TOWNSHIP OF ESQUIMALT MEMORANDUM
MEETING DATE: November 17, 2025 Report No. DEV-25-059
TO: Council
FROM: Bill Brown, Director of Development Services and Jakub Lisowski, Planner
SUBJECT: Official Community Plan - Rescind 2nd Reading of Bylaw "OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW, 2018, No. 2922, AMENDMENT BYLAW, 2025, No. 3176" and read anew a second time as amended
INFORMATION:
At their November 3, 2025, regular meeting, Council considered "OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW, 2018, No. 2922, AMENDMENT BYLAW, 2025, No. 3176". Following first reading, Council considered and passed the following amendments at second reading:
1) That Council amend "OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW, 2018, No. 2922, AMENDMENT BYLAW, 2025, No. 3176" by deleting the word "Average" and removing the brackets around the word "Median", so that the title of Figure 3 on page 10 of the Bylaw reads, "Esquimalt Population by Median Age" as per Appendix "A" of staff report DEV-25-057.
2) To amend Schedule 1 of the Bylaw to replace Section 4.7 with the following text, subject to staff and legal review:
Policies identifying a certain number of storeys should be considered guidelines and not regulations for height. Council may consider development proposals that exceed these guideline heights where, in its judgment, the proposal advances other objectives and policies of this Official Community Plan, as reflected through a zoning amendment.
A proposal that exceeds the storey guidelines should not be considered consistent with the OCP for the purposes of Section 464(3)(b) of the Local Government Act.
3) Subject to staff and legal review, amend Schedule 1 of the Bylaw to replace the words "Commercial/Commercial Mixed-Use - Tall" with "Sussex/Saunders Mixed-Use" throughout the text of the OCP and make corresponding amendments to Schedule B - Proposed Land Use Designation Map to reflect this change.
All these amendments are reflected in the version of Bylaw "OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN BYLAW, 2018, No. 2922,...
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