Official Community Plan Targeted Update

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

Phase 2 Open Houses
The OCP phase two engagement is now closed. It ran from June 11 to July 20, 2025. Thank you to everyone that participated.

To learn more about the proposed Growth Management Roadmap and strategic policy directions, view the display boards under "Resources"

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 proposes a Growth Management Roadmap to guide the city's growth for the next 25 years and strategic policy directions ensuring a resilient, equitable, adaptable and complete community. Drop-in open houses took place in June and July 2025.

The feedback from phase two will be shared with Council in the fall. It will inform the revised OCP document and bylaw for Council's consideration in winter 2025. A public hearing will be required, and work must be completed by December 31, 2025 based on provincial legislation.

Target Areas of the Official Community Plan Update

The overarching themes to guide the Official Community Plan (OCP) update includes “Completeness, Resiliency, Equity and Adaptation” with the six targeted areas:

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