City of Canton Department of Planning and Zoning

06/27/2025

🎨✨ Calling all artists! The Mural Fest Canton call for artists is officially OPEN! 🖌️

We’re looking for creative minds to help transform downtown Canton into a vibrant outdoor gallery. This is your chance to leave your mark on the city!

💥 8 mural sites
📍 Downtown Canton
📅 Artists create throughout September
🎉 Community unveiling festival on September 27

Apply now at MuralFestCanton.com
Deadline: July 11 at 4PM

Proudly presented in partnership with the The City of Canton, Ohio, Downtown Canton Partnership, ArtsinStark and Visit Canton . Let’s make downtown pop with color and creativity! 🌈🎨

06/17/2025

12/09/2024

The Department of Planning and Zoning has released it's first newsletter!

We are excited to update the community on the activities that we have been working on over the past year, including a new plan called Connecting Canton; Together! The Mayor’s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative.

In this newsletter, we would also like to highlight several urban design initiatives our department has been working and the programs we administer that are available to the community.

We are committed to improving the quality of life in Canton by strengthening our neighborhoods, delivering services, celebrating the diversity of our citizens, and making Canton a desirable, safe city in which to live, work and play; rich with opportunity!

To view the newsletter visit:
https://www.flipbookpdf.net/web/site/6d466621fe2e3d881d0276a253df0cbae4e6551cFBP32958470.pdf.html

12/04/2024

You may have heard that our Downtown Canton community is being considered by Heritage Ohio to become a Main Street Community! We wanted to invite our community to an upcoming presentation this Wednesday, December 4th at 6:00 PM at the Onesto Event Center. The Downtown Canton Partnership and Heritage Ohio will be hosting this presentation where you can learn more about the process along with the benefits that this would open for our downtown community. No RSVP is required.

To learn more about the Main Street Program you can check out here! https://www.heritageohio.org/ohio-main-street-program/

10/02/2024

10/01/2024

09/27/2024

09/16/2024

We are so excited to have students from Canton Country Day School out working on their mural in the Downtown Canton Warehouse District! All of the murals are coming along beautifully and we are so excited to see more!

Mural Fest Canton

09/12/2024

This week the Department of Planning as been busy putting out signs for the new Land Reutilization Program. If anyone is interested in one of the available properties, please visit https://www.cantonohio.gov/2260/Land-Reutilization-Program
for more information and the application to apply!

The Land Reutilization Program was designed to acquire vacant non-productive land through the foreclosure and forfeiture process and transfer it to individuals, developers, and non-profit organizations for redevelopment and return it to tax producing status. State law allows for parcels in this prog...

08/20/2024