THE DISTRICT PLANNING PROGRAM AND PLAN PREPARATION
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THE DISTRICT PLANNING PROGRAM
The District Planning Program, as envisioned in the General Municipal Plan, is a new approach to community planning and urban development. Under District Planning, the City has been divided into six districts, • with two sub-areas within each district (see the accompanying Map). The District Planning Program has three broad components. i)
Delivery of planning services to all neighbourhoods in the City which will include: •
a reliable contact for planning information;
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information for individuals or groups preparing or reviewing development proposals; and
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access to detailed information available on a neighbourhood.
ii) Preparation of six District Plans, including any additional implementation activities. iii)Preparation of Area Plans, Neighbourhood Plans and Special Studies. 1.
Program Focus
The preparation of district plans provides a focus for the Program, incorporating both (i) land use planning and the implementation of the GMP growth strategy, and (ii) the integration and rationalization of the delivery of city services. The resultant outputs are outlined in the accompanying chart. 2.
Program Benefits and Effects
By providing planning services at both the district and neighbourhood levels, the District Planning Program will yield a number of benefits: • Improved Planning Services - planning services to all residents of the City, not just to a few critical areas. • Cost Effective Delivery of Services within the Same Resources because the coverage is much greater, planning at the district level is not more expensive than planning for only a few selected neighbourhoods. - 1 -
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DISTRICT PLANNING OUTPUTS
POLICY INPUTS TRANSPLAN, Parks & Recreation General Municipal Master Plan, Other Plan Policies & Major City Policies/ Growth Strategy Programs/Projects • Revisions A
DISTRICT PLAN • District Plan Policies • Generalized Future Land Use Map • Land Use Guidelines • Growth Targets • Implementation Actions/Items within District Plan
MAJOR IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS/ITEMS (OUTSIDE OF DISTRICT PLAN)
OTHER POSSIBLE IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS/ITEMS (OUTSIDE OF DISTRICT PLAN
Input, Development and Review of New:• • Area Redevelopment Plans • Neighbourhood Planning Studies • Special Planning Studies • City-Sponsored Area Structure Plans Public Participation and Information (ongoing planning service)
Amendments to Existing: • Area Redevelopment Plans • Area Structure Plans • General Municipal Plan • Land Use Bylaw • Regional Plan Input, Development and Maintenance of:
Input to Day-to-Day Decisions: • Suitable Data Base • System of Monitoring/Review of Hierarchy of Plans, i.e. ARPs, ASPs, Neighbourhood Plans and District Plans
• Redistrictings • Development Permits • Public Works • Capital Budgeting • Major City Policies, Programs & Projects
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• Solutions to Issues Affecting More Than One Neighbourhood planning issues such as transportation problems and redevelopment pressures related to commercial strips and LRT corridors are more effectively resolved at district rather than neighbourhood levels. • A More Certain City Development Pattern - better application of the city-wide policies of the General Municipal Plan to the neighbourhood level; the improved coordination and delivery of city services, thereby providing more certainty to the future development pattern of the City. • Improved Opportunities for Citizen Involvement - opportunities for ongoing citizen involvement in planning matters throughout the City; and citizen involvement in the preparation and evaluation of district plans, neighbourhood plans and other planning studies. To civic departments, District Planning will potentially mean: - a means of illustrating major city policies in one primary document, the General Municipal Plan; - an efficient and consistent system for gathering and using information on the city's growth and development; - the use of an ongoing process of citizen involvement in planning and other related matters; and - improving the co-ordination and rationalization of the delivery of city services. To City residents, District Planning will mean: the preparation of land use plans for neighbourhoods, special areas and districts; increased access to planning information, including a reliable contact for this information and for linking up with other city departments; - assistance to individuals and community groups in reviewing development proposals; - improved opportunities- for ongoing citizen involvement in the planning process; and better opportunities for resolving the issues which affect a neighbourhood or collection of neighbourhoods.
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B. DISTRICT PLAN PREPARATION District Plan preparation, one output of the District Planning Program will provide the link between the growth projected by the General Municipal Plan and the regulation of development on specific sites through the Land_ Use Bylaw. District plans will endeavour to refine the General Municipal Plan's policies and to implement these policies through the more specific and detailed guidance which district plans can provide to the General Municipal Plan, neighbourhood plans, area (structure/redevelopment) plans and the Land Use Bylaw. 1.
Relationship to the GM?, Other City Policies, Neighbourhood Planning Activities and Implementation Mechanisms The District Plan is a more detailed policy instrument of the General Municipal Plan itself. It will avoid redistricting and other regulatory provisions, within the Plan document itself. If necessary, such regulations and prescriptions can be accommodated in technical appendices/implementation documents, as bylaw (LUB) amendments or in other forms. Portions of the District Plans will be incorporated into the General Municipal Plan (G.M.P.) by way of amendment. In addition, there will be other miscellaneous amendments elsewhere in the G.M.P. arising from District Plan preparation. Finally, District Plan preparation may be input into a review/revision of the General Municipal Plan, which is to be the subject of a major review by the Long Range Planning Branch of the Planning Department. District Plans will incorporate major city plans, policies and programs - Transplan, Parks and Recreation Master Plan, etc. - and will provide for their integration. District Plans will provide a further support and guide to further detailed neighbourhood planning activities (ARPs, ASPs, special studies and projects). District Plans will nevertheless relieve much of the demand for ARPs by helping to resolve planning and related issues. District Plans will also identify criteria and areas for further detailed area planning. Each District Plan will contain general guidelines or principles regarding implementation and monitoring. The primary implementation mechanisms will be contained in separate documents and revised annually.
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Plan Preparation Process and Participation A model of the is illustrated the charts are which may vary
district plan preparation process and participation in the accompanying charts. It should be noted that based on current staff and budgetary allocations for the different districts.
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MODEL DISTRICT PLAN PREPARATION PROCESS 111984
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9 months Draft Plan ' --Plan Approval Preparation -44 Phase
3 months 6 month 6 months 11 . Completed Development of Goals & Objectives 1 Issues Identification 1 Initiation and Alternatives Identification ---114--10 , 4 -Phase PHASES/H.1E FRAME 4---- Programming --9*-: Phase Phase Phase '
PLAN PREPARATION
Initiate Contacts within Actlinistration and r Atimunity/ Inter3t Groups
Identify Problems, Issues, Opportunities through Working Paper Series
Collect Base Data & Analyze
V Prepare Neighbourhood Information Sheets & District Profiles
Prepare Terms of Reference for the Plan
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PUBLIC CONTACT Initial Contacts with Community/ Interest Groups
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Develop Set of Goals & Objectives
Develop & Evaluate Alternative Strategies/ Concept Plans
Prepare and Review Statement of Goals & Objectives
Review & Recommend a Preferred Alternative
Approval of Develop & Evaluate Alternative Policies 4 District Plan
Review & Recommend Desired Policies
Prepare & Review a Draft Plan
Prepare Issues Report
,ISSUES IDENTIFICATION Working Papers Neighbourhood Information Sheets District Profile Issues Report
DEVELOPMENT OF ALTERNATIVES Alternatives Report
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Plan Policies & Strategies
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District Plan Outline The General Municipal Plan presently consists of Volumes I and II. While Volume I elaborates City objectives and policies in Bylaw 6000, Volume II contains a number of policy reports and contributes background information.
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As previously stated, portions of District Plans will be incorporated in the General Municipal Plan by way of amendments to Volumes I and II and will be accompanied by other amendments throughout both texts. The major amendments, to be incorporated into both Volumes I and II are subsequently outlined. On the following pages, an outline of a possible table of contents is provided for those portions of Volumes I and 1.1 which will comprise the primary elements of each of the six District Plans. GMP Amendments - Volume I a) Part V District Plans (see page 9) - will contain six District Plans, including primary objectives and policy statements as well as general implementation guidelines and principles for each district. b) Part I Component 3. District Planning - introduction to and description of the District Planning Program. c) Part I Component 1. The Growth Strategy - Underlying Philosophy. d) Part I Component 2. The Growth Strategy - Key Components. e) Part IV Component 17. Implementation. f) Part IV Component 18. Monitoring and Managing the Plan. GMP Amendments - Volume II a)
Policy Report #X or a Series of Reports (see page 10) - will correspond largely to Volume I Part V by providing background and further elaboration of District Plan objectives and policies for each district. This will include discussion of general implementation guidelines and principles for each district. Policy Report #3. District Planning System - will correspond largely to Volume I Component 3. District Planning.
c) Policy Report #1. Growth and Development. d) Policy Report #2. The Growth Strategy. e) Policy Report #15. Implementation Strategy. -8-
VOLUME I, GENERAL MUNICIPAL PLAN DISTRICT PLANNING AMENDMENTS
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Volume I, Part V District Plans
District Plan Concepts and Policies 110
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philosophy, goals & objectives, identification of 5-20 most critical concepts, i.e., growth targets, transportation concept plan, parks and open space development, general development pattern. land use development concept - growth targets, generalized future land use map.
- one for each District which conceptually identifies broad planning concepts and components - based on principle: "let us see the forest before the tree"
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planning units; i.e. neighbourhood units
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planning units; i.e. commercial strips, shopping centres
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planning units; i.e. major industrials areas and parks
Land Use: Parks, Recreation and Open Space Land Use: Institutions and Public Services Transportation and Utilities Urban Design and' Built Form
specific policies and concepts as they are created and evolve from a series of documents/ sources: i) neighbourhood information sheets ii) district profiles; iii) working papers series; iv) issues report - note that the land use designations will be further subdivided and analyzed spatially in terms of planning units; i.e. neighbourhood units, commercial strips, major industrial areas, etc.
Natural and Special Environments -
man-made and natural environments
Human Development and Social Services Community Development .,
District Plan Land Use Guidelines -
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land use guides such as the growth targets, generalized 'uture land use map and designations, criteria for further detailed area planning procedural and other specific rules for the generalized future land use designations, selecting neighbourhoods/areas for 'urther detailed area planning.
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- avoids being prescriptive and facilities implementation by establishing procedures/rules, particularly in respect to the Land Use Guidelines.
VOLUME II, GENERAL MUNICIPAL PLAN =DISTRICT PLANNING AMENDMENTS 1.
Volume II, new Policy Report or Series of Reports â&#x20AC;˘
District Profile and Issues - synopsis of major historical, and contemporary trends in major land uses, municipal services and community/urban form - synopsis of historical land use population, sociological and community factors relationship of communities, within the district to one another - relationship of districts, within the city, to one another - analysis/synthesis of issues - identification of planning and other opportunities/issues
District Plan Policies and Concepts See Volumes I Part V (pages 9 and 10) -
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each section would be further elaborated through a statement and justification of (i) Plan objectives and (ii) Plan policies. . the rationale for specific land use guidelines and principles will also be explained and/or cross referenced to specific Plan objectives and/or policies.
- further background on each district regarding history, the place and the people found in supporting background documents.
C. WORKING PAPER SERIES The Working Paper Series, identified in the 'issue identification' phase of District Plan preparation will be prepared on a district-wide level. These Papers will serve several functions: a. b. c. d. * e.
as background information to the District Plan; as a focal point for community discussion; as a public information document; as information to various Civic Departments; and as a forum for discussing major City policies, programs and projects
The Working Paper Series will include a number of topics: a. b. c. d. e. f.
Population Land Use Transportation Parks and Recreation Schools Utilities
The format for each Paper will be determined for each topic area but should include: a.
Introduction - Background and analysis of trends, - Major City policies, programs and projects.
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Issues - As initially identified/perceived by the various communities/interest groups and by the City and civic administration.
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District Planning - Continuing the process of resolving issues, including identifying new issues.
A Summary Paper, for the Working Paper Series will incorporate trends from each of the papers and will help to summarize anticipated issues and concerns for the District. Further, a Summary Paper will be used to develop a District Profile.