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Sustainable Pickering Committee
May 22, 2007
PICKERING Main Committee Room
4:00 pm
Attendees: Councillor Doug Dickerson (Chair)
Councillor Jennifer O'Connell (Vice-Chair) - left the meeting at 5:10 pm
Mayor Dave Ryan
Councillor David Pickles - left the meeting at 5:30 pm
Councillor Bonnie Littley
N. Carroll.- Director, Planning & Development
T. Melymuk - Director, Office of Sustainability - joined the meeting at 4:55 pm
C. Rose - Manager, Policy
T. Moore - Chief Building Official - left the meeting at 5:00 pm
S. Mutton - Coordinator, Community Sustainability
M. Shim - Recording Secretary
J. McGinnis - Durham Sustain Ability
A. Wheeler - Durham Sustain Ability
Danielle Milley - Durham Sustain Ability - left the meeting at 5:10 pm
Guest: D'Arcy Vachon, Infinitenergy - left the meeting at 5:35 pm
Item/ Details & Discussion & Conclusion Action Items / Status
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1. Energy Efficient in Buildings
Draft Resolution
At the last meeting, the Chief Building Official summarized
the regulations prescribing energy efficiency standards for
new buildings, and had recommended the City urge the
Province to consider a more rapid implementation of higher
standards.
A draft resolution has been prepared and was circulated for
discussion. A more direct approach would be to send
correspondence from the Mayor to the Minister.
After detailed discussions about building energy efficiency
standards, provincial legislation and the mechanisms
available to a municipality for applying energy efficiency
standards, it was concluded that:
• the province should be petitioned through a letter from
the Mayor that a more rapid implementation of energy
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Item Details & Discussion & Conclusion Action Items /Status
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efficiency standards for new buildings is necessary
• the province be requested to advise what effective
tools are or will be available to Pickering to mandate
higher energy efficient standards in new buildings prior
to 2012
The Mayor indicated that he would be happy to sign the letter
with our expectations and what needs to be done to
accomplish meaningful progress in this area.
A recommendation was made that a letter be signed by the A draft copy of the
Mayor, and sent to Ministers Duncan, Caplan and Gerretson, letter will be distributed
with a copy to Peter Love, Chief Energy Conservation Officer. to all Members of
Council for their input.
2. Sustainable Indicators and Targets
Looking Through the Lens Project
Copies of a draft Working Group Discussion Paper and Working
Group Discussion Outline was circulated to members
The Director, Office of Sustainability advised that the discussion
paper was prepared by Jack McGinnis' team for members to
review
J. McGinnis advised members of the following:
• Working groups of 6 to 10 members per group would be
formed for each of the five objectives
• The Working Groups would research, discuss and hopefully
reach consensus on sustainability indicators and targets for
their objective
• Town Hall meetings would then be held to obtain the input
of others on the work of the Working Groups
3. Sustainable Pickering Da
• Displays will be organized around the City's five objectives
of sustainability, and will be manned
• Members of Council are encouraged to attend and mingle
with the public Councillor Littley to
• Councillor Littley advised that Mary Drummond will be provide copies of the
present at the Region of Durham's booth to speak about the Food Charter for
Food Charter distribution
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4. Sustainable Neighbourhood Plan
• The Report to Council is being finalized
• The Draft Sustainable Development Guidelines are based
on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design -
Neighbourhood Developments (LEED-ND) framework
• The Report recommends that the Guidelines be:
o used as input to the development of sustainability
performance measures and benchmarks required
for Seaton
o used as input to the sustainability components of
the Pickering Official Plan Review
o released to other organizations for input to their
work on sustainability and LEED-ND rating
systems
• Report also recommends:
o that staff be authorized to continue professional
and academic discussions with others involved in
sustainability initiatives and LEED-ND
o that the District Energy Pre-feasibility Report for
Central Pickering be referred and used as input to
the Energy Management Plan required as part of
the Master Environmental Servicing Plan being
undertaken for Seaton; and
o that a draft "Neighbourhood Sustainability
Scorecard" and "User's Guide" (as discussed
below) is also recommended for further
consultation once completed
Neighbourhood Scorecard
• most guidelines prepared today are used to review new
development proposals
• as part of the Sustainable Neighbourhood Plan project,
the City identified the need to also be able to measure the
sustainability levels of existing neighbourhood
development
• scorecard allows ratings on a scale of 0 - 10 for six
attributes that contribute to the level of neighbourhood
sustainability; attributes are:
o complete and connected
o land-efficient and transit-friendly
o safe and comfortable
o adaptable and resilient
o energy and resource-efficient
o green and health
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• score would be out of a total of 60 possible points
• scorecard will help engage the community in discussions
about sustainability, particularly when different
stakeholders rate the attributes differently
• can also be used with students - Dunbarton High School
has already shown an interest in participating
• working draft of scorecard and user's guide to be finalized
using more precise standards from Sustainable
Development Guidelines
• consultation will take place on Scorecard this fall
5. Other Business
Councillor Dickerson inquired as to how D'Arcy Vachon (guest)
felt about the discussion. D'Arcy said that he is a new resident
in Pickering, as well as a business owner. He feels that there
needs to be long-term thinking and transition to sustainability,
and that incentive programs such as rebates would be
important.
Tom Melymuk advised that staff will be looking at the City's
website to see if a link can be provided directing people to
available grant and rebate programs.
6. Next Meeting
To be determined by the Chair.
Meeting Adjourned: 6:00 pm
Copy: Members of Council
CAO
Directors
Division Heads
Managers
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