Complete 24/7 Community

UBC's founding architects envisioned the University's Point Grey Campus as a "university city in an idyllic setting."

UBC is realizing this vision by building a complete community where residents can live, work, play and study. Living at UBC provides residents with the unique opportunity to access athletic, artistic and cultural activities only a university can offer. This residential development will assist UBC in becoming a vibrant, fully integrated community with a rich sense of unity and identity, day and night.

Plans

Each neighbourhood has its own detailed land use plan consisting of development controls, design guidelines and servicing and transportation strategies consistent with applicable portions of the OCP and CCP.

In consultation with UBC, the GVRD enacted the Official Community Plan (OCP) to guide the development of non-institutional projects. By establishing broad land use objectives, policies and other criteria, the OCP provides a guide for approximately nine million square feet of non-institutional development. Through the passage of this GVRD by-law, UBC has the opportunity to nurture a sustainable community of great beauty and vitality.

Using the underlying principles of the OCP as a basis for non-institutional development, UBC and UBC Properties Trust prepared the Comprehensive Community Plan (CCP). This document provides overall parameters for development allocation within the local neighbourhoods.

Work/Study

Half of all households at UBC will be 'work/study' - meaning that at least one member of the household works or studies at UBC, thus reducing the number of vehicles coming to the campus.

The development of residential neighbourhoods will transform UBC from a commuter campus to a self-sustainabling community. UBC Properties will be realizing this goal through the development of faculty and staff rental housing, student rental housing, co-development market opportunities for faculty and staff and over 200 secondary suites available for rent. A recent neighbourhood survey has revealed that 68% of households on campus have at least one member who works or studies at UBC.

Diversity

The residential neighbourhoods emerging on campus will be a source of affordable housing for UBC's faculty, staff and students.

A broad range of housing on campus contributes to a vital community that further supports academic activity by attracting and retaining top faculty, students and staff. Non-university residents form an important part of creating a diverse and complete community. All proceeds from the long term lease of residential land to developers for market residences will go towards UBC's Endowment and create new academic programs, give scholarships and bursaries to students and support research.

UNA

To provide municipal like governance for the residents in UBC's Neighbourhoods, UBC established the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA), which serves the evolving non-institutional residential community.

The UNA is responsible for local regulation such as parking control, as well as community programs and recreation, elections, landscaping, noise control, recycling, trails, policies and by-laws, and will eventually act as liaison for the community's use of UBC facilities.

UNA directors are either elected or appointed by UBC. These directors represent existing and future non-institutional residents such as Hampton Place and Hawthorn Place. They also represent the University administration, and the student body through the Alma Mater Society (AMS). Elected UNA representatives will in time comprise the majority of the UNA Board.

Visit the University Neighbourhoods Association website for more information.