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Ontario Professional Planning Institute award
In September 2008, City Planning received an Excellence in Planning Award" in the Communication/Public Education category from OPPI for the Bird-Friendly Development Guidelines. This award recognizes initiatives in innovation, creativity, professionalism, problem-solving and communication within Ontario's planning profession.
Bird-Friendly Development Rating System and Acknowledgement Program
The Bird-Friendly Development Guidelines illustrate how to make new and existing buildings less dangerous to migratory birds. The Development Rating System is a checklist for developers, building owners and managers to assess whether their new or existing buildings are bird-friendly according to the Guidelines. The checklist can be filled-in on-line or downloaded as a PDF form. 
Through the Acknowledgement Program, the City of Toronto will award building owners
and developers who commit to the guidelines, a series of three original art prints to be
displayed in their lobby. Created by the artist Jillian Ditner, the artwork focuses on
encouraging change and carries a positive message.
The series entitled "Flight Plan" consisting of three limited-edition screen prints, take the plight of endangered migratory birds in the city as their theme. In each print, a dotted line carries the eye from the first composition through to the third and echoes the flight pattern of a small bird. The line can be read alternately as a cut-out diagram and as a
signature line. The symbolism is two-fold: the dotted line of the cut-out can be interpreted
as a means of freeing the trapped birds from the city, while the dotted signature line
implies a contract, inviting the viewer to figuratively sign a document for change.
Flight Plan #1, 2008, Screen print, 16x20 inches, Jillian Ditner
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