Planning for the Future of 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 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

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.

Figure 2: Engagement Process

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.

Community Engagement Activities including in person events and online survey are scheduled for late October and early November. Details on upcoming community engagement opportunities are outlined in the 'Get Involved' tab below.

We are also looking for two (2) residents of Peterborough to join the Community Advisory Group and share your perspectives, suggestions and input as the project progresses. Please view the 'Apply to Join the Advisory Group' tab below for more details.