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For those of us living in York Region<\/a> and in the Greater Toronto Area, growth is one of those things that we cannot escape. In fact, the entire Province of Ontario is set to expand its population by nearly 30% over the next 30 years. Obviously, no one community is an island; growth in one area affects all of us.<\/p>\n To make sure all this growth has a positive impact on our communities, in 2005 the provincial government passed the Places to Grow Act<\/a>. This Act set out specific growth targets and densities for the province. It also produced individual growth plans for key regions, including the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region<\/a>. This plan is the basic rule book that is guiding planning for all the regions and municipalities in the region, including York Region and all its towns and cities. It calls for municipalities to look for ways to:<\/p>\n This plan was welcomed as great news by people who understand the need for sustainable, smart management of growth. In fact, although the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe<\/a> may sound like a bit of a mouthful, it has many admirers. It has won numerous awards \u2013 including from the Ontario Professional Planners Institute<\/a>, the Canadian Institute of Planners<\/a>, and the American Planning Association<\/a> (APA) as the first\u00a0recipient from outside the United States\u00a0of the APA\u2019s Daniel Burnham Award<\/a>. Watch a video<\/a> that showcases why they received the award. This is the most prestigious planning award in the United States, given to a comprehensive plan that, among other things, best represents the APA’s slogan of “Making Great Communities Happen”.<\/p>\n So we\u2019re pretty fortunate in York Region to have this strong policy framework, and we\u2019ve continued to build on it to shape the York Region of the future. It\u2019s a long-term plan, and as they say, Rome wasn\u2019t built in a day. But bit by bit, this future vision is taking shape, and vivaNext<\/a> is a key component.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those of us living in York Region and in the Greater Toronto Area, growth is one of those things that we cannot escape. In fact, the entire Province of Ontario is set to expand its population by nearly 30% over the next 30 years. Obviously, no one community is an island; growth in one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,62,19],"tags":[359,40,39,358,18,76,8,354,360,350,22,357,351,355,14,356,353,13,939,6,7,9],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-live-work-play","category-urban-planning","tag-american-planning-association","tag-brt","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-canadian-institute-of-planners","tag-city-planning","tag-congestion","tag-connections","tag-curb-sprawl","tag-daniel-burnham-award","tag-growth","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-professional-planners-institute","tag-places-to-grow-act","tag-protect-farmland","tag-rapid-transit","tag-reduce-traffic-gridlock","tag-revitalize-downtowns","tag-toronto","tag-urban-planning","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n