Land Use Planning (Official Plan & Zoning Bylaw)

• Provide for the general health, safety and welfare of present and future residents;

• Develop a strong community in which the focus of growth is directed toward the serviced Urban Settlement Area in a way that efficiently uses land;

• Enhance and encourage economic development that complements, diversifies, and grows the current economic base of the community and the surrounding area;

• Develop the town center as an attractive public meeting place and as the heart of retail commercial activity in the community;

• Increase the available housing supply to meet the needs of all income groups;

• Protect sensitive land uses from incompatible development;

• Co-ordinate and guide development in balance with available resources and generally accepted good planning concepts and principles;

• Maintain the rural character and attributes of the Township that lie outside of the Urban Settlement Area;

• Encourage the actions of private interests and senior levels of government to target and implement similar objectives;

• Provide opportunities for and to protect natural resource extraction activities from uses which would preclude or hinder the continuation of extraction
  activities;

• Protect the natural environment;

• Optimize the use of infrastructure in planning for growth and development;

• Provide an open, transparent, and fair public framework within which municipal planning decisions are considered and decided;

• Highlight economic development initiatives that are planned or underway;

• Establish and facilitate a clear, easily understood and responsive municipal planning program;

• Provide measures for conservation, particularly through water and waste management and recycling.

$3,000 – major

$4,500 up to 20 lots

$6,500 more than 20 lots

$2,000 – major