Port Lands Acceleration Initiative & Employment Strategy
Port Lands Acceleration Initiative & Employment Strategy
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Location
Toronto, ON
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Client
Waterfront Toronto / City of Toronto / Toronto and Region Conservative Authority
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Dates
2012
Indigenous Rights Holders and Historical Occupants
Treaty Lands
Toronto Purchase Treaty 13 (1805)
Indigenous Rights Holders
Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
Historical Occupation
Anishinaabe, Attiwonderonk, Haudenosaunee, Huron Wendat
*Treaty, territory and historical occupation information has been included for educational purposes, and is meant to show respect for these caregivers. This information is not intended to be a finite view, nor is it intended to represent legal rights or definitive boundaries. To learn more about these matters, please contact the nations in question.
SvN led the urban design and landscape study for the Port Lands Acceleration Initiative (PLAI). The Port Lands are a unique and valuable asset for the City of Toronto. The PLAI study focused on identifying a financially viable strategy to realize the full potential of the 840 acre site. The costs of flood protection and required infrastructure for future development are a challenge. The study identified ways to phase the revitalization process and involved a review of the Lower Don Lands Planning Framework and proposed changes to the plan to the re-naturalized river.
Outcomes of the study have included:
- an updated open space framework, including the phasing of the construction of a naturalized river mouth tied to development and flood phasing;
- the identification of precincts including the character and density associated with each precinct, requirements for parks and other community facilities within the plan area;
- a mobility plan; and,
- infrastructure requirements and phasing.
