Newmarket Urban Centres Secondary Plan

Newmarket's Yonge Street and Davis Drive Corridors are identified as one of four Regional Centres in the York Regional Official Plan and is recognized by the Provincial Growth Plan as an area where future growth and intensification is to be directed.

The purpose of the Urban Centres is to accommodate the broadest diversity of uses, provide the greatest level of service and the highest quality of design.

The Town of Newmarket is preparing  a detailed Secondary Plan to guide and direct development in the following three Growth Centres, as identified in the Town of Newmarket Official Plan:

-         Yonge-Davis Provincial Urban Growth Centre

·         The Yonge Street Regional Centre, and

·         The Regional Healthcare Centre

The Urban Centres Secondary Plan will define how and where development will occur to achieve the vision for the planned growth.  Development will continue in the interim and in advance of the Secondary Plan in accordance with the provisions of the Official Plan.

The secondary planning commenced in 2010 with the Town of Newmarket Visualization, Massing and Height Study prepared by Sweeny, Sterling Findlayson & Co. Architects.

planningAlliance has been retained by the Town to prepare the Secondary Plan in conjunction with a detailed transportation study which is anticipated to be finalized by the end of 2012.

The following identifies the existing related background documents that will inform the ongoing development and finalization of the Secondary Plan:

View the Town of Newmarket Visualization, Massing and Height Study (February 2010)·        

View the Urban Centres Secondary Plan Update Staff Report (May 24, 2011)·        

View the Urban Centres Secondary Plan Update Presentation for Committee of the Whole (May 24, 2011)

View the Urban Centres Secondary Plan Update Staff Report (March 19, 2012)

View the Urban Centres Secondary Plan Update Presentation for Committee of the Whole (March 19, 2012) 

The presentation outlines:

• A high and low growth scenarios which proposed  development through to the year 2051;
• The preliminary analysis of the implication of the two growth scenarios on the transportation infrastructure;
• A 3D modeling analysis showing conceptually what the massing, density and height could look like based on both the high and low growth scenarios; and the public engagement process proposed in May 2012 to obtain feedback on the two growth scenarios, transportation implications and the conceptual modeling 

 View the Urban Centres Secondary Plan Meeting Notice - May 1 & 9, 2012 

 View the Urban Centres Secondary Plan Growth Scenarios PIC & Focus Group Presentation (May 2012)

 View the Newmarket's Urban Centre Secondary Plan Work Book (May 2012)

 Please provide feedback to the Town by May 31, 2012 on the following questions:

1. Are the proposed districts appropriate - what would you change:
2. What building heights would you like to see and where?
3. What types of land uses, parks, pedestrian connections etc., would you like?
4. What is important to you at the Urban Centres are planned?

Tools for Intensification

In conjunction with the secondary planning process, the Town is considering "Tools for Intensification" that aim to stimulate development and redevelopment within the Urban Centres.

The tools include both short term and long term tools.

Learn more about the Tools for Intensification through the following documents.

• Tools for Intensification within The Urban Growth Centres Staff Report (June 13, 2011)·  
• Notice of Public Information Meeting on Proposed Tools for Intensification within the Yonge Street and Davis Drive Urban Centres (August 18, 2011)  
• Power Point Presentation on Tools for Intensificaiton Presented at the August 18, 2011 Information Meeting