Downtown Fairview, Cooksville and Hospital Policy Review
The City of Mississauga is working on updating the Official Plan policies and seeking your feedback on how to manage the anticipated growth in Downtown Fairview, Cooksville, and Hospital communities along the Hurontario Street corridor. With the Hurontario Light Rail Transit (LRT) line on the horizon, these communities are expected to grow and change.
The new Official Plan policies aim to achieve vibrant, walkable, transit-supportive communities that offer a variety of housing choices, parkland, and natural areas. They will also provide direction on building heights, use of land, street connections as well as the design of buildings, spaces, and streets for these three communities.
There have been several key City-initiated studies for the Downtown Fairview, Cooksville, and Hospital areas. You may have contributed your comments during the community engagement for these studies. The revised policies will build on the recommendations developed in these studies and consider housing and other community needs. The planning policy and legislative contexts for these studies have changed and the City is required to update the policy directions to reflect the current context.
The City is also developing a set of built form standards that will complement Official Plan policies and provide more detailed direction on how to implement the vision for Downtown Fairview, Cooksville and Hospital. They express the City’s expectations for good design, and the importance of a high quality built form and public realm in creating vibrant, walkable communities.
15-Minute City
Is Cooksville a “15-minute city”? Should it be?
We are thinking about the “15-minute city” concept – similar to how other great cities have thought about how we live, and where we shop, work, play and learn within a 15-minute walk from home.
To check out more ideas and perspectives on the 15-minute city concept please click on the following links.
- How to build back better with a 15-minute city, by C40 Knowledge Hub
- 15 Minute Cities! Exploring Transferability and the Life-Sized City, video by Mikael Colville-Anderson
- Can we build 15-minute cities where we live? The Big Story podcast by Jordan Heath-Rawlings with guest Alex Bozikovic
- Curious about how the 15-minute city concept applies to Cooksville? We created this interactive map showing all the amenities you can walk to in 15-minutes in Cooksville. Give it a try by clicking here!
Thank you to Cherise Burda, Executive Director at City Building Ryerson, Neluka Leanage, Founder and CEO of SafeGround, and Alex Bozikovic, architecture critic and journalist at the Globe and Mail.
Have Your Say
There will be other opportunities to provide feedback through the various phases of the project. Please subscribe to receive news alerts about future engagements at the top of the page.
If you wish to mail your comments, please send them to:
Karin Phuong, City Planning Strategies, 7th FL - Planning and Building, City of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Dr, Mississauga, ON L5B 3C1.