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Manitoba’s Capital Planning Region: Winnipeg Metropolitan Region

For information about the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region and Plan 2050, see the WMR website.

Regional planning is adopted world-wide and in major Canadian cities. Regional planning can deliver coordinated and cost-effective service delivery, improved consistency of planning policy, and more effective single window regional approaches to attract development.

Regional approaches supplement but do not replace local municipal planning authority and have the following broad public benefits:

Housing affordability – allows for conscious planning of diverse housing options within a reasonable driving distance from places of employment
Ease of transportation – regional approaches support easier movement of people, and reduced travel times between homes and jobs, for example
Shared approach to attracting business – economic growth and investment brings higher paying and better jobs for residents of the region as a whole
Poverty alleviation – inconsistent planning and infrastructure decisions can lead to housing and public transit gaps that can inadvertently separate people from employment areas
Indigenous relations – regional planning can strengthen collaboration on services, land agreements and foster respect for treaty land rights

Capital Planning Region

Recognizing the value of regional planning Manitoba amended The Planning Act in 2021 authorizing the establishment of planning regions. The new legislative provisions created a capital planning region geographically centred by Winnipeg with the legal authority and mandate to enhance economic and social development by improving and coordinating sustainable land use and development in the region by:

adopting a regional plan
facilitating and promoting regional considerations in providing infrastructure and services
leading the development of regional responses to the planning issues of its regional member municipalities
identifying and promoting opportunities for the regional member municipalities to cooperate in the cost-effective development of infrastructure and the provision of services on a regional basis

The Capital Planning Region Regulation came into effect on January 1, 2023, formally establishing the Capital Planning Region (CPR), a statutory corporation, with a Board of Directors responsible for managing, or supervising the management of, the business and affairs of the CPR in accordance with its mandate.

The CPR currently operates as the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region and is comprised of 18 member municipalities: the Cities of Winnipeg and Selkirk, the Towns of Niverville and Stonewall, the Village of Dunnottar, and, the Rural Municipalities of Cartier, East St. Paul, Headingley, Macdonald, Ritchot, Rockwood, Rosser, Springfield, St. Andrews, St. Clements, St. François-Xavier, Taché, and West St. Paul. In addition to one representative for each member municipality on the Board of Directors, the Minister of Municipal and Northern Relations may appoint up to four directors to the CPR Board, in accordance with Manitoba’s Agencies, Boards and Commissions appointment process.

Please click on the links below to review legislation and policies: