Time’s almost up! Spare a few minutes to influence two major planning projects

April 9, 2025

Public Service Announcement

The City of Kelowna is making a final call for community input on two projects aimed at enhancing quality of life in Kelowna's urban areas. Residents have until Monday to help shape the future of the City’s five biggest neighbourhoods and pre-zoning of areas around select Transit Supportive Corridors.

The projects residents are being asked to contribute to are:

Thriving Urban Centres: A new approach to planning that will guide decisions, policy changes, and recommended actions in a more informed, resource-efficient way compared to traditional urban centres plans across the City’s Urban Centres: Rutland, Pandosy, Downtown, Midtown, and Capri-Landmark.
Transit Supportive Corridor Planning Pilot: An initiative to explore pre-zoning and new design guidelines along certain Transit Supportive Corridors (TSCs) to allow for more housing adjacent to frequent transit.

The City’s 2040 Official Community Plan establishes Urban Centres as hubs of activity where people live, work, and play. Investing in these areas – where much of Kelowna’s growth and the greatest mix of uses will be focused – will support more vibrant, sustainable, well-connected neighbourhoods. Kelowna’s Transit Supportive Corridors provide vital connections to and from Kelowna’s Urban Centres while supporting more housing choice, variety of uses, and increased transit service. Together, these projects aim to enhance amenities, public space, housing diversity, and transportation options for our growing city.

The City wants to hear what residents value in urban areas most today as well as their priorities for the future, including what investments they want to see soonest and how transit corridors should be designed to integrate into their surrounding neighbourhoods. Public input, along with technical analysis, existing policies, best practice, and financial feasibility, will inform recommendations for both projects.

Visit Get Involved to learn about the Urban Centres and Transit Corridor projects, complete the survey, and see what others are saying before April 14.