Caitlin has an extensive range of experience with development proposals throughout Toronto and the GTHA. She has a diverse background in land use planning matters in progressively responsible roles. Caitlin works with a range of clients to lead and manage complex multi-disciplinary projects and resolve land use issues. She has given expert evidence at the Ontario Land Tribunal, prepared evidence for hearings, expropriation hearings and arbitration hearings and has deputed numerous times before Community Councils and the Committee of Adjustment.

Caitlin is a Registered Professional Planner with the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. She holds a Master of Science in Regional and Urban Planning Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, graduating with distinction. She previously earned a Bachelor and Arts and Science degree (with honours) from McMaster University, where she combined with Human Geography.

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Katie is involved in a wide range of planning projects across Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. She is actively involved in the management of various types of development applications and is responsible for the preparation of planning rationale reports and other supporting materials related to development applications. She works collaboratively with municipal staff and multi-disciplinary consultant teams to deliver positive solutions to complex land use issues. In her role, she also has deputed before the Committee of Adjustment, has presented at community meetings, and has prepared and provided evidence at the Ontario Land Tribunal.

Katie became an Associate with the firm in 2021 an holds a Master of Urban Planning degree from Toronto Metropolitan University, having previously earned an Honours Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Guelph. In the third year of her Bachelor’s degree program, Katie participated in an international exchange to Copenhagen, Denmark, where she continued to study Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen.

Katie is a full member of the Canadian Institute of Planners and is a Registered Professional Planner in the Province of Ontario, and a Candidate Member of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects (OALA), working towards full membership.

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Projects

Agincourt Mall Redevelopment

A vibrant, transit-oriented mixed-use community.

The ask: to provide planning and urban design services in support of the redevelopment of a 10.54-hectare site, in proximity to the Agincourt GO station, occupied by the Agincourt Mall.

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The Challenge

The project team was tasked to transform the site from a shopping centre built in the 1960s with an extensive surface parking lot to a vibrant, transit-oriented mixed-use community with a wide variety of residential, institutional, office and retail uses, supported by a new network of parks, open spaces and public and private streets.

Our Solution

The unique opportunity to create this new community resulted in permissions for nearly 4,500 new residential units, approximately 24,000 sq. m of retail space, 10,000 sq. m of office and 2,175 sq. m of community facility space. In addition, the project includes 1.4 hectares of new public parkland, 5,765 of privately-owned, publicly-accessible open space and six new public roads. The approval accounted for phasing, the retention of certain commercial uses, and other constraints.

The Outcome

Bousfields and the project team obtained approval at Council of a new Site and Area Specific Policy through an Official Plan Amendment, which set out policies with respect to land use, density, public realm, built form, mobility and phasing. Bousfields and the project team subsequently obtained Council approval for the implementing Zoning By-law Amendment and Draft Plan of Subdivision applications.

Given the complexity and size of the development application, the City launched a Planning Framework Review to guide and inform their recommendations on the application. Bousfields led the project team through this process, which included a series of public workshops and charettes, to arrive at a vision for the development site that was supported by City Staff and Council.