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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The Housing Strategy report, prepared by Urban Matters, was received by Council for information on Sep 24, 2024. This Housing Strategy informs community planning work and will underpin work to achieve the City's goals to increase housing affordability and meet mandated housing targets. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Council endorsed the updated interim Housing Needs Report on Sep 10, 2024. This report helps to identify areas of specific need to help the City target its work to ensure policy and regulations support housing growth and affordability. This report was required by provincial legislation for municipalities to complete by end of 2024. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | This project is ongoing. An assessment of the various possible incentives is underway to better address current and projected housing needs outlined in the 2024 Housing Needs report. Staff will bring forward recommendations to Council later in 2025 regarding potential incentives that are likely to lead to increases in housing stock. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | A 'Standardized Housing Design Catalogue' was released by the Province in September 2024 as well as a 'Housing Design Catalogue' by CMHC in 2025 to encourage gentle density designs. These catalogues are available at: Housing Design Catalogue | Maple Ridge, BC
Work is underway to develop site plans that are appropriate for the Maple Ridge context. In June, the City published a Housing Design Library RFQ to BC Bid: BC Bid Portal: BC Bid
The City's webpage will continue to be updated to provide homeowners and small-scale builders with a selection of housing designs that align with Maple Ridge’s Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing (SSMUH) regulations.
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| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | An update of the various density bonus incentives is underway to ensure they are consistent with new provincial legislations and to better meet current and projected housing needs in the 2024 Housing Needs report. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The feasibility, scope and applicability of inclusionary zoning in key growth areas in Maple Ridge are being studied and recommendations will be brought forward in late 2025 for consideration to inform future planning decisions. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Work on the Concierge Program pilot model is now completed. Work is now underway for roll out of the pilot project. The Concierge Program will work with a limited number of qualified developers/builders in the pilot to provide focused support to move projects through each stage of the permitting and approval process to address information gaps and improve efficiency of the approvals process for projects that address priorities for housing in the community. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The Lougheed Transit Corridor Area Plan is being actively reviewed in collaboration with Translink. The City depends on factors within Translink's control to inform servicing plans. Updated servicing plans will be brought forward as they are completed. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The City's Off-Street Parking and Loading Bylaw is under comprehensive review, and will be back before Council in Q3 2025. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The City has been working for some time on a project to optimize development services. as part of this work the City is working on defining timelines for development processes. The current focus is on estimating timelines for new home building applications. Once confirmed, estimated timelines will be posted to the City's website. |
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Projects that support the expansion of the city's cycling network have been finalized in the capital planning process. The City is on track to make significant improvements to the cycling network and reach the goal of an additional 3 kms by the Spring of 2026.
Projects for this initiative include:
- Thorne Avenue Bikeway project
- This is between 203 Street and 207 Street where it connects with 117 Avenue
- Donovan to Selkirk
- This is between 216 Street and 222 Street, that includes
- a pathway on the east side of 216 Street adjacent to the current bike lane
- an All Ages and Abilities Neighbourhood Bikeway where cyclists will travel on the roadway. This project also has a speed limit reduction to 30 km/h and speed humps evenly spaced roughly every 100 metres.
- 123 Avenue
- This project is between Laity Street and 216 Street.
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The City is working to refine its approach to how assets (vehicles, water and sewer systems, buildings etc.) are maintained and upgraded over time as they reach the end of their life. The Engineering and Operations Departments are leading this work to build out a new strategy in a related strategic initiative. This initiative follows on from that work and will start once the asset strategy is complete. The Finance team will lead this work to create a funding model to ensure the City can fund the work to maintain and enhance its assets to ensure continuity of services for city residents. Work is expected to commence in Q4 2025. |
| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The initiative is progressing well. Items completed are as follows:
- Data submission on existing assets and gap analysis
- State of maturity assessment
- Workshops for water, sewage, drainage, and roads assets
A Lifecycle and Risk report for the City's water assets is currently under review. |
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| | | |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | The project was completed in March 2024. |
| |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan |  City of Maple Ridge Corporate Plan | Recent provincial legislation announcements require the City to update the Official Community Plan. The Official Community Plan, including Area Plans, will be updated in sections to reflect and capture the changes to the provincial housing legislation as well as other key policy initiatives recently undertaken by the City (e.g. Housing Needs Report, Urban Forest Management Strategy, Climate Action Plan, etc).
As a part of this process, the City hosted two Open Houses at the Maple Ridge Library as an opportunity for the community to learn more about how the City is addressing the Provincial legislative requirements for Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing (SSMUH) and Transit-Oriented Areas (TOAs).
In addition, the first updated section of the Official Community Plan was presented to Council for consideration of first reading in May. The proposed amendments to the Albion Area Plan reflect previous Council direction regarding land uses as well as the necessary updates to align with the provincial housing legislation. Albion Area Plan | Maple Ridge, BC |