Ontario planners today are working in one of the most challenging periods in their careers in the midst of a national housing crisis. Many great ideas have been put forward to address the province’s More Homes Built Faster Act, including OPPI’s recommendations for Housing Supply Action Plan (HSAP). Join this engaging session where we share highlights of recent activities across our municipalities with provincial ministries and address the topics of developing information standardization and aggregation, regional collaboration and planning system enablers to align with Ontario’s housing targets.

Key Points:

• How to better leverage existing municipal data for information exchange across communities
  
• Understand the strategic value of your geospatial data and the reporting needs of Ontario Regulation 73/23
  
• Learn about recent discussions from the Ontario Big City Mayors, Ontario Chamber of Commerce, a workshop with Ontario’s 29 largest and fastest growing municipalities, and more
  

Presenter:
Jeff Lamb, Director Planning Systems, Esri Canada

Jeff Lamb is the Director of Planning Systems at Esri Canada. Jeff is passionate about data and the power it has for positive change in your organization and society. Jeff cares about making a difference every day and applying data and analytics to real world problems. Jeff and his team are working to deploy the first Community Planning Map of Canada.