Chapter A - Introduction - City of Pickering

Servicing - Ensuring that the network of utilities required to serve the new urban
community minimizes impacts on the environment, maximizes efficiency and use of
existing infrastructure, and minimizes lifecycle costs. Provide preliminary servicing cost
estimates for all Regional and City infrastructure required to be constructed within the
Central Pickering Development Planning Area and for the development of the urban
community. This may include the cost of infrastructure external to the Development
Planning Area that may be required to service the development of the urban community.
Employment - The provision of high-quality employment opportunities that reflect the
needs of the community, with the identification of sufficient employment lands to
generate approximately one job for every two residents with 30,500 jobs by 2031 and up
to 35,000 jobs through long term intensification.
Housing and Mixed-Use - The provision of a range of housing types and densities that
meets the needs of a diverse population, complements surrounding communities, and
accommodates an eventual population of 61,000 residents by of 2031 and up to 70,000
residents through long term intensification at a population density that is transitsupportive.
The structural elements of the CPDP are shown on four schedules – Land Use (Figure
A4.1), the Natural Heritage System (Figure A4.2), the Transportation Network (Figure
A4.3) and the Servicing System (Figure A4.4).
The CPDP creates fifteen (15) compact urban neighbourhoods that will provide a range
of residential, mixed-use and employment uses integrated with a Natural Heritage
System consisting of significant natural features - woodlands, fields, wetlands, valleys
and streams. The preservation of the heavily forested West Duffins Creek valley will
retain an important linkage between the Oak Ridges Moraine and Lake Ontario. CPDP
Amendment No. 1 and the City of Pickering’s OPA No. 22 enable the combining of these
neighbourhoods for approval purposes into six neighbourhoods as further outlined in
Chapter J of this MESPA.
4.2 CPDP NATURAL HERITAGE SYSTEM
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in cooperation with the Toronto & Region
Conservation Authority (TRCA) identified a Natural Heritage System (NHS) for the
CPDP Planning Area. The NHS boundary encompasses natural heritage features,
buffers and corridors to link natural features with each other and to those located outside
of the Planning Area. The NHS as depicted in the CPDP is shown on Figure A4.2.
The NHS represents approximately 53% of Seaton and 54% of the CPDP Planning
Area. It includes wetlands, significant woodlands, the Lake Iroquois shoreline, valley
systems to stable top-of-bank, Environmentally Significant Areas, locations of Species at
Risk, groundwater seepage/discharge areas, linkage corridors and buffers.
The limits of portions of the NHS in the MESP Study Area were established in the field
with representatives of the Ministry of Natural Resources, TRCA and the City. They
were subsequently field surveyed. It is understood that these lands will be retained in the
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