We're updating our Official Plan to reflect the latest growth projections for our community. Your input is essential as we plan for the housing, infrastructure, and services our town will need. Visit the Get Involved Innisfil project page to share your thoughts and help shape our community's future.
The Town of Innisfil Official Plan guides planning and zoning decisions for the Town over the next 20 years. All new development applications must follow these guidelines to be approved.
Our Place - Innisfil's Official Plan
We drafted our Official Plan with help from community input and external consultants, which is why we named it "Our Place". Our Place is more than a land use planning document. It boosts placemaking, community character and social connections while managing growth and development in Innisfil.
Check out our Planning Dictionary and the following videos to learn more.
Our vision
Innisfil will grow and thrive based on the places at the heart of Innisfil - the places where we recreate, shop, eat, gather, interact and most of all build the social and emotional ties that hold the community together. We will manage and plan our growth in a responsible and deliberate way that provides sustainable and timely infrastructure while maintaining the sense of community, rural character, and small-town feel we value. We will be respectful of tradition but not bound by it, as we evolve into a vibrant, active, sustainable, and multicultural community that offers intriguing and unique places and engaging activities.
Our goals
Innisfil's Community Strategic Plan, Inspiring Innisfil, laid out a series of goals in three key areas: Connect, Grow and Sustain. These themes form the framework for Our Place. During consultation for Our Place, community input helped shape specific goals under each of these three areas.
Connect: Connecting our community
Our Place helps create more social spaces and improved access to them. Our Place aims to:
- Improve mobility for all residents with active transportation connections within neighbourhoods and between communities
- Celebrate Innisfil's arts, culture and heritage by preserving heritage resources and supporting creative industries
- Strengthen digital connectivity by encouraging high speed internet service and community Wi-Fi
Watch our Connecting Our Community video
Grow: Keeping our small-town feel
Our Place preserves agricultural lands, limits residential growth to key areas, and keeps businesses local. Our Place aims to:
- Encourage businesses that support farming and support investment in Innisfil Heights
- Provide a range of housing choices, commercial services and employment opportunities
- Phases growth with the supply of infrastructure and community facilities
Watch our Keeping Our Small-Town Feel video
Sustain: Protecting Innisfil's natural beauty
Our Place has policies to protect and enhance our shoreline and agricultural lands. Our Place aims to:
- Enhance the vitality of the downtown in each settlement area
- Protect Lake Simcoe and significant natural features while improving public access to the waterfront
- Enhance existing parks and create new parks and open spaces