Mirfa Master Plan

The consultant team worked with local government and stakeholders using a workshop process to ensure the plan respected environmental, economic, and cultural concerns producing an overall Master Plan document as well as a development code. The resulting Master Plan blends the unique landscape qualities of Mirfa’s waterfront setting with a compact and diverse urban fabric.

The Mirfa Master Plan:

• Builds on the traditional urban pattern of Mirfa and the opportunities surrounding Jebel Mirfa, a prominent central ridge;
• Creates three mixed-use central districts with a surrounding community of mixed-use neighbourhoods;
• Provides amenities and facilities within a short walk of an extensive tram and bus system;
• Allows for maximum permeability that is reflective of traditional urban patterns with fine grain streets and pedestrian passages;
• Provides a diversity of housing typologies that meet the needs of residents while creating strong street frontages, capturing ocean breezes, and promoting density; and,
• Celebrates and expands the waterfront with a well-distributed pattern of local parks that link to natural open spaces and select ‘shadeway’ streets.