Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), the City of Toronto and the Pocket Community Association (PCA) have come together in a new and exciting collaboration to bring the Sustainable Neighbourhood Action Program (SNAP) to the Pocket neighbourhood.

The Pocket is a neighbourhood in Toronto’s East End, bounded by Jones Avenue, the rail tracks, Greenwood Avenue, and the Danforth. Primarily developed in the early 1900s, it has 773 houses and five multi-unit residential buildings, parks, commercial and institutional properties, with great opportunities for urban renewal.

The Pocket is home to a highly connected and dedicated community with a passion for environmental improvement. Community members have volunteered hundreds of hours, researched, educated themselves, and mobilized in an effort to make their neighbourhood more sustainable.

A Neighbourhood Action Plan will be developed, that  builds on the community’s great ideas, as well as explores new opportunities to make the neighbourhood more sustainable and a better place to live. It will look at opportunities for things like energy and water conservation, native species plantings and habitat creation projects, recreation, arts and culture.

The Pocket SNAP website