As leaders and partners in an innovative culture, we build a great city through excellence in planning and influential policy. We implement Toronto's Official Plan for a sustainable, connected city of neighbourhoods where life and business flourish. We Plan TO:
By taking a leading role in City Building: The Vision of the City of Toronto is articulated through the Official Plan. As a Division, we
have a responsibility to lead the pursuit and promotion of that Vision as stewards of the Plan's implementation. By creating policy that balances a citywide vision and neighbourhood interests: Toronto is a city of diverse cultural, economic and built contexts. Creating a strong policy that addresses the city's many facets requires us to take an integrated and proactive approach to planning across the city, to support the Official Plan and to guide investment at the neighbourhood level. By facilitating a culture of continuous learning: Toronto has long been recognized as an urban planning innovator, a distinction that is owed to the skills, talents and professionalism of the staff of the City Planning Division. To maintain and expand our capacities, we must continually empower and invest in ourselves to achieve our collective potential. By embracing innovation: Climate change, infrastructure deficits, economic uncertainty, social disparity - all among the key challenges cities face over the coming decades, but also ones addressed through new approaches to planning and development. Supported by a culture of inquiry, experimentation and innovation, we will pursue new practices in support of the Official Plan's Vision. By continually working to broaden participation in City Building: As a Division, we facilitate broader, more meaningful engagement within and outside City Hall to respond to the pace and complexity of change across the city. By pursuing partnerships with other Divisions, Council and the public: We work collaboratively with Council, other City Agencies and Divisions, and every community across Toronto. Finding more effective, resourceful and consistent ways of identifying and pursuing these collaborations is a key factor in successfully building the City of Toronto.
