REVISED PROPOSAL
for
A CONSENSUS/PARTNERSHIP MANDATE FOR REGIONAL LAND
USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING iN GREATER
VANCOUVER

BACKGROUND

This proposal outlines a consensus/parmership mandate tor regional land use and transportafion
planning in Greater Vancouver. It is the result of a process which began in July 1990, when the
GVRD Board, in adopting Creating Our Future, decided to undertake a review of the need for
renewed GVRD land use and transportation mandates. The major issues involved in this review
were outlined in a Discussion Paper which was circulated by the GYRD Board to member
municipalities for comment in the fall of 1991. In response to the comments received from
municipalities, the Board. decided in J uly 1992 to pursue, with member municipalities, 2
consensus-based mandate for regional land use and transportation planning. The Board appointed
a Task Force of municipal elected and staff people to prepare a proposal for such 2 mandate. In
December 1992, the Board received the report of the Task Force and referred it to municipal
councils and members of the public for comment and to the Council of Councils for consideratica.

This proposal is intended to assist the Council of Councils in dealing with this matter. It reflects
and incorporates the comments received from member municipalities to «b+ extent possible within
the original concept developed by the Task Force.

Throughout this process there has been virtual unanimity about the need for a Regional Strategic
Plan to guide Greater Vancouver's growth and development in a way which will advance the goals
and values established by the region's citizens in Creating Our Future. The issues surround
the scope of such a plan, how it is to be prepared and adopted and its effect once adopted on the
other decisions and decision-makers who together will be responsible for its success or failure.

This proposal is intended to meet the unique circumstances of the GYRD and its 18 member
municipalities and to provide the necessary framework for them to consider, refine, adopt and
implement the Regional Strategic Plan which is currently being prepared.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
Regional planning in Greater Vancowver is based upon six major principles.

1. Regional planning cannot and shouid not usurp the cuthority of
municipalities for local land-use planning, zoning and development control.

The Regional Strategic Plan will rest upon the foundation of adopted municipal (and, where
applicable, Islands Trust) Official Community Plans and zoning bylaws. Municipalities will
continue ta be responsible under provincial legislation for these matters under the system of
mgional planning proposed by the Task Force.

ze Regional Strategic Pians will be developes through consensus.
Creating

interest, formal review
a very high majocity o