Official Community Plan - Bylaw No. 18020

BYLAW NO. 18020 | OCTOBER 20, 2014

B4 POLICIES: Housing

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Plan and design new neighbourhoods to accommodate a wide range of diverse households throughout their lifecycle by encouraging innovative and flexible forms of housing to support a diversity of house hold sizes and composition and rental opportunities. Direct higher residential densities to loca tions within walking distance of neigh bourhood centres, along main roads, near transit routes and adjacent to major parks or civic amenities. Design housing units to front directly onto public streets and/or public spaces, in order to facilitate a safe, welcoming, pub lic streetscape and public realm. Maintain an attractive, pedestrian-friendly streetscape by requiring detached hous ing, with less than 12 m frontage along a public street, to be accessed from back lanes. Plan for housing units to front onto ripari an and green areas, where possible, to increase visibility into those areas and to increase the amenity features for those residences.

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B4.10 Incorporate live/work units into appropri ate locations in higher density urban neighbourhoods. Opportunities for live/ work units shall be considered in the de velopment of secondary plans.

Multiple Family development is required to support Surrey’s growing population.

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