B.C. aims to speed up its permitting for housing with new strategy, hires

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Premier David Eby promised the province will do its part to streamline the permitting it controls for new housing in B.C. Read more.

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Eby said the province is asking a lot from municipalities in terms of setting objectives for developing much needed new units and encouraging them to streamline their own processes, so it was only fair that the province also look inward at its own processes that add to delays.Article content Delays come up when a project’s file manager is scheduled for a four week vacation or parental leave, and “that’s not how the real world works, but that’s how it is in some cases some jurisdictions,” Illich said.

The effort will start with hiring 42 new civil servants to spearhead pulling out applications related to high-priority housing projects, such as those with First Nations, for B.C. Housing or other developments, for cross-ministry co-operation on their approvals. “At the same time, changing the way that we permit across this province means that we have line of sight, when a permit comes in, of all the different regulatory bodies within the provincial government to allow the decision to be made,” Cullen said.

 

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