The City of Vaughan is a green community committed to the health of our environment through the development of healthy public strategies such as the Pesticide Free Vaughan Policy. In June 2007, Vaughan Council adopted a recommendation to allow staff to further examine preventing the use of cosmetic pesticides on private property. The recommendation proposed that a public and stakeholder consultation process be established and conducted over several months and a draft bylaw be created and presented to the Environment Committee regarding the elimination of non-essential use of chemical pesticides on private property.

Since 2001, over 250 municipalities across Canada have passed bylaws prohibiting the use of pesticides after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a bylaw banning their application . During this time, Vaughan began educational programs to help residents achieve a healthy, weed-free lawn without the use of pesticides and stopped using them in Ward 4 and 5 parks. By 2005, all the City's parks were pesticide free.

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