Community Plans
The City of Burnaby has a comprehensive set of plans to guide future development throughout the City in conformance with the Official Community Plan. These plans include strategies for land use and development, transportation, infrastructure servicing, and other related development issues for Town Centres, Urban Villages,Suburban Multi-Family Areas, Mixed-Use Areas and Park/Conservation Areas.
All of the City’s Community Plans are a result of detailed planning and land-use studies completed in conjunction with a comprehensive public consultation process with property owners and residents. The final authority of Community Plans are established through their formal adoption by Council as a policy guideline for consideration of specific rezoning and development applications. Overtime Community Plans and general land use designations are subject to change and amendment by Council to serve changing community and development needs.
Burnaby’s Community Plans
Town Centres
The City’s existing development framework includes four Town Centres within the four quadrants of the City and include:
Metrotown – Regional Town Centre
Brentwood Town Centre
Edmonds Town Centre
Lougheed Town Centre
Each of these centres contributes to Burnaby’s increasing overall diversity and self sufficiency by combining transportation and social infrastructure with residential and employment opportunities. They provide for higher density forms of housing in the City’s most urban settings.
Urban Villages
Urban Villages are designated to accommodate non-Town Centre multi-family development associated with a commercial area. The commercial areas are intended to provide a focal point for convenient and close to home access to commercial facilities and services. Designated Urban Villages include:
Bainbridge
- Community Plan (under review)
- Boundary Map
Brighton
- Community Plan (under review)
- Boundary Map
Broadview
Capitol Hill
Cascade Heights
- Community Plan (under review)
- Boundary Map
Heights
Lochdale
Montecito
Royal Oak
Sixth Street
Willingdon Heights
Suburban Multi-Family Areas
Incorporated within the framework are comprehensively planned townhouse and garden apartment development areas. These areas differ from the Urban Villages by their singular low density multi-family residential character. Designated Suburban Multi-Family areas include:
Cariboo Heights
Forest Grove
George Derby
Greentree Village
Newcombe
Oaklands
Rayside
Mixed-Use Areas
Throughout the City a number of Community Plans encompass complex areas serving multiple land use designations and civic interests. Mixed-use Community Plan areas include:
Big Bend
- Community Plan 1972
- Community Plan Amendment – Marine Way / Byrne Road
- Community Plan Amendment – New Haven
- Land Use Map
Burnaby Lake Sports Complex
Central Administrative Area
Discovery Place
Holdom
Lake City
Myrtle Street
Simon Fraser University
Park/Conservation Areas
Burnaby has been blessed by many natural features and open spaces which have been planned to meet community needs in the City’s overall land use concept. Designated Park/Conservation areas with adopted plans include:
Barnet Marine Park
Burnaby Lake Regional Nature Park
Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area
Capitol Hill Conservation Area
Chevron Buffer Zone
Source: City of Burnaby