Annual Conference Proceedings
For CD-rom copies of our annual conferences please contact our office at info@smartgrowth.bc.ca
For more information please visit out Annual Conference page.
Farmland Forever! Planning for Agriculture in the Okanagan (2007).
Download here.
Affordability by Design, Affordability for All (2006)
This event focussed on medium- to long-term solutions to housing affordability, with an emphasis on what communities can do in the absence of senior government funding. It was co-hosted by Vancouver City Planning Commision, the SFU City Program and Smart Growth BC. Financial sponsors of the event were the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia, CMHC Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and VanCity.
Download the report here.
Farmland Forever! Planning for Livable Pemberton Valley (2006).
Download proceedings here.
Farmland Forever! Planning for Agriculture in the Lower Mainland (2005).
This event was held in Surrey/Port Kells in October 2005. Download summary report here.
Farmland Forever! Planning for Agriculture on Vancouver Island (2005).
This event was held in the Comox Valley in March 2005. Download summary report here.
Barriers & Solutions: A Secondary Suites Workshop (2003).
Download proceedings here.
Smart Growth in the Okanagan: A Valley-Wide Dialogue for Action (2003)
Smart Growth BC hosted two conferences in Vernon and Penticton, BC in March 2003. These conferences brought together land use leaders from across the Okanagan Valley to discuss land use and growth issues in a smart growth context. This report summarizes the two events.
Download here (pdf - 109KB)
Numerous speakers gave presentations during the Okanagan conference, including.
CHMC Research Overview - Norm Connolly - Download
here (pdf - 1.3 MB)
Urban Containment Boundaries - Deborah Curran - Download
here (pdf - 280 KB)
Agr/Residential Interface - Karen Thomas/Wray McDonnell - Download
here (pdf- 3 MB)
Fiscal Costs of Sprawl - Patrick Condon - Download
here Quality of Life Planning - Kevin Key - Download
here The Fused Grid - Fanis Grammenos - Download
here (pdf - 3.6 MB)
NIMBY Strategies - Matt MacNeil - Download
here (pdf - 618 KB)
Smart ByLaws - Deborah Curran - Download
here (pdf - 692 KB)
Urban Containment Boundaries - Linda Nowlan - Download
here (pdf - 280 KB)
Designing for Smart Growth - Patrick Condon - Download
here (pdf - 7.6 MB)
The Charette Process - Patrick Condon - Download
here (pdf - 5.3 MB)
Creating More Livable Communities (2001)
This workshop was held in Vancouver on June 6-7, and in Victoria on June 8-9, 2001. The summary report summarizes the two events.
Download here (pdf )