Index of articles regarding proposed plans for Quadra/McKenzie and transit-enabled development upzoning.
In 2025 the proposed Quadra/McKenzie Plan became a major subject of controversy in the District of Saanich and beyond.
A vast amount of in-depth research regarding the plan and the development lobby’s influence on it, through multiple levels of government was covered on CRD Watch.
How the proposed “RapidBus” lanes in the Capital Region, including on McKenzie, were used as part of the UDI development lobby’s push for enforced densification/upzoning along rapid transit corridors, during their lobbying to David Eby in 2022 – CRD Watch Homepage
Thrown under the Bus: how so-called rapid transit is being used to force high density on communities, while greenwashing the developers’ for-profit agenda. – 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
A brief look at UDI member TransLink and BC Bill 47 (2023)
After a Comedic Exchange of Emails, BC Transit Admits that it has a Membership with the Urban Development Institute. The Implications of that for BC, may be more Tragic than Comic. – CRD Watch Homepage
FOI Request to BC Transit yields information about the UDI event: “Pathways to Progress: Uniting Land Use and Transit Strategies for Sustainable Growth” which took place the same day that Saanich adopted its new Official Community Plan and rendered its Local Area Plans legally non-binding. – CRD Watch Homepage
More Freedom of Information data surfaces, this time from Saanich, regarding the May 7, 2024 UDI event at the Union Club: “Pathways to Progress: Uniting Land Use and Transit Strategies for Sustainable Growth” – 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
A 2017 letter from the UDI to the Federal government offered a series of recommendations, including density targets around transit stations/corridors and for the adoption of TODs (Transit Oriented Developments). – CRD Watch Homepage
The “Hong Kong Model, transit density – Setting expectations and having clear guidance. MDE [Minister David Eby] First step target approach”. UDI Executive Committee Meeting in April 13, 2022 with David Eby when he was the Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Housing. – CRD Watch Homepage
Archive.org snapshot of 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. – CRD Watch Homepage
Letter to Saanich by Don Scott Regarding the Quadra Mckenzie Study (QMS) – CRD Watch Homepage
The Case for Honest Transit Planning: Why Words Matter When Building Cities by Arthur McInnis – CRD Watch Homepage
See also: (Vancouver) https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/foi-exposes-colliers-consulting-bc-transit-oriented-area-toa-bill-47/
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