Strathcona Regional District To Update OCP For Cortes Island

The Strathcona Regional District will be updating its Official Community Plan for Cortes Island in the next year.

The Strathcona Regional District will be updating its Official Community Plan for Cortes Island in the next year. To help prepare for this update, the SRD has retained the company Urban Systems to conduct a study and collect data related to active transportation networks, facilities, and challenges on the island.

This project is fully funded through the Union of BC Municipalities’ Active Transportation Planning grant program, which helps local governments add active transportation elements into planning documents and to identify opportunities to improve existing active transportation networks.

Active Transportation refers to a range of human-powered modes of transport, such as walking and cycling. Through this project, the SRD hopes to better understand how residents and visitors move across the island and how the regional district can encourage more trips by active transport modes. Local knowledge and input is critical, so they are asking residents to complete an online survey found at www.srd.ca.  The survey is open to all Cortes community members until May 1st. 

They will also be hosting a series of workshops, one virtual and one in-person, to share an overview of this project, and to hear your thoughts on active transport priorities for Cortes Island.  The workshops will run on April 21st and 26th, once again, more information at https://srd.ca/cortes-island-active-transportation-planning-project/