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Smart Bylaws Guide – Capital Regional District
The servicing limits are supported by the following development
goals:
- Establish a strong mixed-use Metropolitan Core in downtown
Victoria;
- Accommodate a minimum of 15% of the region's cumulative new
dwelling units to 2026 within the City of Victoria, to reinforce the
Metropolitan Core;
- Focus new growth primarily in eight Major Centres
revitalized as walkable, transit-focused complete communities with a
dense mix of businesses, housing, services and public open
space;
- Increase the amount of detached and ground access housing
within the urban containment and servicing area in the core
municipalities of Victoria, Esquimalt, Saanich and Oak Bay by 5%
over designated capacities in their official community plans, at the
date of the adoption of the Regional Growth Strategy bylaw, by 2011;
and,
- Locate a minimum of 90% of the region's cumulative new
dwelling units to 2026 within the Regional Urban Containment and
Servicing area.
"The aim of the strategy is to create a pattern of major
centres within a firm urban containment boundary that will, over
time, result in the concentration of most new growth in the centres
and connecting corridors, that can be effectively served by
express-bus transit."
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Capital Regional District Regional Growth Strategy
(see map on
p.21 and policies on pp.5-6)
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