Review of Data Model

Major Office Employment occurring in office buildings of

1,860 square metres (20,000 sq. ft.) or larger Population Related

Serves the local population (e.g. retail, education, government, social and community services)

Employment Land All jobs that exist on employment lands

excluding major office

Areas designated in an Official Plan for clusters of business and economic activities, including, but not limited to manufacturing, warehousing, offices and associated retail and ancillary uses (PPS, 2005)

Employment

Category

2006Jobs

2031 Forecast

2006 to 2031

Growth

% of Growth

Growth Rate

Major Office 65,600 120,200 54,600 17% 0.83

Population Related

192,900 290,800 97,900 31% 0.51

Employment Land

203,700 369,000 165,300 52% 0.81

Total 462,300 780,000 317,700 100% 0.69

Provincial interests include: The adequate provision

of employment opportunities

The appropriate location of growth and development

Local OPs permitted to contain no appeal policies for conversions.

Protection and conservation of employment lands, particularly in proximity to major corridors, for current and future uses

Conversion permitted through a comprehensive review

May plan for long-term protection of employment areas (not beyond 20-year planning horizon.

Plan for, protect and preserve employment areas for current and future uses, including ability to accommodate growth forecasts

Conversions permitted through a Municipal Comprehensive Review that considers a list of specific criteria.

Traffic ZoneUpkeep/

Forecasting

ROPMonitoring

EmploymentSurvey

BuildingPermit

Database

Economic &Development

Review

Major OfficeInventory

Historical Employment

EmploymentLands

Inventory

Year-end 1995 Year-end 2000 Mid-year 2001 Year-end 2004 Mid-year 2006

Community Planning

Long Range Planning

FinanceEconomic Strategy

Intention to update inventory to mid-2011 (census base) and mid-2012 (most recent data)

Community Planning

Long Range Planning

FinanceEconomic Strategy

Community and Health

Services (SSIP)

Transportation Planning

Environmental Services

Employment Area Boundaries (ecoEmpArea2011) Parcel-based Inventory (ecoEmpParcel2011) Underutilized Inventory (ecoEmpUndUtilized2011) Conversion Inventory (ecoEmpConversion2011)

Local Municipal Circulation complete for mid 2011

Attributes include: Employment Area Name Year Added Gross Area (ha) Developable Area (ha)

Primary dataset for analysis Includes hardcoded data as well as data

links Types of data collected:

Locational Contact Area Built Information Infrastructure Conversion Requests External Links

Built parcels with further development potential

Created manually

Underutilized, 2002

Built, 2006

Parcels that were previously within Employment Areas, but have now been converted

Created manually

Small group overview sessions (on going) May 30 – Large group meeting May 31 – Meetings with individual groups June 21 – Large group meeting (proposed

data structure) Summer/Fall – Data collection and

verification Q1 2014 – Report on data

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