Editing Newmarket, Ontario (section)

===Planning ===
Newmarket is identified as one of the Golden Horseshoe's 25 Urban Growth Centres in Ontario's Places to Grow Growth Plan.<ref name=Placestogrow>{{cite web|url=http://www.newmarket.ca/userfiles/page_attachments/Library/1/3107712_Newmarket_OP___Consolidated_Modifications___2008_04___Regional_Approval.pdf|title= Town of Newmarket 2-2006 Official Plan|date=October 10, 2006|publisher=Town of Newmarket|access-date=August 25, 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

Four areas of Newmarket have been selected to absorb the majority of planned population growth and accommodate mixed usages on sites well served by transit. These are the Yonge-Davis intersection, Yonge Street (south of Green Lane), the Regional Healthcare Centre ([[Southlake Regional Health Centre]]) and Historic Downtown Centre (surrounding Main Street South).<ref>{{cite web |title=Newmarket Urban Centres Secondary plan |url=https://www.newmarket.ca/LivingHere/Documents/Planning%20Department/Secondary%20Plan/Urban%20Centres%20Secondary%20Plan%20-%20October%2025%202016%20Consolidation.pdf#page=16 |website=Town of Newmarket |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref> Further construction of big box retail stores in the Yonge Street corridor will not be permitted and the long-term objective of the town is redevelopment or the addition of new buildings to these areas through controlled intensification.<ref>{{cite web |title=Newmarket Urban Centres Secondary plan |url=https://www.newmarket.ca/LivingHere/Documents/Planning%20Department/Secondary%20Plan/Urban%20Centres%20Secondary%20Plan%20-%20October%2025%202016%20Consolidation.pdf#page=21 |website=Town of Newmarket |access-date=3 August 2019}}</ref>

The southwest portion of the town is located in the [[Oak Ridges Moraine]] and is therefore subject to the Ontario Government's [[Greenbelt (Golden Horseshoe)|Greenbelt Legislation]].