fact sheet PLANNING TOOLKIT
Geographic Profile
HIGHLIGHTS:
The map below, Capital Region Geography, illustrates the area and municipalities of the Capital Region CAPITAL REGION GEOGRAPHY
Legal 829 651 28 644 831 855 S T U R G E O N Redwater Andrew 645 Alcomdale C O U N T Y 38 45 Mearns 803 Bon Whitford 2 Accord 45 Wostok 830 St. Michael 44 643 Star Morinville 855 Capital Region Geography ALEXANDER 642 Bruderheim I.R. 134 Riviere Cardiff Gibbons L A M O N T Qui Barre 28 825 15 29 Pine Sands 28A C O U N T Y Carbondale Lamont Lamoureux 831 Namao Josephburg Calahoo 37 37 Chipman Fort Saskatchewan Villeneuve CFB/ASU Airport 15 830 15 633 Edmonton Hilliard 757 Villeneuve St. S T R A T H C O N A 834 779 44 Albert 216 16A Entwistle 633 21 C O U N T Y Mundare Fallis 765 43 216 16 Wabamun Gainford 31 Spruce Grove 16 16 16 Ardrossan Edmonton Duffield Carvel 16A Sherwood Park Antler WABAMUN 630 628 855 I.R. 133A/B Lake Spring STONY 824 Lake Stony Plain 628 PLAIN Half Moon Lake 759 I.R. 135 627 629 North 22 Keephills Cooking 216 14 Collingwood Cove Lake P A R K L A N D 60 Tomahawk South Hastings Lake C O U N T Y Cooking Lake Village 624 770 Nisku Looma Town 19 625 Devon Beaumont Urban Service Area E.I.A. New 814 21 Sarepta City 622 Telfordville Calmar 39 Leduc Rolly View Buford 623 Specialized Municipality Municipal District 39 Thorsby Non-Member Municipalities L E D U C 2 Kavanagh Sunnybrook Hamlet Warburg 778 C O U N T Y 2A 795 770 616 Watershed Basin Boundary (Approximate) 822 616 Federal Land 616 771 Census Metropolitan Area Boundary 0 5 10 20 30 40 50 Regional Boundary KI LOM ETRES
The Capital Region Board (CRB) consists of 24 member municipalities in Alberta’s Capital Region, including: five cities (Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc, St. Albert and Spruce Grove); one specialized municipality (Strathcona County); four municipal districts (Lamont County, Leduc County, Parkland County and Sturgeon County); 11 towns (Beaumont, Bon Accord, Bruderheim, Calmar, Devon, Gibbons, Lamont, Legal, Morinville, Redwater and Stony Plain); and, three villages (Thorsby, Wabamun and Warburg).
The CRB’s one specialized municipality and four municipal districts include a total of 39 communities that are recognized as hamlets by Alberta Municipal Affairs. The largest of these hamlets is the Urban Service Area of Sherwood Park in Strathcona County. Fact Sheet: Geographic Profile
22 of the 35 municipalities within the Edmonton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), as defined by Statistics Canada, are members of the CRB.
Municipalities in the Edmonton CMA that are not members of the CRB include four Indian reserves, eight summer villages and the Village of Spring Lake.
Lamont County and the Town of Lamont are the two CRB member municipalities located outside the Edmonton CMA.
Three urban municipalities surrounded by Lamont County are not members of the CRB: the Village of Andrew, the Village of Chipman and the Town of Mundare.
The Village of New Sarepta was one of the 25 original members of the CRB. It dissolved to hamlet status under the jurisdiction of Leduc County on September 1, 2010.
The CRB member municipalities occupy a total of 12,384 km² of land.
The CRB spans approximately 185 km of land from Lamont County’s eastern boundary to Parkland County’s western boundary.
The CRB spans approximately 102 km of land from Sturgeon County’s northern boundary to Leduc County’s southern boundary.
The majority of lands within the CRB are in the North Saskatchewan River watershed basin.
The CRB, in its entirety, is located within the North Saskatchewan Region under the Land-use Framework and is considered a sub-regional metropolitan area within the North Saskatchewan Region.
The Capital Region is the northern anchor of Alberta’s Calgary-Edmonton Corridor and one of the fastest growing economic regions in Canada.
The Growth Plan and its Addenda are available through the Capital Region Board and its website www.capitalregionboard.ab.ca
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Capital Region Board Web: www.capitalregionboard.ab.ca Phone: (780) 638-6000 Email: [email protected]
DISCLAIMER: This Planning Toolkit is a guide to aid understanding of the Land Use Principles and Policies of the Capital Region Growth Plan. It is not a substitute for reading and understanding the Growth Plan. For certainty, the reader is advised to refer to the Growth Plan and related legislation available through the Capital Region Board.