2025-2029 Surrey Financial Plan

PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT

BUILDING Building administers Council adopted bylaws and policies related to building construction. This work involves servicing residential and commercial building plan reviews, performing building, plumbing and electrical field review services, and the administration of the Tree Protection Bylaw and sign bylaws. The Building Division is also responsible for providing professional advice on building construction related matters to Council, the Board of Variance, other City departments and the public. HOUSING & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Housing and Social Development supports the development of non-market affordable and supportive housing, responds to homelessness, and develops policies and programs that address priority social issues in Surrey.

2024 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

BUILT ENVIRONMENT & NEIGHBOURHOODS

• Prepared and presented 231 planning reports to Council on development applications; Initiated a new Neighbourhood Concept Plans (“NCP”) for Latimer/196 Street SkyTrain Station; • Continued to advance SkyTrain related NCPs, including updates to the Fleetwood Plan; • Advanced final (stage 2) NCP report for South Campbell Heights; Continued to support provincial housing legislation by putting forward seven corporate reports to transition • • single-family zoning to small-scale multi-unit housing zoning for in stream applications; Put forward regulatory bylaw amendments and Zoning Bylaw amendments to ensure seamless implementation of provincial housing legislation on the mandated timeline set by the Province; •

• Introduced new permit approval targets aimed at reducing processing approval timelines by a minimum of 30% across most permit types, including townhomes, low-rise, high rise, and trade permits; Introduced new Zoning Bylaw amendments to provide streamlined delivery of temporary real estate sales centres; • Introduced new OCP amendments to institute a simplified DP process for houseplexes; and Process Improvement Task Force, designed to undertake a fulsome review of development permitting processes with the intent of reducing or eliminating roadblocks to speedy approvals. • • Supported the Development Approval

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