Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Secondary Plan Update

GPA is leading a multi-disciplinary team of consultants to update the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Secondary Plan. The Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (“VMC”) is poised to be the financial, innovation, and cultural centre of the City of Vaughan, envisioned as a transit-oriented downtown with unique residential, office, and mixed-use districts linked by a network of parks, squares and open spaces, and a fine-grain street grid. In 2010, the City adopted a Secondary Plan for the VMC to initiate its development, and has been successful in working with landowners to create the first phase of the downtown build-out. There has also been a significant expansion of public transit, including the TTC subway and the Viva bus rapid transit system, which are contributing to the further urbanization of the City. The existing VMC Secondary Plan is being updated to reflect new policy direction including recent changes to provincial and municipal legislation, and consider a boundary expansion to include additional lands in the Secondary Plan area. The project will also consider the evolving urban structure of the downtown based on recent Council-approved applications and proposed developments, and determine new height and density permissions and a land use plan for the Secondary Plan area. The resulting updated Secondary Plan will support the City’s downtown as a complete community to 2041.