Official Community Plan Targeted Update

Learn more about the Official Community Plan (OCP) update at Let's Talk Richmond Official Community Plan Update.

Get Involved with Phase 2 Open Houses
Review the OCP draft strategic directions and share your feedback by dropping in at an open house in June and July 2025. See How to Get Involved below for open house dates and locations.

What’s Happening

The City is in the process of making important updates to its Official Community Plan (OCP). The OCP will guide the City’s growth for the next 25+ years. 

The current OCP was approved in 2012. Since then, Richmond’s population and economy have grown and there is a need to address its evolving social and environmental factors. The overarching themes of the updates include resiliency, equity, adaptation and completeness with six target areas. 

Phase one focused on:

• raising awareness
• gathering feedback from the community, identifying areas for improvement
• providing feedback on early ideas for each target area.

On May 26, 2025, Council endorsed phase two of the OCP Update. This phase involves draft strategic directions that are informed by background research and the engagement feedback in phase one. The draft strategic directions will guide the city’s growth for the next 25 years, ensuring a resilient, equitable, adaptable and complete community. Drop-in open houses will take place in June and July 2025. Please see How to Get Involved below for open house dates and locations.

Phase three involves drafting clear policies that are informed by the strategic directions. The new OCP bylaw will be prepared for Council consideration with a Public Hearing at the end of 2025.