•  Conform to a zoning destination?
•  Require a variance to a zoning destination?
• Include plans to expand operations over the life of the business such that additional emissions may increase the pollution burden in the community?
•  Does the project proponent offer the use of best practices and pollution control technology to mitigate adding to the airshed?

  3. Has the Mayor’s task force on Air Quality provided comments or information to assist in the analysis?

  4. Have public meetings been held with the affected community to solicit their involvement in the decision-making process for the proposed project?

  5. If the proposed project is subject to provincial and or federal regulations:

•  Has the project received a permit from the appropriate ministry? i.e., Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Transportation.
•  Will potential emissions from the project trigger new source pollutants or air toxic emissions?
•   Is there sufficient new information or public concern to call for a more thorough environmental analysis of the proposed project?
•  Are there land-use based air quality significance thresholds or design standards that could be applied to this project in addition to MOE regulations?

6.. If the proposed project will release air pollution emissions, either directly or indirectly, but is not regulated by local government:

• Is the Mayor’s task force on Air Quality informed of the project?
•  Does local government believe that there could be potential air pollution impacts associated with this project because of the proximity of the project to sensitive individuals, neighbourhoods, schools, hospital, etc?
•  Are there indirect emissions that could be associated with the project (e.g., truck traffic or idling, stationary diesel engine perations, transport refrigeration unit, etc.) that will be in close proximity to sensitive individuals?
•  Will the proposed project increase or serve as a magnet for diesel traffic?
•  Should the site approval process include identification and mitigation of potential direct or indirect emissions associated with the potential project?
•  Have local residents in affected area of proposed development been consulted in a meaningful way?

7. Does city council have pertinent information on the source, such as:

•  Available permit and enforcement data, i.e. do all permits and regulated activities meet current MOE standards and are they in compliance?
•  Emission source and receptor dispersion
•  Proximity of the proposed project to sensitive individuals.
•  Number of potentially exposed individuals from the proposed project.
•  Potential for the proposed project to expose sensitive individuals to odor or other air pollution nuisances.
•  Meteorology or the prevailing wind patterns between the proposed project and nearest receptor, or between the proposed sensitive receptor project and sources that could pose a  localized or cumulative air pollution impact.

8. If a MOE categorical exemption is proposed, were the following questions considered?

•  Is the project site environmentally sensitive as defined by the project’s location? (A project that is ordinarily insignificant in its impact on the environment may in a particularly sensitive environment be significant.)
•  Would the project and successive future projects of the same type in the approximate location potentially result in cumulative impacts?
•  Are there “unusual circumstances” creating the possibility of significant effects?

  9. Based upon the project application, its location, and the nature of the source, could the proposed project:

•  Be a polluting source that is located in proximity to, or otherwise upwind, of a location where sensitive individuals live, work or play?
•  Attract sensitive individuals and be located in proximity to, or otherwise downwind, of a source or multiple sources of pollution, including polluting facilities or transportation-related sources that contribute emissions either directly or indirectly?
•  Result in health risk to the surrounding community