Saskatoon council unanimously approves city centre and district plan

The Saskatoon metropolis centre and territory plan was approved unanimously successful assembly connected Wednesday.

After months of deliberation, Saskatoon metropolis council voted connected the program and agreed to proceed to the adjacent steps.

The goals of the newly-approved program are to honour Indigenous people, history, connection and culture, make a distinctive individuality done placemaking/keeping, make designs of excellence for architecture, supply reliable and businesslike transportation, amended the density of downtown by focusing connected housing, go leaders successful sustainability and resiliency, make a robust and divers system and springiness radical entree to a steadfast and harmless community.

“When we person a study this important that has some the enactment of the Downtown Business Improvement District and the Heritage Society, that’s not ever the mode things person gone,” said Saskatoon’s mayor, Charlie Clark. “But that’s a motion of a batch of thoughtful enactment and collaboration and consultation.”

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Since the program was approved, the metropolis medication volition enactment connected preparing a regulatory model including amendments to the authoritative assemblage plan, a caller zoning territory for these caller plans and amendments to different downtown zoning districts.

City medication is besides liable for processing a concern lawsuit enactment to instrumentality the program for information astatine the 2026/2027 concern program and fund deliberations.