate we must focus on the landscape as such and an appropriate land use policy.

scholarly journals An Analysis Of Land Use Planning Policies For Cemeteries In Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Horizon ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
General Lack ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Planning Policies

Cemeteries are important to society and represent a key piece of the fabric of municipalities. In the Province of Ontario, land use policy as articulated through official plans often fails to recognize cemetaries as a necessary element of municipalities. This paper examines the official plans of selected municipalities to ascertain the extent to which appropriate land use policies are provided to guide the development of cemetaries. Official plans are reviewed for the ten largest municipalities as determined by their population, all adjacent municipalities, and all associated regional municipalities of counties. In total, the official plans of forty-six municipalities are reviewed. The analysis focuses on eight key policy criteria identified in this paper that relate to cemetary development: need, planning horizon, location, size, intensification, compatibility, environment, and permanency. The review confirms the hypothesis that there is a general lack of appropriate land use policy necessary to guide cemetery development in Ontario.

Rethink Where and How We Build

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Hill and
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Land Use Policies ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Communities tend to learn things the hard way, reacting in the wake of disasters rather than in anticipation of them. Virtually all existing infrastructure was designed to withstand the extremes that we have experienced in the past. Historically, scientists could not project the impacts of climate change with much precision, so our existing design choices and plans for infrastructure have largely ignored the risks posed by those impacts. This chapter identifies strategies that communities and individuals can adopt now to strengthen their building practices to endure new extremes driven by a changing climate. Among other things, it analyzes how improving building codes and standards and insisting on wiser land-use policies, especially in the absence of a “no more” moment, can serve as a bulwark against the destruction that climate-fueled disasters bring.

scholarly journals Hunting territories and land use overlap in sedentarised Baka Pygmy communities in southeastern Cameroon

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia E. Fa ◽  
Guillermo Ros Brull ◽  
Eva Ávila Martin ◽  
Robert Okale ◽  
François Fouda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wild Meat ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Utilization Distributions

AbstractA significant number of Baka Pygmies in Cameroon have been sedentarised in roadside villages, in contrast to their nomadic hunter-gatherer existence of the past. Although this change in lifestyle has had important consequences on health, most Baka villages still supplement their diets from forest products, especially wild meat. We used a combination of participatory methods and monitoring of individual hunters to map hunting territories in 10 Baka villages in southeastern Cameroon. From these, we determined whether wild meat extraction levels per village were related to the size of hunting territories, measured habitat use by hunters and finally defined the overlap between hunting territories and extractive industries in the region. Mapped village hunting areas averaged 205.2 ± 108.7 km2 (range 76.8–352.0 km2); all villages used a total of 2052 km2. From 295 tracks of 51 hunters, we showed that hunters travelled an average of 16.5 ± 13.5 km (range 0.9–89.8 km) from each village. Home ranges, derived from kernel utilization distributions, were correlated with village offtake levels, but hunter offtake and distance travelled were not significantly related, suggesting that enough prey was available even close to the villages. Hunters in all village areas exhibited a clear bias towards certain habitats, as indicated by positive Ivlev’s index of selectivity values. We also showed that all village hunting territories and hunter home ranges fall within mining and logging concessions. Our results are important for local understanding of forest land uses and to reconcile these with the other land uses in the region to better inform decisions concerning land use policy and planning.

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