Civic Improvements Projects

The Civic Improvement Program is a modest but high value-added capital program administered by Urban Design in the City Planning Division that significantly enhances the on-going capital programs of other departments as well as Business Improvement Areas' initiatives and private sector city-building activities. Broadly speaking, civic improvement projects can be grouped into three general categories:

1. Places - "Places" is a Project Theme defined by opportunities to create outdoors "rooms" or distinctive "locations" in the public realm that enhance the quality of the pedestrian environment.
   
   
2. Routes - "Routes" is a Project Theme that focuses on the opportunities for urban design improvements to the major elements of the City's street system where vehicular and pedestrian volumes are greatest.
   
   
3. Districts - "Districts" is an integrated Project Theme comprised of interconnected and interrelated areas and neighbourhoods. Many Districts are areas being revitalized through major planning and development initiatives that often include streetscape enhancement.

• Urban Design Streetscape Manual
• Civic Improvement Program and its Relationship to the City Beautification Initiative - September 16, 2004
• Staff Report - Civic Improvement Program - September 7, 2004
• Strategic Opportunities Report - Appendix A - September 21, 2004

• Strategic Opportunities - North District
• Strategic Opportunities - South District
• Strategic Opportunities - East District
• Strategic Opportunities - West District
• Strategic Opportunities - City-wide

Examples of Civic Improvement:

Places: Browns Line at Lakeshore Blvd. - Before


Places: Browns Line at Lakeshore Blvd. - After