Implementation of the 2050 Land Use and Mobility Plan

Last updated July 3, 2025
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In 2025, the city adopted the 2050 Land Use and Mobility Plan, which sets out rules for land use planning and developing mobility over the next 25 years. Discover the 2025-2030 action plan to learn more about the first steps that will be taken.

A 2025-2030 action plan to make the land use and mobility plan a reality 

The implementation of the land use and mobility plan is an opportunity to make important changes. The action plan sets out priority investments and projects according to the city’s implementation capacities.

What are the main points of the action plan?

The action plan includes: 

  • Policies, sector-based plans and strategies to be implemented that are in progress or will be renewed
  • Details about measures and support offered to the boroughs to assume responsibilities related to implementing the Land Use and Mobility Plan
  • Key actions of general scope and those related to symbolic locations planned between 2025 and 2030
  • Key activities related to opportunity sector planning
  • Planned changes to urban planning by-laws under city council’s authority

What other means are being used to implement the Land Use and Mobility Plan? 

  • Linking borough planning by-laws to the Land Use and Mobility Plan, particularly concerning land use (chapter 5) and the provisions of the complementary document (chapter 6)
  • Identifying urban and mobility projects that are related to the objectives of the Land Use and Mobility Plan
  • Borough development of local land use and mobility plans
  • Measurement and evaluation of the actions’ progress and the achievement of the plan’s targets (Appendix 1)

Civic participation to build tomorrow’s city together

The 2050 Land Use and Mobility Plan finds its source and inspiration in the conversation the city and its residents started together about the future of our city. It constitutes an ambitious and comprehensive framework for achieving our common objectives and building the Montréal of tomorrow. 

Here is an overview of the civic participation process that led to the development of the 2050 plan.

2019–2020

Conducting a diagnostic assessment of the territory and engaging with the population to better understand the needs, perceptions and experiences of the city and its neighbourhoods.

2020-2021 

Ideation workshop with residents to imagine possible futures and make proposals that are presented as part of the City Project.

2021-2022

Public consultation on the City Project by the Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) which led to the proposal of a vision and the development of the city’s Land Use and Mobility Plan. 

2023-2024 

Consultation on the 2050 draft Land Use and Mobility Plan and improvements to the plan based on the results of the consultation. 

2025 

Adoption of the final version of the Land Use Mobility Plan, which was adjusted following the consultation carried out by the OCPM in the summer and fall of 2024.