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Expanded Development Process
The second key characteristic of the SuNliving framework is an expanded development process that includes a wide range of disciplines to address a broader range of themes. While SuNliving respects traditional development, it is designed to enhance and transcend traditional processes with greater levels of detail and sustainable interventions at appropriate times.
In addition, the expanded process extends performance assessment beyond the traditional economic perspective. Performance indicators and targets are used as effective, forward-looking tools for measuring and assessing ecological, economic and social performance.
SuNliving also aligns with municipal approval processes and serves as the sustainable neighbourhood lens that is applied at the various stages of the traditional process. This ensures that planning and design decisions have considered existing guidelines, regulations and bylaws established by a municipality.
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EXPANDED DEVELOPMENT PROCESS |
| Step 1 | Mission |
The mission statement describes the primary purpose and goal for moving towards sustainable neighbourhood development. |
| Principles |
Sustainable neighbourhood principles define the ultimate successful outcome we wish to achieve and guide the transition to a sustainable future. |
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| Themes |
Sustainable neighbourhood themes flow out of the sustainable neighbourhood principles and provide an organized framework for evaluating a sustainable neighbourhood project. |
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| Step 2 | Vision |
The vision describes what the neighbourhood will ideally be like in a preferred future, including what it will be like to live there. |
| Step 3 | Issue Area |
Issue areas identify concerns and challenges for each sustainable neighbourhood theme that will require greater attention and investigation. |
| Goals |
Goals are broad statements that describe the desired condition to be achieved and relate principles to the specifics of a sustainable neighbourhood. |
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| Indicators |
Indicators are tools for measuring progress towards a specific goal and provide a mechanism for setting desired targets. |
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| Targets |
Targets identify specifically what needs to be achieved by establishing the desired level of performance for each indicator statement. |
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| Step 4 | Strategies |
Strategies are the general approaches that can be implemented to achieve a goal and associated targets. |
| Actions |
Actions represent a series of practices or design measures that can be implemented as a solution for achieving a target. |
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| Step 5 | Guidelines |
The guidelines are the set of planning and design decisions that all project stakeholders have mutually agreed to implement in a proposed sustainable neighbourhood development. |
