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Too much heat: The UDI pulls down its list of backroom committees that meet with the Government of British Columbia and Local Governments



By Sasha Izard
March 17, 2025


In a recent article, I posted the hidden members directory of the most powerful lobbying organization for real estate and development interests in British Columbia that included among its paying members numerous branches of the BC Government, including Crown Corporations, Statutory Entities, Regional and Local Governments.

Public Release of the Urban Development Institute (UDI)’s hidden members directory dated to the beginning of 2024. The directory contains dozens of government branches that are hiding their memberships in the registered lobbying organization for development and real estate interests from the public. – CRD Watch Homepage

Now I am publicly posting the UDI’s hidden committee lists, as they were 2 months ago on Jan 19, 2025 (see below). These have since been taken down from the UDI’s website UDI.org, something very reminiscent of the pulldown of the UDI’s members directory in the fall of 2023, as the Provincial housing bills were being pushed through in the BC Legislature containing much content that the UDI had lobbied over.

The UDI committees had recently drawn attention and controversy in Port Moody, when Councillor Lurbiecki, who had only recently become aware of the back room committee meetings between the lobby and the municipality, put forth a motion to have the UDI’s liaison committee and information about it with the District made public on the District’s website, something that was ultimately successful.

As it turned, out one Councillor from Port Moody, Councillor Dilworth was sitting on multiple UDI committees across Metro Vancouver, while simultaneously being a registered lobbyist for the Homebuilders Association of Vancouver (HAVAN). As the Jan 19, 2025 snapshot of the UDI committees list shows, some of these UDI committees interacting with municipalities were joint with HAVAN.

Also the presence of QuadReal employees on a vast array of UDI Committees is also notable.

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On the now hidden UDI members directory at the beginning of 2024 was listed:

QuadReal Property Group

Suite 800, 666 Burrard Street

Vancouver, BC V6C 2X8

(604) 975-9636
MAP

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“QuadReal Property Group (QuadReal) is a Canadian company headquartered in Vancouver that invests operates and develops company real estate. It is wholly owned by British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) and acts as its real estate investment arm.”

QuadReal Property Group – Wikipedia

Here is a snapshot of QuadReal’s website at the time of writing:

As it states on QuadReal’s About page at the time of writing:

“QuadReal Property Group, Brokerage manages BCI’s commercial real estate equity program in Canada. QuadReal Residential Properties manages BCI’s residential real estate equity program in Canada. QuadReal Finance manages BCI’s real estate debt program. QuadReal Property Group, QuadReal Residential Properties and QuadReal Finance are affiliated entities.“

About QuadReal | QuadReal

As it states on Wikipedia at the time of writing:

“British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) is a crown corporation established to provide investment services to British Columbia’s public sector. On June 1, 2016, it announced it will create QuadReal, a subsidiary that will manage CA$18 billion in real estate assets.”

That has since ballooned to close to $90 billion in assets apparently, according to QuadReal’s website. If BC’s public sector is investing on a massive scale into real estate, isn’t that in effect driving home prices up, rather than leading to affordability? Aren’t the workers in BC’s public sector, thus benefitting financially through their public pension funds, from unaffordability when it comes to housing?

What would happen to such investments in real estate in British Columbia if Provincial Bills 44 and 47 led to the upzoning of much of the Province, as they have?

Third party electoral organization Homes For Living member Robert Berry works for QuadReal. It’s parent organization is the Crown Corporation BCI.

Homes For Living – About Us

Sam Holland (HFL member) was an early advocate for the proposed Quadra/McKenzie plan and its orientation around transit. The UDI lobbied the Province extensively for massive enforced development along rapid transit lines and the Province appears to have responded with Bill 47, and the implementation of Transit Oriented Development Areas, (TODs or TOAs) something the UDI had lobbied multiple levels of government on for many years.

Homes For Living pushes a development agenda, including the implementation of TOAs, and endorsed majorities of candidates that were elected in 2022 to Saanich, Victoria and Oak Bay Councils. In early 2023, a Chair of the UDI at the time was spotted looking for recruits on the Homes For Living online Discord channel to speak in favour of his company’s proposal at a public hearing in Saanich.

Both the UDI and Homes For Living have been avid proponents of so-called missing middle housing, yet even the Chair of the UDI (in 2022) admitted on Facebook that year that its objective is not to deliver affordable housing:

Berry has been portrayed in the media as a housing expert along with other members of Homes For Living, yet seldom has his simultaneous role at QuadReal been mentioned by the same media: The demise of single-family starter homes: ‘Municipalities have to have their hands forced’ – Greater Victoria News

The Provincial government, particularly the Ministry of Housing has been very reluctant to provide information about the UDI’s “Issues Committees” and other UDI committees that work with the Provincial government, yet vast amounts of information about them have subsequently been found through a Freedom of Information request and have shown that the UDI’s Executive Committee has been incredibly influential with its lobbying.

The UDI’s Executive Committee which included those at the top in the UDI, was not publicly listed as one of the committees on the UDI.org website, although its existence has been verified through Freedom of Information as well as its lobbying of the Province of BC including David Eby when he was the Attorney General/Minister Responsible for Housing, and Ravi Kahlon as Minister of Housing.

Also the U40 Executive Committee confirmed by Freedom of Information and has also met with the government was not listed on the UDI’s committee list, which was pulled down.

It is however the only committee that I’ve found currently listed on the UDI’s website: Under Forty | UDI – Urban Development Institute The list will be attached as an appendix at the end of the article.

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Here is the snapshot of the UDI Committee Lists URL at the time of writing (March 17, 2025): https://udi.org/knowledge/advocacy/committee-lists

Where did it go?

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Here is the archived snapshot of the UDI Committees List from 2 months earlier on Jan 19, 2025: Committee Lists | UDI – Urban Development Institute

The archived list is reposted below. Note UDI.org had not included under its committee list, the list of its municipal liaison committees set up on Vancouver Island, nor the list of its municipal liaison committees set up in the Okanagan. One is left only to guess by the website which municipalities on the island and in the Okanagan have them set up.

Abbotsford Liaison Group

(Joint with CHBA FV and NAIOP)

• Polygon, UDI CHAIR, Craig Simms
• StreetSide BC, Filip Christiaanse
• Fifth Avenue Real Estate Marketing, Jamie Squires
• Canadian Home Builders’ Association Fraser Valley, Jennifer Cotton
• Hungerford Properties, Jon Leugner
• Diverse Properties, Kacy Otter (Steve Goosen)
• Infinity Group, Karsten Seidel
• Ridgepoint Homes, Ken Friesen
• Avison Young, Mike Harrison
• Qualico, Nathan Hildebrand (Sarah Yusuf)
• Quantum Properties, Rob Delves
• Morningstar Homes, Ryan Lucy
• Porte Communities, Tony Zhang
  
  

Burnaby Liaison Committee

• Mosaic Homes, Adam Perry
• London Pacific, Ben Williams (Erin Williams)
• Pooni Group, Blaire Chisholm (Chi Chi Cai)
• Boffo Development, Brendan Reeves
• Polygon, Brian Ellis (Rene Rose)
• Anthem Properties, Chris Carter (Tracy McRae, Rob Blackwell)
• Ledingham McAllister, Craig Marcyniuk
• Concord Pacific, Ellen Sy
• Regal Century, Eric Cheung
• Peterson BC, Eric Hughes (Tim Yeung)
• Intracorp, UDI CHAIR, Evan Allegretto
• Wesgroup, Evan French
• Brixton Properties, Jas Sandhu
• Belford Properties, Jay Lin
• Shape Properties, Jenn Millerd
• Reliance Properties, Joanna Kwan
• Bosa Properties, Kyle Wright
• Wesbild, Lilian Arishenkoff
• Grosvenor Americas, Marc Josephson
• Aqualini Group, Mark Mazzone
• Solterra Developments, Mike Bosa (Kevin Yang)
• Headwater Projects, Neil Martin
• Beedie, Nicholas Dhaliwal
• QuadReal, Paul Faibish
• Onni Group, Robert Vrooman
• Canderel, Ryan Jenkins (Bryce Margetts)
• Keltic Development, Ryan Sekhon (Julian Ward)
• Amacon, Stepan Vdovine
• Wanson Group, Tom Miller
  
  

Coquitlam Liaison Committee

• Mosaic Homes, Adam Perry
• Infinity Group, Braden Heppell
• Polygon, Brandon Hohenwarter (Rene Rose)
• Strand Developments, Cameron Thorn (Fabian Leitner)
• Ledingham McAllister, Dan Giordiano
• QuadReal, David Roppel
• Quantum Properties, Diane Delves
• HAVAN, Diana Dilworth (Jay Chadha)
• Adera Developments, Emma Cartwright (Rocky Sethi)
• Intracorp, Evan Allegretto (David Woo)
• Wesgroup, Evan Lewis
• Morguard, Geoffrey Nagle
• Qualex-Landmark, UDI CHAIR, Henry McQueen
• Woodbridge Homes, James Howard
• Belford Properties, Jay Lin
• Wesbild, Justin Cheung (Lilian Arishenkoff)
• StreetSide BC, Kyle Foot
• Bosa Properties, Kyle Wright
• Colliers International, Lilian Kan
• Headwater Projects, McGregor Wark
• Concert Properties, Michael Guenter
• Marcon, Nic Paolella (Andrew Joblin)
• Ecosse Development Corporation, Norm Couttie
• Anthem Properties, Riaan de Beer
• Onni Group, Rob Vrooman
• Townline, Ross Moore (Stefan Slot)
• Frontline Real Estate Marketing, Sam Taktsang (Megan Johal)
• Pooni Group, Sophie Perndl (Blaire Chisholm)
• Beedie, Thomas Lee (Katie Maslechko)
  
  

Delta Liaison Committee

(Joint with HAVAN and NAIOP)

• PC Urban, Andrew Peterson
• Century Group, Bob Ransford
• Beedie, Carl Funk
• HAVAN, Diana Dilworth (Jay Chadha)
• Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd., Donato Bevacqua
• Conwest, Joe Palazzo
• Wesgroup, Max Gordichuk
• Headwater Projects, McGregor Wark
• Avison Young, Mike Harrison
• Third Space Properties, UDI CHAIR, Ryan Thé
• Fifth Avenue Real Estate Marketing, Scott Brown
• WSP, Scott Pelletier (Alan Harrer)
  
  

Township of Langley Liaison Committee

• Beedie, Adam Donnelly
• Mosaic Homes, Adam Perry
• Oaken Developments, Alexander Law
• PC Urban, Andrew Peterson
• Polygon, Craig Simms
• Binnie, David Marchand
• QuadReal, David Roppel
• Vesta Properties, Dennis Wiemkin
• HAVAN, Diana Dilworth (Jay Chadha)
• Mitchell Group, Jacilyn O’Shea (Ryan Mitchell)
• Fifth Avenue Real Estate Marketing, Jamie Squires
• McElhanney, James Pernu
• Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd., Jeremiah Boucher
• Wesgroup, Joost Ruiterkamp (Sebastian Jasiorkowski)
• Zenterra Developments, Kevin Anderson
• Colliers International, Lilian Kan
• Sanderson +Welsh Planning Ltd., Michael Sanderson (Martha Welsh)
• Avison Young, Mike Harrison
• Canadian Horizons, Nathan Hildebrand
• Conwest, Nick Kasidoulis
• Iom Property Group, Rick Mann
• Qualico, Sarah Yusuf (Jeff Fong)
• Quadra Homes, Sean Faulkes
• Lorval Developments, Shawn Bouchard
• Pollyco Group, Steve Yang
• North Arc Properties, Sunny Sandher
• Infinity Group, Tim Bontkes
  
  

Maple Ridge Liaison Committee

(Joint with HAVAN)

• Oaken Developments, Alexander Law
• Polygon, Anya Paskovic
• Epic Homes, Cole Lambert
• HAVAN, Diana Dilworth (Jay Chadha)
• Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd., Donato Bevacqua
• Fifth Avenue Real Estate Marketing, Jamie Squires
• Tekton Project Management, Jared Bissky
• Hungerford Properties, Jon Leugner
• Empowered Development, Kyle Stewart
• McElhanney, Luis Lopez
• Avison Young, Mike Harrison
• Morningstar Homes/Polygon, UDI CHAIR, Ryan Lucy (Quentin Boulton)
• WSP, Scott Pelletier
  
  

New Westminster Liaison Committee

• IBI Group, Charn Gill (Martin Bruckner)
• QuadReal, David Roppel
• HAVAN, Diana Dilworth (Jay Chadha)
• Regal Century, Eric Cheung
• Wesgroup, Graham Brewster
• Areva Living, Hamid Ahmadian
• Reliance Properties, Joanna Kwan
• PC Urban, John Reid
• Third Space, Nathan Shuttleworth (Frankie Bailey)
• Beedie, Robert Toth
• Domus Homes, Richard Wittstock
• Pooni Group, Sophie Perndl
  
  

City of North Vancouver Liaison Committee

(Joint with HAVAN)

• QuadReal, Brennan Finley
• Darwin Construction, Chris Wilkinson
• HAVAN, Diana Dilworth (Jay Chadha)
• Intracorp, Evan Allegretto
• Wesgroup, Ian Patillo (Alex Schmaling)
• Beedie, Jay Boyce
• Concert Properties, Kate Sunderland Ratzlaff
• Polygon, Lorne Wolinsky (Jacqueline Garvin)
• Cressey, Patrick Lanigan
• Anthem Properties, UDI CHAIR, Riaan de Beer
• Pooni Group, Samantha Potter (Laura Beveridge)
• Adera Developments, Sarah Bingham (Rocky Sethi)
  
  

Port Moody Liaison Committee

• PCI Group, Brad Howard
• Pooni Group, Blaire Chisholm
• Porte Communities, Eric Wang
• Wesgroup, Evan French
• Azure Properties, Gagan Sivia
• Anthem Properties, Isaac Beall
• Woodbridge Homes, James Howard
• Edgar Development, Jasmean Toor
• HAVAN, Jay Chadha
• ASPAC, Justin Lew
• Panatch Group, Kush Panatch
• Onni Group, Miles Wilby (Duncan Wlodarczak)
• Beedie, Nathaniel Stuart (Curtis Neeser)
• Marcon, Tim Schmitt
• Bold Properties, Tommy He
• Ledingham McAllister, Ward McAllister
  
  

Richmond Liaison Committee

• Mosaic Homes, Adam Perry
• Pooni Group, Blaire Chisholm
• Bosa Properties, Dea Knight (Dan Cupa)
• HAVAN, Diana Dilworth (Jay Chadha)
• Concord Pacific, Ellen Sy
• Gammon International, Howard Mak
• Brixton Properties, Jas Sandhu
• ASPAC Developments Ltd., Jayme Colville (Gary Wong)
• Shape Properties, Jenn Millerd (Matthew Cavanaugh)
• Vanprop Investments, Jesse Galicz
• Keltic Development, Julian Ward (Robon Tseng)
• Townline, Korbin daSilva (Rich Illich)
• Panatch Group, UDI CHAIR, Kush Panatch (Eshleen Panatch)
• Wesbild, Lilian Arishenkoff
• Wesgroup, Louis Landolt
• MacDonald Realty, Matt Nugent
• Headwater Projects, McGregor Wark
• Onni Group, Myles Wilby
• Cressey, Nathan Gurvich
• Oris Consulting, Paul Dmytriw
• Polygon, Robin Glover
• Bold Properties, Tommy He
  
  

District of Squamish Development Liaison Committee

(Administered by DoS)

• Anthem Properties, Brent Carlson
• Matthews West Developments, Carlos Zavarce
• Sea to Sky CHBA, Derek Venter
• The Melbourne Group, Grant Gillies
• Beedie, Jason Tonin
• Polygon, Kevin Shoemaker
• Solterra Developments, Mike Bosa
• Bosa Properties, Paige Ritchie (Lucas Berube)
• Binnie, Rob Dos Santos
• Holborn, Yi-Khy Saw (Alice Wong)
  
  

Surrey Development Committee

• Cedar Coast Capital, Aaron Fedora
• Beedie, Adam Donnelly (Nicholas Dhaliwal)
• Mosaic Homes, Adam Perry (Chris Miller)
• Anthem Properties, Alexander Wright
• PC Urban, Andrew Peterson
• Polygon, Anya Paskovic (Kevin Shoemaker)
• Pooni Group, Blaire Chisholm
• PCI Group, Brad Howard
• Tien Sher Group, Charan Sethi
• Binnie, David Marchand
• HAVAN, Diana Dilworth (Jay Chadha)
• Citimark, Duane Siegrist
• Peterson BC, Elise Spearing
• Porte Communities, Eric Wang
• Woodbridge Homes, James Howard
• Fifth Avenue Real Estate Marketing, Jamie Squires (Mark Belling)
• Brixton Properties, Jas Sandhu
• Wanson Development, Jim Spiers
• Qualico, Jonathan Meads (Sarah Yusuf)
• Zenterra Developments, Kevin Anderson
• Polygon, Kevin Shoemaker
• Empowered Development, Kyle Stewart
• Colliers International, Lilian Kan
• Frontline Real Estate Marketing, Megan Johal (Adam Lawrence)
• Avison Young, Mike Harrison
• Cressey Development Group, Nathan Gurvich (Patrick Lanigan)
• Canadian Horizons, Nathan Hildebrand
• Conwest, Nick Kasidoulis
• Steelix Developments, Parm Dhaliwal (Jonathan Grand Pierre)
• Onni Group, Rodney Rao
• Adera Developments, Rocky Sethi
• WSP, Scott Pelletier
• Wesgroup, Sebastian Jasiorkowski
• Townline, Stefan Slot
• Marcon, Thomas Rowe
• Infinity Group, Tim Bontkes
• Bucci Developments, Troy Abromaitis
  
  

Vancouver Liaison Committee

Anthem Properties, Tracy McRae (Rob Blackwell)

Conwest, Ben Taddei (Joe Carreira)

Wesgroup, Brad Jones

Wall Centre, Bruno Wall

Concert Properties, Craig Watters (Michael Guenter)

Goodman Commercial, Cynthia Jagger

PCI Group, Dan Turner

BentallGreenOak, David Roche

Hollyburn Properties, David Sander

Regal Century, Eric Cheung

Intracorp, Evan Allegretto

Bosa Properties, Jeff Skinner

Reliance Properties, UDI CHAIR, Jon Stovell

Grosvenor, Marc Josephson

Solterra Developments, Mike Bosa

Strand Developments, Mike MacKay

QuadReal, Paul Faibish

Domus Homes, Richard Wittstock

Townline, Rick Ilich (Stefan Slot)

The Salient Group, Robert Fung

Onni Group, Rob Vrooman

Third Space Properties, Ryan Thé (Nathan Shuttleworth)

Polygon, Scott Baldwin

PC Urban, Steve Forrest (Brent Sawchyn)

District of North Vancouver/ North Shore

QuadReal, Brennan Finley

Anthem Properties, Brent Carlson

Mosaic Homes, Chris Lee

Darwin Construction, Chris Wilkinson

Polygon, Devon Smart (Rene Rose)

Areva Living, Hamid Ahmadian

Wesgroup, Ian Patillo (Alex Schmaling)

ASPAC, Justin Lew

Wesbild, Lilian Arishenkoff

Headwater Projects, McGregor Wark

Anthem Properties, Riaan de Beer (Rob Blackwell)

Onni Group, Rob Vrooman

Pooni Group, Samantha Potter

Adera Developments, Stuart Mahon (Rocky Sethi)

Perkins + Will, Susan Gushe

Rental Housing

Starlight Developments, Andrew Browne

Wesgroup, Brad Jones

Chard Development, CHAIR, Byron Chard

Darwin Construction, Chris Wilkinson

Goodman Commercial, VICE CHAIR, Cynthia Jagger

Qualex-Landmark, Cyrus Navabi

Molnar Group, Dak Molnar

QuadReal, Kerri Jackson

Hollyburn Properties, David Sander

Colliers, Dominic Ricciuti

Strand Development, Fabian Leitner

PCI Developments, Jarvis Rouillard

Reliance Properties, Jon Stovell

Anthem Properties, Jordan Carlson (Rob Blackwell)

GMC Projects, Jordan Milne

Musqueam Capital Corp., Joseph Bros

Nicola Wealth Real Estate, Josh Anderson

Lantern Properties, Josh Hayes (Jeff Hayes)

Catalyst Community Developments Society, Luke Harrison

Mosaic Homes, Max Bruce

Concert Properties, Michael Guenter (Craig Watters)

Edgar Development, Peter Edgar

The Salient Group, Robert Fung

Polygon, Rob Smallwood

Onni Group, Rob Vrooman

Purpose Driven Development, Sabrina Polga

Cressey, Scott Cressey

Ventana Construction, Sean Vrtacic

Townline, Stefan Slot (Paulina Coleman)

GWL Realty Advisors, Wendy Waters (Mike Reed)

Building Codes

GHL, Andrew Harmsworth

Marcon, Andrew Joblin

Strand Development, Cameron Thorn

Polygon, Chris Ho

Wesgroup, Dean Johnson

Promontory Ridge Estates Inc., Glenn Froese

StreetSide BC, Jonathan Meads

Cressey, Julian Kendall

Concert Properties, Michael Guenter

Townline, Rick Bortolussi

Third Space Properties, Nathan Shuttleworth (Ryan Thé)

Contaminated Sites

Beedie, Adam Donnelly (Jason Tonin)

Thurber Engineering Ltd., Andrew Sorensen

Polygon, Anne Bancroft-Jones (Neil Chrystal)

Wesgroup, Brad Jones

Redefine, Bruno Thielman

Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd., David Chan

Stantec, Greg Quandt

Next Environmental, Harm Gross

Legacy Environmental Ltd., Jason Wilkins (Karey Dow)

Cressey, Julian Kendall

BLG, Luke Dineley

SLR Consulting, Mark Oikawa

Singleton Reynolds, Mollie Deyong

Keystone Environmental, Raminder Grewal

Third Space Properties, Ryan Thé

Environment

Beedie, Adam Donnelly

Polygon, Anne Bancroft-Jones

Aplin & Martin Consulting Ltd., David Chan

PG Group, Duncan MacDonald

Next Environmental, Harm Gross

Wesbild, Lilian Arishenkoff

BLG, Luke Dineley

SLR Consulting, Mark Oikawa (Jim Malick)

Keystone Environmental, Raminder Grewal

Legacy Environmental Ltd., Trevor Welton

Property Tax

Platform Insurance, Abbie Loshuk

Wesgroup, Brad Jones

Altus Group, Diana Pan

Lawson Lundell LLP, James Fraser

Cressey, Julian Kendall

Ryan ULC. CHAIR, Paul Sullivan (Ryan Tung)

Polygon, Rob Bruno

KPMG, Roque Hsieh

Onni Group, Tony Jung (Karen Ng)

Real Estate Legal Issues

Marcon, Andrew Joblin

Dentons, Arnon Dachner

Terra Law, Beverly Ellingson

Pushor Mitchell LLP, Bradley Cronquist

McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Cameron Whyte

Polygon, Clara Li (Joscelyn Baker)

Lawson Lundell LLP, Edward Wilson

Bennett Jones LLP, CHAIR, Mark Lewis

Wesgroup, Meghan Murtha

Clark Wilson, Sarah Jones

Industrial & Commercial

Cedar Coast, Aaron Fedora

Beedie, Adam Donnelly (Jason Tonin)

Conwest, Ben Taddei

Wesgroup, Brad Jones

QuadReal, Brennan Finley

EllisDon Construction, Daniel Murphy

Pooni Group, Gary Pooni

GWL Realty Advisors, Geoff Heu

Anthem Properties, Isaac Beall

PCI Developments, Jarvis Rouillard

Onni Group, John Middleton

Wesbild, Lilian Arishenkoff

Ryan ULC, Lonnie Neufeld

Amacon, Randy Baker

Third Space Properties, Ryan Thé (Nathan Shuttleworth)

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Conclusion: The UDI’s now-hidden list of committees that work with the government, like its previously hidden members directory lists raises the question of where does government start and the development lobby end and why is the UDI and the government of BC so intent on obscuring those connections?

Why does the so-called free press in a democratic society refuse to do an in-depth investigation of these myriad connections and working relationships between the government and those lobbying it?

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Resources to article:

Port Moody to release details on unlisted development committee – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Following Port Moody councillor’s transparency concerns, basic details from development committee to be included in future staff reports – Tri-Cities Dispatch

Public Release of the Urban Development Institute (UDI)’s hidden members directory dated to the beginning of 2024. The directory contains dozens of government branches that are hiding their memberships in the registered lobbying organization for development and real estate interests from the public. – CRD Watch Homepage

The Urban Development Institute lobbied the Province of BC to implement what they called “Global Housing Targets”. The Province would deliver new Housing Bills in response. – CRD Watch Homepage

Freedom of Information reveals that the Province of B.C. was working to implement what the registered lobbying organization, the Urban Development Institute, had been pushing for. This culminated in the recent Housing Bills that override local government authority on zoning.  – CRD Watch Homepage

How the Development and Real Estate Lobby Pressed Mandatory Housing Targets, Mass Upzoning, Captured Official Community Plans, and Made the Shutting Down of Public Hearings the Norm in British Columbia Under the NDP Government – CRD Watch Homepage

QuadReal Property Group – Wikipedia

Robert Berry, CPA – Manager, Investment Accounting – QuadReal Property Group | LinkedIn

Appendix:

The UDI’s U40 Committee list at the time of writing in March of 2025:

Under Forty | UDI – Urban Development Institute