CURRENT INITIATIVE: Riverview Outline Plan
Strategic Plan Alignment: The Town of Rocky Mountain House Strategic Plan 2026-2030 focuses on economic prosperity and livability for residents and businesses. Two of Council's five main strategic priorities are (1) that the Town has serviced shovel-ready land for residential commercial and industrial uses, and (2) there is housing for all now, and in the future.
The Riverview area at the north end of Town was originally developed as the first of several phases. This initiative aims to update the Riverview Outline Plan with a goal of seeing future phases of residential houses take shape.
Review the Draft Outline Plan
What happens next?
Invistec Consulting Ltd., on behalf of the Town of Rocky Mountain House, is conducting public consultation on the proposed update to the Riverview Outline Plan.
There will be a Public Open House on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
Time: Drop by anytime between 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rocky Regional Recreation Centre Subway Room (5332 50 St.)
This open house is intended to provide information on the proposed amendments, and provide the public the opportunity to share their feedback.
Submit feedback
If you are unable to attend the open house, a public feedback survey is below. Please review the draft revised Riverview Outline Plan and the draft Concept Map and complete the survey:
Create your own user feedback survey
Other long-range concept plans:
Lochearn Park Residential Infill Concept
The 2017 Recreation Master Plan identified an overabundance of playgrounds. Due to its close proximately to other playgrounds, the plan recommended that Lochearn Park be repurposed. Willam Jessop Park on 57 Avenue and 57 Street was identified as another neighbourhood park for the local children and residents to continue to use if Lochearn Park was repurposed.
Council's Strategic Plan identifies both a need for more housing, and calls for a review of playgrounds and greenspaces for best use. To both these ends, Council explored what a residential infill project could look like at this site.
Cost to date: A portion of $80,000. (Total cost for three concept plans: Main Steet Corridor, School Site and Lochearn Park).
What happens next? Council has moved the Lochearn Park Residential Infill Concept Plan to the 2025 Service Level Review meeting for further discussion. If Council chooses to pursue this infill development, there are several decision-points to cross:
- Re-zone the park to Residential from Municipal Reserve land-use zone.
- This is a legislated process that will require, at minimum, direct notice to adjacent property-owners, comments from adjacent agencies and a Public Hearing.
- If the land is re-zoned, Council would then decide whether to offer the land for sale to a developer, or to install the utilities and subdivide the lots for sale.
School Site Concept Plan
This project arose from the 2024 Service Level Review meeting. Funding was allocated in the 2025 Budget.
Wild Rose School Division has identified that the division’s two elementary schools may eventually be consolidated and replaced with a new elementary school at the Lochearn/Pioneer School site. If the Ecole Rocky Elementary site is no longer needed for education, it will return to municipal ownership.
Cost to date: A portion of $80,000. (Total cost for three concept plans: Main Steet Corridor, School Site and Lochearn Park).
What happens next? Council has accepted the School Site Draft Concepts as information.
Main Street Entrance Concept Plan
This project arose from the 2024 Service Level Review meeting. Funding was allocated in the 2025 Budget.
In support of planning for future developments between 50th Street and Highway 11, and in light of the Alberta Transportation Highway 11 Functional Study and its proposed changes to the highway’s cross-sections and access points, the Town saw an opportunity to propose Main Street Entrance Concepts.
The rationale behind a Main Street Entrance concept plan supports many aspects of Council's Strategic Plan economic, tourism and social goals, such as:
- Creating a strong first impression
- Driving downtown engagement
- Bolstering and leveraging existing wayfinding
- Creating a unified sense of place
- Supporting improved circulation
- Ensuring safe interactions between pedestrian and vehicular users, and
- Fostering strong community identity, reflecting on the Town’s shared history
Cost to date: A portion of $80,000. (Total cost for three concept plans: Main Steet Corridor, School Site and Lochearn Park).
What happens next? Council has moved the Main Street Corridor Concept Plan to the 2025 Service Level Review meeting for further discussion.
