Changing Lanes

A Complete Streets Guidelines document and corresponding report will describe the decisions made and their rationale. This will be presented to Council for their endorsement and published online.

Yes: Low Impact Development and stormwater management recommendations will be part of our Complete Streets Guidelines.

The goal of Changing Lanes is to reduce private automobile dependence in our growing City. This aligns with the City’s Strategic Plan, and is supported by several key strategic objectives:

• Increase transportation capacity
• Provide mobility choices
• Maintain a safe city
• Support older adults so they are able to stay in their homes as they age (aging in place)
• Develop in a ‘pedestrian first’ manner
• Develop a transit-oriented city
• Create great public spaces
• Deliver infrastructure in a sustainable way
• Promote a green culture

Complete Streets guidelines help city-builders provide Complete Streets by describing flexible, context-sensitive, and multi-modal approaches to street design, maintenance, and operation. For example, they provide policy support and guidance for installing cycling facilities, building new sidewalks, adding dedicated public transit lanes, and implementing traffic calming measures.

Complete Streets guidelines help city-builders provide Complete Streets by describing flexible, context-sensitive, and multi-modal approaches to street design, maintenance, and operation. For example, they provide policy support and guidance for installing cycling facilities, building new sidewalks, adding dedicated public transit lanes, and implementing traffic calming measures.

Face-to-face engagement will be considered when it becomes safe to gather in public, and staff’s key priority is to ensure that engagement is universal and equitable.

There will be opportunities for the public to provide input during the project. We recommend that you sign-up for project updates to be notified when these opportunities arise. You may unsubscribe from these emails at any time.

The City’s TMP establishes a clear vision for a future transportation system that is safe, inclusive, multi-modal, connected to place, environmentally conscious and ready for the future. The TMP specifically calls for new policy tools to govern the planning and design of streets and rights-of-way.

The City’s Official Plan provides policies that guide and direct the physical change of the city. They also help manage the effects this change has on Mississauga’s social, economic, cultural and natural environment. We’re reviewing the existing Official Plan to ensure it reflects the changing needs, opportunities and aspirations of our city.

To guide this review, Changing Lanes is developing key policy inputs for the Official Plan. It will ensure that the Official Plan transportation policies reflect our Transportation Master Plan’s (TMP) vision and goals. One way Changing Lanes will do this is by developing a new way to classify streets in Mississauga.  

Public engagement activities will be coordinated with the Official Plan Review, anticipated to begin in October 2020. Note that this schedule may change due to the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Face-to-face engagement will be considered when it becomes safe to gather in public, and staff’s key priority is to ensure that engagement is universal and equitable. 

Changing Lanes is updating, developing, and implementing new tools for staff, developers, and other street providers to ensure streets are safe, complete and comfortable for all users. The Changing Lanes project will:

• Develop a new street classification system, to be included in Mississauga’s Official Plan
• Deliver Complete Streets guidelines for all streets in Mississauga, updating our approach to street planning and design
• Determine a prioritized list of street improvement projects to help efficiently deliver safer, more complete streets
• Undertake a thorough review and update of our road engineering design standards