Pilot program to cut building permit times for Vancouver houses shows promise
But BCREA says cutting condo permit times would have biggest impact on affordability
Liam Britten · CBC News · Posted: Nov 07, 2018
A pilot program to cut down the time to process building permits for single-family homes has yielded promising results, the City of Vancouver says.
Builders and developers in the city's Applicant Supported and Assisted Process (ASAP) pilot program have completed permits to build a single-family home within 4.6 weeks, on average, of applying.
That's according to Kaye Krishna, the city's general manager of development, building and licensing, who said the average wait time for applications outside the program is about 25 weeks.
Vancouver builder hopes new fast track for permits will improve affordability
"Everything that we're doing, we're trying to increase the supply of housing for all Vancouverites," Krishna said. "Faster permitting is the way to help enable that."
The ASAP pilot program invited experienced home builders and developers to enter a streamlined permit process. The goal was to have permits issued within 10 weeks.
Krishna said the program has been so successful so far that city staff may begin applying its lessons to mainstream permit applications before the one-year pilot officially ends.
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