Section B POLICY REVIEW

The community improvement plan aligns with the following provincial and municipal policy direction:

B.1 Planning Act - Provincial Interest

Section 2 of the Planning Act outlines the specific areas that are deemed to be of Provincial interest in planning matters. It is these area that inform the Provincial Policy Statement, and that municipalities must “have regard to” when making planning decisions, including adopting a community improvement plan. This CIP will have regard to the following matters of Provincial interest:

be sustainable, to support public transit and to be oriented to pedestrians (Section 2(q)); and,

B.2 Provincial Policy Statement

Part 2 of the Planning Act requires that, “decisions affecting planning matters shall be consistent with policy statements issued under the Act”. These policy statements are consolidated in most recent version of the Provincial Policy Statement, 2020, which came into effect May 1, 2020.

The policy direction that aligns with the direction of this CIP include: