Our Official Plan, along with our growth management strategy, gives us a roadmap to follow in managing future growth, land uses and environmental protection.
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Updating the Official Plan
As Kitchener grows to become a city of over 400,000 people, we need a new plan. The new Official Plan will guide growth and shape the way that neighbourhoods evolve and change.
The new Official Plan will be shaped by the people of Kitchener. Let’s work together to make sure that Kitchener in 2051 and beyond is the best it can be.
About the plan
Prepared with input from the community, the plan sets out goals and policies to help us coordinate our future planning and development to ensure both meet the specific needs of the community.
Although the Official Plan is concerned with land use and physical development of the city, it also aims to balance the social, economic and environmental interests of the community.
2014 Official Plan
We update our 2014 Official Plan document to include modifications and portions of the Plan that are not if effect due to deferrals.
Staff prepared an explanatory note that includes the context of these documents:
- Region of Waterloo Notice of Decision – November 19, 2014
- Region of Waterloo Notice of Decision – January 18, 2017
- LPAT decision – March 21, 2019
- LPAT decision – July 16, 2019
Use the links below to find the Official Plan maps:
- map 1 – Urban Area and Countryside
- map 2 – Urban Structure
- map 3 – Land Use
- map 4 – Protected Major Transit Station Areas and Urban Growth Centre
- map 5 – Specific Policy Areas
- map 6 – Natural Heritage System
- map 7 – Natural Hazards – Flood Plan Policy Areas
- map 8 – Source Water Protection Areas
- map 9 – Cultural Heritage Resources
- map 10 – Mineral Aggregate Resource Areas
- map 11 – Integrated Transportation System
Secondary Plans
Our 10 Secondary Plans were not part of the review and approval of Official Plan Amendment No. 103 and are not part of our 2014 Official Plan.
After we complete the Planning Around Rapid Transit Stations (PARTS) project and other planning review processes are complete, we intend to review the Secondary Plans and bring them into the 2014 Official Plan. Until that time, please reference the 1994 Official Plan for lands covered in the Secondary Plans. Links are available below.
- part 3, section 13 – Secondary Plans
- map 9 – Civic Centre
- map 11 – Cedar Hill
- map 12 – Mill Courtland Woodside Park
- map 13 – Mill Courtland Woodside Park Environmental
- map 16 – Victoria Street
- map 17 – Victoria Street Environmental
- map 19 – North Ward
- map 20 – Central Frederick
- map 22a – Rosenberg – Community Structure Plan
- map 22b – Rosenberg – Cultural Heritage Resources
- map 22c – Rosenberg – Transportation Network Plan
- map 22d – Rosenberg – Priority Streets Plan
- map 22e – Rosenberg – Land Use Plan
- map 22f – Rosenberg – Natural Heritage System and Water Management