City of Pickering Official Plan- Edition 6

This “vision” dealt with five interrelated themes:
evolving needs
healthy settings
urban and rural sustainability
unique community
global connectivity
Evolving needs recognizes evolution as a fact of life. It
acknowledges that as time goes on, people change,
communities change and needs change.
Healthy settings are a prerequisite to healthy communities.
They also make it easier for people to meet their needs, and
fulfill their aspirations. Healthy settings also need to be
maintained for future generations so that the needs and
aspirations of those that will come after us can also be
addressed.
Urban and rural sustainability acknowledges the City’s
fundamental duality as both an urban and a rural place. The
City’s urban area and rural area both contribute to the
well-being of the community, and both must be sustained and
enhanced over the long term.
Unique community recognizes the City’s distinctive
landscape, history, location and settlement pattern as
valuable assets. Properly nurtured, these assets can set
Pickering apart from other municipalities. The City’s
unique identity must be fostered and promoted.
Global connectivity recognizes that Pickering, no matter
how unique, is also part of a larger evolving region,
surrounded by a larger and evolving area (the Greater
Toronto Area), within a changing world. What happens
within the City’s borders can be significantly influenced by
larger social, economic and environmental events.
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