All new residential, commercial and institutional buildings with more than 2,000 square meters of floorspace in the City of Toronto will soon require a vegetated area, known as a green roof, on a portion of the rooftop. Toronto says it is the first municipality to pass a mandatory green roof bylaw, effective February 2010.
"The City of Toronto s leadership on all things green took another major step by making it obligatory to have green roofs for all types of new buildings," says deputy mayor Joe Pantalone. "This bylaw is a major part of the solution to climate change, the creation of green jobs, and it represents a whole new mindset on how our cities approach the 20 per cent or so of surface area that are roofs."
Steven Peck, president of the not-for-profit industry group Green Roofs for Healthy Cities says Toronto s bylaw "breaks new ground on how to structure a mandatory green roof requirement and the construction standard also contains important best practices that may prove to be a model for other cities."
Green roofs offer environmental benefits such as reducing storm water runoff, cutting en
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