The city council held a public hearing and unanimously adopted the "Our Vancouver Comprehensive Plan," which completely updates the city's zoning code to accommodate a projected need for 38,000 new homes by 2045. Discussions centered on balancing the preservation of historic single-family neighborhoods and their existing covenants against state mandates to increase density, promote middle housing, and provide equitable, affordable options. The newly approved plan also introduces specific zoning protections for manufactured home parks and shifts the city to a form-based code system to better manage future growth and infrastructure demands.
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Vancouver City Council · Jun 01, 2026 · 1:47:55–1:48:07 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: Zoning rezoning comprehensive plan UGA affordable housing Comprehensive Plan Affordable Housing density Comprehensive plan infrastructure zoning
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1:46:52 or something more intense like a triplex or fourplex or something so just kind of taking that away tonight would be change is actually fairly slow even though it might seem fast if we make the decision tonight to pass this comprehensive plan, the other piece I wanted to just raise is I wanted to share again I've said it many times on this dais but I do work for the Washington Department of Commerce, I work for the growth management services unit but I don't have any authority over the city of Vancouver's comprehensive plan proposals, there is actually in this case actually no approval authority by commerce, they simply review for consistency with the laws that have been explained tonight so I just want to put that out so that would be why I can fully stand here in my capacity as a city council member and I can also say why I love this comprehensive plan that's before us, one of the things
1:47:51 that I find amazing and this is probably just being a planner in the world but every comprehensive plan has to be internally consistent so each one of these chapters has to work with the other chapters and so we're not just here talking about housing tonight or changes in a residential zone but we're also talking about our transportation, planning, our roadways, we're talking about how our parks and our trails work with all of these places, we're talking about climate change and we're talking about economic development which we've heard folks talk about and each one of these all work together and it's amazing and it's a spectacular piece of work and I am very proud of our staff for putting all of this together and final note is just a raise up that this action tonight if we approve it would be replacing our entire title 20 which is our zoning code and again stressing that I am a complete planner nerd,
1:48:50 it is exciting as heck to see this code be transformed into something a lot more understandable. For those of you not in this world, when you see a development table that has like 20 or 30 footnotes, you know there's a problem and so this update reduces
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direct keyword 1:47:55–1:48:07 Zoning, rezoning, comprehensive plan, UGA, affordable housing, Comprehensive Plan, Affordable Housing, density, Comprehensive plan, infrastructure, zoning
ould be why I can fully stand here in my capacity as a city council member and I can also say why I love this comprehensive plan that's before us, one of the things that I find amazing and this is probably just being a planner in the world but every comprehensive plan has to be internally consistent so each one of these chapters has to work with the other chapters and so we're not just here talking about housing tonight or changes in a residential zone but we're also talking about our transporta