2023 Annual Report

Strategic Priority Goals • Facilitate expanded housing diversity and supply, to promote attainability. • Improve mobility with safe, sustainable and effective transportation options. • Develop infrastructure that positions the City to provide accessible and sustainable services while accommodating growth. Strategic Priority Goals • Facilitate expanded housing diversity and supply, to promote attainability. • Improve mobility with safe, sustainable, and effective transportation options. • Develop infrastructure that positions the City to provide accessible and sustainable services while accommodating growth. Strategic Priority Liveable Community Strategic Priority Liveable Community

2023 Activities

2024 Goals

Housing • Processed permits totalling $204.3 million in construction value and projects delivering 764 housing units. • Created a policy to facilitate duplex and triplex development. • Submitted provincial and federal grant applications to support housing initiatives. • Completed the Port Haney Land Use Area Plan. Mobility • Completed a traffic study to address congestion on Golden Ears Way. • Updated the Strategic Transportation Plan. • Widened Abernethy Way from 230 to 232 Street and improved Fern Crescent. • Launched Maple Ridge Moves advocacy campaign, including support for TransLink’s Bus Rapid Transit Study and announcement of a new rapid bus service from Maple Ridge to Langley. Infrastructure • Completed the Lower Hammond Drainage Assessment. • Engaged community in planning a new recreation facility.

Housing • Update the City’s Housing Strategy and related plans, bylaws, and policies to include more housing types, define future growth areas, and reflect new provincial housing legislation and targets. • Create criteria to prioritize development applications with highest community benefit. • Encourage new housing that meets community needs with new developer incentives, a concierge service for desired housing projects, and pre-approved site plans. • Facilitate more affordable housing by exploring the use of City-owned lands for housing and updating regulations to facilitate creation of secondary and detached garden suites. Mobility and Infrastructure • Promote active transportation with bike lockers in the civic centre. • Support future growth with capital projects such as widening Abernethy Way to four lanes between 224 and 230 Street and extending it from 232 to 240 Street, upgrading the 225 Street forcemain and pump station to better serve Hammond and west Maple Ridge, and twin the Grant Mountain reservoir to increase water capacity in Albion. • Review Development Cost Charges to ensure fees are adequate to fund growth-related infrastructure and services. • Develop a strategy for asset management.

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