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POLICIES
1. Support the BC School of Agriculture at the Uni-
versity of the Fraser Valley in research and devel-
opment, skill and leadership training in agricul-
ture.
2. Create centres of excellence and research in
agri-business and cogeneration of energy, wood
product manufacturing, green technology, tour-
ism, entrepreneurship and the high-tech industry.
3. Provide appropriate incentives to attract and
maintain targeted businesses.
4. Encourage CEPCO, the Board of Education and
UFV to develop programs that stimulate business
investment in education, skill-training and re-
search and development.
5. Facilitate the UFV Plaza development, a business
education centre in the downtown.
6. Monitor and promote community-based econom-
ic development trends.
INDUSTRIAL / BUSINESS PARK DEVELOP-
MENT
OBJECTIVES
1. Increase industrial development capacity to meet
long term employment needs.
2. Promote the development of business parks
which are attractively designed, economically
sustainable, environmentally sound, and capable
of supporting the knowledge economy and indus-
tries that create high skilled, professional jobs, as
well as employment opportunities for youth and
less skilled workers.
POLICIES
1. Work with CEPCO on strategies to attract and
grow businesses that create a high level of em-
ployment.
2. Explore land use intensification strategies to im-
prove land use efficiency and raise job/ha ratios.
3. Work with business park developers to develop a
common industrial vision, focus industrial promo-
tion on high priority targets, and coordinate infra-
structure improvements .
4. Maintain industrial lands for industrial use.
5. Develop a strategy for re-development and infilling
existing industrial areas, targeting small-to-medi-
um industrial needs.
6. Apply design guidelines to encourage best prac-
tices in business park site planning, landscaping
and building form and character.
7. Consolidate existing industrial areas and reserves,
through infill and redevelopment, into readily de-
finable business park districts that embody the
Chilliwack brand and its regional importance.
8. Improve highway access for business parks and
industrial districts, and give priority to expanding
the capacity of the Lickman Interchange.
9. Support business park development with ade-
quate servicing.
COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
OBJECTIVES
1. Establish a network of commercial centres and
articulate their respective roles through OCP land
use designations and neighbourhood plans.
2. Increase overall commercial growth capacity
through densification.
3. Meet the diverse location requirements of gen-
eral commercial, tourist-commercial, and mixed
commercial-industrial uses.
POLICIES
1. Designate local neighbourhood commercial cen-
tres as part of the neighbourhood planning pro-
cess.
2. Support the development of Vedder Crossing
core as a vibrant pedestrian friendly commercial
area.
3. Intensify development around the cores of
Sardis-Vedder and support the long term transi-
tion of vehicle-oriented commercial uses in the
Goal 3 - Grow the Economy