The work of the City's Corporate Asset Management, Development Services, and Infrastructure departments each impact various design and construction projects across Barrie. Corporate Facilities' planning and development staff oversee facility projects that support select City services.
Construction projects may require road closures.
Generally speaking, infrastructure projects are informed by a master plan or planning process, and project cycles may include environmental assessment studies, detailed design, then construction. Projects are ordered below as per the latest update.
Type: Roads
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: 2025
The annual Pavement Management Program uses different treatments to extend a road's service life by resurfacing or replacing the road.
Type: Roads; Sewers & Watermains; Stormwater & Creeks
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Spring 2028
As a key transportation corridor, Mapleview Drive East will undergo several transportation improvements to accommodate the growth of Barrie to 2031.
Type: Other
Status: In Progress
Renewing, upgrading, redesigning and reconstructing existing City parking lots.
Type: Stormwater & Creeks
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: 2025
Sites include Kidds Creek at Donald Street and Mapleview Drive East near the Bayview Drive DOLRA.
Type: Stormwater & Creeks
Status: Recently Completed
Completed in October 2025. Management and removal of invasive phragmites in select stormwater management ponds and roadside ditches across Barrie.
Type: Parks & Forestry
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Spring 2026
Relocation of Eastview Park community garden to Dunsmore Park.
Type: Parks & Forestry
Status: Recently Completed
Completed in summer 2025. A new playground area to enhance accessibility and usability of the space.
Type: Facilities
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: TBD
This project involves a new 600 square metre standalone facility for the Sea Cadets, relocated to the northwest side of the General John Hayter Southshore Community Centre.
Type: Roads; Sewers & Watermains
Status: Recently Completed
Completed in October 2025. Lining of an existing 500mm diameter concrete pressure pipe watermain on Big Bay Point Road between Bayview Drive and Huronia Road.
Type: Roads; Sewers & Watermains
Status: In Progress
Estimated Completion: Spring 2028
The City's Active Transportation Plan identified Huronia Road as a key transportation corridor and recommended several transportation improvements to accommodate the growth of Barrie to 2031. This project focuses on Huronia Road between Lockhart Road and the south city limit.