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Waterfront Toronto (sometimes styled as WATERFRONToronto), is an organization administering revitalization projects along the Toronto waterfront in Canada. Formed as a partnership of three levels of Canadian government in 2001, the organization is administering several blocks of land redevelopment projects surrounding Toronto Harbour and various other initiatives to promote the revitalization of the area, including public transit, housing developments, brownfield rehabilitation, possible removal of the Gardiner Expressway in the area, the Martin Goodman Trail and lakeshore improvements and naturalization of the Don River. Actual development of the projects is done by other agencies, primarily private corporations. The projects include a series of wavedeck walkways and gathering places designed by West 8 and DTAH. ==Organization== The 'Waterfront Revitalization Task Force', a task force of the City of Toronto, the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario was established in November 1999 to study the future of the Toronto waterfront. The task force, headed by financier Robert Fung, reported in March 2000. It estimated the total cost of revitalization at $5 billion in public investment and a further $7 billion in private sector investment. It proposed the following general recommendations for the Toronto waterfront: * Make the water's edge an accessible, public amenity from Etobicoke through the Central Waterfront to Scarborough; * Remove the elevated Gardiner Expressway in the Central Waterfront and provide a new road and transportation network to better serve Toronto's downtown and revitalized waterfront; *Create in the core of the City major new neighbourhoods for working, living and recreation, resulting in a substantial increase in the City's stock of affordable and market housing; * Create a "convergence community" that crosses all disciplines of creativity to take advantage of Toronto's unique position in New Media, communications, music, biotechnology, software and high technology. * Provide a clean environment by improving water quality, cleaning up contaminated soils, eliminating the risk of flooding and naturalizing appropriate areas. * establishment of a corporation separate from government to oversee the revitalization. Source: The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation was formed in 2001 to oversee and lead waterfront renewal. It has subsequently been renamed "Waterfront Toronto."〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2009-02-10 )〕 The agency is jointly funded by the three levels of government. The agency is overseen at the federal level by the Department of Finance, at the provincial level by the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, and at the municipal level by the Waterfront Project Secretariat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Government )〕 The organization is directed to support the following policy objectives of the three levels of government: * Reducing urban sprawl * Developing sustainable communities particularly in the area of energy efficiency * Redeveloping brownfields & cleaning up contaminated land * Building more affordable housing * Increasing economic competitiveness * Creating more parks and public spaces Source: (【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Waterfront Toronto ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Waterfront Toronto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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