Repeal the Official Development Plan and restore neighbourhood planning
TEAM would repeal the Official Development Plan including the Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew and Villages plans, restore neighbourhood-based participatory planning, and challenge provincial housing legislation.
HOUSING SUPPLY AND RENTAL RULES
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver on housing
This is the longest single policy document any party has published in this election, and housing is where most of it sits.
TEAM’s starting argument is that supply alone has not produced affordability. Its page states that since the 1970s the city has tripled its number of housing units, more than any other centre city in North America, and still has the most expensive housing. We have not checked that claim against census data; it is the party’s own reading.
The most consequential commitment is repealing the Official Development Plan. TEAM notes that eliminating public hearings for rezonings consistent with an Official Development Plan removes a step where the public can speak, and that repealing it is what would stop the Villages plan coming back after the election.
TEAM also commits to reconsidering the city’s support for the UBC SkyTrain extension and the related development planning around it.
9 PUBLISHED COMMITMENTS
What they say they will do
Repeal the Official Development Plan
TEAM would repeal the Official Development Plan, including the related plans for Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew, and Villages, so that neighbourhood-based participatory planning can replace it.
- Who has the power
- Council adopts and can repeal an Official Development Plan.
Restore neighbourhood-based participatory planning
New development would be planned with local residents and businesses, within the scale and context of each neighbourhood, alongside the infrastructure and amenities needed to support it.
Challenge provincial housing legislation
TEAM would work with other municipalities to change what it calls provincial overreach into municipal planning, naming BC zoning Bills 44, 46 and 47 of 2023, Bill 18 of 2024 and M216 of 2025.
- Who has the power
- These are provincial statutes. A city can lobby but cannot repeal them.
Stop demovictions and protect older rental buildings
TEAM would protect older rental buildings from demolition, improve renter supports and protections, and retain and increase co-op housing.
Withdraw rental programs that do not create real affordability
TEAM would withdraw the Moderate Income Rental Pilot Program and the Secured Rental Policy, arguing they do not create meaningful affordability and inflate surrounding land values.
Reinstate third-party appeals to the Board of Variance
TEAM would restore third-party appeals it says were in place for 50 years, as a check on the discretionary powers of the Director of Planning.
Re-establish the One Stop Renovation Centre
TEAM would restore a single service for approving small construction projects, to make laneway housing, secondary suites, duplexes and small infill easier to build.
Protect and reinstate public view cones
TEAM would protect all public view cone corridors and reinstate the view cones amended or eliminated over the last term.
Retain on-site parking minimums
TEAM would keep minimum on-site parking requirements in the Parking Bylaw for new construction, arguing this is needed for future electric vehicle charging.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Questions about this
What is an Official Development Plan, and why does repealing it matter?
It is a city-wide plan that sets in advance what can be built where. Once it is adopted, a rezoning that matches it can be approved without a public hearing. TEAM would repeal it, which would bring back the hearing step and, TEAM says, stop the Villages plan returning after the election.
Can a city undo the provincial housing bills?
No. Bills 44, 46, 47, 18 and M216 are provincial law and only the province can change them. TEAM commits to working with other municipalities to push for changes, which is lobbying rather than a power the city holds.
Sources
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