Guiding and informing the city-building process

As a statutory, long-term plan adopted by City Council and approved by the Edmonton Metropolitan Region Board, Flourish will guide and inform everyone involved in the city-building process, including Council, City Administration, residents, developers, property owners, business owners, service providers, government agencies, community groups, non-governmental organizations, school boards, and neighbouring municipalities. Flourish will be implemented in a number of ways, including through the City’s Land Use Bylaw, statutory plans such as Area Structure Plans and Area Redevelopment Plans,
more detailed topic-specific non-statutory plans, guidelines for development, community group initiatives, and strategic decisions by Council.

What is a statutory plan?

A statutory plan is a document adopted by Council as a bylaw. Different statutory plans enable planning at different scales — for example, some statutory plans are adopted for the entire area within a municipality’s boundary (a Municipal Development Plan) while others are adopted for individual Neighbourhoods (Area Structure Plans). Statutory plans include details about future land use and transportation systems as well as physical, economic, and social development. They’re a great resource for anyone who wants to know more about future plans for their region, city, or neighbourhood.

Flourish should be used by:

• Residents seeking to understand how St. Albert is intended to grow and develop over the long term;
• Landowners, developers, and consultants preparing statutory plans, plan amendments, and development applications for individual properties;
• Design professionals involved in private-sector or public-sector development projects;
• City Administration responsible for reviewing development applications;
• City Administration involved in preparing complementary or area-specific planning documents related to St. Albert’s growth and development; and
• City Council in making decisions about the city’s growth and development.

Flourish contains the following:

• Introduction and Context introduce Flourish, summarize the planning process, and describe the context for its development in terms of higher-order plans and pressing issues influencing urban development.
• Plan Foundations contains the broad goals of Flourish, principles aligned with the goals, and the long-term Urban Structure and General Land Use Plan for St. Albert, which together underpin the policies of the Plan.
• City-wide Policies contains policies related to the environment, the economy, housing, mobility, community well-being, culture, infrastructure, placemaking and growth management.
• Land Use and Development contains policies that set out how land in all areas of the city can be used and developed, based on the land use designations in the Urban Structure and General Land Use Plan.
• Implementation describes the essential tools and strategies that will be used to implement Flourish.
• The Glossary contains important defined terms found in Flourish.
• Maps that clarify where certain policies apply and contain other information relevant to Flourish can be found at the end of the document.