Attachment 2 - Seymour Pacific Developments Ltd. Letter, February 25, 2019
A letter from the developer explaining the project vision for 152 affordable rental housing units.
MAP 5: JUAN DE FUCA WATER SERVICE AREA
3. Housing and Community
3.1 Create Safe and Complete Communities
The Regional Growth Strategy supports the development of complete communities within the Urban Containment Policy Area that enable residents to undertake a wider range of daily activities closer to home. It does this by supporting the development of communities that offer a variety of housing types and tenures in proximity to places of work, schools, shopping, recreation, parks and green space. Complete communities provide a better balance and distribution of jobs and housing, a wider choice of affordable housing types, a better distribution of public services and more opportunity to walk, cycle, and use public transit conveniently. Complete communities, are safe, socially diverse, openly accessible, livable and attract economic investment, thereby enhancing social sustainability and health and well-being.
The characteristics of a complete community are highly dependent on context. In some locations, the addition of employment opportunities or commercial services may be required while in others it may be the provision of a greater mix of housing types. In still others, the development of a park, footpaths or cycling facilities may help create a complete community. The criteria for a complete community within the Urban Containment Policy Area are listed below. Outside the Urban Containment Policy Area, the notion of what makes a community complete may be yet different and the criteria set out for complete communities does not apply to the Rural/Rural Residential Policy Area.
Complete Communities Criteria
I. Multiple modes can be used to move to, from and within the community; II. Places of work, shopping, learning, recreation and parks and green space can be easily accessed by a ten minute walk or a fifteen minute bike ride; III. A range of housing types and tenures across the housing spectrum is available for people through all stages of their lives; and, IV. The community is demographically diverse, with a mix of people of all ages, incomes and abilities.
Lands vulnerable to natural hazards risks may be located throughout the Growth Management Planning Area. Risks may limit or eliminate development.