City releases draft Official Community Plan: Surrey 2050
Indo-Canadian Voice City releases draft Official Community Plan: Surrey 2050 posted by: Rattan MallCITY staff on Monday released the draft of Surrey’s new Official Community Plan. Surrey 2050 is a blueprint that will guide how the city grows and evolves over the next 30 years. “This is a major milestone in planning for the future of Surrey,” said Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke on Thursday. “Surrey 2050 reflects the dynamic nature […] The post City releases draft Official Community Plan: Surrey 2050 first appeared on Indo-Canadian Voice.Indo-Canadian Voice
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CITY staff on Monday released the draft of Surrey’s new Official Community Plan. Surrey 2050 is a blueprint that will guide how the city grows and evolves over the next 30 years.
“This is a major milestone in planning for the future of Surrey,” said Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke on Thursday. “Surrey 2050 reflects the dynamic nature of our growing city as it approaches one million residents, supporting more affordable homes, stronger infrastructure, and responsible growth for all. We take pride in putting forward a plan that respects Surrey’s past, acknowledges the realities of the present, and looks to a vibrant and bright future.”
Surrey’s last OCP, PlanSurrey 2013, was adopted in 2014. Significant growth, new provincial housing legislation, and evolving community needs have made an update essential. Surrey 2050 modernizes the framework to better support long-term City planning by:
- Reducing policies from over 600 down to approximately 200
- Simplifying land-use designations to reduce the need for future bylaw amendments
- Adding policies on housing affordability, climate change, and economic and infrastructure pressures
- Managing growth in a sustainable, resilient, and community-focused way
Since fall 2023, staff have led one of the City’s most comprehensive and diverse engagement processes in shaping Surrey 2050. Staff engaged with residents, community partners and key stakeholders through surveys, workshops, open houses, pop-up forums and online tools, totalling over 301,800 interactions.
Surrey 2050 reflects community values and Surrey’s role at the neighbourhood, city, regional and global level. Read through the draft OCP document at surrey.ca/ocp.
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