Planning for the Future of our Strategic Growth Areas

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The final draft CPP By-law is now available and linked below.

Final Draft City-Wide Community Planning Permit By-law - June 15, 2026

The final draft of the Community Planning Permit (CPP) By-law is now available for public review. The final draft includes formatting updates and minor revisions to the interim draft CPP By-law that was posted on Connect Peterborough on June 5, 2026. The final version incorporates changes made in response to community feedback received since the initial draft by-law was released in January 2026.

The final draft CPP By-law will be presented to Council, sitting as General Committee, for consideration on June 22, 2026.

CPP By-law - TextLink to CPP By-law - Complete ConsolidationCPP By-law (Complete Consolidation)

A copy final draft CPP By-law is linked below. You may view the complete consolidated document, including all sections and schedules, or access individual sections separately.

CPP By-law - Schedules and Appendices

A copy final draft CPP By-law Schedules and Appendices (PDF file) and interactive mapping are available via the links below.

Summary of What We Heard (Comment and Response Table)

A comprehensive summary of the written public submissions, organized in alphabetical order by name, and received by the City regarding the draft Community Planning Permit (CPP) By-law is available below. This comment-and-response table includes written comments received from the initial draft release on January 19, 2026, through to Friday, June 5, 2026.

Facilities, Services and Matters Reserve By-law

A copy of the draft Facilities, Services and Matters Reserve By-law, being a by-law to regulate the use of money collected as cash-in-lieu of in-kind Facilities, Services and Matters for applicable Class 2 or Class 3 Community Planning Permits, is also available in the link below.

Draft CPP By-law Documents - January 2026 version

How to Get Started / CPPS User Guide

This User Guide is intended to help readers understand and navigate the draft CPP By-law. It provides a general overview on how to:

  • Navigate the By-law;
  • Use the interactive mapping to determine the proposed precinct for a property; and,
  • Interpret development standards for residential uses.

This guide is for orientation purposes only and is not exhaustive.

Explore our interactive Storymap! Learn more about how we are planning for growth in Peterborough and the choices we need to make, view maps, and get immersed in example 3D concepts to visualize opportunities to grow in our Strategic Growth Areas.

The City of Peterborough is developing a Secondary Plan and Community Planning Permit System for the City’s Strategic Growth Areas, as identified in the City’s New Official Plan as shown in Figure 1. The City of Peterborough has identified seven (7) key Strategic Growth Areas that will be the focus of the Secondary Plan, which are:

  1. Downtown/Central Area
  2. Water Street (North) Corridor
  3. Chemong Road Corridor
  4. Clonsilla Avenue & Charlotte Street Corridor
  5. Lansdowne Street West Corridor
  6. Armour Road (North) Corridor
  7. Lansdowne Street East Corridor

The Strategic Growth Areas (as shown with a red outline in the figure below) were selected for this planning exercise as they are the focus for intensification over the coming years. These are the areas where the City is investing in supporting more housing supply and will need to provide the infrastructure and community facilities to support more people living, working and playing in these neighbourhoods.

Figure 1: Strategic Growth Areas in Peterborough

Map of the city showing the study area/strategic growth areas of the city

The Secondary Plan will update the Official Plan policies for the City’s Strategic Growth Areas and will be implemented using a new tool for the City, through a new Community Planning Permit By-law (CPP By-law). The Secondary Plan will establish the long‐term vision, built form, permissions, and priorities for growth. This will provide the foundation needed to implement the vision by establishing development thresholds, criteria, community benefits and conditions that will be implemented through a CPP By‐law. With the two planning tools coming forward together, the City will be able to achieve optimal results ‐ good planning with accelerated implementation and approvals. This project is in support of the overall Official Plan vision and supports the key goals of increasing housing supply and supporting greater connectivity and neighborhood level planning in these strategic areas.

Community Engagement

The CPP By-law is intended to facilitate a positive change in how development approvals are processed in the Strategic Growth Areas, so it is important that the community understands what is changing and has an opportunity to share feedback through this process before the By-law is finalized and implemented. The planned engagement approach is built around five main themes of the project with seven rounds of engagement, each with unique objectives as outlined in Figure 2 and in the Project Timelines section of this page. The engagement stages will directly inform the development of the following key deliverables of the project, which include:

  1. A Secondary Plan for the Strategic Growth Areas;
  2. Community Planning Permit By-Law; and,
  3. Implementation support, including training materials and training for City Staff and developers.

Figure 2: Engagement Process

Infographic of project phases and engagement process


The final draft CPP By-law is now available and linked below.

Final Draft City-Wide Community Planning Permit By-law - June 15, 2026

The final draft of the Community Planning Permit (CPP) By-law is now available for public review. The final draft includes formatting updates and minor revisions to the interim draft CPP By-law that was posted on Connect Peterborough on June 5, 2026. The final version incorporates changes made in response to community feedback received since the initial draft by-law was released in January 2026.

The final draft CPP By-law will be presented to Council, sitting as General Committee, for consideration on June 22, 2026.

CPP By-law - TextLink to CPP By-law - Complete ConsolidationCPP By-law (Complete Consolidation)

A copy final draft CPP By-law is linked below. You may view the complete consolidated document, including all sections and schedules, or access individual sections separately.

CPP By-law - Schedules and Appendices

A copy final draft CPP By-law Schedules and Appendices (PDF file) and interactive mapping are available via the links below.

Summary of What We Heard (Comment and Response Table)

A comprehensive summary of the written public submissions, organized in alphabetical order by name, and received by the City regarding the draft Community Planning Permit (CPP) By-law is available below. This comment-and-response table includes written comments received from the initial draft release on January 19, 2026, through to Friday, June 5, 2026.

Facilities, Services and Matters Reserve By-law

A copy of the draft Facilities, Services and Matters Reserve By-law, being a by-law to regulate the use of money collected as cash-in-lieu of in-kind Facilities, Services and Matters for applicable Class 2 or Class 3 Community Planning Permits, is also available in the link below.

Draft CPP By-law Documents - January 2026 version

How to Get Started / CPPS User Guide

This User Guide is intended to help readers understand and navigate the draft CPP By-law. It provides a general overview on how to:

  • Navigate the By-law;
  • Use the interactive mapping to determine the proposed precinct for a property; and,
  • Interpret development standards for residential uses.

This guide is for orientation purposes only and is not exhaustive.

Explore our interactive Storymap! Learn more about how we are planning for growth in Peterborough and the choices we need to make, view maps, and get immersed in example 3D concepts to visualize opportunities to grow in our Strategic Growth Areas.

The City of Peterborough is developing a Secondary Plan and Community Planning Permit System for the City’s Strategic Growth Areas, as identified in the City’s New Official Plan as shown in Figure 1. The City of Peterborough has identified seven (7) key Strategic Growth Areas that will be the focus of the Secondary Plan, which are:

  1. Downtown/Central Area
  2. Water Street (North) Corridor
  3. Chemong Road Corridor
  4. Clonsilla Avenue & Charlotte Street Corridor
  5. Lansdowne Street West Corridor
  6. Armour Road (North) Corridor
  7. Lansdowne Street East Corridor

The Strategic Growth Areas (as shown with a red outline in the figure below) were selected for this planning exercise as they are the focus for intensification over the coming years. These are the areas where the City is investing in supporting more housing supply and will need to provide the infrastructure and community facilities to support more people living, working and playing in these neighbourhoods.

Figure 1: Strategic Growth Areas in Peterborough

Map of the city showing the study area/strategic growth areas of the city

The Secondary Plan will update the Official Plan policies for the City’s Strategic Growth Areas and will be implemented using a new tool for the City, through a new Community Planning Permit By-law (CPP By-law). The Secondary Plan will establish the long‐term vision, built form, permissions, and priorities for growth. This will provide the foundation needed to implement the vision by establishing development thresholds, criteria, community benefits and conditions that will be implemented through a CPP By‐law. With the two planning tools coming forward together, the City will be able to achieve optimal results ‐ good planning with accelerated implementation and approvals. This project is in support of the overall Official Plan vision and supports the key goals of increasing housing supply and supporting greater connectivity and neighborhood level planning in these strategic areas.

Community Engagement

The CPP By-law is intended to facilitate a positive change in how development approvals are processed in the Strategic Growth Areas, so it is important that the community understands what is changing and has an opportunity to share feedback through this process before the By-law is finalized and implemented. The planned engagement approach is built around five main themes of the project with seven rounds of engagement, each with unique objectives as outlined in Figure 2 and in the Project Timelines section of this page. The engagement stages will directly inform the development of the following key deliverables of the project, which include:

  1. A Secondary Plan for the Strategic Growth Areas;
  2. Community Planning Permit By-Law; and,
  3. Implementation support, including training materials and training for City Staff and developers.

Figure 2: Engagement Process

Infographic of project phases and engagement process


Page last updated: 16 Jun 2026, 09:06 AM