This week, City of Vancouver staff announced major updates are forthcoming to its processes — what it calls a more “user-friendly Zoning and Development bylaw.”

It will make it easier for landowners and builders to find and use information contained within the bylaw, with simplified regulations that will be more consistently applied. This will effectively help to streamline the permit review process.

This includes tables, diagrams, reorganized sections, hyperlinks, and accessibility features to replace the existing mainly text-based format.

The municipal government has indicated the reformed bylaw will be released in mid-November 2022, which happens to be just after the civic election.

The major update is part of the city’s ongoing process that first began in 2018 to overhaul its rules to make them easier to find and understand.

Other improvements include opening access to land use documents and zoning information from the creation of a zoning and land use document library, and a digital zoning map.

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