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About the project
The City of Mississauga is creating a downtown for today and tomorrow. To do this, we’re developing a new guiding document called the Downtown Strategy. This Strategywill build on the success of the Downtown Core and provide direction for the future. It will reflect what people want to see – a vibrant place to live, work, learn, be entertained, raise a family and most of all, choose to be.
The Downtown Strategy seeks to set a vision and plan for Downtown Mississauga by answering the following questions:
What are the Downtown’s strengths?
Where are the opportunities? (e.g. to make it easy to live, work, play, shop, gather and learn in the Downtown)
What are our needs and aspirations for the Downtown?
What is our vision for the future and what actions will get us there?
The Strategy will build on the Downtown21 Master Plan (2010) - a plan that first outlined a vision to transform the Downtown from "suburban to urban" and laid the foundation for the current downtown core. For more information on the Downtown21 Master Plan, please visit mississauga.ca/downtown.
For a map of key attractions in Downtown Mississauga, please click here.
COVID-19 Community Engagement Update: While we continue to respond to this pandemic, we are working hard to deliver essential services and projects to keep our City moving and safe. While we can’t connect in-person at this time, we still want to connect! Please find on this site the ways you can keep updated on this project’s progress and share your opinions and ideas.
Have your say
Whether you live, learn, work or play in Downtown Mississauga, get involved and have your say on what our downtown can be.
About the project
The City of Mississauga is creating a downtown for today and tomorrow. To do this, we’re developing a new guiding document called the Downtown Strategy. This Strategywill build on the success of the Downtown Core and provide direction for the future. It will reflect what people want to see – a vibrant place to live, work, learn, be entertained, raise a family and most of all, choose to be.
The Downtown Strategy seeks to set a vision and plan for Downtown Mississauga by answering the following questions:
What are the Downtown’s strengths?
Where are the opportunities? (e.g. to make it easy to live, work, play, shop, gather and learn in the Downtown)
What are our needs and aspirations for the Downtown?
What is our vision for the future and what actions will get us there?
The Strategy will build on the Downtown21 Master Plan (2010) - a plan that first outlined a vision to transform the Downtown from "suburban to urban" and laid the foundation for the current downtown core. For more information on the Downtown21 Master Plan, please visit mississauga.ca/downtown.
For a map of key attractions in Downtown Mississauga, please click here.
COVID-19 Community Engagement Update: While we continue to respond to this pandemic, we are working hard to deliver essential services and projects to keep our City moving and safe. While we can’t connect in-person at this time, we still want to connect! Please find on this site the ways you can keep updated on this project’s progress and share your opinions and ideas.
Have your say
Whether you live, learn, work or play in Downtown Mississauga, get involved and have your say on what our downtown can be.
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would you guys consider a variety of architecture and materials sort of like the redevelopment of the christie site at humber bay? On urban Toronto, a lot of people have been complaining that the outline for Mississauga's downtown looks a bit bland because the buildings are all glass and look the same. It might be wise to consider more of a variety of styles, and possible European-style streets as intended at 2150 lakeshore. This would make people move to your city without a doubt.
cole
asked
4 months ago
The City reviews development applications in accordance with the provincial regulations within the Planning Act. The Act gives municipalities certain powers however, does not give the authority to regulate architectural design. The City does however have general policies in the Official Plan to encourage a variety of design components such as: durable materials within buildings, the regulation of massing, floor plate size, height, setbacks and land uses. In the Downtown Core, the City also has Built Form Standards to provide urban design direction and guidance for proposed developments. The private landowners, developers and their architects still have freedom of design of their lands within the general parameters defined within the City’s Zoning By-laws.
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What is the city doing to stop excessive noise from the cars in the downtown area and with the speeding around parks and kid's playgrounds? Does the city look into solutions such as speed bumps or "noise cameras" that can automatically detect noise and protect the community and kids from the road?
Therefore, does the future housing and condo developers targeting foreign investors or it will turn the market towards the Canadian working class?
Denis
asked
5 months ago
Thank you for sharing your feedback. The City of Mississauga recognizes that vehicle noise can be disruptive. In August, City Council took action to address vehicle noise by amending the Noise Control By-law to prohibit anyone from making unnecessary noise in stationary and moving motor vehicles and increasing the set fine. The City is also working with Peel Regional Police to address vehicle noise. During the month of July, Peel Police laid 170 charges in Mississauga for vehicle noise offences as part of “Project Noisemaker”. The City has looked into “noise cameras” as part of the Noise Control Program Review, but due to the financial impact of COVID-19, any recommendations that will involve new funding cannot be implemented until Phase 2.
Traffic calming measures, such as speed bumps, are considered if a concern is raised regarding speeding or aggressive driving. Our Road Safety Unit will conduct a study to determine the appropriate response. If there is an area of specific concern, please contact 311 with details and City staff will undertake an appropriate review. The Downtown Movement Plan will make recommendations to make Downtown streets safer and more comfortable for all.
The City recognizes the need for various housing and more affordable housing options in Mississauga and the Downtown Core. The City’s Housing Strategy (Making Room for the Middle) identifies priorities and recommendations for affordable housing. We will be supporting these policies and identifying recommendations for affordable housing through the Downtown Strategy as well as through the Official Plan Review.
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Could the Burnhamthorpe bike trail get signalized ride-through crossings through the downtown core? (And perhaps in more areas beyond what's already there)
Ben
asked
5 months ago
A key component of the DMP will be recommendations for cycling infrastructure improvements. Also, we are continually improving the Burnhamthorpe Multi-Use Trail as opportunities come up. For example whenever extensive signal or intersection work has to be done, we’ll take the opportunity to add bicycle cross-rides, including signaling, such as when the section east of Dixie Road was reconstructed. Recently the Erindale GO station entrance was upgraded with bike signals, and the Erin Mills Parkway intersection is currently being upgraded. Future developments planned for the Downtown that affect intersections, such as the Hurontario LRT, and developments to the west will also trigger similar improvements.
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Are the changes to the Downtown following the Growth Plan for the GGH?
Sam
asked
8 months ago
The Downtown Strategy seeks to provide an update to the City of Mississauga’s Downtown 21 Master Plan, which is 10 years old. All plans in Mississauga are in line with the City’s Official Plan, the Region of Peel Official Plan and the Province’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, 2020.
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What is the city doing to improve walkability and preserve green space around downtown? Particularly around Kariya park and Fairview Public School, where it's feeling less and less walkable with each new hi-rise.
Resistent
asked
9 months ago
Thank you for sharing your feedback and concern. The Downtown Strategy will be identifying ways to improve walkability and strengthen the network of greenspaces in the Downtown Core. We will be conducting a detailed movement study for the Downtown Core, which will help us identify areas for improvement. More details about this study will be posted here, on the project website, with further opportunities to provide input into the development of the Downtown Strategy.
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What is the city doing about more employment jobs and more upscale restaurants for Downtown area?
dsk
asked
about 1 year ago
We
currently have a Downtown Community Improvement Plan in place, to incentivize
office development in the Downtown. You can read more about that here.
Through the Downtown Strategy, we are identifying potential recommendations to
help grow employment and social opportunities in the Downtown.
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We are considering downsizing from a single detached house to a condo. Most condos are very small in size in the city center area. It would be good to have more larger condo units to choose from for people that want to downsize, but don't want to live in very small units. Can developers consider larger units 1400-1800 sq ft. or more townhouses in the city center area. . It would be good to have more mix housing options for downsizing.
dsk
asked
about 1 year ago
There are currently a mix of
housing sizes in the Downtown Core, including bachelor, one-bedroom and
two-bedroom units. With the growing number of families living in the Downtown,
we are identifying opportunities to support a variety of housing options.
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What is the city doing to decrease car usage in Downtown? Are there modal share targets and initiatives to do so? If cars are being used as a primary form of transportation (say 50% modal share), I'd suggest that it should be aimed at <30% or Downtown will be drowned in traffic and unsustainable for residents and the environment.
Petrovna
asked
over 1 year ago
Our recently released Transportation Master Plan (http://mississaugamoves.ca)
found that 29% of trips to, from, or within Mississauga use a sustainable mode
of travel (where sustainable modes are those other than driving). An objective
of the Transportation Master Plan (TMP) is to have half of Mississauga trips
use a sustainable mode by 2041 (see page 83). Ninety-one Action Items are
presented in the TMP and are designed to achieve the TMP’s objectives,
including the City’s sustainable mode share target.
Action #11 (page 96) calls for a Mode Share Study. This
study will set mode targets for specific geographic areas of the City. Although
there is not a mode share target for the Downtown at this time, it is
anticipated that the Downtown will be one of the first geographic areas of the
city to receive one.
The City’s current vision for the Downtown is for a vibrant
civic, cultural, and economic centre for Mississauga. Providing viable and
attractive multi-modal options is at the heart of this endeavour. Current plans
(including the Downtown21 Master Plan) aim to transform the Downtown into a
high quality, pedestrian-friendly, and human-scaled environment.
Auto-dependence will be reduced by introducing new dedicated transit, including
the Hurontario LRT, as well as dedicated cycling facilities and an improved
pedestrian network. Updates to the Downtown21 Master Plan, in part through the
Downtown Strategy, are anticipated to reiterate these aims.
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how are you planning for bicycle routs. Right now is extremely dangerous for bike traveling. And painting a few roads with the picture of a bike creates more danger as drivers ignore it.
patoruzu
asked
over 1 year ago
The City of Mississauga endorsed the new Cycling Master Plan in July
2018. The Cycling Master Plan outlines cycling infrastructure investments that
the City will undertake to fully build out the cycling network over the next 27
years.
While the Cycling Master Plan does include some painted bicycle lanes
as part of the proposed cycling network, there is a much heavier emphasis on
physically protected bicycle lanes, protected either by barriers like curbs,
planters or bollards, or protected by being above the curb at sidewalk level
but dedicated for bicycles. The Cycling Master Plan proposed approximately 150
kilometres of this type of separated bicycle lane or “cycle track” across the
City.
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Is the Downtown Strategy the same as Downtown21?
over 1 year ago
The
Downtown21 Master Plan was developed back in 2010 and set a vision for
Downtown Mississauga. The Plan requires a refresh to ensure the
continued development of Downtown Mississauga reflects the changing needs and
aspirations of its users. The Downtown Strategy will build on the ideas
presented in the Downtown21 Master Plan, but will be a new and distinct document.