Official Community Plan & Transportation Plan Update
Help shape how Vernon grows and moves over the next 20 years!
Help Vernon grow to be an even better place to live by sharing your ideas on housing, transportation, parks and trails, culture and community.
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What's New?
Staff are pleased to present you with the draft Official Community Plan (OCP). Drawing from extensive community engagement completed over the past year, and informed by technical studies and best practices, this document will guide the city's growth over the next 20 years.
The OCP reflects the community’s vision, values, and ideas for shaping neighbourhoods, centres, and transportation networks through thoughtful land use planning and supportive policies. It is intended to be an inclusive, approachable, and easy-to-use document that can facilitate balanced growth in the community.
This engagement phase provides an opportunity to review the draft OCP and offer your feedback. As you go through the document, please consider how it aligns with your vision for the community. Community input will be considered to inform the final draft which will be presented to Council in the fall.
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This opportunity for feedback will be open until end of day on July 21, 2025.
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What is an Official Community Plan?
In British Columbia, an OCP is a long-range plan that sets out policies for how a community will accommodate population growth. By 2045, an additional 20,000 people are expected to move to our community. Our new OCP will reflect our community vision for how our neighbourhoods and transportation networks can be enriched and improved to best support our growing population. This Plan will cover the following topics:
- Housing and neighbourhood development
- Transportation and infrastructure
- Recreation, parks and trails
- Climate and environmental stewardship
- Economic development
What is a Transportation Plan?
The Transportation Plan guides how our community’s transportation system, such as roads, public transit, and bike and walking paths, will grow and develop in line with the OCP. The Transportation Plan will outline how we move and connect to all the places we go safely and efficiently, while making life better for everyone in our community.