Last Opportunity to Provide Feedback on Draft Vancouver Plan

Under Bill 18, the City of Vancouver must create an Official Development Plan (ODP) by 2026. This ODP is required to give more certainty to residential proposals that comply with all city policies that are outlined in the ODP. City of Vancouver has produced a first draft of this plan, which it hopes to adopt by June 30th, 2026.

You can learn more about the ODP here.
You can view the current draft ODP at this location.
If you would like to provide feedback on the ODP, you can also follow this link.

The ODP is intended to be a comprehensive document of all of the city’s planning initiatives, including housing, but also including many other areas:

• Housing

• Economy

• Climate

• Ecology

• Transportation

• Childcare

• Community Infrastructure

• Arts, Culture and Heritage

• Utilities

• Flood Systems

• Hazardous Lands and Risk Reduction

The ODP is too complex to summarize, but since housing (and therefore land use) remains salient across Vancouver, here is the proposed land use map:

The intent of the ODP is to codify, rather than reform, land use rules. For this reason, the ODP continues to reserve most of the city for light, exclusive residential use. This bias is reflected in other parts of the ODP. For example, the future parks map foresees parks only being added to the Broadway Plan area, Jericho Lands, and parts of the Cambie Corridor.

The proposed childcare map also indicates no intention to expand childcare into most of the reserved low-density areas.

It is not a requirement that this plan be this cautious. This planning exercise is an opportunity to express how you want to see the city plan for the future. Otherwise, we could end up with a plan that constrains the city, or that is obsolete the moment it is ratified.

You can learn more about the ODP here.
You can view the current draft ODP at this location.
If you would like to provide feedback on the ODP, you can also follow this link.