Mike Palmer

The Victoria Housing Strategy 2016-2025, Phase Two: 2019-2022, serves as the City of Victoria's roadmap to housing affordability and diversity. It aims to define the City's role in providing affordable housing, assess future needs, and establish targets and tools to meet those needs. The strategy is structured around five key goals: Focus on Renters, Increase Supply, Housing Choice, Track & Improve, and New Ideas. Its overarching vision is to foster a bold, thriving, inclusive, and happy city known for innovative approaches to affordable housing, ensuring safe, secure, and affordable housing for all residents.

This document is a progress report on the City of Victoria's Climate Leadership Plan, originally released in 2018. The plan outlines a citywide approach to climate change through greenhouse gas emission reduction (mitigation) and impact preparation (adaptation). Key strategic areas include reducing community and corporate emissions, transitioning to low-carbon buildings, promoting low-carbon mobility, improving waste management, and enhancing municipal operations. The report also details efforts in early adaptation to climate impacts, aiming for a climate-ready future by embedding resilience into city operations, infrastructure, and community preparedness.

The Official Community Plan for the City of Victoria outlines the city's long-term direction towards 2050, addressing current and emerging urban challenges while preserving its unique character. The plan is structured around key areas including truth and reconciliation, urban form and land use, community networks, mobility infrastructure, and blue-green infrastructure. It aims to foster a climate-forward, equitable, healthy, safe, resilient, sustainable, vibrant, and prosperous city, envisioning Victoria as a diverse, livable community with varied housing, a prosperous urban core, and a global leader in climate-forward urban infrastructure.

This document outlines the update to Victoria's Official Community Plan, a long-term roadmap designed to address the needs of a growing population and tackle housing and climate crises. The plan shapes urban development, guiding decisions on housing, businesses, public spaces, and transportation. Key focus areas include expanding housing options and optimizing land use, fostering connected communities with access to parks, amenities, and a thriving local economy, and building a resilient city through climate-adaptive infrastructure, green buildings, and urban forest growth.

The online information session for the City of Victoria focuses on the 10-year OCP update, emphasizing housing, community, and climate. It outlines the process, from council approval in May 2023 to the final public hearing in mid-2025, and highlights the OCP's role in shaping the city's growth. The session addresses housing needs, latent demand, and the importance of enabling diverse housing options, including secured rental and family-oriented housing. It also touches on climate action objectives and the integration of good urban design principles to enhance livability and community vibrancy.