Department Tasked: Planning and Fusca

department tasked: That's a problem, Fusca says, because it means the department tasked with planning the entire city is only hearing from part of it, according to Metro News. To fix it, Fusca and his colleagues created the Toronto Planning Review Panel. The people who come to our meetings are generally white, generally affluent homeowners, said Daniel Fusca, head of stakeholder engagement for Toronto's planning department. They sent out 12,000 invitations, and used a lottery process to pick 28 applicants who, together, reflect a city where nearly half of residents rent, 49 per cent are visible minorities and the median age is 39. They even got the concept of safety by design the notion that the design of architecture and streets can impact safety enshrined in official planning guidelines. Over the past year, the panel members have reviewed the city's new complete streets guidelines and pushed for policies requiring more family-sized condo units. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.