{"id":2697,"date":"2022-08-01T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cac.cmohr.ca\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2023-10-20T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:44:15","slug":"halton-air-quality-monitoring-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/halton-air-quality-monitoring-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton, Richmond Hill and Vaughan Sustainability Metrics Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">The municipalities of Vaughan, Brampton, and Richmond Hill collaboratively developed a Sustainability Metrics Program to evaluate and score the environmental sustainability performance of new development applications. It includes a menu of metrics that applicants can select from, with each metric worth a certain number of points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\">The metrics are organized into four categories encompassing the major elements of sustainable community development. There are three levels of sustainability performance, of which applicants must achieve a minimum threshold score to proceed through the application process.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #0e101a;\"> The sustainability metrics encompass healthy, well-designed communities with integrated green spaces, pedestrian and transit networks and offers a variety of options for housing, transportation, and employment. Sustainability metrics help municipalities alleviate pressures from population growth and urbanization by using infrastructure and resources efficiently.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clean Air Council continues to facilitate efforts to support municipalities in developing and advancing their sustainability metrics. Clean Air Partnership has developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Updated-GDS-toolkit-040221.pdf\">Towards Low Carbon Communities toolkit<\/a>, which provides a milestone framework to support municipalities to advance their sustainability metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The municipalities of Vaughan, Brampton, and Richmond Hill collaboratively developed a Sustainability Metrics Program to evaluate and score the environmental sustainability performance of new development applications. It includes a menu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7936,"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/7936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.cleanairpartnership.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}