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Sustainable Pickering Advisory Committee
i June 29, 2010
PICKERING o am
Main Committee ee Room
Attendees: Dave Ryan, Mayor
Doug Dickerson, City Councillor, Ward 2 (Chair)
Jennifer O'Connell, City Councillor, Ward 1 (Vice-Chair)
David Pickles, City Councillor, Ward 3
Tom Melymuk, Director, Office of Sustainability
Neil Carroll, Director, Planning & Development
Lynn Winterstein, Manager, Marketing &'Business Development
Catherine Rose, Manager, Policy
Kristy Kilbourne, (Acting) Coordinator, Sustainability
Marla Shim, Executive Assistant, Council (Recording Secretary)
Absent: Jack McGinnis, Durham Sustain Ability
Also Present: Dan Leeming, Planning Partnership
Terry Green, Durham Sustain Ability
Item/ Details & Discussion & Conclusion Action Items/Status
Ref # (summary of discussion) (include deadline as
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1. Sustainable Development Guidelines
Councillor Dickerson welcomed everyone to the meeting.
T. M.elymuk introduced Dan Leeming of the Planning
Partnership and advised the Committee that Mr. Leeming is
currently looking at LEED-ND to determine whether or not the
approach would be appropriate in the context of the City of
Pickering, along with existing Sustainable Development
Guidelines.
D. Leeming provided a brief background of his credentials:
• Founding partner of The Planning Partnership
• Over 35 years of experience designing and developing new
towns and planned communities in Ontario and the United
States
• Chair of Smart Growth Committee - transportation, water and
ecology, building materials, waste, etc.
• Co-Chair of the Canadian LEED-ND Review Committee - main
goals are to reduce footprints and green house gas emissions
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He advised that in order to acquire LEED certification, applicants
must meet 12 prerequisites and need approximately 50% of an
available 105 credits to achieve the lowest level of certification.
There is a 10 to 15 percent increase in building costs to meet
LEED gold.
D. Leeming advised that the LEED ND program was
developed to set precedents, goals and examples and has a
good set of metrics.
Councillor Pickles voiced concern that if the City of Pickering
were to implement a certain standard such as LEED,
developers might decide to go elsewhere.
Mayor Ryan informed members that Pickering has already
developed certain development standards, but it is essential
that the Province step up and take a firm position ahead of
the municipality in adopting LEED standards.
Councillor Dickerson understood that a recommendation was
made years ago for Seaton to be used as a pilot project.
D. Leeming noted that in order for Seaton to achieve a
standard, it is necessary to look at the level of transit service,
level of routes, order of transit, park systems, energy and
water systems.
He recommended that Committee members consider
attending one of the tours that is organized by Canada Green
Building Council to view some of the green buildings.
Discussion ensued with respect to the potential for
implementation of LEED ND guidelines and their suitability
for the City of Pickering.
Councillor Dickerson thanked D. Leeming for attending and
providing the Committee with such valuable information. The
information helped to convey some feelings of where
Pickering stands and what we should be looking at in the
future.
2. Partners for Climate Protection Re ort
Copies of the Draft Partners for Climate Protection Report to
Council were distributed.
T. Melymuk advised Committee members that the report is a Committee members
draft and he would appreciate comments from the Committee to provide comments
before finalizing. b Se tember 1, 2010.
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A target has been set for 50% corporate reduction by 2016.
This includes municipal buildings, street lights, vehicles, etc.
The report notes that the City is making progress toward this
target, but much work still need to be done. A Corporate
Emissions Reduction Strategy is included.
Councillors Dickerson and O'Connell asked if the City has any Staff to find out who
responsibility for traffic signals or if these are the Region's owns the traffic lights
responsibility. and is responsible for
the efficiency
Councillor Dickerson commented that Veridian and/or Enbridge upgrades.
might be interested in studying the feasibility of establishing
district heating plants in the hydro corridors in the City of
Pickering.
3. Other Business
Fact Sheet: FIT/Micro FIT Programs K. Kilbourn to provide
- Councillor Dickerson suggested checking with Veridian to a copy of the fact
find out if they already have similar information on their sheet to Mark Turney,
website. Veridian's Manager of
Grid Operations, for
.On-going Marketing of the Measuring Sustainability Report his input
- USB ports (made from recycled plastic) containing the
report were provided to Committee members
- The Measuring Sustainability Report link on the Sustainable
Pickering website received 772 hits for the month of June
and is-one of the top ten visited pages on the website
- The report is also in circulation at the libraries
Sustainable Pickering Smart Phone Application
- Opportunity to do the application as a class project Staff to action.
- Councillor O'Connell suggested looking into the cost of
paying a student to work on the project and to check with
the library regarding a partnership
Resident Inquiry regarding Rain Barrels
- The Committee agreed that it is not feasible for the City of Staff to action.
Pickering to implement a rain barrel program
- It was recommended that staff check with the Region to find
out if they will be offering a future program
Staff Suggestion on Council Newsletters
- A suggestion was made by a staff member on the
Sustainable Pickering staff ideas bulletin board that
Councillors post their newsletters online in order to
eliminate the high costs of printing and mailing their
newsletters
- Councillor Dickerson feels that individual Councillors will
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decide what is appropriate for them with regard to
newsletters and that not all residents have access to email.
Until we have an alternate form of communication,
hardcopy newsletters will have to remain in circulation
- Personally, he will seek out e-mail contacts for those of his
contacts that have e-mail addresses and will mail out the
rest in order to reduce costs and environmental impacts.
L. Winterstein advised the Committee that the economic
development e-newsletter was being launched today and will
be provided to all business partners in the email database.
Councillor Dickerson offered to provide his contact list so that it
can be added to the list of e-newsletter recipients.
4. Next Meeting
To be determined.
Meeting Adjourned: 12:05 pm
Copy: City Clerk
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