To function efficiently, achieve growth and attract new businesses, communities cannot rely on blind luck, a proper roadmap is required.

To that end the City of Dauphin has been working hard on a new Development Plan and held a public hearing as part of the adoption process at its regular council meeting, Aug.14.

The current plan was created in 2010 and adopted in 2012, City manager Sharla Griffiths said, making it important to get the new guide in place soon.

“There’s a requirement, also, in the Planning Act for a periodic review of the development plan,” she said. “And it does state that every five years after it comes into effect, or from the date of the last review, it should be reviewed again. So we are far past when we needed to review it.”

The development plan is meant to promote the optimum economic, social, environmental and physical conditions of an area.

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