Over the past 50 years, Toronto has been a real success story in North America. Change is not by definition good or bad. It can move in either direction. Unprecedented growth in the GTA is clogging our roads. Great cities demand the active involvement of people.
Cities are about people their choices, hopes and dreams.
It was a cornerstone of our past and it must be a hallmark of our future. But embracing the future also means doing some things differently. Toronto always has been a people city. Nowhere is this approach more needed than in shaping a new Official Plan for the City of Toronto. Right now, the existing Official Plans of the seven municipalities amalgamated to form the new City add up to about 2,000 pages.