CRD Watch Homepage

Archive.org snapshot of Urban Development Institute (UDI) Policy page from March 30, 2023: By the end of the year, the Province would be implementing all 4 of the UDI’s key policy goals through the introduction of the UDI-lobbied-for Housing Bills (43-47) and through the creation of BC Builds under UDI member and Crown Corporation: BC Housing.

Posted by Sasha Izard,
Dec 12, 2024

Click to view: Policy – Urban Development Institute


——————————————————————————————-

The following link shows numerous PDFs listed that were related to the UDI’s central policy efforts that were taken down with the UDI Pacific Region’s website and their members directory, on November 21, 2023, just as the housing bills, which were the result of UDI lobbying, were being rammed through by the NDP-led Provincial Government. Although the pdf links no longer work, the record of their now hidden existence does.

Policy Archive – Urban Development Institute

One of the few surviving documents in this former trove is the UDI’s Annual Report of 2004 which described its liaison committees with the City of Victoria and Saanich (still ongoing 2 decades later):


“3. Liaison Committees The Victoria Liaison Committee is an informal group that meets 3 or 4 times a year. It is made up of representatives from the planning department, members of the municipal council and UDI. The first scheduled meeting is planned for June 29, 2004.

The Saanich Liaison Committee is a more formal group, made up of members from the planning, engineering and development departments as well as representatives from the local community associations, UDI and the Canadian Home Builders Association. It is chaired alternately by two members of council.

Meetings are held monthly and the committee has become a fully accepted advisory committee within the Saanich political structure. The Saanich Committee has covered the following issues this past year:

Adaptable Housing Bylaw amendments to allow for modification of housing as the residents “age in place”

Review of the Saanich Stormwater Management and Environmental Requirements and their impact on development.

Reorganization of Saanich’s planning, development and engineering departments.

Timelines for development approvals.

Use of recycled building materials and encouragement of house salvage rather than demolition.”

————————————————————————————————-


The increase of rental housing stock along so-called missing middle lines, is a key function of BC Builds, which is under the UDI member Crown Corporation BC Housing.


The phrase “Building B.C.” was utilized by the UDI in their 2004 Annual Report:


“Two special newspaper supplements were published by Pacific Press
under the “Building B.C.” masthead, featuring the development
industry with U.D.I. controlling the editorial content. One was
distributed as an insert in the Vancouver Sun last Fall and the other
was distributed in the Province early this Spring.


UDI has also begun contributing to editorial submissions to Pacific
Press’ monthly new home finder magazine.


As well, Bob Ransford, one of UDI’s directors, continues to write his
“City Vision” bi-weekly column in the Vancouver Sun Westcoast
Homes section, often featuring issues of interest to UDI.”