Urban Planning
Planning plays a big role in shaping the places where we live, work, and play. The planning process is used to build a vision for the future, set goals, and decide how to achieve them. Through planning, Newmarket's residents, businesses, community partners, and Town staff and council come together to build a community that is well beyond the ordinary.
Planning ensures that all the different land uses in a town, such as residential, commercial, and industrial, are allocated the right type and amount of land, in the right place. As the community grows and changes, the town itself continues to support that growth by providing the necessary infrastructure and services, protecting natural resources, preventing conflicting uses, and highlighting the community's cultural/historical assets.
Since different community members have a wide variety of needs and desires, the planning process is used to figure out how to balance different interests with each other and broader Town-wide objectives. This process values the voices of all community members as the Town responds to current and emerging challenges/opportunities, ranging from land use, transportation, and sustainability, to community and economic development.