Municipal Development Plan

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Our Camrose, Our future

For us to shape our future, we must first envision it! Camrose is updating our vision through a new document – Our Camrose, Shaping the Future. This document is a visionary plan that will set our course toward ensuring we are a healthy, inclusive, prosperous, and resilient city for ourselves and future generations. This plan will not only our land use planning, but also our economic, social, cultural, and ecological future.

This is your city and your opportunity to contribute to the creation of our future vision.

What is Our Camrose, Shaping the Future?

Our Camrose

Our Camrose, Our future

For us to shape our future, we must first envision it! Camrose is updating our vision through a new document – Our Camrose, Shaping the Future. This document is a visionary plan that will set our course toward ensuring we are a healthy, inclusive, prosperous, and resilient city for ourselves and future generations. This plan will not only our land use planning, but also our economic, social, cultural, and ecological future.

This is your city and your opportunity to contribute to the creation of our future vision.

What is Our Camrose, Shaping the Future?

Our Camrose, Shaping the Future is a Municipal Development Plan (MDP). An MDP is a long-range, statutory document that describes the desired future land use for a community and outlines a high-level plan on how the community is expected to change over time.

What is the process for creating Our Camrose, Shaping the Future?

Our Camrose, Shaping the Future will include a process of in-depth research and engagement. This process includes three major steps:

1. Establishing the future vision for Camrose – What kind of future do we want for our city? What should Camrose look and feel like over the next 20 to 30 years?

2. Creating the plan on how to get there – How will we achieve our vision? How should we approach land use, the economy, transportation, environment, and social aspects of our City to achieve the vision?

3. Creating an implementation plan – What do we need to do? What is required to support the decisions we must make to achieve the community vision?

  • City of Camrose 2024 Photo Contest!

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    As we continue to collaborate on developing the updated MDP, we've truly enjoyed learning about all the qualities that make Camrose wonderful. Therefore, we've decided that there's no better way to showcase these wonderful things than by holding a photo contest. So, come on, Camrose! Send us your pictures here and show us what makes Camrose great!


  • Who is McElhanney?

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    The City of Camrose would like to welcome McElhanney as the new consultants on the Municipal Development Plan project. McElhanney has previously worked with several similar sized municipalities in Alberta to update their MDP and other long-range plans. We look forward to connecting Camrosians with our new project team.

    *Biography below is provided by McElhanney

    For over 111 years, McElhanney has been serving communities just like the City of Camrose. We were founded in Vancouver, and, while we have grown to 30 offices and 1,200 employees across Western Canada (see Figure 1) our focus has always been at the community level – providing services that improve the cities and towns in which we live and work. We start with the people and build a solution around them, whether it’s planning, survey, mapping, environmental, landscape architecture, or one of our many other in-house services; our approach is never to impose an outside, one-size-fits-all solution.

    For the last 50 years, McElhanney’s foundational survey and engineering offerings have evolved to include advanced planning services such as land use and development approvals, community planning and policy, public and stakeholder engagement, recreation, tourism, community sustainability, and urban design. Our talented and diverse staff consists of professional community planners, designers, engagement specialists, engineers, graphic designers, mappers, and support staff who regularly collaborate to review, update, and/or develop MDPs, Land Use Bylaws (LUB), as well as Area Structure Plans (ASP). Our project team has delivered MDP’s for similar municipalities that needed to align with the MGA and with community priorities.

    Figure 1: It's more than a project, it's our hometown. While we have worked across Canada and around the world, our focus is on delivering.

    Figure 2: Our McElhanney planning team has worked on community plans including several MDPs and LUBs across Alberta, as shown on the map.


    McElhanney’s Project Team

    McElhanney’s team of professionals is ready and eager to assist the city with delivering the new MDP. We have undertaken MDP review projects for other communities across Alberta (see Figure 2), and therefore understand what it takes to deliver an efficient and comprehensive review.

    Meet McElhanney’s core team of professionals that will be assisting the city with the MDP review project.

    Jill Hofer, RPP, MCIP

    Project Role: Project Manager / Engagement / Community Design & Housing

    About Jill: Jill has worked as a municipal planner with three separate municipalities. She has served in both a policy planner role, preparing long-range policy planning documents including MDPs, and Area Redevelopment Plans and an implementation planner, drafting implementation documents such as land use bylaws, and reviewing development permits

    Andrea Rudiger, MPlan

    Project Role: Deputy Project Manager / Engagement / Community Design & Housing

    About Andrea: Andrea has a diverse background in Design and Construction, giving her a well-rounded understanding of the development industry from planning through to occupancy. She is a planner with over nine years of multidisciplinary experience in architecture, planning and project delivery.

    When to Engage Again:

    The updated project schedule can be located here.

    Community engagement is currently scheduled for April. As the date grows closer, more communication will be provided.

  • Growth Study

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    On January 22, 2024, Administration presented the Growth Study to City of Camrose Council. A Growth Study is a comprehensive examination of future growth predicted for Camrose. The growth predictions developed in the Growth Study are based on the City’s historic growth rate and future growth projections, with considerations for demographic shifts and employment forecasting. In combination with existing land supply analysis, the Growth Study provides varied future growth scenarios for population and employment. The Growth Study also establishes potential land that Camrose may require to accommodate future growth, and identifies what areas could be developed because of that growth.

    The growth study was developed by Green Space Alliance, in conjunction with 360 Collective.

    A copy of the Growth Study can be found here.


  • Provide your input!

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    Did you miss the Technical Review Committee (TAC) and Community Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting on November 9 but still want to provide your input? Here is a link to the presentation boards from the meeting. Let us know what you think by November 24, 2023 at planning@camrose.ca!

  • Technical Review Committee (TAC) and Community Advisory Committee (CAC)

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    The Technical Review Committee (TAC) and Community Advisory Committee (CAC) met on November 9, 2023, and provided guidance on the following topics:

    • Reviewed and provided comments on the draft community values for Camrose that will form the overall theme and guiding principles of the plan;
    • Reviewed the draft growth study, and discussed new residential communities and supporting commercial and industrial development; and
    • Reviewed high-level policy sections that will form the backbone of the text for the plan.

    Thank you to members of the TAC and CAC who were able to attend the meeting to provide their input!

    Moving forward, the City of Camrose will work to finalize the Growth Study, and present to Council before the end of the year.



  • Phase 2 - Growth Study

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    The City of Camrose is excited to continue conversations this fall as our staff work together with the consultant on the completion of the growth study. A Growth Study is a comprehensive look at the trends of a municipality's growth over time. It investigates historic population growth, demographics as well as land supply and absorption to project how and where the City's growth should occur in the future. The City of Camrose last had a growth study completed in 2006. The growth study will inform the MDP by determining where new community growth is likely to occur, so that policy and standards for that growth can be written into the policy of the MDP.

  • Phase 1 Engagement Report – What We Are Hearing [Summer Update]

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    The project team were pleased to have the opportunity to engage so many Camrosians through the first round of engagement. People participated in sessions, open houses, surveys, and meetings. The project team has developed a What We Are Hearing report to summarize the important conversations about the future of Camrose. The focus of the project team over the summer months will be on the community growth study – looking at how, where, and when Camrose is expected to grow. Thank you to everyone that participated, and we look forward to hearing more from you in Fall 2023.

  • March 1 Project Update

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    February 23 Open House

    The City of Camrose hosted the first Municipal Development Plan Open House on Thursday, February 23, 2023, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at the Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre.

    The Open House had an incredible turnout of 101 people. Thank you to all the citizens who braved the cold that night to join in the discussion to shape Camrose’s future for the next 25 years!

    Thank you also to citizens who provided their thoughts to our first survey: what do you love about Camrose and what is your dream for Camrose. We have received 526 responses which is a fantastic response rate.

    Overview of Open House

    • Provided details on each stage of updating the Municipal Development Plan.
    • Provided an overview of the four phases for public engagement to update the Municipal Development Plan.
    • Asked citizens to answer the first survey questions:
      1. What do you love about Camrose?
      2. What is your dream for Camrose?
    • You can view all of the posters from the Open House here.

    What’s Next

    • Next, the Community Advisory Committee will review all of the input from the Open House and the survey responses to help determine the main themes and values expressed from Camrosians.
    • The summary of the input will be posted here on Our Camrose. Sign up to receive notifications and project updates under the “Stay Informed” section on the bottom right side of the webpage.
  • Our Camrose: Shaping the Future

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    For us to shape our future, we must first envision it! The City of Camrose is updating our vision through a new document – Our Camrose, Shaping the Future. This Municipal Development Plan (MDP) is a visionary plan that will set our course toward ensuring we are a healthy, inclusive, prosperous, and resilient city for ourselves and future generations.





  • Technical Advisory Committee and Community Advisory Committee Update

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    The City’s first Technical Review Committee (TAC) and Community Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting has occurred on January 16th and January 18th. We have members on the CAC with various roles throughout the community.

    The Community Advisory Committee (CAC) is a forum for representatives of local community organizations to provide input on the various topics that will be addressed in the MDP such as land use, development, transportation, infrastructure, social and economic development, and the environment.

    The mandate for the CAC is to:

    • Advise City staff in the development of the MDP;
    • Encourage the community to participate in engagement activities;
    • Collaborate with staff to ensure stakeholder input is incorporated and to review the information presented by the project team;
    • Receive process updates from the project team (consultant and City);
    • Inform the project team on the local context, land use and development trends, social, economic and environmental issues, and opportunities relative to Camrose; and
    • Provide advice on the preferred direction and updates to the MDP.


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