EFCL fosters healthy neighborhoods is by providing advice and support to community leagues, liaises with the City and Leagues to give input on urban planning issues, and EFCL speaks on behalf of community leagues on urban planning issues.
EFCL focuses on issues which have city-wide implications for community leagues, issues that affect a majority of community leagues, or issues that will affect future community leagues where there is none now to represent their long term interests. (See the EFCL Policy on Government Affairs).
EFCL’s Planning and Development Committee reviews city-wide urban planning issues and makes recommendations to the Board and Membership. (See P&D Terms of Reference, and the Principles). The issues in the recent past have included a policy on residential light efficiency, distribution of group homes in neighbourhoods, affordable housing policy, Living Local – recreation facility planning, Transit-Oriented Development Framework, zoning bylaws to improve transitions between small and large built forms, and Family-Friendly Multi-unit Housing.
The Community Planning Advisor provides advice and support to individual community leagues dealing with urban planning issues in their own neighbourhood. This frequently involves assisting the Community League in reviewing development proposals and preparing for Public Hearing and Subdivision Appeal Board Hearings. Time permitting the Advisor also has the mandate to review new neighbourhood plans on behalf of future community leagues.
Civic Affairs Documents Visit our Civic Affairs section of the document library to view documents that are strictly related to Civics Affairs, Planning & Development, & Transportation. These documents are for the most part linked through our Planning Matters - News Stream on this page.
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Community Consultation Guide Community Consultation in the Planning and Development Process aims to help you weather the often-complex nature of consultation in the planning process. This process can be daunting and even downright stormy for community members, developers and other planning stakeholders, but does not need to be. Usually, there are great benefits for the community and the project when everyone participates in a cooperative manner.