Priority areas

• Establish a Growth Management Strategy
• Set out general policies that are intended to provide an overall guiding framework for the detailed policies of subsequent sections of the Official Plan
• Provides policies for the City’s transportation system to facilitate efficient, safe, convenient and energy efficient movement of goods and people throughout the city
• Provides policies for municipal services including water, wastewater, solid waste and stormwater
• Sets out a policy framework for the efficient and adequate provision of physical and social infrastructure to sustain and support growth and quality of life
• Provides detailed policy on how the city will be built. It sets out objectives and policies that focus on creating adaptable and well-designed infrastructure networks, buildings, sites, neighbourhoods and open spaces; Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Provides the operational framework and tools necessary to achieve the goals and objectives and implement the policies of the Plan
• Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 5: Movement of People and Goods – An Integrated Transportation System
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan
• Section 11.2: Guelph Innovation District Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• 5-year ridership growth plan for conventional transit services
• Protection for and implementation of Higher Order Transit systems and corridors to capture an increased transit share of future travel demand
• A vision, with goals and objectives for Guelph Transit, in line with the Transportation Demand Management Plan and Development Charges Plan, supported by performance and design standards to measure and monitor success; resource requirements, implementation plan and monitoring Strategies

Priority areas

• Establish a Growth Management Strategy
• Set out general policies that are intended to provide an overall guiding framework for the detailed policies of subsequent sections of the Official Plan
• Provides policies for the City’s transportation system to facilitate efficient, safe, convenient and energy efficient movement of goods and people throughout the city
• Provides policies for municipal services including water, wastewater, solid waste and stormwater
• Sets out a policy framework for the efficient and adequate provision of physical and social infrastructure to sustain and support growth and quality of life
• Provides detailed policy on how the city will be built. It sets out objectives and policies that focus on creating adaptable and well-designed infrastructure networks, buildings, sites, neighbourhoods and open spaces
• Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Provides the operational framework and tools necessary to achieve the goals and objectives and implement the policies of the Plan
• Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 5: Movement of People and Goods – An Integrated Transportation System
• Chapter 8: Urban Design
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan
• Section 11.2: Guelph Innovation District Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• Give priority to providing a comprehensive cycling network
• Maximize cycling connections and reduce barriers to cycling
• Develop a strategy to address end-of-trip facilities throughout the City of Guelph
• Update Guelph’s cycling maps regularly
• Review and suggest changes to road and intersection design practices to improve cycling and bicycle facility design
• Form partnerships and support advocacy groups to enhance cycling
• Enhance the recognition and influence of the Bicycle-Friendly Guelph brand
• Collaborate with partners to reinforce safer share-the-road practices
• Support safe cycling education and promotion
• Develop an employer cycling recognition program
• Create a cycling enforcement strategy
• Enhance enforcement opportunities
• Improve safety records
• Review and suggest changes to municipal cycling laws and regulations
• Establish a comprehensive monitoring plan
• Collect baseline performance data
• Provide regular evaluation of cycling accomplishments
• Coordinate the implementation of the Cycling Master Plan through capital projects
• Be project-ready to make use of new funding opportunities for infrastructure initiation
• Conduct ongoing public engagement
• Seek additional funding sources and partnerships
• Review and suggest improvements to maintenance of cycling infrastructure

Priority areas

• Equitable, balanced, and justified provision and allocation of neighbourhood and community facilities based on market demand conditions and related factors
• Strategic decisions with respect to aging parks, recreation, and culture infrastructure
• Recreational opportunities that enable and support unstructured, self‐scheduled, multi‐ability, and low‐cost activities, in addition to local sports and other organized activities
• Strategic partnerships with other recreation facility providers to maximize benefits to the community
• A greener community that protects and enhances greenway corridors, trails, parks, and open space for current and future generations
• A community that is physically connected through greenways, trails, open space corridors, rivers, and natural areas
• Coordinated stewardship and management of parks, the natural environment, and the watershed
• Sufficient parkland to meet the active and passive recreational needs of residents
• Capitalize on the City’s extensive parks system to encourage its use as a ‘living community centre’ that provides animated spaces serving as activity hubs
• Proactive strategies that accommodate the unique and growing parks and recreation needs created by residential intensification and a growing emphasis on walkability
• The downtown as a place of community and cultural focus
• A leader among the Province’s ‘creative cities’

Priority areas

• Sell bus tickets at all high schools
• Provide CAN-Bike courses for all students
• Implement a universal bus pass plan for all high school students
• Provide free, accessible space for emerging and existing youth groups/committees
• Build permanent public skate park
• Promote a City-wide car free day at Guelph schools
• Work towards a City of Guelph a sustainable transportation model

Priority areas

• Establish a Growth Management Strategy
• Set out general policies that are intended to provide an overall guiding framework for the detailed policies of subsequent sections of the Official Plan
• Provides policies for the City’s transportation system to facilitate efficient, safe, convenient and energy efficient movement of goods and people throughout the city
• Provides policies for municipal services including water, wastewater, solid waste and stormwater
• Sets out a policy framework for the efficient and adequate provision of physical and social infrastructure to sustain and support growth and quality of life
• Provides detailed policy on how the city will be built. It sets out objectives and policies that focus on creating adaptable and well-designed infrastructure networks, buildings, sites, neighbourhoods and open spaces
• Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Provides the operational framework and tools necessary to achieve the goals and objectives and implement the policies of the Plan
• Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 5: Movement of People and Goods – An Integrated Transportation System
• Chapter 8: Urban Design
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• 5-year ridership growth plan for conventional transit services
• Protection for and implementation of Higher Order Transit systems and corridors to capture an increased transit share of future travel demand
• A vision, with goals and objectives for Guelph Transit, in line with the Transportation Demand Management Plan and Development Charges Plan, supported by performance and design standards to measure and monitor success
• Resource requirements, implementation plan and monitoring strategies

Priority areas

• Older adults in Guelph will have access to a range of public, private and community-run transportation services that are accessible, safe and affordable
• For older adults in Guelph, housing is available, affordable and supported sufficiently to allow them to choose where they will live as they age

Priority areas

• Create Commercial Development Built Form Standards for vacant sites, redevelopment and greyfields
• Amend the Zoning Bylaw to include urban design regulations and update zoning in community mixed use nodes
• Create a design toolbox to accommodate an integrated approach to placemaking
• Invest in streetscape improvements

Priority areas

• Sell bus tickets at all high schools
• Provide CAN-Bike courses for all students
• Implement a universal bus pass plan for all high school students
• Provide free, accessible space for emerging and existing youth groups/committees
• Build permanent public skate park
• Promote a City-wide car free day at Guelph schools
• Work towards a City of Guelph a sustainable transportation model

Priority areas

• Establish a Growth Management Strategy
• Set out general policies that are intended to provide an overall guiding framework for the detailed policies of subsequent sections of the Official Plan
• Provides policies for the City’s transportation system to facilitate efficient, safe, convenient and energy efficient movement of goods and people throughout the city
• Provides policies for municipal services including water, wastewater, solid waste and stormwater
• Sets out a policy framework for the efficient and adequate provision of physical and social infrastructure to sustain and support growth and quality of life
• Provides detailed policy on how the city will be built. It sets out objectives and policies that focus on creating adaptable and well-designed infrastructure networks, buildings, sites, neighbourhoods and open spaces
• Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Provides the operational framework and tools necessary to achieve the goals and objectives and implement the policies of the Plan
• Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 3: Planning a Complete and Healthy Community
• Chapter 4: Protecting What is Valuable
• Chapter 5: Movement of People and Goods – An Integrated Transportation System
• Chapter 6: Municipal Services and Infrastructure
• Chapter 8: Urban Design
• Chapter 9: Land Use
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan
• Section 11.2: Guelph Innovation District Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• Give priority to providing a comprehensive cycling network
• Maximize cycling connections and reduce barriers to cycling
• Develop a strategy to address end-of-trip facilities throughout the City of Guelph
• Update Guelph’s cycling maps regularly
• Review and suggest changes to road and intersection design practices to improve cycling and bicycle facility design
• Form partnerships and support advocacy groups to enhance cycling
• Enhance the recognition and influence of the Bicycle-Friendly Guelph brand
• Collaborate with partners to reinforce safer share-the-road practices
• Support safe cycling education and promotion
• Develop an employer cycling recognition program
• Create a cycling enforcement strategy
• Enhance enforcement opportunities
• Improve safety records
• Review and suggest changes to municipal cycling laws and regulations
• Establish a comprehensive monitoring plan
• Collect baseline performance data; Provide regular evaluation of cycling accomplishments
• Coordinate the implementation of the Cycling Master Plan through capital projects
• Be project-ready to make use of new funding opportunities for infrastructure initiation
• Conduct ongoing public engagement; Seek additional funding sources and partnerships
• Review and suggest improvements to maintenance of cycling infrastructure

Priority areas

• 5-year ridership growth plan for conventional transit services
• Protection for and implementation of Higher Order Transit systems and corridors to capture an increased transit share of future travel demand
• A vision, with goals and objectives for Guelph Transit, in line with the Transportation Demand Management Plan and Development Charges Plan, supported by performance and design standards to measure and monitor success
• Resource requirements, implementation plan and monitoring strategies

Priority areas

• Explore expanding the development approval process to promote waste diversion in multi-residential properties
• Expand the type of collection services provided to multi-residential properties

Priority areas

• Prepare for wastewater treatment capacity of 144 ML/d by 2054

Priority areas

• Review and update the existing water supply system capacity, the projected population growth and the estimated future supply demand
• Provide implementation recommendations for preferred water supply alternatives to meet the future demand

Priority areas

• Reduce water use in existing buildings
• Research and pilot new technologies and ensure new technology is proven
• Easy to implement

Priority areas

• Equitable, balanced, and justified provision and allocation of neighbourhood and community facilities based on market demand conditions and related factors
• Strategic decisions with respect to aging parks, recreation, and culture infrastructure
• Recreational opportunities that enable and support unstructured, self‐scheduled, multi‐ability, and low‐cost activities, in addition to local sports and other organized activities
• Strategic partnerships with other recreation facility providers to maximize benefits to the community
• A greener community that protects and enhances greenway corridors, trails, parks, and open space for current and future generations
• A community that is physically connected through greenways, trails, open space corridors, rivers, and natural areas; Coordinated stewardship and management of parks, the natural environment, and the watershed
• Sufficient parkland to meet the active and passive recreational needs of residents
• Capitalize on the City’s extensive parks system to encourage its use as a ‘living community centre’ that provides animated spaces serving as activity hubs
• Proactive strategies that accommodate the unique and growing parks and recreation needs created by residential intensification and a growing emphasis on walkability
• The downtown as a place of community and cultural focus
• A leader among the Province’s ‘creative cities’

Priority areas

• Create Commercial Development Built Form Standards for vacant sites, redevelopment and greyfields
• Amend the Zoning Bylaw to include urban design regulations and update zoning in community mixed use nodes
• Create a design toolbox to accommodate an integrated approach to placemaking
• Invest in streetscape improvements

Priority areas

• Removal of zoning by-law barriers
• Inclusionary zoning
• Affordable housing report requirement
• Guidelines for height and density bonusing
• Development standards
• Exemptions from charges as a means of financially incentivizing affordable housing
• Build on existing partnerships
• Making appropriate linkages with relevant directions of key stakeholders
• Supporting the revitalization of existing social housing properties

Priority areas

• Sell bus tickets at all high schools
• Provide CAN-Bike courses for all students
• Implement a universal bus pass plan for all high school students
• Provide free, accessible space for emerging and existing youth groups/committees
• Build permanent public skate park
• Promote a City-wide car free day at Guelph schools; Work towards a City of Guelph a sustainable transportation model

Priority areas

• Establish a Growth Management Strategy
• Set out general policies that are intended to provide an overall guiding framework for the detailed policies of subsequent sections of the Official Plan
• Provides policies for the City’s transportation system to facilitate efficient, safe, convenient and energy efficient movement of goods and people throughout the city
• Provides policies for municipal services including water, wastewater, solid waste and stormwater
• Sets out a policy framework for the efficient and adequate provision of physical and social infrastructure to sustain and support growth and quality of life
• Provides detailed policy on how the city will be built. It sets out objectives and policies that focus on creating adaptable and well-designed infrastructure networks, buildings, sites, neighbourhoods and open spaces
• Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Provides the operational framework and tools necessary to achieve the goals and objectives and implement the policies of the Plan
• Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 3: Planning a Complete and Healthy Community
• Chapter 5: Movement of People and Goods – An Integrated
• Transportation System
• Chapter 6: Municipal Services and Infrastructure
• Chapter 8: Urban Design
• Chapter 9: Land Use
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan
• Section 11.2: Guelph Innovation District Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• Continually seek creative ways to leave space for and integrate existing trees into new and infill developments
• Plant the right tree in the right place
• Consider new technologies to integrate trees downtown and in other built-up settings

Priority areas

• Equitable, balanced, and justified provision and allocation of neighbourhood and community facilities based on market demand conditions and related factors
• Strategic decisions with respect to aging parks, recreation, and culture infrastructure
• Recreational opportunities that enable and support unstructured, self‐scheduled, multi‐ability, and low‐cost activities, in addition to local sports and other organized activities
• Strategic partnerships with other recreation facility providers to maximize benefits to the community
• A greener community that protects and enhances greenway corridors, trails, parks, and open space for current and future generations
• A community that is physically connected through greenways, trails, open space corridors, rivers, and natural areas
• Coordinated stewardship and management of parks, the natural environment, and the watershed
• Sufficient parkland to meet the active and passive recreational needs of residents
• Capitalize on the City’s extensive parks system to encourage its use as a ‘living community centre’ that provides animated spaces serving as activity hubs
• Proactive strategies that accommodate the unique and growing parks and recreation needs created by residential intensification and a growing emphasis on walkability
• The downtown as a place of community and cultural focus
• A leader among the Province’s ‘creative cities’

Priority areas

• Define an effective tourism management model for Guelph in the context of a larger Regional Tourism Organization
• Target the downtown as a preferred location for new University or College space requirements
• Promote the downtown as a strong location for information and technology businesses

Priority areas

• Sympathetic development and building design recommendations involving cultural heritage resources

Priority areas

• Create Commercial Development Built Form Standards for vacant sites, redevelopment and greyfields
• Amend the Zoning Bylaw to include urban design regulations and update zoning in community mixed use nodes
• Create a design toolbox to accommodate an integrated approach to placemaking
• Invest in streetscape improvements

Priority areas

• Establish a Growth Management Strategy
• Set out general policies that are intended to provide an overall guiding framework for the detailed policies of subsequent sections of the Official Plan
• Provides policies for the City’s transportation system to facilitate efficient, safe, convenient and energy efficient movement of goods and people throughout the city
• Provides policies for municipal services including water, wastewater, solid waste and stormwater
• Sets out a policy framework for the efficient and adequate provision of physical and social infrastructure to sustain and support growth and quality of life
• Provides detailed policy on how the city will be built. It sets out objectives and policies that focus on creating adaptable and well-designed infrastructure networks, buildings, sites, neighbourhoods and open spaces
• Sets out policies and permissions for the use of land within the City
• Provides the operational framework and tools necessary to achieve the goals and objectives and implement the policies of the Plan
• Lists the Secondary Plans that have been adopted by Council and form part of the Official Plan

Relevant sections

• Chapter 3: Planning a Complete and Healthy Community
• Chapter 7: Community Infrastructure
• Chapter 8: Urban Design
• Chapter 9: Land Use
• Section 11.1: Downtown Guelph Secondary Plan

Priority areas

• Older adults in Guelph will have access to a range of public, private and community-run transportation services that are accessible, safe and affordable
• For older adults in Guelph, housing is available, affordable and supported sufficiently to allow them to choose where they will live as they age

Priority areas

• Removal of zoning by-law barriers; Inclusionary zoning
• Affordable housing report requirement; Guidelines for height and density bonusing
• Development standards; Exemptions from charges as a means of financially incentivizing affordable housing
• Build on existing partnerships
• Making appropriate linkages with relevant directions of key stakeholders
• Supporting the revitalization of existing social housing properties

Priority areas

• Strengthen newcomer voice in housing issues

Priority areas

• Homelessness
• Housing

Priority areas

• To offer a comprehensive range of supportive housing options for residents with complex needs due to aging, disabilities, mental health issues and addictions
• To increase the supply and mix of affordable housing options for low to moderate-income households