1.6.11 Energy Supply

1.6.11.1

• Planning authorities should provide opportunities for the development of energy supply including electricity generation facilities and transmission and distribution systems, district energy, and renewable energy systems and alternative energy systems, to accommodate current and projected needs.

1.7 Long-Term Economic Prosperity

1.7.1 Long-term economic prosperity should be supported by:

1. promoting opportunities for economic development and community investment-readiness;

2. encouraging residential uses to respond to dynamic market-based needs and provide necessary housing supply and range of housing options for a diverse workforce;

3. optimizing the long-term availability and use of land, resources, infrastructure and public service facilities;

4. maintaining and, where possible, enhancing the vitality and viability of downtowns and mainstreets;

5. 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;

6. promoting the redevelopment of brownfield sites;

7. 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;

8. providing opportunities for sustainable tourism development;

9. sustaining and enhancing the viability of the agricultural system through protecting agricultural resources, minimizing land use conflicts, providing opportunities to support local food, and maintaining and improving the agri-food network;

10. promoting energy conservation and providing opportunities for increased energy supply;

11. minimizing negative impacts from a changing climate and considering the ecological benefits provided by nature; and

12. 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 preparing for the impacts of a changing climate through land use and development patterns which: