Victoria 2030, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
The framework is city-wide. Life is local. Nobody wakes up in "the municipality": you wake up in Fernwood, or James Bay, or three blocks off Quadra Village, and the only test that matters is whether your street, your shop, your kid's walk to school actually got better.
Thirteen pages, one per neighbourhood. Same measures, same numbers, same jurisdictional caveats as the full Program β read from your own front door. Zero new measures, zero new cost: what these pages add is sequencing and siting, not spending.
β Back to the frameworkFind your neighbourhood
The City of Victoria has 12 official neighbourhoods, each with its own community association and Council liaison. There is a page here for each of them β and one more for Harris Green, which is not a separate City neighbourhood but sits inside Downtown, because the Yates corridor is the renter-densest ground in the city and the housing measures land differently there than they do on Government Street.
Every page covers the same five things: where things stand in 2026, what a normal day looks like in 2030 if the program delivers, what the framework does here measure by measure, the first 18 months, and how you'll measure it.
How to read these pages
No jargon test, no prior knowledge, no need to read the full program first.
The numbers in brackets, like (M27), are measure numbers. Every commitment in this framework has a permanent number so you can look it up, check what it costs, and hold someone to it. M27 is bylaw enforcement from 6 AM to 10 PM. The numbers exist so nothing on these pages is a vague promise: each one links straight through to a specific, costed measure in the full program.
Every page ends with a box called "Straight goods." That is where the page says what it can't promise, who else has to say yes, and what is still conditional. If a page has good news, that box is where the fine print goes, in the open.
A few words, in plain English
| The term | What it actually means |
|---|---|
| DCCs (development cost charges) | Fees a builder pays the City per new home, to help pay for the pipes and roads that serve it. Victoria raised them 258%. Cutting them for rental buildings makes rental cheaper to build. |
| Missing middle | Duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhouses β the homes between a single house and an apartment tower. Victoria approved 61 in 2024 against a target of 150. |
| Composition targets | Not just how many homes get built, but what kind: how many are rental, how many below market, how many big enough for a family. |
| Capacity-first enforcement | The City only clears an encampment when there is somewhere real for those people to go. This isn't a preference, it's what BC courts require. |
| Advocacy | The City doesn't have the power, so it argues for it. Health, schools, rent rules and speed cameras are provincial. When a page says advocacy, it means the City can push but cannot decide. |
| Gated | A commitment that only proceeds if the savings that pay for it actually show up first. Nothing is spent on the promise of money that hasn't arrived. |
| Referendum gate | Any big new project over $25 million goes to a public vote before it's built. Residents decide, not council alone. |
Ground rules for these pages
- Zero new measures. Zero new cost. Every commitment on these pages already exists in the v1.10 program and is already costed in the Savings & Revenue Analysis. What these pages add is sequencing and siting: where existing measures land first, and why. Neighbourhood specificity comes from prioritization, not new spending.
- Gates stated, always. The signature public-space project goes to referendum (M45c). Advocacy items are marked as advocacy. Measures in the gated conditional tier are marked as gated on verified Year 1 savings.
- No candidate content. These are policy pages. They name no candidate and score no one.
- The Foundation applies everywhere. Every one of these neighbourhoods stands on the unceded territories of the lΙkΜΚ·ΙΕΙn-speaking peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. The Foundation measures (M1βM5) sit underneath all 13 pages, not beside them.
- Residents overwrite these pages. Neighbourhood empowerment (M80), the annual survey (M82) and the Local Area Plan schedule are the standing mechanisms for that. These pages are the framework's opening read of local priorities, not the last word.
Where the local observations come from, stated plainly
The city-wide figures are sourced in the full program. The neighbourhood-level observations are this framework's own read, drawn from public City data, open data and local reporting. They are not the product of a survey of residents in each neighbourhood, and they are not a substitute for one. Every page names its neighbourhood's community association, because that association speaks for the neighbourhood and this document does not. If something here is wrong about your street, tell us and it gets corrected in the open, the same way every other correction in this framework has been.