The Ontario’s government’s new housing acceleration legislation, Bill-23, contains a provision that could effectively kill the Toronto Green Standard
When TAS decided to build a 12-storey, U-shaped rental building on Eastern Avenue in the south end of Toronto’s Leslieville neighbourhood, the developer asked its architects to come up with a net zero design that satisfied the most exacting level of theAccording to design team member, an architect who heads the regenerative practice group at SvN, the building will include a range of environmental features, from bike parking to a green roof, storm water recycling and energy efficiency features,...
Indeed, TAS’s strategy is to have all its buildings achieve net zero by 2045, with 880 Eastern as the first project. “Since we have already set an ambitious target for energy efficiency as part of our commitment to achieving net zero, it made sense for us to also target TGS Tier 2,” Liza Stiff, vice-president of impact implementation and innovation, said in a statement.
At risk are a range of sustainable design standards, from the use of bird-friendly windows to native species, porous exterior surfaces, and energy efficiency features. City officials are preparing a brief to the government about B-23′s impact on the TGS.
On the carrot-side of the equation, however, the Tories’ legislation has limited the city’s ability to impose development charges, which potentially removes a form of leverage that the planning department can use to persuade builders to design projects that meet the higher tiers of the TGS. Those incentives are essentially a public-policy equivalent to other voluntary green standards, such as LEED or Passive House, but with financial benefits anted up by the city.
The question, of course, is whether or not developers will continue to invest in lower-carbon design without these requirements, either out of a sense of social responsibility or because such elements provide a marketing or operational dividend? Other city-regions, including New York and B.C.’s Lower Mainland, have not left such choices up to market forces, and continue to use a mix of incentives and penalties to drive carbon reduction in buildings.
That latter figure, says University of Toronto building science expert Ted Kesik, is the kind of data that would allow policy-makers, such as the planners implementing the TGS, to understand if their efforts are, in fact, reducing building-related carbon, which accounts for about half of Toronto’s greenhouse gases.
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