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An official plan describes our upper, lower or single tier municipal council or planning board's policies on how land in our community should be used. It is prepared with input from our community and helps to ensure that future planning and development will meet the specific needs of our community. 

Learn more: https://www.ontario.ca/document/citizens-guide-land-use-planning/official-plans

 “THE TOWNSHIP OF GEORGIAN BLUFFS OFFICIAL PLAN”, is the principal policy document to be used to shape the social, physical and economic environment of the Township. This Plan is a legal document that contains goals, objectives and policy to be used by Council, municipal staff, agencies and the public in formulating decisions that affect the environmental, social, physical and economic fabric of the Township. These goals, objectives and policies are intended to provide a framework and policy environment for managing growth, development and redevelopment until 2026. To maintain the Plan currency and as provided for in the Planning Act, this plan will be reviewed by Council every five years, or sooner should circumstances so warrant. This plan replaces the existing secondary plan for the geographic Township of Sarawak which has been the only amalgamated municipality within the Township with an approved local official plan. 

Specifically, the purposes of this Plan are: 

a) To guide the growth and development of the Township throughout the planning horizon of this Plan. 

b) To establish goals, objectives and policies for various social, physical, economic and environmental attributes of the Township. 

c) To establish a hierarchy and land use policy framework for settlement areas within the Township. 

d) To provide guidelines against which the Township can evaluate the appropriateness of development in relation to the goals, objectives and policies contained within this Plan. 

e) To respond to and implement Provincial and County Policies, statements and guidelines that affect the Township.

• Housing & Population
• Economic Development
• Climate Change
• Community Improvement Planning 
• Settlement Areas