Emilie Alderman

The Vaughan Transportation Plan serves as a long-term blueprint for the City of Vaughan, aiming to develop new infrastructure, services, and programs that provide sustainable, efficient, and equitable travel options for residents, businesses, and visitors. The plan focuses on enhancing connectivity, safety, reliability, accessibility, financial sustainability, and environmental stewardship. It seeks to transition the city from auto-centric travel by building appropriate infrastructure, fostering a culture of alternative mobility, and anticipating future trends, with a draft preferred strategy emphasizing a multi-modal approach to address identified transportation gaps.

This document presents definitions for terms including multi-modal, multi-unit residential, mixed-use, and commercial buildings, habitable floor space, and regulatory flood level. It additionally enumerates nine schedules covering policy areas, land use, density, building height maximums, distinct character areas, parks and open space framework, pedestrian and bicycle trails network, street network, nodes and gateways, and a special policy area.

This document outlines principles and objectives for the Woodbridge Focused Area. It aims to foster a strong sense of place with a defined identity, strong pedestrian realm, and a healthy mix of uses, while protecting natural and cultural heritage resources. Key objectives include achieving a critical mass of population density, ensuring high-quality built form, establishing Market Lane as a central community amenity, enhancing a green environment by expanding open spaces, creating a supportive transportation network for all users, and preserving natural heritage and environmental features. The overall vision is to develop a vibrant community and healthy economy within the City of Vaughan.

The Woodbridge Centre Secondary Plan provides detailed land use, urban design, and environmental policies for the Woodbridge Centre, aiming to guide future development as a local centre and Heritage Conservation District. Key objectives include fostering a strong sense of place, protecting natural and cultural heritage, promoting a mix of uses for a vibrant community, achieving high-quality built form, establishing Market Lane as a central community amenity, creating a supportive multi-modal transportation network, and enhancing the green environment. The plan also updates policies for the Special Policy Area to ensure conformity with provincial, regional, and city policies, with a planning horizon extending to 2031.

This document presents the Draft City of Vaughan Official Plan for 2025, detailing its Volume 1 schedules and appendices. It outlines the foundational planning elements across multiple domains, including urban structure, natural heritage, land use designations, and major transit networks. Key focus areas encompass defining urban and strategic growth areas, protecting natural and environmentally sensitive zones, establishing street classifications and transit infrastructure, and specifying land use designations. The plan also incorporates provincial decisions, minimum density targets for transit areas, and required information for future development and environmental studies.