PIBC CPL Webinar #3 - Streamlining Missing Middle Housing Delivery
BCABD Members welcome at PIBC Member Price!
Location: ONLINE Event (Adobe Connect)
Date: March 27, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Cost: $44.00 (Choose PIBC Member when registering for this price)
CPD: ASTTBC members will qualify for 1.5 hours of Technical Training
In this webinar, we bring together planners, designers and builders from across the Province to discuss policy and process challenges to delivering missing middle housing.
PRESENTERS
Graham Anderson & Sander Mozo, from the City of Vancouver, present two recent City of Vancouver initiatives aimed at increasing the supply and diversity of new missing middle rental and ownership housing in Vancouver’s low-density neighbourhoods: the Secured Rental Policy updates made in fall 2021 and introduction of a new multiplex option in low density zones in fall 2023. These initiatives highlight two approaches that significantly enhance clarity and certainty around new housing development opportunities, simplify and streamline municipal processes to enable more new housing to be delivered with increased efficiently, while also advancing objectives around sustainability and supporting complete neighbourhoods;
As a planner and consultant who has worked in both local government and the private sector, Birte Decloux RPP, MCIP (Kelowna) will share her experience and insight on impediments to missing middle housing delivery and offer suggestions on what local government can do to improve the approval process for this type of building product.
Tony Giroux, President of the BC Association of Building Designers, whose members are involved in Part 9 buildings from single family homes to small scale multifamily projects. Tony will present a ‘Team Approach to Facing the Challenges of Development'. He will discuss the importance of working together to overcome obstacles to development, the need to view others in the development process as partners with common objectives, and the importance of balancing the need for housing, the needs of the communities, and the economics. Finally, he will touch on the importance of standardization and sharing of resources between communities or zones within the province.
Hear from builders who work across the Province on the issues that they face during the submission and municipal approval phase.