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So was the 2 sideration, then to six sites takeoff patterns compatible ternational airport would numbers of persons who airport and associated com- disruptive changes with warranting exhaustive . with other airports, partic- pose difficult and costly would be displaced, and the munities). ramifications that would be 5 study, readily concede that ularly Malton. It could not complications for travelers degree to which existing Costs: The price of the felt for decades to come. iq interconnecting flights. site were, of course, care- Rs ering came out ahead of all : : or out well ahead in most of <5 others in overall criteria. } ome ,the important respects by 4 It's a difficult process of which all prospective air- £ Gn Josie all the IN . 0 F [) * [ | I port sites were evaluated. el criteria cannot be mea- It meets all the safety re- 5 sured in dollars and cents e WwW S 0 i e I | S r e Ul i (0) n él lL el n quirements. It fills fh fd or by other quantitative . technical needs for air" A means. ) ; transportation serving the 7} While economic consider- The Pickering site for of the plan have pointed out Planning officials are pair of "high-performance Toronto region. It minimiz- 1 ations are important, so the new airport and town of that this report emphasized satisfied that the new site travel corridors" spaced es, to a large extent, the a perfect site for an air- port." : That frank -admission comes from provincial ex- perts who co-operated with federal authorities in arriv- ing at the choice of Picker- ing Township as the loca- tion for Toronto's second "international airport. The teams of investiga- tors," who narrowed the choice down from an initial 89 prospective sites to 59 locations worth some con- even their final choice falls short of perfection. However, they add, Pick- are environmental and so- cial factors--such as the number of people who will be affected, the sizes of communities that will be disrupted, and the effect on the surrounding environ- ment. Bearing in mind the hu- man factors as well as the economic and geographic considerations, the people who combined their efforts in selecting the Pickering site weighed many alterna- tions and found the an- swers. Among them: Technical capabilities: Pickering was found capa- ble of accommodating the range of aircraft that would have to use the second To- ronto airport. It also meets minimum weather require- ments (limited fog, snow, icing and wind levels, plus desirable wind direction). Provision for air traffic control: The site chosen had to provide landing and present any conflict with existing air-traffic-control corridors. . Cedarwood is a natural out- growth of the Toronto- Centred Region Plan, ac- cording to officials of the Ontario ' 'Department of Treasury and Economics. The Toronto-Centred Re- gion Plan, released in May of 1970, predicted a new major airport and stressed several planning objectives in the choice of location. Planning officials who worked on the development Future as well as current transportation needs had to be met, and future popula- tion distribution taken into account. : Capability of construc- tion: Topographical limita- tions ruled out some sites, with their underground streams, swamps, bad drainage and other factors. Interconnection with Mal- ton: A site much further from Toronto's present in- needing to transfer from one terminal to another for that the airport should be located "where it could meet the requirements for future growth of the entire region". ' Other important consid- erations included the inte- gration of the airport into already-planned transporta- tion facilities and other ser- vicgs, accessibility to the travel market and the en- couragement of growth where it could be most eas- ily accommodated. ment: All sites had to be compared for the relative disruptions they would cause on the ecology, on water courses, wildlife, vegetation and for the ef- fects of water and air pol- lution on parks, conserva- tion areas, farmlands and built-up communities. In- this respect Pickering ranked far ahead of many other potential sites. Social disruption: Consid-- eration was given to the communities could be pro- tected from the airport's impact. Planners counted matches all of these objec- tives and requires the mini- mum number of changes to the official plan. Although many details are still in the planning stages, the Pickering site appears to conform to the main points of the transpor- tation grid outlined in the Toronto-Centred Plan. The key element of the 1970 re- port was the proposal that the region be serviced by a permanent and seasonal, and considered the result- ing interactions of com- munities--travel patterns, community services, the la- bour forces available in ex- isting and future communi- ties. Servicing requirements: These could be measured in dollars and gauged in physi- cal terms--the cost and practicality of water mains, sewer lines, ground transportation (for both the land itself, plus the costs of servicing and operating the five to ten miles apart, par- allel to the Lake Ontario shore between Hamilton and Oshawa. . Planning officials of the Department of Treasury and Economics have shown - that the airport and town site could be attached di- rectly to the northern corri- dor, thereby saving the ad- ditional expense of a spe- cial" transportation link be- tween the airport and To- ronto. "public" cost--what people "would have to pay to use the airport--in vehicle miles from Toronto, in travel time--and what the prices would be to set up * 'and provide the services the public needs in and around any airport. Compatibility with re- gional plans: The site cho- sen had to fit in with the concept already developedn for the Toronto-Centred Region--or risk costly and The Pickering site met this criterion most admirably. Pickering, in short, came" ecological and -environmen- tal problems that an air- port in any location would cause. Its disruption of the social pattern is slight. It makes possible the provi- sion of water, sewerage and other services at rea- sonable cost. And it poses requirements for capital in- vestment that fit readily with the aims of planners' who have foreseen the fu- ture needs of the Toronto- Centred Region.