The Council offers recreational programming for children, youth, families adults and seniors, as well as facility rentals for events.

It comes complete with both street front retail, midsize commercial offerings, a wide variety of single family homes, apartments, town houses, churches, seniors care facilities, public and separate board elementary schools, and traditional architecture.

The neighbourhood was based on the new urbanist movement and original concepts were crafted by Andres Duany who was the same architect to model Seaside, Florida (the filming location of The Truman Show movie).

McKenzie Towne was selected by the Urban Land Institute as one of the top 26 master planned communities in the world.

It features street oriented commercial with many small businesses and complemented with larger well known retail tenants and a major grocery store.

A "park and ride" facility has been constructed adjacent to the High Street shopping area off 52nd Street S.E., and is a hub for the region's current BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) line connecting to downtown; in the future (time-frame yet to be determined), BRT service is to be replaced by a full LRT (Light Rapid Transit) line, with a station earmarked next to the park and ride.