The Official Community Plan describes the Council’s vision and mission for the community’s growth. Its policies and objectives aim to coordinate municipal programs, manage land use and development, and illustrate the community’s future. The Official Community Plan can be viewed as a growth framework that contains statements of policy relating to the municipality’s physical, environmental, economic, social, or cultural development.
The Official Community Plan, through its Future Land Use Map, also depicts the future growth direction of the municipality by identifying where and what areas may be suitable for specific developments. The Future Land Use Map is intended to reduce uncertainties for current and future residents, businesses and developers in the community.
The Zoning Bylaw is the primary tool available to the municipality to implement the Official Community Plan’s policies. It divides the municipality into zoning districts and regulates land use and development in those districts by setting standards for the use of the lands or specific developments within those zoning districts.
