Official Community Plan Refresh

The Official Community Plan has been organized into 10 chapters that include:

1. Mobility Choice, Not Car Dependency
   This chapter highlights the actions necessary to achieve the city’s transportation "mode-split targets" (the percent of trips in our city made by different mobility choices) of 42% of all trips to be made by walking, rolling, cycling, and transit by the time we reach 100,000 residents.
   
   
2. Land-Use and Growth Management Strategy
   This section includes policies that clearly define maximum building heights in each part of the city; where mixed-use buildings are required, not just allowed; where mixed-use buildings are encouraged with additional allowable densities; and what specific land-uses are allowed or prohibited on every property in the city.
   
   
3. High Quality City-Building
   This section provides clear urban/building design expectations for higher density development to address issues such as building massing, floor plate size, tower separation, and amenities. The goal is to ensure high-quality city-building, particularly as densities increase and development intensifies. It also includes policies for more mobility choices, integration of urban nature, and inclusion of amenities for livability.
   
   
4. Emphasizing Housing Action
   This section includes policies that expand housing choices and improve affordability while ensuring homes are located in well-connected areas of Langford. It also includes targets for addressing the province’s housing legislation, specifically regarding the 5- and 20-year housing target.
   
   
5. Climate Action and Sustainable Infrastructure
   This section includes policies on how the city can align its climate action efforts with federal and provincial GHG reduction targets while meeting community-specific needs. It recognizes that climate action is integrated into almost every section of the Plan, in particular in the policies relating to land-use/density and transportation.
   
   
6. Protecting Ecological Systems and Biodiversity
   This section includes policies on how to protect natural areas across the city, while creating new parks and ecological lands for long-term conservation and community trust. Polices also address the impacts of climate change, such as wildfires, droughts, flooding, heatwaves and storms through long-term environmental stewardship.
   
   
7. Economic Resilience and Prosperity
   This section includes policies on how Langford can foster a resilient, innovative, and adaptable economy that supports all businesses and ensures the community remains strong in the face of future disruptions, such as natural disasters (including the many consequences of climate change), trade wars/tariffs, global conflicts, supply chain disruptions, pandemics, or economic downturns.
   
   
8. Embracing the Creative City
   This section includes policies that prioritize arts and culture as an essential element of city-building, such that Langford can reinforce its identity, improve livability, equity, and inclusion, and identify new opportunities for arts, culture, and social connection. It also embraces urban creativity, innovation and skillful risk-taking in all aspects of city life.
   
   
9. Food Systems and Security
   This section includes policies that will boost local food production and healthy food access, as well as self-reliance amid unpredictable factors, such as fluctuating tariffs and climate change, that threaten food systems and supply chains.
   
   
10. Parks, Places, and Services for People
    This section includes new and enhanced policies for public spaces beyond traditional parks, encompassing urban courtyards, gardens, plazas, squares, transformed streets, and the integration of urban nature. These policies aim to improve the quality of public spaces throughout the city. 

Please review the Plan and provide your feedback in the survey below. The survey closes Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. (PST).

The City invites you to participate in a survey about the Phase 1 ideas. This survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes. For more information, review the full Ideas Paper on the project home page.

Your feedback on the “Initially Preferred Options” will help decide if these ideas should be further developed and included in the draft OCP for Phase 3.

In Part 1 of the survey, we discuss the initially preferred options for: "Growth Through Urban Infill Instead of Sprawl" and "Mobility Choice, Not Car Dependency."

The City invites you to participate in a survey about the Phase 1 ideas. This survey will take approximately 15-20 minutes. For more information, review the full Ideas Paper on the project home page.

For more information, review the full Ideas Paper on the project home page. Your feedback on the “Initially Preferred Options” will help decide if these ideas should be further developed and included in the draft OCP for Phase 3.

In Part 2 of the survey, we discuss the initially preferred options for: "High Quality City-Building" and "New City Centre Policy with a Defined Downtown."

The City invites you to participate in a survey about the Phase 1 ideas. This survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes. For more information, review the full Ideas Paper on the project home page.

For more information, review the full Ideas Paper on the project home page. Your feedback on the “Initially Preferred Options” will help decide if these ideas should be further developed and included in the draft OCP for Phase 3.

In Part 3 of the survey, we discuss the initially preferred options for: "Mixed Use and Choice of Use Centres", "The “4Cs” of Growth Management, and a New Urban Hierarchy of Places", and "Urban Employment Lands that Protect Employment."

Langford has launched Phase 2 of its Official Community Plan (OCP) Refresh/Rethink and invites you to participate in a survey about the  Phase 1 ideas. The survey is divided into four parts, each taking about 5-10 minutes.

For more information, review the full Ideas Paper on the project home page. Your feedback on the “Initially Preferred Options” will help decide if these ideas should be further developed and included in the draft OCP for Phase 3.

In Part 4 of the survey, we discuss the initially preferred options for: "Achieving Complete Communities", and "Realizing Neighbourhood Scale Villages" and "Corner Convenience."

Official Community Plan Refresh Survey

The City of Langford is updating the Official Community Plan (OCP) and we need your help! The OCP is our City’s big-picture land-use plan that guides everything from where new homes and parks go, to how we tackle traffic and protect our community’s environment. It's like a street map for Langford's future!

The current OCP was written in 2008, and a lot has changed since then! Langford is projected to grow to 100,000 residents within the next 15-20 years. We are currently updating the OCP to ensure it reflects the changing needs and wants for current and future residents.

In the resource section of the project page, you will find background information on the project and various topics discussed in the survey.

Your voice matters! This survey is your chance to tell us what you think about how Langford should grow and change. Whether it's about green spaces, housing, transportation, land use or anything else related to how we grow as a community, we want to hear from you. Your feedback will help shape the policies and projects that affect us all every day!

Please take 10 minutes of your time to complete this survey. The survey will close on September 15, 2024. Printed copies of the survey are available at 117-877 Goldstream Avenue (ground floor City Hall).

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. Your input will make a big difference in shaping Langford’s future!