• b) optimizing the long-term availability and use of land, resources, infrastructure, electricity generation facilities and transmission and distribution systems, and public service facilities;

• c) maintaining and, where possible, enhancing the vitality and viability of downtowns and mainstreets;

• d) encouraging a sense of place, by promoting well-designed built form and cultural planning, and by conserving features that help define character, including built heritage resources and cultural heritage landscapes;

• e) promoting the redevelopment of brownfield sites;

• f) providing for an efficient, cost-effective, reliable multimodal transportation system that is integrated with adjacent systems and those of other jurisdictions, and is appropriate to address projected needs to support the movement of goods and people;

• g) providing opportunities for sustainable tourism development;

• h) providing opportunities to support local food, and promoting the sustainability of agri-food and agri-product businesses by protecting agricultural resources, and minimizing land use conflicts;

• i) promoting energy conservation and providing opportunities for development of renewable energy systems and alternative energy systems, including district energy;

• j) minimizing negative impacts from a changing climate and considering the ecological benefits provided by nature; and

• k) encouraging efficient and coordinated communications and telecommunications infrastructure.

1.8    Energy Conservation, Air Quality and Climate Change

1.8.1    Planning authorities shall support energy conservation and efficiency, improved air quality, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change adaptation through land use and development patterns which:

1. promote compact form and a structure of nodes and corridors;

2. promote the use of active transportation and transit in and between residential, employment (including commercial and industrial) and institutional uses and other areas;

3. focus major employment, commercial and other travel-intensive land uses on sites which are well served by transit where this exists or is to be developed, or designing these to facilitate the establishment of transit in the future;

4. focus freight-intensive land uses to areas well served by major highways, airports, rail facilities and marine facilities;

5. improve the mix of employment and housing uses to shorten commute journeys and decrease transportation congestion;

6. promote design and orientation which:

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