TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL BYLAW NO. 1156 (Attachment 1 to Nov 24 Report)

TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL BYLAW NO. 1156

A BYLAW TO AMEND OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN NO. 811, 2011 TO INTRODUCE NEW LAND USE DESIGNATIONS FOR THE SMALL-SCALE, MULTI-UNIT HOUSING (SSMUH) AND HOSPITAL TRANSIT-ORIENTED AREA, AND NEW HOUSING POLICIES TO ALIGN THE OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN WITH THE 5 AND 20-YEAR HOUSING NEED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVINCE OF BC’S BILL 44 – HOUSING STATUTES (RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT) AMENDMENT ACT, 2023 AND BILL 47 – HOUSING STATUTES (TRANSIT-ORIENTED AREAS) AMENDMENT ACT, 2023

The Council of the Town of View Royal, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:

This Bylaw may be cited as “Official Community Plan Bylaw, No. 811, 2011, Amendment Bylaw No. 1156, 2025”.
Official Community Plan Bylaw, No. 811, 2011, is amended as follows:

(a) By deleting the map titled “Schedule L Land Use Designations” in its entirety and replacing it with the map in Schedule 1 of this Bylaw.

(b) By deleting the two tables titled “Policy LU1.5 Land Use Designations” in their entirety and replacing them with the following, as Policy LU1.5 Land Use Designations:

Policy LU1.5 Land Use Designations

The OCP establishes the following land use designations, as mapped on Schedule L and listed in the following table.

Land Use, Form & Character*	Examples
Small-Scale, Multi-Unit Residential • Uses include Detached and Attached Dwellings, such as Detached Residential, Duplex, Secondary Suite, Garden Suite, Rowhouse, Townhouse, House-plex, and Apartments. • Up to 3 storeys • Up to a maximum of 6 dwelling units	Three photos of detached and multi-unit residential buildings
Mixed Residential • Small Lot Detached Houses, Townhouses and Low-Rise Apartments • Up to 3 Storeys/1.25 FSR Permitted • 4 Storeys/1.6 FSR Permitted for Apartment Dwellings	Three photos of residential houses and townhouses
Neighbourhood Mixed Use • Commercial with Townhouses and Low-Rise Apartments • Up to 3 Storeys • 1.5 FSR Permitted	Three photos of mixed-use buildings with commercial ground floors
Neighbourhood Centre • Commercial with Apartments • Up to 6 storeys • 3.0 FSR Permitted	Three photos of urban commercial centers with residential units above
Intensive Mixed Use • Commercial with Townhouses and Low-Rise Apartments • Up to 4 Storeys • 2.5 FSR Permitted	Two photos and a sketch showing intensive mixed-use development concepts
Commercial • Retail, Office, Technology and Service Commercial • Up to 4 Storeys • 2.5 FSR Permitted	Three photos of retail and office commercial buildings
Hospital Transit-Oriented Area • Uses include Mixed-use with Apartments, Visitor Accommodations, Restaurants, Retail, Office, Institutional (i.e. Hospital), and Civic Use (e.g. daycares, libraries, public gathering and amenity spaces). • Up to 10 Storeys • Up to 3.5 FSR permitted	Photo of a tall modern mixed-use building Photo of a multi-storey modern building Photo of a blue glass-clad tower
Neighbourhood Village • Uses include Small-scale, Mixed-use buildings, such as Multi-unit Housing and community serving Commercial and Civic uses (schools, offices, restaurants, retail, small grocery store, and community spaces). • Up to 6 storeys • Up to 2.5 FSR permitted	Three photos of buildings in a neighbourhood village setting
Park, Open Space, Recreation • Local and Regional Parks and Trails • Protected Natural Areas and Open Space	Three photos representing park amenities including a playground, a beach, and a trail
Community Facility • Government Buildings & Publicly Owned Facilities, including Schools • Community Centres	Three photos of public service, school, and community hall buildings
Rural • Agricultural, Recreation and Large Lot Residential • Up to 2 Storeys • 1 unit per 10 hectares	Three photos of rural features including a park sign, a road, and horses in a field
Comprehensive Development Areas (CDAs) Areas with unique Comprehensive Development designations.

* Allowable density is expressed as a Floor Space Ratio (FSR) for mixed use and commercial land uses. Density for all land uses will be specified in the Zoning Bylaw. Additional density may be determined for development applications with increased community amenities such as affordable housing, public art, child care facilities and park dedication.

Policy LU4.14 Mixed Commercial Development

Development four-storeys or greater should incorporate commercial or public use space.

(d) By adding the sub-section “Housing Need Requirements” under Section 3: Housing, with the following, to be inserted immediately after “View Royal Today”:

Housing Need Requirements

In 2023, the Local Government Act was amended to require municipalities to prepare an Interim Housing Needs Report (IHNR) by January 1, 2025, and to use the Housing Need Requirement Method to identify 5- and 20-year housing need in their community. Furthermore, municipalities are required to update their Official Community Plan by December 31, 2025, to ensure that the housing requirement identified in the IHNR is viable and permitted in the land use designations of the OCP over the next 20 years.

Housing needs reports help communities better understand their current and future housing needs and identify gaps in housing supply by collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data about local demographics, household incomes, housing supply, as well as other local and regional factors.

The Town’s 5-year housing need is 842 units, and the Town’s 20-year housing need is 2,889 units, to meet housing needs related to extreme core housing need, persons experiencing homelessness, suppressed household formation, anticipated growth, rental vacancy adjustment, and local demand in View Royal.

The form and tenure of housing that the Town chooses to enable and encourage will influence who can and will choose to live in the Town. Supporting more age-friendly, family-friendly, housing may support a more inclusive community and support more families and seniors, while a focus on rental housing may support lower income earners, and provide housing for a diversity of jobs and incomes.

Housing Needs

Housing Need By Type	5-year Housing Need	20-year Housing Need
Extreme Core Housing Need	43.59	174.36
Persons Experiencing Homelessness	28.32	56.65
Suppressed Household Formation	35.56	142.24
Anticipated Growth	621.66	2064.76
Rental Vacancy Rate Adjustment	11.57	46.28
Additional Local Demand	101.11	404.44
TOTAL	842	2889

(e) By deleting the policy “Policy HS1.9 Innovative Approaches” from Section 3: Housing in its entirety, and replacing the policy as follows:

Policy HS1.9 Innovative Approaches

Support innovative approaches to creating affordable housing including market rental, cooperatives, shelters for persons experiencing homelessness and housing for those at risk of homelessness, co-housing and other forms of shared ownership, mixed market and non-market projects, and public-private partnerships.

(f) By adding a new policy “HS1.12 Non-Market Units” to Section 3 Housing, as follows:

Policy HS1.12 Non-Market Units

Support the development of non-market housing to serve lower-income populations through collaborative efforts with agencies and non-profits, housing providers, developers, local and regional governments, and Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.

TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL BYLAW NO. 1156 (Attachment 1 to Nov 24 Report)