Meet the Chief Planners 2021

Join us for ULI Toronto’s 7th annual regional program for the professional land use community celebrating our public sector planning leadership across the Greater Golden Horseshoe.

Restructured for the times, this year’s program has been enhanced to provide more opportunity for dialog with our featured “chiefs” with two concurrent sessions of “zoom rooms” to meet the region’s chief planners.

We invite you to a virtual program with senior municipal and provincial planning and development officials of the Toronto Region, and featuring the Hon Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing and award-winning placemaker and author, Jay Pitter.

AGENDA

8:00am–8:30am: Pre-Event Virtual Networking
8:30am–8:45: Carolyn King, Chair and Co-Founder, Shared Path Consultation Initiative
8:45am–8:55am: Opening Remarks by Hon. Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
8:55am–9:30am: Greater Golden Horseshoe Planner Panel
  • Moderator: Paula Dill, Provincial Land and Development Facilitator, MMAH-
  • Karla Avis-Birch, Chief Planning Officer, Metrolinx
  • Heather MacDonald, Executive Director, Community Planning Regulation and Mobility, City of Burlington
  • Dwayne Campbell, Manager of Land Use Planning and Inspection Services, County of Northumberland
  • Andrea Miller, General Manager Infrastructure and Growth Management, City of Barrie
  • Gregg Lintern, Chief Planner and Executive Director, City of Toronto

9:45am–10:30am: Concurrent Sessions with Chief Planners Round One
10:45am–11:30am: Concurrent Sessions with Chief Planners Round Two
11:45am–12:45pm: Keynote: Ask Courageous Questions with Jay Pitter

CONFIRMED “CHIEFS”

City of Barrie – Michelle Banfield
City of Brampton – Yvonne Yeung
City of Brampton – Bob Bjerke
City of Burlington – Heather MacDonald
City of Guelph – Krista Walkey
City of Hamilton – Steve Robichaud
City of Kitchener – Rosa Bustamante
City of Markham – Biju Karumanchery
City of Markham – Arvin Prasad
City of Mississauga – Andrew Whittemore
City of Pickering – Catherine Rose
City of St. Catharines – Tami Kitay
City of Toronto – Barbara Gray
City of Toronto – Gregg Lintern
City of Toronto – Lynda Macdonald
Infrastructure Ontario – John Cimino
Metrolinx – Michael Norton
Metrolinx – Mathieu Goetzke
Municipality of Clarington – Carlos Salazar
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, ADM Municipal Services Division – Hannah Evans
Region of Durham – Gary Muller
Region of Peel – Adrian Smith
Region of Peel – John Hardcastle
Region of Waterloo – Michelle Sergi
Simcoe County – David Parks
Toronto Community Housing Corporation – Jessica Hawes
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority – John MacKenzie
Toronto Transit Commission – Kathleen Llewellyn-Thomas
Town of Caledon – Sylvia Kirkwood
Town of Innisfill – Mary T. Nordstrom
Town of Oakville – Gabe Charles
Town of Uxbridge – Elizabeth Howson
Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville – Haiqing Xu
Town of Newmarket – Jason Unger
Waterfront Toronto – Meg Davis
York Region – Paul Freeman