Title
Regional Sustainability Strategy Update
Recommendation
That the Committee of the Whole recommends to the CRD Board:
1. That staff be directed to prepare a Regional Sustainability Strategy (RSS) bylaw to advance for first and second reading as follows:
a. Revise the draft RSS as necessary to reflect input received from the legal opinion
b. Revise the draft RSS vision statement to read as follows: "We advance health and prosperity in the Capital Region and grow more resilient, affordable and responsive to climate change by fostering inclusive, compact, transit-oriented communities that support cycling and walking, and by expanding local food production, and protecting natural areas."
c. Revise the draft RSS targets as follows:
i. Strengthen targets for dwelling units, active transportation and growth containment
ii. Add targets for water conservation, local food production and supply side renewable energy
iii. Review targets with consideration of grouping them into categories (e.g., short-term, primary influence - local or provincial/federal government, etc.)
d. Address concerns regarding municipal flexibility and level of detail as follows:
i. Replace the preamble wording for municipal actions in response to legal advice
ii. Provide flexibility for municipalities to remove lands from the Growth Containment Area (unless they are identified as Industrial or General Employment Lands) without requiring an amendment to the RSS
iii. Show Growth Centres symbolically on the Land Use Policy Area maps (Attachment 10)
iv. Change the major/minor amendment process to delete reference to Growth Centres
v. Move actions that municipalities will address in their RCS as per 1d(i), that do not directly relate to the minimum requirements of the Local Government Act regional land use policy areas (e.g., climate change, community health and wellbeing, emergency management), to the 'municipalities are requested to support' category
e. Amend mapping to:
i. Ide...
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