Whereas public lands are often required to support the delivery of publicly funded affordable and attainable rental housing; And whereas the process of securing or modifying lands controlled or previously granted by the Province to support publicly funded housing projects remains convoluted and extremely lengthy and has not been addressed in the recent provincial efforts to streamline provincial permitting for housing under PermitConnectBC: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM request that the Province establish a streamlined pathway to expedite the public-owned land grants and related title-reverter process for public attainable and affordable housing applications while upholding and recognizing the commitments of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
