The Plans
Municipal Development Plan
Strathcona County’s Municipal Development Plan sets out the guidelines for orderly growth and development over the next 20 years and beyond. The MDP provides a comprehensive long term land use policy framework within which present and projected growth and development may take place.
Sustainability and growth management are core values of the Municipal Development Plan. Strathcona County’s sustainability and growth management objectives are to:
- Demonstrate leadership towards applying sustainable practices throughout the community;
- Adopt a framework that ensures future community planning implements and builds sustainable and complete neighbourhoods that create a sense of community within the municipality;
- Partner with other professionals whom can assist the County in achieving sustainability objectives;
- Adopt an approach to achieving sustainability that is forward-looking, responsible, adaptive, innovative and integrated;
- Ensure an adequate and suitable land base exists to accommodate urban growth needs;
- Direct urban growth to Sherwood Park, and to a lesser extent the hamlets of Ardrossan, Josephburg, and South Cooking Lake as identified within the area structure plans;
- Make efficient use of the limited urban land bases in Sherwood Park, Ardrossan, Josephburg, and South Cooking Lake;
- Manage and direct growth as a means to conserve natural areas and in particular, the High and Medium Priority Environment Management Areas contained in the Beaver Hills Moraine and
- Initiate a Growth Management Strategy for both the Urban Reserve and the Rural/Urban Transition Policy Areas.
Land Use Bylaw Review
Strathcona County is currently reviewing our Land Use Bylaw. A main objective of this review is to reflect the sustainability principles contained within the Municipal Development Plan in the Land Use Bylaw.
For more information, visit the Land Use Bylaw Review page.
Last updated: Friday, February 26, 2010
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