2040 Official Community Plan
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2040 Offi cial Community Plan 1 City of Chilliwack Bylaw No. 4025 A bylaw to designate an Offi cial Community Plan or the City of Chilliwack The Council of the City of Chilliwack in open mee• ng assembled enacts as follows: 1. This bylaw may be cited as “Offi cial Community Plan Bylaw 2014, No. 4025”. 2. “Offi cial Community Plan Bylaw 1998, No. 2588” and amendments thereto are hereby repealed. 3. Schedule “A” a• ached hereto and forming part of this Bylaw is hereby designated as the Offi cial Community plan of the City of Chilliwack. Received fi rst reading on the 2nd day of July, 2014. Public hearing held on the 15th day of July, 2014. Received second reading on the 15th day of July, 2014. Received third reading on the 15th day of July, 2014. Consulta• on Process considered by Council on the 4th day of March, 2014. Finally passed and adopted on the 19th day of August, 2014. Subsequent Amendments Date of Adop• on “Offi cial Community Plan Bylaw 2015, No. 4120” July 21, 2015 _____________________________________ Mayor _____________________________________ Deputy City Clerk 2 2040 Offi cial Community Plan of contents table 1. INTRODUCTION 9 Purpose of OCP Update 10 Planning Process 12 Plan Organiza• on and Structure 13 2. PLAN CONTEXT 15 Chilliwack Today 16 Regional and Provincial Planning 16 Local Planning Context 17 3. VISION & GOALS OVERVIEW 19 4. GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES 23 GOAL 1 MANAGE GROWTH RESPONSIBLY 24 GOAL 2 STRENGTHEN AGRICULTURE 28 GOAL 3 GROW THE ECONOMY 30 General Economic Development 31 Center of Excellence 31 Industrial / Business Park Development 32 Commercial Development 32 Tourism 33 Downtown Revitaliza• on 33 GOAL 4 PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT 34 General Environmental Protec on 34 Water Resource Management 36 Waste Management and the Environment 37 Air Quality & Energy Management 38 Stewardship 38 Environmental Enforcement 39 Gravel Extrac on and Forest Management 39 3 2040 Offi cial Community Plan tableof contents Page GOAL 5 BUILD HEALTHY COMMUNITIES 41 Social WellBeing 42 Educa! on and Con! nuing Learning 42 Heritage Values 43 Public Art 44 Parks and Greenspace 45 Mobility 47 U li es 51 Safety and Security 54 Housing 55 Neighbourhood Planning 57 5. IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 59 Land Use Designa! on Strategy Overview by Area 60 Temporary Use Permits 77 Natural Environment & Geotechnical DPAs 78 Development Permit Areas 77 Development Permit Area 1 Municipal Watersheds and Aquifers for Drinking Water 78 Development Permit Area 2 Hillside and Upland Areas 83 Development Permit Area 3 Riparian Area 85 Development Permit Areas Commercial, Industrial, Mul -family Residen! al Form and Character 87 Development Permit Area 4 Downtown Form and Character 88 Development Permit Area 5 Urban Corridor Form and Character 89 Development Permit Area 6 Infi ll Development Form and Character 91 Development Permit Area 7 Industrial Area Form and Character 91 Development Permit Area 8 Hillside Development 94 Development Permit Area 9 Farm Home Plate Comprehensive Plans 99 Development Approval Informa! on 99 Administra! on 100 Severability 100 4 2040 Offi cial Community Plan glossaryof terms OCP Review Schedule 100 Agricultural Land Commission ALC Agricultural Land Reserve ALR Associa! on of Professional Engineers and Geoscien! sts of BC APEGBC Business Improvement Area BIA Chilliwack Economic Partners Corpora! on CEPCO Chilliwack Healthier Community CHC Crime Preven! on Through Environmental Design CPTED Development Cost Charges DCCs Environment ENV’T Environmentally Sensi ve Areas ESAs Fraser Valley Regional District FVRD Greenhouse Gases GHG NonGovernmental Organiza! on NGO Not In My Back Yard NIMBY Offi cial Community Plan OCP Regional Growth Strategy RGS Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP University of the Fraser Valley UFV 5 2040 Offi cial Community Plan mapsocp Map 1 City Boundaries and Neighbourhoods Map 2 First Na• on Reserves Map 3 Urban Growth Boundary Map 4 ALR Map 5 Geological Hazard Areas Map 6 Wildlife Habitat Areas Map 7 Floodplain Map 8A Watercourse Classifi ca• on Map 8B Village West Riparian Setbacks Map 9 Gravel Resource Areas Map 10 Species at Risk Map 11 School Sites Map 12A Proposed New Parks Map 12B Exis• ng and Proposed Trails Map 13 Road Network Exis• ng and Proposed Map 14 Community Water System Exis• ng and Proposed Map 15 Sewer System Exis• ng and Proposed Map 16 Storm Drainage System Exis• ng and Proposed Land Use Designa• on Maps Map 17A Chilliwack Proper Map 17B Proposed Land Use (2040) SardisVedder Map 17C Proposed Land Use (2040) Yarrow Map 17D Proposed Land Use (2040) Rosedale Map 17E Proposed Land Use (2040) Greendale Map 17F Proposed Land Use (2040) Rural Areas (All OCP Maps are located at the end of the report.) 6 2040 Offi cial Community Plan developmentmaps permit area DPA Map 1A Sardis Vedder Aquifer DPA Map 1B Vedder River Fan DPA Map 1C Municipal Watershed: Volkert Creek, Yarrow, Majuba Hill DPA Map 1D Municipal Watersheds: Elk Creek and Dunville Creek DPA Map 2A Promontory, Ryder Lake and Eastern Hillsides DPA Map 2B Li le Mountain DPA Map 2C Chilliwack Mountain DPA Map 2D Majuba Hill and Vedder Mountain DPA Map 4 Downtown Form and Character (Heritage Core and Contemporary Core) DPA Map 5 Urban Corridor Form and Character DPA Map 6 Mul ple Family Residen• al Infi ll and Mixed Commercial Residen• al Development Form and Character DPA Map 7 Industrial Area Form and Character ***Development Permit Area 3 and 8 Cover the City of Chilliwack in its en• rety (All DPA Maps are located at the end of the report.) 7 2040 Offi cial Community Plan schedulesocp Schedule A Regional Context Statement Schedule B City of Chilliwack Building Facade Design Guidelines, Development Permit Areas: Historic Downtown Commercial Core / Contemporary Downtown Commercial Core Schedule C Design Guidelines, Mul Family Infi ll Development Schedule D Neighbourhood Plans 1. Downtown Land Use and Development Plan 2. Eastern Hillsides Comprehensive Area Plan 3. Agricultural Area Plan 4. Alder Neighbourhood Plan Schedule E Growth Projec on Tables (All Schedules are located at the end of the report.) 8 2040 Offi cial Community Plan 1 Introduction 9 Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION The City of Chilliwack is the eastern gateway of the A er European contact at the turn of the 18th centu Lower Mainland and one of the key urban centres ry, the Stό:lō popula• on declined signifi cantly, reach in the Fraser Valley. Its history began with First Na ing a low point in the early 1900s. Since then, the • ons, and in the postcontact • me it evolved through Stό:lō popula• on has increased and now has one of trade, farming and European se• lement. the fastest growing demographic profi les in the re gion. The Chilliwack area and surroundings con• n The City recognizes its aboriginal heritage, par cu ue to be used by the Ts’elxwéyeqw, Pilalt and other larly in its Offi cial Community Plan that aff ects lands, Stό:lō people for many tradi onal cultural purposes developments, all residents and the rela• onships and prac ces. with First Na• ons. The Ts’elxwéyeqw Tribe provides the following First Na• ons’ perspec ve on Chilliwack The Stό:lō people contribute to the local economy in in history, and in its current development and future many ways, through natural resource development, outlook: cultural tourism, educa• onal and economic devel opment partnerships, employment (the Stό:lō Na “The City of Chilliwack is within S’όlh Téméxw (Stό:lō • on service delivery agency is one of Chilliwack’s the Territory), with the largest popula• on of aboriginal largest employers), environmentally friendly con people in close proximity to Vancouver. The Ts’elx- wéyeqw and Pilalt are the two Stό:lō tribes whose struc ons (the Stό:lō Resource Centre in Chilliwack territories are directly associated with the Chilliwack maintains the only LEED Gold standard in the Cen municipal area. Today’s Indian Act Bands were estab tral Fraser Valley), and sustainable resource manage lished in the late 1800s from some of the many his ment (the Ts’elxwéyeqw manages natural resources toric villages of these two tribes, including Cheam, in the Chilliwack River Valley and for the Pilalt in the Kwaw kwaw Apilt, and Skwah (Pilalt); and Aitchelitz, Wahleach Lake area). The Stό:lō people have histori Skowkale, Shxwhà:y, Soowahlie, Squiala, Tzeachten, cally been and will con• nue to be an integral part of and Yakweakwioose (Ts’elxwéyeqw). Pilalt villages the Chilliwack community.” and reserves are located along the Hope River. Ts’elx- The recent se• lement dates back to the Gold Rush of wéyeqw villages and reserves are located along the 1858 when over 20,000 miners passed through the Chilliwack River system. area, and some of them decided to farm and sup The City derives its name from the Halq’eméylem ply provisions to the travellers. The socioeconom word “Ts’elxwéyeqw” which elder Albert Louie, of ic backdrop set Chilliwack on a path of growth and Yakweakwioose, talked about it meaning ‘as going as community building, which is a tes• mony to its as far as you can go upriver’ in reference to travelling pira• ons and values and the regional infl uences that by canoe up the Chilliwack River sloughs leading to have shaped the community. Soowahlie. Halq’emeylem is the tradi onal language of the Stό:lō (People of the River). Amidst the zoning bylaws and planning concepts of the 1970s rose the fi rst Offi cial Community Plan in Ts’elxwéyeqw and Pilalt history, as Stό:lō tribes, ex- 1983 (under the BC Municipal Act). This plan rec tends thousands of years in the past. Archaeological ognized Chilliwack’s new municipal iden• ty as the sites and evidence located within the City demon District of Chilliwack, which was formed in 1979 as strate the long term occupa• on and use by the Pilalt a result of the amalgama• on of the historic Town and Ts’elxwéyeqw.