Please see the notice below regarding a request Metro Vancouver has received from the City of Coquitlam to amend Metro Vancouver’s Regional Growth Strategy Bylaw. The amendment would remove the following words from section 6.3.4 (b) of the Regional Growth Strategy: “Conservation and Recreation lands utilized only for commercial extensive recreation facilities.”

This section is currently written as follows:
“6.3.4 The following Type 3 minor amendments require an affirmative 50%+1 weighted vote of the Metro Vancouver Board and do not require a regional public hearing:
b) for sites within the Urban Containment Boundary, amendments from Industrial, Mixed Employment, Conservation and Recreation lands utilized only for commercial extensive recreation facilities, or General Urban land use designations to any other such regional land use designations.”

This amendment is deemed a “major amendment”. Major amendments (called Type 1 amendments in the Regional Growth Strategy) require unanimous acceptance from all affected local governments and a majority vote of the Metro Vancouver Board, but do not require a public hearing.
 Notification of Proposed Amendment - March 6, 2012
 Request from the City of Coquitlam for a Regional Growth Strategy Amendment
 Attachment 1: Request from the City of Coquitlam for Type 1 Regional Growth Strategy Amendment
 Attachment 2: Request from City of Coquitlam GVRD RGS Amendment Bylaw No. 1160, 2012.pdf

October 28, 2011 – Bylaw No. 1150, 2011
On October 28, 2011, the Metro Vancouver Board passed Bylaw No. 1150, 2011, a bylaw which: 

• Re-designates a number of parks, riparian areas, and the Westwood Plateau Golf Course in the City of Coquitlam from “General Urban” to “Conservation and Recreation”; 

• Re-designates the Terra Nova, Garden City and Department of National Defence lands in the City of Richmond from “General Urban” to “Conservation and Recreation”;

• Re-designates a portion of the Old Growth Conservancy in the District of West Vancouver from “General Urban” to “Conservation and Recreation”, and expand the Special Study Area in West Vancouver to include all lands above the 1,200 foot contour line

• Amends the growth projections in Tsawassen as requested by Tsawwassen First Nation.

Click here to access the reports on amendments.  These reports were received by the Board on September 23, 2011.

Click here to access the October 28, 2011 Board report and bylaw.

Maps showing the proposed areas of amendment:
        Coquitlam
        Richmond
        West Vancouver