Toronto leads North America by requiring green roofs on new buildings! TORONTO, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, (GRHC) the North American green roof industry association, is pleased to announce that the City of Toronto passed a new green roof by-law with overwhelming support yesterday. The green roof by-law consists of a green roof construction standard and a mandatory requirement for green roofs on all classes of new buildings. The by-law requires up to 50 per cent green roof coverage on multi-unit residential dwellings over six storeys, schools, non-profit housing, commercial and industrial buildings. Larger residential projects require greater green roof coverage, ranging anywhere from 20 to 50 per cent of the roof area. "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..." said Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone, the primary champion of the new by-law. "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." he added.
