OPA 226 - Town of Caledon

as
part of the approval process and to raise awareness of
public health issues related to planning through partnerships
with the public and private sectors
The Town of Caledon as a
large rural area containing
settlements of various sizes and functions including a number
of emerging urban centres is a community of communities
The Town is planned as a whole to function as a complete
community providing the necessary living accommodation
employment and services to its residents This is the basis for
the Growth Management Strategy described in Section 4 1 1
4 1 10 2 Obiectives
4 1 10 2 1 To plan Caledon as a
complete community that is well
designed offers transportation choices aocommodates people
at all stages of life and has an
appropriate mix of housing a
good range of jobs and easy access to retail and services to
meet daily needs
4 1 10 2 2 To protect and promote human health through community
planning and design
4 1 10 3 Policies
4 1 10 3 1 Community plans and Secondary Plans will contain policies to
ensure that Caledon s settlement areas are
planned
in such a
way as to contribute to the development of Caledon as a
complete community are well designed and offer
transportation choices an appropriate mix of housing and
range of jobs and provide goods and services in keeping with
their function within the hierarchy of settlements set out in
Section 4 1 1 of this Plan
4 1 10 3 2 Caledon will participate jointly with the Region of Peel and area
municipalities in the preparation of an assessment tool for
evaluating the public health impacts of development proposals
4 1 10 3 3 Caledon will work jointly with the Region of Peel and area
municipalities to raise awareness of public health issues
related to planning
4 2 GROWTH MANAGEMENT
4 2 1 Intensification
4 2 1 1 Introduction
To make better use of land and infrastructure the Province has
included policies in the Growth Plan to promote compact urban
form intensification and redevelopment including
an
intensification target for the upper and single tier municipalities
in the Greater Golden Horseshoe By the year 2015 and for
each year thereafter a minimum of 40 per cent of all residential
development occurring annually will be within the built up area
The Province has issued mapping of the built up area which is
defined as the area that was built as of June 2006
The built
up area for Caledon is shown on
Figure 1 Areas within
existing settlements that were not built as of June 2006 are
identified as the designated Greenfield Area Small rural
settlements and the Palgrave Estate Residential Community do
not have a defined built up area and are identified as
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