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Regional Industrial Lands StrategyINDUSTRIAL LANDS STRATEGY TASK FORCEEric AderneckSENIOR PLANNER, REGIONAL PLANNING AND HOUSING SERVICES

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Industrial Lands Strategy Task Force

1. Vision and Challenges2. Strategy Development Process 3. Stakeholder Engagement and

Comments4. Strategy Finalization5. Recommendations / Priority Actions6. Implementation / Next Steps

Presentation Outline


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VISION: Ensure sufficient industrial lands to meet the needs of a growing and evolving economy to 2050

Regional Industrial Lands Strategy


Constrained Land Supply

Pressures onIndustrial Lands

Site and Adjacency Issues

Complex Jurisdictional Environment

Main Challenges


Current Reality

Explore Opportunities

Consider Solutions Implement

Part 1 (2018) Part 2 (2018 -19) Part 3 (2019) Part 4 (2020+)

• Identify challenges

• Scope of work• Vision• Define ‘Industrial’

• White Paper Series: topics of importance

• Survey of users• Economic value

• Policy Development

• Engagement• Develop Regional

Industrial Lands Strategy

• Further engagement

• Finalize Strategy• Adoption• Implementation

Program

Strategy Development – Process / Timeline


Engagement• Guided by the Industrial Lands Strategy Task Force• 3 rounds – Policy Options, Recommendations, Draft Strategy• Stakeholder groups (Member jurisdictions, Gateway Council,

Urban Freight Council, UDI, Port, BoTs, NAIOP)• Information Interviews• 3 Stakeholder Workshops + Subject Matter Expert Panel• User Survey• Regional Planning Advisory Committee• Participating in other initiatives - e.g. Vancouver (employment

lands) and Richmond (intensification)Industrial Lands Strategy Task Force

Stakeholder CommentsSupport for many of the recommended actions:• Industrial lands inventory update • Comprehensive regional land use assessment• Enhanced transportation connectivity • Industrial lands intensification / densification• Bring to market strategies• Property tax review• Simplified permitting processes

7Industrial Lands Strategy Task Force

Stakeholder CommentsOpposition by some members and development community regarding:• ‘Industrial Land Reserve’• Trade-oriented land use designation and limiting strata tenure • Additional regulations and restrictions

Differing views / opinions:• Flexibility for wide range of uses permitted on Industrial lands • Allowing commercial and residential uses by SkyTrain stations


Changes to Strategy as a Result of Engagement

• Adjustments to 10 priority actions• Phase and re-order recommendations related to

industrial land reserve / trade-oriented lands• Format / design document• Further explain the role and importance of industrial

lands in the region• Add reference to changing nature of industry • Further explain implementation


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The 35 recommendations, organized in 4 ‘big moves’, with key 10 priority actions:1. Protect Remaining Industrial Lands

2. Intensify and Optimize Industrial Lands

3. Bring Existing Supply to Market & Address Site Issues

4. Ensure a Coordinated Approach

Strategy Recommendations


Protect Remaining Industrial Lands1. Define Trade-Oriented Lands (2020)2. Undertake a Regional Land Use

Assessment (2021)3. Strengthen Regional Policy (2022)4. Seek Greater Consistency in Zoning

Definitions and Permitted Uses (2022)

Bring Land to Market & Address Site Issues6. Prepare Bring-to-Market Strategies

(2022)7. Ensure Transportation Connectivity

(ongoing)

Priority Actions – Big Moves

Intensify & Optimize Industrial Lands5. Facilitate Industrial Intensification

/ Densification (2020)

Ensure a Coordinated Approach 8. Coordinate Strategies for Economic

Growth and Investment (2022)9. Improve Data and Monitoring: Industrial

Lands Inventory (2020) Employment Survey (2021)

10. Framework for Coordination (2021)Industrial Lands Strategy Task Force

Implementation / Next Steps

• Regional Industrial Lands Strategy Implementation• Metro 2040 Industrial & Employment Policy Review• Define Trade-Oriented Lands / Uses • 2020 Update - Regional Industrial Lands Inventory• Metro 2050: Regional Growth Strategy Update


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• Identify issues / gaps• Assess effectiveness of policies• Explore trends / best practices• Test possible policy options• Targeted stakeholder engagement • Recommend policy changes to

better support regional goals through the Metro 2040 update

Industrial & Employment Policy Review


• Definition of use / activity • Type of trade activity • Mode of transport• Site size / scale• Location / proximity• Ownership / tenure• Land attributes / characteristics

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Define ‘Trade-Oriented’ Lands / Uses Objective: Protect the industrial land base to support trade and related activities into the future.


• Update inventory for 2020 – last completed in 2015, 2010, 2005

• More frequent reporting• Establish new classification of

trade-oriented lands• Noting that an inventory is not

itself a designation or a strategy

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Industrial Lands Inventory - 2020 Update


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Metro 2040 Update


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RecommendationThat the MVRD Board:

a) approve the Metro Vancouver Regional Industrial Lands Strategy

b) forward the Regional Industrial Lands Strategy to member jurisdictions and non-voting Industrial Lands Strategy Task Force member agencies requesting endorsement and implementation of actions attributed to each specific organization; and

c) forward the Regional Industrial Lands Strategy to the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, Fraser Valley Regional District, Vancouver Airport Authority, and Commercial Real Estate Development Association requesting endorsement, and seeking implementation collaboration opportunities.


Discussion


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