Energy Efficiency and Homes
We're offering the following recommendations that will impact more buildings and result in more British Columbians reducing their carbon footprints:
1. Consult with real estate sector stakeholders and homeowners before requiring energy assessments on existing homes.
2. Ensure that an energy assessment tool is available to owners of all existing homes.
3. Coordinate an energy assessment tool with other programs.
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Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
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Consumer Issues, Environment, Housing
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Improving Housing Supply
We recommend the provincial government take the following actions:
1. Empower Official Community Plans (OCPs) to reduce unnecessary public hearings - implementing the following opportunities outlined in DAPR will ensure community input and local government effectiveness:
- conduct a provincial policy review to consider trying development approvals to housing targets;
- provide local governments with best practices for writing, adopting and amending OCPs, and
- provide training and a best practices guide on how and when to hold public hearings.
2. Leverage transportation funding and OCPs to encourage local governments to increase gentle densification - diversity in housing stock helps residents find appropriate homes they can afford, and diversity includes more affordable family-friendly alternatives such as duplexes, triplexes, secondary suites and laneway/coach homes. This is important throughout the province, particularly in neighbourhoods accessible to transit.
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Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity, Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly, Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
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Consumer Issues, Housing
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