Official Community Plan

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Built Form • Low-rise buildings along 5th Street and adjacent to Urban Residential Neighbourhood areas.

• Mid- and high-rise buildings to be considered in other parts of the downtown.

• Minimal or no street-fronting setbacks along 4th, 5th, and 6th Streets within the downtown core.

Permitted Uses • Multi-unit residential

• Regional scale offices • Community services • Institutional • Artist live-work studio spaces • Supportive and transitional housing • Long-term care

(with retail on ground level) • Mixed use (retail on ground level) • Commercial – retail & office • Restaurant • Craft brewing

Downtown Area-Specific Profiles and Planning Directions

HARMSTON AVENUE CIVIC PRECINCT

Policies 1. Initiate a process to develop a local area plan for the precinct in order to provide clarity of development goals for the publically owned lands as well as direction to the development of privately owned lands. The plan will include: a) neighbourhood and community-wide consultation; b) a mix of land use, and tenures including public and private ownership;

Harmston Park and the City-owned lands on the east side of Harmston Avenue are approximately two hectares of underutilized space in downtown Courtenay. The City’s ownership of these lands provides a unique opportunity to achieve additional goals of the OCP and 2016 Downtown Courtenay Playbook . The Harmston Avenue Civic Precinct lands are designated as Downtown and they interface with the Old Orchard heritage neighbourhood and the McPhee Neighbourhood Centre.

City of Courtenay Official Community Plan