Summary of Parkland Needs Assessment

This section summarizes the recommendations related to actual land area needed for parks and recreation facilities. Appendix B – Parkland Needs Assessment provides the supporting needs assessment, which includes a description of the City’s parks classification system and seven park typologies, the number of existing and planned municipal parks to 2031 by transect, as well as the current and 2031 per capita provision rates for parkland by transect. Appendix B collates the needed parkland, generated by the individual facility needs assessments in Appendix A, to identify the total additional parkland required to provide new facilities beyond those which are

planned to 2031.

Appendix B also provides a summary of the citywide distribution of small and large parks, benchmarks the City’s provision rate for parkland against other Ontario municipalities, and presents information gathered through the consultation process.

Together, the information in Appendix B, generates the following recommendations

related to parkland:

The current citywide provision level for municipal active parkland is 2.35 hectares per

1,000 residents.

1. Set the citywide provision rate for municipal active parkland at 2.0 hectares per 1,000 residents and apply this provision rate to each transect.
2. Prioritize the acquisition of new parkland in transects and neighbourhoods that do not meet the 2.0 hectares per 1,000 people target.
3. Set a transect level ratio of large to small parks at 1:5.
4. Prioritize the acquisition of large parks in transects where the ratio of large to small parks is higher than 1:5.