high-density housing [ large housing estate | high-density housing complex ]

housing development | housing estate

Planning Cohousing: Creative Communities and the Collaborative Housing Society, Toronto, Ontario

apartment complex

hybrid system

large development

We have learned a great deal from the history of the City of Toronto having built mixed income, mixed tenure communities, and we have gradually started the rebuilding process in places like Regent Park, a 2,100 low-income household community that will be rebuilt as a 5,200 unit, fully green, very advanced environmentally and, more important, mixed-income, mixed-tenure community.

The Committee encountered other mechanisms for ensuring local input, such as the Waterton Park Community Association, where people resident in the town are working on park management plans with Parks Canada officials; the Trail of the Great Bear group, which is hoping to educate people to look at the whole region as an integrated unit, rather than just the area within Park boundaries, while diverting some of the tourism pressure from the Parks themselves; the Castle Crown Wilderness Coalition, which is promoting a joint federal/provincial and municipal study to identify what sort of economic development is compatible with preserving ec ...[+++]osystems and what steps must be taken to achieve it; and the Grasslands Park Advisory Committee, which includes members of the local community who are working with Park officials to develop a long-range plan for the Park and the surrounding area.