What are the links between population trends and housing requirements? Or the links between employment data and Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) land and facility requirements?

The answers to these questions, and many others facing municipalities, lie in our "age cohort", "housing occupancy" analyses and employment studies. Municipalities need to know what their service and facility requirements will be and how much serviced land will be required for housing and ICI use. They need this information to update their official plans and capital forecasts.

Watson & Associates has assisted more than 100 municipalities in addressing fundamental demographic, economic and growth management issues, as background, or as part of, the official plan and secondary planning process over the past 20-plus years. Report topics include:

• Growth Management and Land Needs;
• Growth Forecasting (population and employment);
• Employment Lands;
• Intensification Studies;
• Housing Studies (affordable, municipal housing statements, student housing);
• Market and Economic Impact;
• Ward Boundary Reviews.

Many of these projects have resulted in the submission of expert witness testimony before the Ontario Municipal Board.