Webinar: How to use the Land Use Impact Calculator
Webinar
17th December 2024
This webinar explores practical strategies for sustainable land use planning and introduces the Land Use Impact Calculator as a tool to support land use decision making.
As Canadian municipalities grow, local governments are looking for innovative ways to accommodate, service, and support new residents and businesses. As a result, the need for strategic, fiscally responsible and environmentally conscious land-use planning is more important than ever. To support municipalities on this journey, we partnered with Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) through the Green Municipal Fund, with support from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), to develop two essential tools to help local governments balance housing, commerce and agriculture with long-term climate and financial sustainability.
Jeremy Murphy, SSG Principal Consultant, and Noah Purves-Smith, SSG Senior Application Developer, guide participants through the Land-Use Impact Calculator (LUIC) and the Climate and financial impacts of land-use decisions guide. Throughout, they showcase practical examples and successful approaches from municipalities across Canada.
Watch the webinar recording to learn more about:
- How to effectively use the Land-Use Impact Calculator to analyze project implications.
- Key strategies from the Land-Use Guide for making sustainable land-use decisions.
- Practical steps to apply these tools to your municipality’s specific needs.
- Insights from case studies on successful land-use planning.
- Methods to integrate these resources into your decision-making process for enhanced sustainability.
The Land-Use Planning Tools initiative is delivered by FCM through the Green Municipal Fund, in partnership with the Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG) and supported by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). You can find more information about the webinar here.
You can download the LUIC Tool here.
About the Presenters
Jeremy (he/him) is an urban planner and climate change planner focused on fostering community climate emergency solutions. A foremost expert on climate change mitigation planning, he has led teams in developing leading climate action plans for all levels of government as well as institutions across North America. Jeremy is experienced with community energy and emissions modelling, climate change mitigation and adaptation planning, policy development, green building systems and policies, integrated design facilitation, and public engagement.
Noah (he/him) is a climate activist disguised as a software developer. His work ranges from designing the system architecture and developing back-end modelling platforms, to building front-end tools to bring the models to life. He brings years of work in modelling land-use cumulative effects, ecosystem goods and services, and integrated resources management as the architect and senior application developer on several spatial modeling tools that have been used around the world.
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