City of Courtenay Official Community Plan - 2026 update

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GROUND FLOOR RETAIL WITH HOMES ABOVE

SOLAR PANELS

PARKING ON STREET AND OFF OF THE LANEWAY

EFFICIENT BUILDING ENVELOPE

SOLAR SHADING

GREEN ROOF

ROOFTOP AMENITY

URBAN AGRICULTURE AND RESIDENTIAL AMENITIES

ENHANCED STREET TREE CANOPY

BICYCLE FACILITIES PLAZA

TRAFFIC CALMING AND RAINGARDENS

EV CHARGING

ACCESSIBLE DESIGN AND REST AREAS

MULTI-STREAM WASTE RECEPTACLES

Figure B-2 Artist rendering showing the higher density opportunities in the areas south and west of the commercial heart of downtown. Climate-friendly design opportunities featured.

DOWNTOWN

As a type of Town Centre, the downtown is intended to function as the local, city wide and regional centre of cultural, civic, culinary, economic, and public life with the widest range of activities and attraction for residents and visitors, day and night, throughout the year. Identified needs in the downtown are more housing, more space for special events and gatherings, more access to and integration with the Tsolum and Puntledge rivers, and better opportunities to

get to and circulate within the downtown – particularly by foot, transit, and cycling. The vision for the downtown was guided by the 2016 Downtown Playbook: A Partnership Action Plan but moving forward it will be guided by the Downtown Vitalization Local Area Plan (DVLAP) which is being developed at the time this OCP was adopted