By Trevor Greenway
Local Journalism Initiative

La Pêche wants your help in planning for the future. 

The municipality is set to launch a series of urban planning consultations throughout the municipality to help guide the next phase of growth when it comes to urbanism.

“It’s a guide for future growth,” said La Pêche Mayor Guillaume Lamoureux, and the municipality wants to ensure it retains the “unique character” of the region. 

“Our urbanism plan is dated,” said Lamoureux, adding that the current urban plan is from 2003. “Of course, it no longer meets provincial requirements, so we have to draft an urbanism plan that aligns with the regional master plan and aligns with provincial orientations. But, in order to do that, we need to make sure that it respects our unique local character, and we want to hear people’s input.”

Lamoureux said the urban plan doesn’t focus on smaller details like paint colours or materials used on new developments, but it takes a broader look at everything from zoning and agriculture to forestry, tourism, environmental protection and transportation. 

“It’s a broad exercise,” said Lamoureux. “An urbanism plan really encompasses all municipal bylaws when it comes to urbanism and zoning.”

La Pêche was supposed to hold the Wakefield sector meeting on Jan. 20, but that meeting has been postponed to a later date. This week’s consultations were still held in Masham on Jan 21., and the upcoming Lac-des-Loups meeting is still scheduled for Jan. 23 at its community hall located at6 Ch. Lionel Beausoleil. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.