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Environment committee I can't speak really to the liability issues, but I think that programming is very important to getting people to interact there. The Evergreen Brick Works has a lot of activities, whether they are for school kids coming in for art lessons and then using the fields as venues or
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee Okay, I will talk really fast. In the examples I showed, the initial impetus wasn't from the federal government. It was local. Whether it was Rouge Park Alliance or the Evergreen folks, it was local. They went and looked for funding. If the federal government is open to partner
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee Yes, I'm sorry, it's Sugar Beach, and HTO beach is the one a little further down.
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee I think that was David's comment, so I'll pass it over to him.
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee Very closely; I mean, we have a lot of work, and it's on either the public sector side or the development side. It's both sides of the fence.
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee No, but I think that Waterfront Toronto is actually coming to fruition now. Over the last year a number of really fantastic parks have opened. There's Cherry Beach, but the most important, I think, from a sustainability point of view is Sherbourne Common, which is a stormwater ma
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee My earpiece was not working. Could you repeat the question?
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee There must be a balance. I do not have any statistics on that, but I feel that everyone has to be able to have access to green spaces and places to play and enjoy nature. It could be in ravines, beside water or even in parks next to schools. But there has to be a good balance, ot
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee I just want to say that this is an excellent example of heritage and sustainability—you can go two slides down—and there's also a new, modern LEED Platinum building that integrates the historic and the sustainability aspects.
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee We're going to now give you three examples of urban parks. The first is Rouge Park, which is a national urban park. It comprises over 40 square kilometres and spans the communities of Toronto and Pickering, at the middle, really, of our greater Toronto area. One of the most impor
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor
Environment committee Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. My name is Andrea Gabor, and I am the president of the Canadian Institute of Planners. I'm accompanied by David Wise, who is the chair of our planning advisory committee. Unfortunately, Steven Brasier, our executive director, i
October 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Andrea Gabor