Council reluctantly voted to adopt a compliant plan to integrate a requirement for significant density near major transit hubs and expand multiplex housing
A residential neighborhood in West Vancouver, British Columbia , Oct. 10, 2022. The city had refused to pass a compliant plan when it voted on zoning changes in May and had argued city council should decide how many properties to upgrade.
“Their staff recommended council approve the changes months ago and they chose not to,” he said, noting that the province gave municipalities $51-million to help them pay for the extra costs to redo their community zoning systems as required. “It’s not fair to all the other communities that met the deadline.”
Other mayors and councillors have expressed dismay at the sweeping changes being forced on their communities, arguing that allowing massive new amounts of housing all over is going to put a strain on already stressed infrastructure and plop density in some inappropriate places that look good on a map but don’t work in reality.
Planners at Monday’s meeting said the new zoning would mean that 381 parcels in total would be covered by the requirement to allow multiunit housing onto lots previously zoned for single-detached, only 166 more than what council had approved in May. The affected properties account for 2.8 per cent of all lots in West Vancouver.
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