Eco Park Strategy for Naturalization

Brampton's Eco Park Strategy for Naturalization

Why it matters: Envision creating a connected network of eco-friendly spaces in your park system. This initiative aims to enhance natural systems, improve community well-being, and promote sustainable urban development through naturalization and climate resileincy.

Context:

Vision: The strategy is part of the City of Brampton’s 2040 Vision: Living the Mosaic, which proposes a citywide Eco Park. The goal is to balance environmental conservation with urban use, transforming parks, streetscapes, and other spaces into Eco Spaces.‍

Challenges: Brampton faces rapid urbanization and significant natural area loss. The strategy addresses these issues by integrating natural systems into urban infrastructure, enhancing biodiversity, and improving resilience against climate change.

Go deeper: The strategy outlines key components, including:‍

Eco Space Diverse green areas designed to foster human-nature coexistence, from naturalized systems to urban social spaces.‍

Eco Park Principles: Seven guiding principles to maximize ecological value, provide social services, make nature visible, design with nature, integrate with the community, support innovation, and reflect local identity.

Implementation: A five-year action plan to retrofit existing parks, create new Eco Spaces, and engage the community through educational and stewardship programs.‍

Population: 656,480

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