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Smart Bylaws Guide – Greater Vancouver Regional District
The Livable Regions Strategic
Plan identifies four objectives:
- Protect the Green Zone: The Green Zone protects Greater
Vancouver's natural assets, including major parks, watersheds,
ecologically important areas and resource lands such as
farmland. It also establishes a long-term growth boundary.
- Build complete communities: The plan supports the
public's desire for communities with a wider range of
opportunities for day-to-day life. Focused on regional and
municipal town centres, more complete communities would result
in more jobs closer to where people live and accessible by
transit, shops and services near home, and a wider choice of
housing types.
- Achieve a compact metropolitan region: The plan avoids
widely dispersed and accommodates a significant proportion of
population growth within the "growth concentration
area" in central part of the region.
- Increase transportation choice: The plan supports the
increased use of transit, walking and cycling by minimizing the
need to travel (through convenient arrangement of land uses) and
by managing transportation supply and demand.
GVRD Livable Regions links
See Pitt Meadows for an example of a clear
Regional Context Statement in the OCP directing the use of a UCB for both rural
and urban revitalization.
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