South Core Secondary Municipal Plan

The City of Fredericton is growing! With that growth comes both opportunities and challenges in neighbourhoods across our city. This includes the Urban Core, made up of three distinct areas: the City Centre, Main Street (North side), and the South Core. Secondary Municipal Plans for the City Centre and Main Street were completed in 2015 and 2016, but the current plan guiding a majority of the South Core (see Map above) titled the Residential Town Plat Area Plan was adopted over twenty years ago. While this plan has successfully balanced new development with the strong sense of community and residential character, a lot has changed.

A new Growth Strategy and Municipal Plan envision a more urban, compact, and sustainable Fredericton. Significant residential and employment growth is projected to be accommodated throughout the Urban Core and the South Core plays a key role in achieving the goals outlined in both important documents. The City's 2017 Growth Strategy and 2020 Imagine Fredericton: Municipal Plan are the guiding documents that help dictate how the city develops as a whole, and envisions an urban, compact, and sustainable Fredericton. Significant residential and employment growth must be accommodated throughout the Urban Core and the South Core plays a key role in achieving the important goals of these plans.

The current South Core Secondary Municipal Plan process will re-examine how we grow while maintaining the neighbourhood’s community character. This Plan will provide a framework to guide the ongoing evolution of the area. Our team has been exploring the conditions, features and attributes that make up the South Core, developing ideas for street design, land use, public space, new buildings, and preparing design guidelines and policies to provide direction for change.

Thank you to everyone who has participated in our South Core planning process to date. For those who were unable to attend the Design Studios last year, or those wishing to learn more about the project, please browse the information in our Documents section to review everything that has been shared to date.

Our project team has now drafted the South Core Plan and are wanting to hear your thoughts. We will be hosting a public Open House to unveil the Draft Plan at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre auditorium on April 2nd. This will be the last public engagement event before we move forward to the plan adoption process later this summer.

Doors will be open at 5:45 pm, a presentation will begin shortly after 6 pm, and members of the project team will be available until 8 pm to answer any questions or discuss detailed components of the Plan.

Copies of the draft document and project panels will be available to review, kicking off a public feedback month-long period that will help us finalize the Plan. If you have any questions or comments, please submit them to the Questions tab below or email southcore@planpart.ca.

We look forward to seeing you!