The City of Fernie is preparing a new housing needs report, which will be used to inform land use planning and zoning decisions.
Under provincial regulations, the city is required to complete a housing needs report every five years, with the last report approved in 2020.
V3 Companies is conducting the housing needs report and once it’s done it will be applied to the next Official Community Plan.
“Upon confirmation of the draft we will begin to identify ways to enable the recommendations of the housing needs report in the interim OCP amendments that you’ll see this December,” said project manager Kristen Harder.
An interim amendment to the current OCP is required by December 2025, but the full update of the OCP likely won’t be finished until spring 2027.
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