(1) The Ibadan City Masterplan is a consummate urban development plan aimed at charting a modern and new direction of development for the city.

(2) The detailed master plan is expected to be submitted by September, alongside the Ibadan Drainage and Solid Waste master plans; these are expected to be developed as a trifecta of master plans aimed at enhancing infrastructural development and future expansion of Ibadan, as well as ending the regime of flooding.

(3) The Ibadan City Materplan was designed to internationally-acceptable standards by the Design and Architecture Bureau Consulting Engineers (DAR), in conjunction with the World Bank.

(4) The lack of a master plan slowed down the infrastructural and socioeconomic development of the state entirely, while it also contributed to the vulnerability of the city to natural disasters.

(5) It is a 20-year development plan.

(6) The development of this masterplan was inspired by the August 2011 flooding in Ibadan and those before then, which were triggered by several natural and human factors.

(7) The Ibadan City master plan covers the original 11 Local Government Areas of Ibadanland, and took the state’s natural environment, history of flooding, transport, infrastructure, housing and population into consideration.

( It is a reflection of the immediate and future needs of citizens of the city, who are the major stakeholders that were engaged during the process of drawing up the masterplan.

(9) This Ibadan City Masterplan will provide sound planning frameworks and foundations to attract investment for existing and new business growth.

(10) masterplan will make Ibadan city resilient to stress and responsive to natural disasters, especially flooding episodes for existing and future development areas.

(11) It will improve and expand the city’s transport network. while also aiding plans to accommodate the future population growth. For example, to incorporate an intra and inter-city rail system that will take advantage of the existing Lagos-Ibadan rail line.

(12) The masterplan will establish the basis for the provision of adequate infrastructure capable of meeting the need of the population. It will also enhance the quality of life for existing and future residents.

(13) This masterplan focuses on land use distribution, heritage and tourism, education and healthcare facilities, fire stations and security network, transport network, prevention of flooding and sustainable drainage systems, as well as pedestrian and bicycle networks.

(14) The Ibadan City masterplan incorporates how the state can cope with the existing structures and settlements. It will give us legitimacy to remove illegal structures on flood plains, with recommendations for alternatives to street trading, that include a trading axis, neighbourhood markets and the rest.

(15) A draft masterplan was presented to the state executive council and stakeholders to receive observations and contributions, all of which will be grafted into a final and robust master plan that will ensure coordinated physical growth, improved socio-economic development and enhanced living standards of residents.

Ajimobi's govt is claiming to have done this Masterplan, which is a blatant LIE. The Masterplan of Ibadan was developed over 20years ago when Ibadan experience that OMIYALE WATER CRISI that gave birth to Ogun-Osun River basin construction that channeled though [b]OGUNPA [/b]as the major point which in the process considered several things like the IBADAN RING-ROAD which will enables all roads in Ibadan to link-up with each other wherever it is. This is to allow trunk A roads to join trunk B roads and link-up with Trunk C roads.
The Apc led governor in the state has not fund or financed many of the rivers in the state as it has neglected many of it in the name of shortage of funds to finance it leaving Thousands of people in Apete and its environs abandoned to mentions a few.