Draft - Official Community Plan - Surrey 2050

Appendix 3 – Surrey 2050

D2.2.4 Implement the Sidewalk Action Plan that prioritizes safe pedestrian access to schools, bus stops and rapid transit stations, parks and daily needs such as grocery stores. D7.3.1 Implement Surrey’s Urban Forest Management Strategy by: a. Ensuring adequate space and growing medium is provided; b. Protecting and retaining mature forest stands, significant trees, and other important natural features; c. Maximizing shade tree coverage on City lands and rights-of-way; d. Working towards a 30% tree canopy cover target (excluding the ALR) by 2038, and e. Ensuring equitable canopy coverage across the city. D5.3.1 Encourage food providers such as grocers, restaurants and community kitchens to locate in established urban residential neighbourhoods by regularly updating land use policies and zoning regulations to remove barriers that food providers may face in locating in these areas. D5.3.2 Expand opportunities for residents to participate in the production of local, healthy and culturally specific food by: a. Encouraging new developments to provide opportunities for on-site food production, such as garden plots and edible landscapes, as part of the residential amenity space; and b. Permitting temporary community gardens on under-utilized or vacant privately-owned land. D5.3.3 Support the development of community gardens in neighbourhood parks through partnerships with non-profit groups, neighbourhood associations and other interested parties. As part of the secondary land use planning process the City may conduct studies to understand different contextual conditions and impacts.

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support the inclusion of community gardens (at grade, rooftop, or on balconies), grocery stores and farmers’ markets to support food security, and consumption of healthy food, in particular where they are easily accessible to housing and transit services local production, distribution and consider, when preparing new neighbourhood and area plans, the mitigation of significant negative social and health impacts, such as through the use of formal health and social impact assessment methods in neighbourhood design and major infrastructure investments provide design guidance for existing and new neighbourhoods to promote social connections, universal accessibility, crime prevention through environmental design, and inclusivity while considering the impacts of these strategies on identified marginalized members of the community

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D4.1.3 Ensure new multi-family, mixed-use, commercial and institutional development supports social connection, universal accessibility , and safety by: a. Applying Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles to design for safety and comfort; b. Integrating, connecting and maximizing access for all users; c. Promoting vibrant, active and pedestrian-friendly public and private environments; d. Designing for flexibility of uses and resiliency in changing contexts; and e. Responding appropriately to environmental features to create a “Sense of Place”.

D4.3.4 Create universally accessible public spaces by designing grades, surface materials, and signage to meet the needs of all users.

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