Land Use Impact Calculator (LUIC)

The Land Use Impact Calculator (LUIC) is a Microsoft Office Add-In for Excel. It is intended to provide users with a tool to explore the potential impacts of proposed residential developments in terms of GHG emissions produced, infrastructure capital costs incurred, and municipal revenues collected. The Calculator allows comparisons of these elements between different residential development scenarios for low-density, transit-oriented, and urban infill development types.

Model input assumptions—including energy sources, emissions factors, building codes, travel behaviours, etc.—use provincial values. These can be replaced with user assumptions.