Burnaby is one of 38 communities across B.C. that will be benefactors of a six-figure grant that the provincial government says will help speed up the delivery of homes. “Our province continues to grow with more people than ever before choosing to call B.C. home,” Anne Kang, Burnaby-Deer Lake MLA and Minister of Municipal Affairs, said in a news release.
Burnaby specifically will continue to streamline approval processes for simple and complex buildings, including developing business-process documentation and approvals guidance for staff and applicants, undertaking change management activities and building staff capacity. “The Local Government Development Approvals Program was created so that local governments can improve the internal processes and development approvals, so that we can speed up the delivery of homes for people living and working in B.C.”