The toronto green standard sets the oficial plan s vision of sustainability into action and is a key strategy to achieve the city s climate change action plan an aggressive environmental framework aimed at reducing toronto s greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.
Toronto green standard green roof.
The tgrcs establishes the city s requirements while also meeting the ontario building code obc requirements.
Mid to high rise residential non residential version 3.
The requirement ranges from 20 60 of the available roof space of a building.
Residential apartment development 4 storeys and higher and all industrial commercial and institutional ici developments.
The green roof bylaw sets out a graduated green roof requirement for new development or additions that are greater than 2 000 m in gross floor area.
The toronto green standard is toronto s sustainable design requirements for new private and city owned developments.
The toronto green roof construction standard tgrcs is the first municipal standard in north america to establish the minimum requirements for the design and construction of green roofs.