2026 - 2030 Surrey Financial Plan

PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT

BUILT ENVIRONMENT & NEIGHBOURHOODS

• Prepared and presented 287 planning reports for Council’s consideration through the review and processing of associated development applications; • Advanced NCPs for Cloverdale Town Centre, Anniedale-Tynehead Stage 1, as well as continued to advance SkyTrain related NCPs to the Fleetwood Plan and 196 Street Plan;

• Introduced new OCP amendments to

introduce a “DP Light” for some townhouse and light industrial developments; and

• Established the Development Approval Process Improvement Committee, designed to undertake a fulsome review of development permitting processes with the intent of reducing or eliminating roadblocks to speedy approvals.

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND LIVELIHOODS

• Expanded the Early Excavation for Multi-Family Housing pilot program as part of the strategy to promote project completion, reducing idle, undeveloped land; and • Implemented an automated zoning compliance system (Archistar), to increase the quality of submissions through a self-serve computer-based pre-approval process, with initial focus on R3 zones.

• Successfully completed all deliverables for Year 2 of the Housing Accelerator Fund grant program; • Enhanced policies and processes to reduce development application and building permit times by 30%, including developing a Modernized Approval Process (“MAP”) framework for Tenant Improvements that simplifies the application intake, includes digital reviews, and enhances communication of deficiencies;

PUBLIC SAFETY

• Continued to deliver files for Section 57 hearings to Council, adding a notice to title for twelve non-compliant properties in 2025 and still targeting approximately six months from initial posting of Stop Work Order to hearing.

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