Downtown Master Plan & Community Improvement Plan

The role of this strategic master plan is to build on downtown’s many assets and identify the improvements needed to maximize downtown’s potential as a place to live, enjoy and prosper. It sets out a broad set of goals for downtown and guidelines for both private development and public investment. Equally important, it also identifies key initiatives to be pursued over the next 20 years, including “priority projects” for the next 2-5 years.

This document is also a Community Improvement Plan (CIP). Section 42 of the Ontario Planning Act allows municipalities to establish Community Improvement Areas and prepare Community Improvement Plans aimed at revitalizing targeted areas through municipally driven or incentive-based programs.