Overview

• Oak Bay must shift minor variance approvals from council to staff and cut multi-unit parking minimums to one stall per unit by Dec. 31, 2025, or face provincial enactment of its bylaws.
• West Vancouver is ordered to amend its Official Community Plan to boost density in areas such as Park Royal and Ambleside and to include detailed counts of approved and rejected housing applications in future reports.
• The province accelerated Oak Bay’s original January 2026 compliance deadline in a July 17 directive, citing a need to align bylaw reforms with broader planning reviews.
• Both districts fell short of first-year Housing Supply Act targets, with Oak Bay delivering 16 of 56 units and West Vancouver 58 of 220, triggering binding oversight measures.
• The updated directives replace previous timelines and follow government-appointed advisers’ findings that outdated policies and procedural bottlenecks were hindering housing approvals.