The City of Collingwood’s Sustainable Strategy delivers a basis for sustainable policymaking that is built upon the solid groundwork of the already underway work at the city. The plan is taking into consideration the policies, procedures and ongoing activities at the city. The city of Collingwood is likely to experience native forces of change including the changing demographic and unprecedented population growth and worldwide forces such as climate change and commodity prices rising over the next forty years.
The sustainability process began in 2005 to address these challenges and exploit on potential chances that include reduction of green gas emissions, developing and cleaning up brownfield sites. This is the use of our metropolis and other means to meet our needs as a community and ambitions and best improve the exclusive nature of our municipal, without bargaining the comfort of our forthcoming generations. This is a viewpoint involving longstanding thinking and a fair policymaking process. For countless years now, the town council and staff have had to make verdicts that have propelled the city to this point.
The Characteristics of A Sustainable Collingwood
The following features will enable city to be an equally balanced community both now and in the next forty years.
• Affordable places to live;
• Solid investment in infrastructure;
• A high degree of collective identity and social cohesion;
• A compact urban form and protected natural features;
• A high level of alternative modes and walkability of transportation besides single vehicle use;
• A memorable and valuable experience for visitors
• Usable land from remediated brownfields
• Clean water and air through reduced greenhouse gas emissions
• Accessible and affordable opportunities for involvement in culture, arts, and recreation activities;
• Viable local jobs;
• Productive and meaningful partnerships with other orders of stakeholders and governments;
• The ability to retain and attract a healthy and diverse mix of inhabitants of all the ages, ethnicities, and gender;
• The stable and transparent municipality leaderships and governance structures
Our Projected Goals And Engagements
These are the mutual goals that when acted upon will move move the city to a workable course and help upkeep a high quality of life for the inhabitants. It addresses four posts of sustainability. The trials facing the city and integrate a series of actions recommended during the community conference process. These examples are not exhaustive but a representation of the full range of public service delivery in Collingwood.
Endorsements for the actions to achieve the pledge to sustainability are planned under the following goals:
• protecting the natural environment and land
• Reducing resource use
• Refining means of mobility
• Consolidation the economy
• Improving our heritage, arts, culture and regeneration opportunities
• Strengthening the position of the society’s social agenda.
Goal: Protecting the land and natural environment
The development of a community regarding density is contributes to measuring the community sustainability. Members documented the present tendency of building single detached houses and lesser density growths in the city center and nearby agrarian land forms the highest environmental impact than more compact growth and infilling within the city. Participants were interested in a mix of types of houses natural tradition areas, and chief farming land. For sustainable development, by-laws were developed to realize a better land and environmental protection.
Goal: Improving Means Of Mobility
The sustainable transit and transportation options became main worries. To members, it intended reliable, safe, affordable, green, efficient and frequent ways of moving around the town and crossways.
Recommended actions were: improving and generating a municipal that is safe and comfortable to get around by biking or walking, planning on the road network that allows cars and pedestrians move about the commonwealth, and utilize the present rail and groundwork.
Goal: Reduce Resource Use
This is always about the use of energy, the amount of light water used, and waste going to landfill. Numerous matters arisen about air and water quality in the city. They then debated the extent to which energy conservations and the quality of air programs be executed. The overall vision is that Collingwood should be the leader in energy conservation in this generation in the use of renewable energy, clean, achieves a substantial portion of the energy needs of the community.
Recommended actions were: to reduce and conserve energy through energy savings techniques and alternative energy options, to continue to minimize the waste amounts that should be landfilled and examine the consumption patterns.