Development incentives are attracting supermarkets to the city's "food deserts," and streets are being closed near schools to give children more room to play.
As an economic development incentive, landlords can be offered tax incentives, grants, facade improvements, and loans to renovate buildings that can be used as live-work spaces by artists.
But similar tax breaks weren't offered for residential housing until the last decade, when the city and province created the first of two packages of development incentives.
It qualifies the sponsor of the drug for seven years of marketing exclusivity and various development incentives including waiver of the prescription drug user fee for a marketing application.