I am proud to have been the vice-chair of our Housing Strategy Task Force. Many thanks to them and staff for all the work done to create this award winning strategy. I commit to increasing our housing supply in the manner outlined in the housing strategy.
I will do this by
- focussing on a district wide approach to housing through a Centres, Corridors and Villages approach that will increase densities and the variety of housing types in the most logical areas within the UCB and create and/or enable 15-20 minute communities that are livable, vibrant, sustainable, transit connected communities that help to reduce our dependance on cars;
- supporting the development of a Missing Middle Policy;
- reviewing planning processes to create efficiency and significantly reduce timelines as recommended in the recent KPMG report, and creating metrics of acceptable timeframes in processes;
- delegating OCP compliant housing proposals to staff for approval; and
- simplifying further the processes for Garden suites as well as the legalization of secondary suites currently in place.