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Community Conversations are a way to bring together City projects, including the Land Use Bylaw Renewal Project, providing community engagement in one convenient location making it easier for residents to participate.

Event will be hosted at the ENMAX Centre from 3 to 7pm.

Phase One Engagement (on the topic of social uses) took place between August 23 and November 24, 2023. Findings are recorded in the Phase One What We Heard Report.

The project team provided an update to Civic Works Standing Policy Committee on the LUB Renewal project's progress and next steps.

At the February 27, 2024 meeting of City Council, Councillor Dodic brought forward a motion to cancel first reading of Bylaw 6437 (which would have amended LUB 6300 regulation of social uses) and direct staff to roll the proposed changes on social uses into the future new LUB (which is planned to go to Council in 2026). After a lot of debate and questions for staff, in which staff were asked questions about the impacts of not proceeding with a public hearing for Bylaw 6437, Council passed Councillor Dodic’s motion 6-2. You can watch a video of the meeting here (click on item 6.1 in the agenda to skip to that point in the video).

What this means:

• Bylaw 6437 will not go forward to a public hearing, so there will not be an opportunity for you to provide your views to City Council on the proposed changes to social uses regulations at this time. There will be opportunities for further input on social uses when the new LUB is prepared, likely in early 2026.
• Unless staff are otherwise directed by City Council, the status quo regulations around social uses will remain at least until the new LUB is brought to Council, currently anticipated in late 2026.

To all of you who gave up your time to take part in the extensive engagement on social uses over the past six months, we want to reassure you that your time was not wasted. All of your input on this topic has been captured in the Phase 1 What We Heard Report, which was submitted to Council along with draft Bylaw 6437. This information will be carried forward by the project team and used in drafting the new LUB in later phases of the project.

City Council approved the Phase Two Public Engagement Plan on December 10, 2024. This allowed the project team to proceed to delivering phase two engagement, which covers all LUB topics except for social uses (which was the subject of phase one).

During Phase 2, the project team provided extensive and wide ranging engagement opportunities for all interested members of the public, on all topics relevant to the Land Use Bylaw (except social uses, which were covered in Phase 1 engagement). Topics covered in Phase 2 included things like housing/neighbourhoods, downtown, commercial and industrial districts, off-street parking requirements, and notifications.

The project team will provide the committee with an update on the project, focused on the completion of phase two engagement. The submission will include the Phase Two What We Heard Report.

The project team will then move into phase three: drafting the new Land Use Bylaw.