People Plan Toronto Neighbourhood Planning Summit

PEOPLE PLAN TORONTO, a group of representatives from neighbourhoodorganizations across the City of Toronto, invites you to get involvedin a one-day Neighbourhood Planning Summit on Saturday, May 26 toidentify problems with the planning process in the City, consideralternative models, and create an action plan for change.The purpose of the day is two-fold: first, to learn from each otherand experts about the planning process, its flaws, and potentialsolutions; and second, to come up with an action plan for change thatwill engage and involve communities across the city. The recent Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) approval of 3 largedevelopments on Queen Street West has been just the latest example ofplanning gone awry. Neighbourhoods across Toronto are exasperated withthe City's dysfunctional planning process and the role of theunelected OMB. We need to fight for change, and to make that fight effective,we need to form a broad-based coalition of community groups whosevoice cannot be ignored by our political representatives.Get Involved!Come to the forum on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at the Faculty ofArchitecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, 230College St. West. Register online athttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=564703573302199Tell us your story. We need your ideas. To help plan for usefuldiscussions, tell us about a development in your area that yourcommunity thinks went wrong (or right), and why. Your stories willhelp us identify key issues and solutions to be discussed at theforum. To make it easier, we've developed a short questionnaire thatyou can access when you register (see the registration link, above).An example of a story about a neighbourhood development is posted on our website atwww.active18.org/PPT/stories/yorkville.html200. Details of the Summitwill be posted on our website (www.active18.org/PPT201) as they areconfirmed.