Discharging Restrictive Land Covenants to Support Small Scale Multi-Unit Housing

Whereas the Province of BC passed Bill 44 Housing Statues Residential Development Amendment Act in 2023 to reduce zoning barriers for small-scale multi-unit housing and required municipalities to update Official Community Plans and zoning bylaws to allow for increased densification; And whereas private common-law covenants on land titles can be out of alignment with updated Bill 44 zoning and leads to regulatory confusion and barriers to achieving Bill 44 objectives: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM request that the Province work on a mechanism to override or neutralize outdated common-law covenant provisions on land titles that are inconsistent with the implementation of Bill 44.