By Staff
March 26th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Are they affordable?
The City of Burlington is proposing a housing-focused Community Improvement Plan (CIP) that will apply to Burlington’s Urban Area, the community improvement project area. The purpose of the CIP is to incentivize the creation of new affordable rental housing options, supporting the City’s Housing Strategy, including Action 8 to “Provide incentives through a Community Improvement Plan (CIP) for the delivery of housing options to meet the needs of residents.”
The draft proposed CIP includes a variety of proposed financial incentives, such as grant programs and forgivable loans to encourage the development of affordable rental housing, such as additional residential units (ARUs) and units in multiplexes and low/mid/high-rise apartment buildings.
The proposed CIP has been informed to date by the CIP Study Project and various inputs including Council direction, financial feasibility analysis and public and housing industry feedback. A Statutory Public Meeting will be held, and a recommendation report will be presented for the CIP on April 8, 2025. Feedback from this meeting will also be considered in the preparation of this CIP.
You are invited to:
- Review the Draft Affordable Rental Housing Community Improvement Plan (CIP) and provide feedback. A survey is available until April 8 to provide your feedback.
- Learn more about the CIP and the proposed financial incentive programs in the March 6, 2025 presentation and Memo DGM-28-25 to the Pipeline to Permit Committee.
- Attend a Statutory Public Meeting for the CIP on April 8, 2025
- Review the Staff Report (available March 28, 2025)
The COB is proposing a CIP for the BUA, the new CIP will incentivize a new ARHO which will support COB’s HS. This will include a variety of FI’s for AFR’s with additionally ARU’s; before any of this will happen COB will study the COB’s proposed CIP including council direction on FFA’s including P&HIF after which an SPM will be held and an RR will be presented to the new CIP.
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