Category: Building & Development

Climate change adaptation means planning for and acting on the anticipated impacts of climate change. It involves making changes to how we live and what we do before climate change impacts happen (anticipatory) as well as being ready to respond to increasingly likely and frequent extreme events (reactive).

Green Development Standards (GDS) are voluntary or mandatory measures created by municipalities to encourage design that is environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable. GDS are comprehensive principles to guide development at a level of planning and design that focuses on the community as a whole. These standards are integrated into the planning approvals process, where development applications are asked to meet certain criteria in the GDS.

The Building and Development Committee focuses on:

• Participation on Clearview Township’s newly created Climate Action Advisory Committee (CAAC)
• Supporting all efforts of Clearview Township to adopt Green Development Guidelines, like many other Ontario municipalities, to create a low carbon community. This is also a regional effort of collaboration involving many communities in the Southern Georgian Bay area.
• Supporting Clearview Township to develope a program to support residents retrofitting their houses to reduce carbon consumption.
• Providing a trusted site where residents can find related articles and reliable facts about carbon reduction and how they can help.