Southeast New Neighbourhood Secondary Plan

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Fredericton’s Growth Strategy, adopted in 2017, planned for four New Neighborhoods to accommodate 75% of our growth. With over 3,000 new residents last year, development pressure is high.

Council has directed staff to advance a Secondary Municipal Plan for land south of Doak Road and Alison Boulevard, unlocking space for residential development to support 7,000 people — and we want your input.


Growth Strategy & Development Pressure

Fredericton’s Growth Strategy was adopted in 2017 and outlines how and where residential and employment growth should occur in Fredericton over the next 25 years. The Growth Strategy identified four New Neighbourhood areas, intended to accommodate 75% of the City’s future growth. The City is experiencing significant population growth, with over 3,000 new residents last year alone, three times what was originally anticipated in the Growth Strategy. Three of the New Neighbourhood areas are seeing significant development to support the City’s population growth, but the Uptown New Neighbourhood (UNB Endowment Lands) in southeast Fredericton is not producing housing starts, resulting in significant pressure on the remaining southside. To open up land for residential development and to have a functioning fourth New Neighbourhood area, Council has directed staff to advance a Secondary Municipal Plan further east of the existing Uptown New Neighbourhood, being the area south of the Doak Road and Alison Boulevard intersection.

Southeast New Neighbourhood Area

The Plan Area encompasses just under 200 hectares of land surrounding Doak Road and Alison Boulevard, south of the Vanier Highway. There are several single-family homes and businesses along Doak Road and Alison Boulevard, but the Plan Area is otherwise undeveloped and forested. The lands are not currently serviced by municipal sanitary, water, or stormwater services. The boundaries for the Plan Area may be amended following consultation with existing landowners and government stakeholders, but were generally developed based on the following considerations:

• Logical expansion of municipal services (reviewed as part of the Feasibility Study)

• Unlocking City owned land for development and infrastructure growth

• Incorporating the area needed to support an intended population of approximately 7,000 people

• Siting new mixed-use and residential development to provide sufficient buffering from hazardous industrial uses and environmentally sensitive areas

Feasibility Study

As a first step, a Feasibility Study was completed to look at the Southeast New Neighbourhood Area from a technical perspective to determine how the area could develop and the costs required to make it possible. The City engaged Exp Services Inc., in partnership with zzap Consulting Inc., to prepare a Feasibility Study. The Feasibility Study identifies infrastructure requirements for servicing the area (i.e. extending water, sanitary, storm, roads, sidewalk and trails) as well as phasing and cost estimates to create the type of mixed-use community envisioned in the Growth Strategy and Municipal Plan. City staff presented the Feasibility Study in November 2024 to Council, and Council directed staff to proceed with a Secondary Municipal Plan for the Southeast New Neighbourhood.

Secondary Plan Process

The Secondary Municipal Plan will look to build on the Feasibility Study and provide a framework to guide the future development of the Southeast area. The Secondary Plan process looks to gather input from various stakeholders, residents, and property owners and hear various perspectives on what is needed for this new neighbourhood. An open house is scheduled for March 13 at Grant Harvey (2-4pm and 5:30-7:30pm in the Community Room, 2nd Floor) with other opportunities for one-on-one engagement. The consultants will provide a “What We Heard Report” following the open house and will look to integrate comments/perspectives as the Draft Secondary Plan is prepared in the coming months.

Fredericton’s Growth Strategy, adopted in 2017, planned for four New Neighborhoods to accommodate 75% of our growth. With over 3,000 new residents last year, development pressure is high.

Council has directed staff to advance a Secondary Municipal Plan for land south of Doak Road and Alison Boulevard, unlocking space for residential development to support 7,000 people — and we want your input.


Growth Strategy & Development Pressure

Fredericton’s Growth Strategy was adopted in 2017 and outlines how and where residential and employment growth should occur in Fredericton over the next 25 years. The Growth Strategy identified four New Neighbourhood areas, intended to accommodate 75% of the City’s future growth. The City is experiencing significant population growth, with over 3,000 new residents last year alone, three times what was originally anticipated in the Growth Strategy. Three of the New Neighbourhood areas are seeing significant development to support the City’s population growth, but the Uptown New Neighbourhood (UNB Endowment Lands) in southeast Fredericton is not producing housing starts, resulting in significant pressure on the remaining southside. To open up land for residential development and to have a functioning fourth New Neighbourhood area, Council has directed staff to advance a Secondary Municipal Plan further east of the existing Uptown New Neighbourhood, being the area south of the Doak Road and Alison Boulevard intersection.

Southeast New Neighbourhood Area

The Plan Area encompasses just under 200 hectares of land surrounding Doak Road and Alison Boulevard, south of the Vanier Highway. There are several single-family homes and businesses along Doak Road and Alison Boulevard, but the Plan Area is otherwise undeveloped and forested. The lands are not currently serviced by municipal sanitary, water, or stormwater services. The boundaries for the Plan Area may be amended following consultation with existing landowners and government stakeholders, but were generally developed based on the following considerations:

• Logical expansion of municipal services (reviewed as part of the Feasibility Study)

• Unlocking City owned land for development and infrastructure growth

• Incorporating the area needed to support an intended population of approximately 7,000 people

• Siting new mixed-use and residential development to provide sufficient buffering from hazardous industrial uses and environmentally sensitive areas

Feasibility Study

As a first step, a Feasibility Study was completed to look at the Southeast New Neighbourhood Area from a technical perspective to determine how the area could develop and the costs required to make it possible. The City engaged Exp Services Inc., in partnership with zzap Consulting Inc., to prepare a Feasibility Study. The Feasibility Study identifies infrastructure requirements for servicing the area (i.e. extending water, sanitary, storm, roads, sidewalk and trails) as well as phasing and cost estimates to create the type of mixed-use community envisioned in the Growth Strategy and Municipal Plan. City staff presented the Feasibility Study in November 2024 to Council, and Council directed staff to proceed with a Secondary Municipal Plan for the Southeast New Neighbourhood.

Secondary Plan Process

The Secondary Municipal Plan will look to build on the Feasibility Study and provide a framework to guide the future development of the Southeast area. The Secondary Plan process looks to gather input from various stakeholders, residents, and property owners and hear various perspectives on what is needed for this new neighbourhood. An open house is scheduled for March 13 at Grant Harvey (2-4pm and 5:30-7:30pm in the Community Room, 2nd Floor) with other opportunities for one-on-one engagement. The consultants will provide a “What We Heard Report” following the open house and will look to integrate comments/perspectives as the Draft Secondary Plan is prepared in the coming months.

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  • Share Thank you for your answers to my previous questions. The City of Vienna, Austria, makes available affordable housing and subsidized housing to a large part of its population. The City of Fredericton, Canada, owns 65% of the land in the Doak Road area. Will the City retain ownership, and the powers that come with it, to make available affordable housing and subsidized housing? on Facebook Share Thank you for your answers to my previous questions. The City of Vienna, Austria, makes available affordable housing and subsidized housing to a large part of its population. The City of Fredericton, Canada, owns 65% of the land in the Doak Road area. Will the City retain ownership, and the powers that come with it, to make available affordable housing and subsidized housing? on Twitter Share Thank you for your answers to my previous questions. The City of Vienna, Austria, makes available affordable housing and subsidized housing to a large part of its population. The City of Fredericton, Canada, owns 65% of the land in the Doak Road area. Will the City retain ownership, and the powers that come with it, to make available affordable housing and subsidized housing? on Linkedin Email Thank you for your answers to my previous questions. The City of Vienna, Austria, makes available affordable housing and subsidized housing to a large part of its population. The City of Fredericton, Canada, owns 65% of the land in the Doak Road area. Will the City retain ownership, and the powers that come with it, to make available affordable housing and subsidized housing? link

    Thank you for your answers to my previous questions. The City of Vienna, Austria, makes available affordable housing and subsidized housing to a large part of its population. The City of Fredericton, Canada, owns 65% of the land in the Doak Road area. Will the City retain ownership, and the powers that come with it, to make available affordable housing and subsidized housing?

    Giovanni Merlini asked 4 days ago

    Hi Giovanni! Thank you for your comments. Affordability is top of mind as part of the Plan for the Southeast New Neighbourhood as right within the vision itself it references that City-owned lands will support affordable homeownership and rental opportunities that serve the needs of all Frederictonians. The Draft Plan includes a number of policies related to housing and affordability, with the primary mechanism being through the land disposal process where the City can require a certain amount of affordable housing in the future development. The specific proposal within the Draft Plan being that when disposing of publicly-owned land for residential development, we would work to generally achieve up to 20% of units as affordable housing and encourage approximately half of these affordable units to be owner-occupied.

  • Share With an expected 6-7,000 new residents, I was disappointed not to see athletic facilities included for what is essentially a small town of that size. Oromocto with a similar population has a turf athletic field, rink, numerous baseball/football/ and grass soccer fields. Fredericton is already at max capacity for every field and gym in the city and has not kept up with growing demand, this neighbourhood should not go ahead without athletic facilities included. on Facebook Share With an expected 6-7,000 new residents, I was disappointed not to see athletic facilities included for what is essentially a small town of that size. Oromocto with a similar population has a turf athletic field, rink, numerous baseball/football/ and grass soccer fields. Fredericton is already at max capacity for every field and gym in the city and has not kept up with growing demand, this neighbourhood should not go ahead without athletic facilities included. on Twitter Share With an expected 6-7,000 new residents, I was disappointed not to see athletic facilities included for what is essentially a small town of that size. Oromocto with a similar population has a turf athletic field, rink, numerous baseball/football/ and grass soccer fields. Fredericton is already at max capacity for every field and gym in the city and has not kept up with growing demand, this neighbourhood should not go ahead without athletic facilities included. on Linkedin Email With an expected 6-7,000 new residents, I was disappointed not to see athletic facilities included for what is essentially a small town of that size. Oromocto with a similar population has a turf athletic field, rink, numerous baseball/football/ and grass soccer fields. Fredericton is already at max capacity for every field and gym in the city and has not kept up with growing demand, this neighbourhood should not go ahead without athletic facilities included. link

    With an expected 6-7,000 new residents, I was disappointed not to see athletic facilities included for what is essentially a small town of that size. Oromocto with a similar population has a turf athletic field, rink, numerous baseball/football/ and grass soccer fields. Fredericton is already at max capacity for every field and gym in the city and has not kept up with growing demand, this neighbourhood should not go ahead without athletic facilities included.

    JOHN asked about 1 month ago

    Hi John! Thank you for your comments. 

    The Draft Plan provides a high-level land use framework and includes area for parks and open space (Map 3). A secondary plan would not go into specifics on an athletic facility at this time but rather provides policy direction for how parks would be developed in the new neighbourhood over the next 25 years. The draft policies of the plan outline that the boundaries, layout, programming and sizes of parks and open spaces would be refined through the development of a comprehensive neighbourhood parks plan in accordance with the City’s Recreation and Leisure Master Plan. Based on this comprehensive neighbourhood parks plan, the specific programming and facilities would then be identified. It is also worth noting that the Draft Plan looks to prioritize active transportation routes and connecting the new neighbourhood to nearby amenities, which would include a future connection to Grant Harvey and its facilities.

  • Share How will this affect traffic on Lincoln Road? How will the new neighborhood be integrated into the existing trail system to expand the active transportation network, Will new buildings, particularly multiple family/aoartments, have standards power for EVs and recycling on Facebook Share How will this affect traffic on Lincoln Road? How will the new neighborhood be integrated into the existing trail system to expand the active transportation network, Will new buildings, particularly multiple family/aoartments, have standards power for EVs and recycling on Twitter Share How will this affect traffic on Lincoln Road? How will the new neighborhood be integrated into the existing trail system to expand the active transportation network, Will new buildings, particularly multiple family/aoartments, have standards power for EVs and recycling on Linkedin Email How will this affect traffic on Lincoln Road? How will the new neighborhood be integrated into the existing trail system to expand the active transportation network, Will new buildings, particularly multiple family/aoartments, have standards power for EVs and recycling link

    How will this affect traffic on Lincoln Road? How will the new neighborhood be integrated into the existing trail system to expand the active transportation network, Will new buildings, particularly multiple family/aoartments, have standards power for EVs and recycling

    Janice Elbayoumi asked about 1 month ago

    Hi Janice! Thank you for your comments.

    1) As the new neighbourhood develops, the City’s engineering department would be monitoring traffic volumes and evaluate whether any intersection upgrades are necessary. It is important to recognize that implementation of the plan is long-term over the next 25 years and development would be gradual.  

    2) The Draft Plan includes a mobility network (Map 5) that outlines potential active transportation routes that look to connect the new neighbourhood to the Vanier Trail and to Knowledge Park Drive. The Draft Plan includes policies that prioritize active transportation links and connecting the new neighbourhood to the rest of the city and nearby amenities. 

    3) Since May 2025, all new residential buildings with 5 or more units are required to allocate space for recycling containers and register with Circular Materials Atlantic for residential recycling collection services, in accordance with By-law W-4.

    4) EV Charging is not formally required under any legislation, but encouraged and we are starting to see developers include such. 


  • Share I have three questions: 1 - Are the Co-op and daycare located within a 15-minute door-to-door walk of every residential door of the proposed neighbourhood? 2 - Is there a bus service planned to transport future Southeast residents to the Co-op and daycare and back? 3 - Is there a transit service planned to start operating on the first day of construction of the new neighbourhood with service for the workers? on Facebook Share I have three questions: 1 - Are the Co-op and daycare located within a 15-minute door-to-door walk of every residential door of the proposed neighbourhood? 2 - Is there a bus service planned to transport future Southeast residents to the Co-op and daycare and back? 3 - Is there a transit service planned to start operating on the first day of construction of the new neighbourhood with service for the workers? on Twitter Share I have three questions: 1 - Are the Co-op and daycare located within a 15-minute door-to-door walk of every residential door of the proposed neighbourhood? 2 - Is there a bus service planned to transport future Southeast residents to the Co-op and daycare and back? 3 - Is there a transit service planned to start operating on the first day of construction of the new neighbourhood with service for the workers? on Linkedin Email I have three questions: 1 - Are the Co-op and daycare located within a 15-minute door-to-door walk of every residential door of the proposed neighbourhood? 2 - Is there a bus service planned to transport future Southeast residents to the Co-op and daycare and back? 3 - Is there a transit service planned to start operating on the first day of construction of the new neighbourhood with service for the workers? link

    I have three questions: 1 - Are the Co-op and daycare located within a 15-minute door-to-door walk of every residential door of the proposed neighbourhood? 2 - Is there a bus service planned to transport future Southeast residents to the Co-op and daycare and back? 3 - Is there a transit service planned to start operating on the first day of construction of the new neighbourhood with service for the workers?

    Giovanni Merlini asked 16 days ago

    Thank you for your questions! 

    The Co-op and daycare would be located within a 15 minute walk for the majority of future residents within the plan area. Note that there is also a central node proposed within the plan area that would also provide convenient access to daily commercial amenities for future residents. Map 5 of the Draft Plan, being the Mobility Network, outlines a potential active transportation route (multi-use trail) that would connect future residents to the Co-op and daycare along Doak Road. 

    Connecting the plan area with the rest of the city is an important component of the plan and providing transit in early phases to establish a more complete community. The plan includes a number of policies that look to provide transit service along the corridor and through the central node. New transit routes would be provided in accordance with the Fredericton Transit Service Standards and all staff would be working together to coordinate transit with development, including exploring options for initial phases. 

  • Share Does anyone have any concerns for wildlife that continues to be pushed out? Home prices are not attainable for most people and these homes will be the same from a pricing perspective, for those who are concerned about this. Builders have to charge the consumer to make a profit and building is wildly expensive. Regardless, it is incredible to see such a blatant disregard for wildlife by tearing down 200+ hectares of woods and forest. Where is the wildlife supposed to go? Shame on the city. on Facebook Share Does anyone have any concerns for wildlife that continues to be pushed out? Home prices are not attainable for most people and these homes will be the same from a pricing perspective, for those who are concerned about this. Builders have to charge the consumer to make a profit and building is wildly expensive. Regardless, it is incredible to see such a blatant disregard for wildlife by tearing down 200+ hectares of woods and forest. Where is the wildlife supposed to go? Shame on the city. on Twitter Share Does anyone have any concerns for wildlife that continues to be pushed out? Home prices are not attainable for most people and these homes will be the same from a pricing perspective, for those who are concerned about this. Builders have to charge the consumer to make a profit and building is wildly expensive. Regardless, it is incredible to see such a blatant disregard for wildlife by tearing down 200+ hectares of woods and forest. Where is the wildlife supposed to go? Shame on the city. on Linkedin Email Does anyone have any concerns for wildlife that continues to be pushed out? Home prices are not attainable for most people and these homes will be the same from a pricing perspective, for those who are concerned about this. Builders have to charge the consumer to make a profit and building is wildly expensive. Regardless, it is incredible to see such a blatant disregard for wildlife by tearing down 200+ hectares of woods and forest. Where is the wildlife supposed to go? Shame on the city. link

    Does anyone have any concerns for wildlife that continues to be pushed out? Home prices are not attainable for most people and these homes will be the same from a pricing perspective, for those who are concerned about this. Builders have to charge the consumer to make a profit and building is wildly expensive. Regardless, it is incredible to see such a blatant disregard for wildlife by tearing down 200+ hectares of woods and forest. Where is the wildlife supposed to go? Shame on the city.

    asked about 1 month ago

    Thank you for your comments. The land use map in the draft plan includes a number of green corridors and open spaces that would be maintained. The overall plan looks to balance the need to provide land for housing with the existing environmental features and ultimately would be a more compact neighbourhood, limiting the amount of sprawl. 65% of the land is currently city-owned and so there are a number of draft policies that speak to the land disposal process and generally achieving up to 20% of units as affordable housing and encouraging approximately half of those affordable units as owner-occupied (not rental but owned units).

  • Share Do you plan to provide affordable housing for seniors on fixed/low incomes? That’s what I need. on Facebook Share Do you plan to provide affordable housing for seniors on fixed/low incomes? That’s what I need. on Twitter Share Do you plan to provide affordable housing for seniors on fixed/low incomes? That’s what I need. on Linkedin Email Do you plan to provide affordable housing for seniors on fixed/low incomes? That’s what I need. link

    Do you plan to provide affordable housing for seniors on fixed/low incomes? That’s what I need.

    Robbi Ann Gunter asked 7 months ago

    Hi Robbi! Thank you for your comments. The Southeast Secondary Municipal Plan will look to provide policies on how the area develops, including the types of housing, affordable housing, and will speak to housing need/demand for various groups such as seniors.  

  • Share What will the price point for these homes be? We need homes for people that work blue collar jobs, single people & need a hand up not a hand out! on Facebook Share What will the price point for these homes be? We need homes for people that work blue collar jobs, single people & need a hand up not a hand out! on Twitter Share What will the price point for these homes be? We need homes for people that work blue collar jobs, single people & need a hand up not a hand out! on Linkedin Email What will the price point for these homes be? We need homes for people that work blue collar jobs, single people & need a hand up not a hand out! link

    What will the price point for these homes be? We need homes for people that work blue collar jobs, single people & need a hand up not a hand out!

    Theresa asked 8 months ago

    Thank you for your comments. As the Secondary Plan progresses, our team is looking to hear from the community on what people want to see in a new neighbourhood, including the types of housing needed. 

    The Secondary Plan for the Southeast New Neighbourhood will provide guidance for future development and land uses within the neighbourhood. New neighbourhoods look to provide a variety of housing types and densities. As the neighbourhood develops, residential dwellings would be built and sold or rented depending on the land owner/developer. The City currently owns approximately 75% of the land within the study area and the Secondary Plan would help inform the disposition of City-owned land for future development, including any provision for affordable housing. 

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