Draft CIP for Review and Upcoming Statutory Public Meeting: Burlington Affordable Rental Housing Community Improvement Plan (CIP)
The City of Burlington is proposing a housing-focused Community Improvement Plan (CIP) that will apply to Burlington’s Urban Area, the community improvement project area. The purpose of the CIP is to incentivize the creation of new affordable rental housing options, supporting the City’s Housing Strategy, including Action 8 to “Provide incentives through a Community Improvement Plan (CIP) for the delivery of housing options to meet the needs of residents.”
The draft proposed CIP includes a variety of proposed financial incentives, such as grant programs and forgivable loans to encourage the development of affordable rental housing, such as additional residential units (ARUs) and units in multiplexes and low/mid/high-rise apartment buildings.
The proposed CIP has been informed to date by the CIP Study Project and various inputs including Council direction, financial feasibility analysis and public and housing industry feedback. A Statutory Public Meeting will be held, and a recommendation report will be presented for the CIP on April 8, 2025. Feedback from this meeting will also be considered in the preparation of this CIP.
You are invited to:
- Review the Draft Affordable Rental Housing Community Improvement Plan (CIP) and provide feedback. A survey is available until April 8 to provide your feedback.
- Learn more about the CIP and the proposed financial incentive programs in the March 6, 2025 presentation and Memo DGM-28-25 to the Pipeline to Permit Committee.
- Attend a Statutory Public Meeting for the CIP on April 8, 2025
- Review the Staff Report
The staff recommendation report will present the proposed CIP and community improvement project area in order to get feedback, and will be available for public review on Friday, March 28, 2025. The report will be available on the City’s website at burlington.ca/calendar by searching for the meeting date for the Committee of the Whole. If you required a hard copy of the report, please email the Legislative Services at clerks@burlington.ca to arrange pick-up.
To speak at the Public Meeting, there are two options:
- Pre-register to speak by noon the Friday before the meeting is to held. You can pre-register in one of the following ways:
- Complete the online delegation request form at burlington.ca/delegation;
- Submit a written request by email to Legislative Services at clerks@burlington.ca, or
- Phone 905-335-7600, ext. 7481
2. Register during the Public Meeting.
- If you are attending the meeting virtually, you can register to speak by emailing clerks@burlington.ca, as noted in the ticker tape that will be scrolling along the bottom of the live stream webcast of the meeting with registration information.
- If you are attending the meeting in person, you can register to speak during the meeting by following instructions provided at the meeting.
Speakers are limited to a maximum of 10 minutes each and are webcasted online. If you have presentation materials, they must be submitted to Legislative Services no later than noon, the Friday before the meeting to allow for their distribution and review by all members of the Committee. Please note the content of all submissions is considered public and will be posted on the City’s website.
The formal Notice of Statutory Public Meeting is available here.
Tell us what you think:
Send your comments to Jo-Anne Rudy, Committee Clerk at jo-anne.rudy@burlington.ca by noon Friday April 4, 2025 if you wish for it to be distributed and reviewed by all members of the Committee in advance of the Committee of the Whole Meeting on April 8, 2025.
If you have any questions about the CIP project, please reach out to housingstrategy@burlington.ca
You may also book a time to Talk to a Planner about the proposed CIP. This engagement opportunity is open until April 4, 2025. Send an email to housingstrategy@burlington.ca to book a meeting time.
