To help you keep up-to-date with City of Victoria documents and initiatives, here are direct links to information that you’ve told me is important to you. The text in italics is from the City’s website.
“The Official Community Plan (OCP) shapes how we live, work and play in Victoria. It’s the long-term plan that determines how our community will grow and change. Decisions on where housing, businesses and parks should go, how we move around the city and ways Victoria can respond to the climate crisis are all determined by the OCP”
City of Victoria Missing Middle Housing Initiative (MMHI).
“The Missing Middle Housing Initiative ran from 2019 to 2023 and resulted in innovative policy and regulatory changes to meet the city’s housing needs.The City has built upon this work through the adoption of the Official Community Plan: Victoria 2050, which further updated housing policies and regulations to meet the needs of our growing population and address the housing and climate crises.
The previously adopted Missing Middle Housing policies and regulations no longer apply to most properties. Under new zoning regulations, residential areas in the city can still develop houseplexes, corner townhouses and heritage conserving infill as established through the Missing Middle Housing Initiative.”
The City’s Development Tracker
“You can search for current and completed development applications by address, neighbourhood or application type. Once you’ve found the relevant application, click “Details” to learn more about the status of the application and view the plans that have been submitted to the City.”
“The City’s Urban Forest Master Plan guides the management of Victoria’s urban forest. This plan identifies 26 recommended actions for the improved management of trees on public and private lands over 50 years.”
A Rapid Investigation into Repeat Offending and Random Stranger Violence in British Columbia .
In response to public safety challenges, the BC Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Housing and Public Safety and the BC Solicitor General created an Investigative Panel to provide information and recommendations as to how BC could better respond to challenges. The report, released in September, 2022, calls for a structured and mandated coordination between health and justice agencies.
City of Victoria Governance Review
The City of Victoria contracted MNP LLP to carry out an independent third party governance review. The review had been identified as a strategic objective in Council’s 2019 plan. The MNP Governance Review was presented at Committee of the whole in July, 2022. See additional information on the City’s website.
City of Victoria Climate Leadership Plan (2018). The City of Victoria Climate Leadership Plan (2018) is Victoria’s initiative directed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to renewable energy by 2050. Goals and actions are targeted for buildings, mobility, waste, city operations and adaptation sectors.