Goals and Objectives

Shaping Our Region's Future

The Resilient Region Design Charrette, is committed to exploring the implications of new housing legislation on our region's sustainability with a  focus on ensuring that growth aligns with affordability, livability, and climate resilience.

Goal

To explore the implications at various scales of the new housing legislation on the future social, economic, and ecological sustainability of a region of four million that is diverse and inclusive, ensuring growth is aligned with affordability, livability, and climate resilience.

Objectives

1. Civic Amenities – Identify the implications of the new bills on civic amenity provisions for parks, schools, and community centers for diverse populations.

2. Ecological Protection – Assess the impacts of the new bills on the ecological systems protection of streams, habitats, and hydrological systems.

3. Affordability – Field-test the enhanced affordability goals embedded in the legislation for rentals and ownership that mitigate land speculation.

4. Infrastructure & Utilities – Assess how new bills shape the physical infrastructure of roads and utilities with amenity provision through ODPs.

5. Construction Innovation – Systems test advanced on-site construction methodologies for integrated public and private construction, incorporate climate adaptation and resilience of the built form, and energy transition to low-carbon.

6. Uncertainty Pricing – Assess “uncertainty pricing” of future infrastructure upgrades and incorporate consensus understanding of 100-year maintenance demands as integral to design.

7. People Centred - Assess livability, resilience, and the creation of a distinctive sense of place for diverse and inclusive communities.

8. Movement Systems - To field test how the new bills allow for fluid multi-modal

movement options to access jobs and services close to home.