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Smart Growth Seminars
On May 25, 2005, the Ontario Smart Growth Network held its inaugural seminar entitled "Making Your Dream Community Happen: Understanding and Applying Planning Law to Ensure Smart Land Use Planning in Ontario". Below you will find links to the PowerPoint presentations supplied by Theresa McLenaghan of the Canadian Environmental Law Association (http://www.cela.ca) and Mark Winfield of the Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development (http://www.pembina.org).
Designed as a primer on planning law in
Ontario, the seminar was attended by 70 people:
* clarifying jurisdictional issues, legislation and landowners’ rights; * explaining how legislation is created, how it is applied, and how it has supported or delayed smart growth (including Ontario's Planning Act, Provincial Policy Statement, Municipal Act, Environmental Assessment Act, Official Plans and Zoning By-Laws) * presenting current planning and policy issues that are having a bearing on legislation (Greenbelt Act, Places to Grow Act); * providing practical resources and other tools that will help solve livable community challenges.
Theresa McClenaghan has practised public
interest environmental law, both in private practice since 1985 and
since joining the Canadian Environmental Law Association as counsel in
May 1998. Her expertise in environmental law includes land use,
environmental health, water law and policy, and constitutional law.
Theresa, along with other lawyers at CELA, represented the Concerned
Walkerton Citizens in both parts of the Walkerton Inquiry. She was
CELA’s representative to the province’s Source Protection Advisory
Committee and currently sits on both the province’s Nutrient
Management Advisory Committee and Source Protection Implementation
Committee.
* Theresa's OSGN presentation can be found
at
http://www.cela.ca/publications/cardfile.shtml?x=2282
Mark S. Winfield, OSGN Management Committee Member Mark Winfield is Director of the Pembina Institute’s Environmental Governance Program and Director of the Pembina Institute’s Toronto Office. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and has published on a wide range of environmental law and policy issues, including air quality, environmental governance, ecological fiscal reform, sustainability indicators, land-use planning, pollution prevention, and community right-to-know issues, with a strong focus on Ontario. Dr. Winfield has been involved in many environmental law reform and policy development processes at the provincial, federal and international levels. * Mark's OSGN presentation can be found by clicking here.
Presented
by the Ontario Smart Growth Network in partnership with: 
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