Growth Locations

Regional City CentreFrequent Transit Development Area

Transit Stations & Stop (potential future FTDAs)

Historical Urban Centre

Historical Urban Centre

Regional City CentreFrequent Transit Development Area

Transit Stations & Stop (potential future FTDAs)

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5 km

Vancouver Metro Core

Lonsdale

Coquitlam

Langley

Surrey Metro Centre

Metrotown

New Westminster

Richmond

Maple Ridge

Semiahmoo

Cloverdale

Newton

Fleetwood

Guildford

Ladner

Lynn ValleyAmbleside

Pitt Meadows

Lougheed Port Coquitlam

Inlet

Brentwood

Edmonds

Willoughby

Aldergrove

Lower Lynn

Lower Capilano-Marine

Burquitlam

104th Ave

Fleetwood West

East Clayton

East 3rd

Marine Dr.

Cambie FTDAs

University of British Columbia

Simon Fraser University

YVR Airport

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Urban Centres

Frequent Transit Development Areas

Transit Proximity Area (400m from FTN, 800m from rapid transit stations)**

Urban Containment Boundary

Frequent Transit Network (FTN)Bus RoutesSeabusWest Coast Express (WCE)

Major Transit Investments (new and upgraded rapid transit, new and upgraded B-Lines, improved Seabus and West Coast Express)

Metro 2040

Existing Transit

Future Transit Vision*

Special Employment Areas

Oakridge

Shaping Growth and Investing in Transit for a Livable Region Metro Vancouver’s Focal Points for Growth and the Current and Future Transit System Regional Planning Committee Map of the Month February 27, 2015

A Bit About this Map*The Future Transit Vision is based on the Highlights map in Regional Transportation Investments: A Vision for Metro Vancouver (2014) completed by the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation; locations are approximate. **Transit Proximity Area includes areas that are within 800 metres of rapid transit stations or 400 metres of TransLink’s 2013 Frequent Transit Network, where service runs at least every 15 minutes, in both directions throughout the day and into the evening, every day of the week.

A Livable Region Depends on a Sustainable Transportation System Metro Vancouver 2040: Shaping our Future, the regional growth strategy, represents the collective vision for how our region is going to accommodate the 1 million people and over 500,000 jobs that are expected to come to the region in the next 25 years. Metro 2040 directs the majority of this growth to a network of 26 Urban Centres and a growing number of Frequent Transit Development Areas located in close proximity to frequent transit. Encouraging long-term growth in these strategic locations supports an efficient transportation system which connects people, jobs, and amenities across the region.

The map demonstrates the important relationship between planning for growth and investing in transit. Today, approximately 55% of residents live within in the transit proximity area, which is a 5 to 10 minute walk to the Frequent Transit Network. Increasing

the share of residents in Centres and FTDAs will also increase the share of residents in walking distance to transit, but the transit system and service to support that population must also be in place.

Major transit investments were identified in Regional Transportation Investments: A Vision for Metro Vancouver, completed by the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation, and are depicted conceptually on the map in orange. If this vision is achieved, about 70% of the region’s residents will be within walking distance of transit. There is clear alignment between the Mayors’ Council Vision and the compact, complete communities envisioned in Metro 2040. Continued implementation of Metro 2040 will in turn support the efficient, sustainable transportation system catalysed by the Mayors’ Council Vision.

What Growth will Look Like

rapid transit

freq

uent

bus

400 m

800 m

Urban Centres

Identified Frequent Transit Development Areas

Transit Proximiy Area (ideal area for FTDAs)

Transit Stations and Stops (potential future FTDAs)

general urban area

28% OFGROWTHIN FTDAS

2011 2013 2021 2041

40% OFGROWTH

IN CENTRES

30% OFGROWTH IN

GENERALURBAN

How Growth Will OccurUrban Centres are established throughout the region and are focal points for growth. Additional growth will be focused in close proximity to frequent transit, and, increasingly to Frequent Transit Development Areas as they are identified over time.

Growth in FTDAs will initially occur throughout the corridor around the FTN, and over time will be concentrated in identified FTDA locations.

Metro 2040 targets 40% of residential growth to the region’s network of 26 Urban Centres. An additional 28% of residential growth is targeted to Frequent Transit Development Areas located in close proximity to transit.

While growth near the transit network will be more compact than in rest of the Urban Containment Boundary, it will not be uniform along the entire network. Population and employment will be densest at major hubs, such as the large Metro Centres, and will taper off before rising up again at another Centre. Similarly, population and employment will be greater in existing or potential FTDAs and decrease in areas farther away from major transit stations and stops. The region will be made up of a network of compact, transit-oriented complete communities connected by a sustainable transportation system.

Metro Centres

11%

Regional City Centres

16%

Municipal Town Centres

13%

Metro Centres

16%

Regional City Centres

13%

Municipal Town Centres

7%

Urban Centres

40% GeneralUrban

30%

FTDAs

28%

Other

2%

Urban Centres

36% GeneralUrban

36%

FTDAs

26%

Other

2%

Targeted Growth Distribution to 2040

of residential growth to 2040 will be focused in Urban Centres and Frequent Transit Development Areas

68%

Growth Over Time

Growth Distribution