Dave Bains

This document outlines Development Permit Guidelines for Townhouses within the New Westminster Official Community Plan. It aims to encourage functional townhouse projects, support diverse housing choices, and promote sustainable development goals. Key principles include creating active, human-scale streetscapes, providing livable spaces with optimal daylight and privacy, minimizing environmental impact through efficient designs, and maximizing ecological benefits in outdoor areas. The guidelines encompass aspects such as building siting, architecture, material finish, energy performance, privacy, open space design, landscape elements including tree canopy and stormwater management, and efficient circulation, parking, and utility servicing.

The Housing and Land Use Planning Work Program for the City of New Westminster outlines ongoing and upcoming initiatives for 2025 and 2026, aligning with the Council's Strategic Priorities Plan on Homes and Housing Options. Key focus areas include addressing homelessness, increasing affordable housing, promoting more homes near transit, facilitating infill housing, accelerating home construction, and ensuring policy alignment. The program incorporates the implementation of provincial housing legislation, Housing Accelerator Fund initiatives, and the 2025 Crises Response Pilot Project Roadmap, aiming to improve housing supply, choice, and approval processes.

This report details the City of New Westminster's approach to updating its Official Community Plan in response to provincial housing legislation and the Affordable Housing Accelerator initiative. Key focus areas include implementing Transit Oriented Development (TOD) legislation by revising land use designations and building heights, streamlining approvals for non-profit affordable housing, and integrating findings from the 2024-2044 Interim Housing Needs Report to address diverse housing requirements. The plan aims to increase housing choice, supply, and affordability, while ensuring infrastructure and amenities support projected population growth and align with the city's strategic priorities.

This document outlines how the New Westminster Official Community Plan (OCP) aligns with the Metro Vancouver Regional Growth Strategy, 'Metro 2050'. The OCP contributes to Metro 2050's five goals: creating a compact urban area, supporting a sustainable economy, protecting the environment, addressing climate change and responding to natural hazards, providing diverse and affordable housing options, and supporting sustainable transportation choices. The statement demonstrates the OCP's commitment to accommodating projected growth, preserving natural assets, fostering economic viability, increasing affordable housing supply, and promoting sustainable transit and land use patterns.

This document details the Land Use Designations for the Queensborough Community Plan, outlining various land use categories including Residential (Low Density, Compact Lot, Low Rise, High Rise, Waterfront), Commercial (Queensborough Commercial, Commercial Entertainment), Mixed Use (Low Rise, Mixed Employment), Industrial, Utilities and Transportation Infrastructure, Intertidal, Major Institutional, Parks, Open Space and Community Facilities, Habitat/Natural, and Queensborough Comprehensive Development zones. This plan serves as a spatial framework guiding future development and conservation within Queensborough and Annacis Island, part of the Municipality of Delta.