Planning impacts almost every aspect of our campus community. Look around you and you will see the many facets of your life that are touched by planning - the construction of new departments and town houses; the preservation, re-use or demolition of old buildings; the creation or modification of, recreational areas and natural spaces; and the provision of services such as roads, water pipes and new bus shelters. 1
Responsible planning is vital to the sustainability of safe, healthy, and secure campus environments, and is best achieved with input from our staff, students, faculty, alumni, nearby communities, and other interested stakeholders. 2 Click on the links to specific plans below to access a diverse number of maps and plans with places for your input and comments.
York University Landscape Plan
A landscape plan for York University is about "designing the context of innovation and learning". Design in this sense is about creating places as well as renovating and maintaining the campus.
York University Landscape Plan Goal
The goal of a York University Landscape Plan is to foster the complex interactions among students, faculty, staff, alumni and visitors by providing opportunities "to meet, share ideas, discuss and learn from one another's experiences". Those opportunities are embodied in the context for innovation and learning, the University campus landscape that we must plan and design together.
We want the University context to be regarded positively as a great place. That is not a given, however, we have to make York University a great place to be, or perhaps more accurately, to become.
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TTC approves subway to York
The Toronto Transit Commission has approved the recommendations of an environmental assessment for the final route of an extension of the Spadina subway line into York Region through York University , reported the Toronto Star , The Toronto Sun and The Globe and Mail Nov. 29. The final stop would either be north of Steeles Avenue or in the Vaughan corporate centre near Highway 7. "This is the first time we have an unprecedented inter-regional project with the City of Toronto, the TTC, the City of Vaughan, York Region and York University all together working for one common purpose," said Councillor Peter Li Preti at Monday's commissioners meeting, reported the Star. The study will be forwarded to the environment ministry for final approval, but the TTC doesn't have any funding in place for the $1.4 billion project that would take seven years to complete. "We're in a vacuum," TTC Chair Howard Moscoe said, reported the Sun. "We have the plans; we don't have any money. Full Story
1 (OPPI, Retrieved November 28, 2004, www.ontarioplanners.on.ca/content/profession/howdoeseffectme.asp?section=planningprofession
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