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Total hectares of parkland that is actively maintained by the municipality for community use. These parks often contain built and natural amenities such as: park furniture, planted trees/beds, sports fields, playgrounds, and mown grass.
• From 2009 to 2018, the City secured 17 hectares of new parkland through parkland dedications and purchased 15 hectares of land for parks and recreation facilities. • From 2009-2018, the City collected $740 million in cash-in-lieu of parkland dedication contributions from development.
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Municipalities are able to require up to 5% of the land area of a residential development for parkland or, through an alternate rate bylaw, one hectare in land per 300 units or the equivalent in cash-in-lieu of one hectare per 500 units.
The City’s current alternative rate for parkland dedication is 0.4 hectares per 300 units with caps based on the size of the development site. A large site over five hectares will provide a park of one hectare (20% of site area), an adequate size for a neighbourhood park. By contrast, a condo with 300 or more units on a site 2,000 m. 2
Toronto has over 1,500 parks in approximately 7,700 hectares of land (or about 22.5 of New York’s Central Park scattered about the city). It’s a huge, huge park system, and as much as we like to complain about things in Toronto, it’s an enviable amount of green space for any big city.
Feb 2, 2007 · Assuming a good mix of architects and developers (see West Don Lands) along with the wonderful public realm plans... including (16 hectares of parkland) the new waterfront public art trail along the new river, Promontory Parks North and South and Villiers Park etc.
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Toronto has approximately 8,000 ha of public parkland, about half of which is natural parkland. With Toronto’s population expected to grow from 2.9 million today to 3.4 million people by 2041, these natural parklands are increasingly important to the current and future livability of our City.
