EcoCity Initiatives/EcoDensity

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Envisioning the EcoCity...

With the adoption of the EcoDensity Charter and Initial Actions, the City of Vancouver has begun a new chapter in planning for a sustainable, affordable, and livable future. Find out here about the many initiatives underway to use density, design, and land use to help reduce our carbon footprint, expand housing choices, and ensure Vancouver remains one of the most livable cities in the world...

Find out more about some of the initial EcoDensity Actions:

Laneway Housing

Basement Suites

Secondary Suites

  EcoDensity Charter and Initial Actions


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On June 10, 2008 Vancouver City Council unanimously adopted the EcoDensity Charter and a set of Initial Actions. The EcoDensity Charter commits the City to make environmental sustainability a primary goal in all city planning decisions - in ways that also support housing affordability and livability - and the Initial Actions provide the ‘roadmap’ to begin implementation of the EcoDensity Charter.

  What is EcoDensity and EcoDensity History

summary The history and story of the Vancouver EcoDensity Planning is documented in the Project Summary - a detailed overview of the initial challenge, the public process, some of the ideas and images as well as media coverage and the path to adoption, and also includes a summary of the Charter and Initial Actions.

The project summary, along with the original EcoDensity website, provides a record and ongoing resource for how Vancouver envisions ‘density-done-well’ as a key catalyst for environmental sustainability, affordability, and livability.


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EcoDensity Website

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Visit the original EcoDensity website - a document of the entire process including every report, every presentation, every public event, and every idea.