2025 Updates to OCP and Area Plans
The City's Official Community Plan (OCP) and related area plans (Albion, Hammond, Silver Valley, Town Centre) are being updated to meet the Province's legislative requirements to ensure local plans align with provincial housing targets.
Recent policy updates support affordable housing, more rental units, adaptable housing, tenant protection, and options for family-sized homes.
Area Plan Update Highlights:
- Albion: Connecting local businesses and communities with walking and cycling paths.
- Hammond: Enabling mixed-use, higher-density buildings near transit and protecting jobs.
- Silver Valley: Creating walkable neighborhoods and simplified zoning for modern development.
- Town Centre: Expanding growth around transit hubs.
Council and staff continue to advocate for senior government partners to invest in vital infrastructure to support the required growth.
For additional details, view the September 9, 2025 Committee of the Whole meeting agenda package and recorded video.
An Official Community Plan is a general guide for land use within the municipality. Area plans focus on specific areas and their unique context to provide a greater level of detail for land use, density, form, character and the pacing of development. An area plan can apply to a group of neighbourhoods, a single neighbourhood or entire designated areas. It may guide the development of new communities or the redevelopment of existing ones.
There are also Area Concept Plans that have been endorsed by Council. However, until an Area Plan has been adopted as part of the Official Community Plan, the Concept Plan is used as a guide to direct land use within the area.
