Vancouver city council has approved the Broadway Plan, providing a 30-year framework that will integrate new housing, job space, and amenities with the new Broadway Subway line.

The Broadway Plan will guide growth and change in the area that is generally located east to west between Clark Drive and Vine Street, and north to south between 1st and 16th Avenues.

“The Broadway Plan is an important opportunity for our city to leverage the significant investments in the Broadway Subway that improves transit access to the rest of the city and the region,” said City of Vancouver general manager of planning, urban design and sustainability Theresa O’Donnell.

“It’s a plan that will work to meet the needs of today’s residents and generations in the future by adding much-needed housing for all incomes, especially renters. This plan will create more job space near transit to support our growing economy and will make it easier to live, work and get around in lively, diverse neighbourhoods.”

A key goal of the Broadway Plan over the next three decades include adding up to 30,000 additional homes at all income levels with 46 per cent of the homes classified as market rentals, 12 per cent social housing, seven per cent below-market rentals and 34 per cent as market strata.

Other goals include:

• Strengthening Central Broadway’s role as an employment centre with new space for up to 42,000 jobs.
• Supporting reconciliation through housing, heritage, public realm, and sustainable water management initiatives
• Preserving and enhancing the shopping village areas on West 4th Avenue, South Granville, and Main Street
• Transforming Broadway into a Great Street, which provides improved walking and rolling routes and enjoyable public spaces, including a commitment to build a AAA (all ages and abilities) safe active transportation lane along Broadway to increase safety and livability
• Providing over $1 billion of public benefits in Mount Pleasant, Fairview, and Kitsilano over the first 10 years of the plan:
  • Delivering $96 million for new or enhanced parks
  • Securing 400 new or renewed childcare spaces
  • Renewing and expanding the Firehall Library and Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
  • Preserving and renewing arts, cultural, and music spaces
• Creating Vancouver’s first area-wide blue green system with a network of connected park-like streets that manage water and protect the ecosystem
• Continuing to protect public mountain views in key locations throughout the area.

The Broadway Subway project is scheduled to complete in 2025.