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(b) encourage the affordable component of
new residential construction to be in the
early phases of a development;
(c) encourage the provision of housing for
people with special needs, including
assisted housing for low income people,
seniors, emergency accommodation, and
other forms of supportive housing;
(d) zone to permit the operation of group
homes within all residential areas;
(e) zone to permit accessory apartments,
garden suites, and rooming homes where
appropriate; and
(f) support providers of assisted and special
needs housing, including the Durham
Region Non-Profit Housing Corporation,
in the provision and integration of
assisted and special needs housing in the
City.
CITY POLICY
Affordable and Special Needs
Housing (cont’d)
6.5 City Council shall maximize the efficiency of
existing infrastructure and minimize the
consumption of vacant land by establishing a
target of approximately 11,500 additional
residential units within the South Pickering
Urban Area by the year 2016, accommodated
by encouraging,
(a) major intensification in Mixed Use Areas
as designated on Schedule I;
(b) infill development of vacant or
underutilized blocks of land;
(c) in Mixed Use Areas and Residential
Areas, re-development and conversion of
non-residential uses to residential uses,
including the addition of residential uses
in mixed-use forms; and
(d) methods for the provision of compact
housing form, with regard to housing
type, architectural design and
cost-effective development standards,
where technically feasible.
CITY POLICY
Infill, Intensification and
Re-development
Intensification provides an
opportunity to both increase
and diversify the housing
stock in the City. Almost all
intensification activity
occurring in Pickering over
the next twenty years will be
on those lands designated as
Mixed Use Areas, not low
density residential areas.
Infilling occurs in low
density areas on vacant or
underutilized parcels of
land. The effect of this will
be to improve the level and
range of services available to
most residents, without
changing the character of
their neighbourhoods.
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