The toronto green standard is toronto s sustainable design requirements for new private and city owned developments.
Toronto green standard green roof.
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.
The requirement ranges from 20 60 of the available roof space of a building.
Achieving the tgs performance measures will help meet this goal.
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 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 standard consists of tiers tiers 1 to 4 of performance measures with supporting guidelines that promote sustainable site and building design.