Urban Planning
Newmarket's 2006 Official Plan seeks to balance the desire to maintain the present low-density urban form characterized by the separation of residential, retail and employment uses and the need to comply with Ontario's Places to Grow legislation, which identified the Yonge Street & Davis Drive intersection of Newmarket as one of 25 sites (Provincial Urban Growth Centres) for future intensification to be found throughout the Golden Horseshoe area.
Four areas of Newmarket have been selected to absorb the majority of planned population growth and accommodate mixed usages on sites well served by transit. These are the Yonge-Davis Provincial Urban Growth Centre, the Yonge Street Regional Centre (south of Green Lane), the Regional Healthcare Centre (Southlake Regional Health Centre) and Historic Downtown Centre (surrounding Main Street South). Further construction of big box retail stores in the Yonge Street corridor will not be permitted and the long-term objective of the town is redevelopment or the addition of new buildings to these areas through controlled intensification.
The southwest portion of the Town is located in the Oak Ridges Moraine and is therefore subject to the Ontario Government's Greenbelt Legislation.
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