Image: Mike Vanden Bosch / Pattison Media / Liana Wiebe, communications manager for the City of Chilliwack, told Fraser Valley Today in an email Tuesday that staff are currently processing an Official Community Plan (OCP) amendment, rezoning and development permit application to facilitate a new 218-unit apartment development on the consolidated properties of 45651 Alma Avenue, 5478, 5462, 5456, and 5446 Vedder Road, and 5471, 5477 and 5487 Viola Avenue, just north of Vedder Mountain Veterinary Clinic.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Proposed housing development

Over 200 units of housing could be coming to Chilliwack neighbourhood along Vedder Road, near vet clinic

Aug 13, 2024 | 12:50 PM

CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack is currently processing a development application from Castillo Developments Incorporated that would see over 200 housing units built on seven properties along, and just off, Vedder Road, located south of Keith Wilson Road, in Chilliwack.

Liana Wiebe, communications manager for the City of Chilliwack, told Fraser Valley Today in an email Tuesday (Aug. 13) that staff are currently processing an Official Community Plan (OCP) amendment, rezoning and development permit application to facilitate a new 218-unit apartment development on the consolidated properties of 45651 Alma Avenue, 5478, 5462, 5456, and 5446 Vedder Road, and 5471, 5477 and 5487 Viola Avenue, just north of Vedder Mountain Veterinary Clinic.

The applicant, Castillo Developments Inc., has asked that the 2040 OCP designation of “South Vedder Commercial Core” be amended to “Apartment Residential” for 5471 Viola Street, 45651 Alma Avenue and portions of 5446 and 5456 Vedder Road, and that all subject properties from CS1 (service commercial), C2 (local commercial) and R1-A (urban residential) zones be amended to a new CD-27 (comprehensive development-27) zone to build this 218-unit housing development that will feature a mixed-use commercial and residential development.

The properties in question once housed two businesses, including Villa Hairstyles at 5456 Vedder Road and Vedder Mountain Field Supplies at 5456, as of August 2009, according to a Google Maps street view image.

Image: Google Maps from August 2009 / Two former businesses on Vedder Road, Villa Hairstyles and Vedder Mountain Field Supplies. The two businesses have long since closed. A 218-unit housing development is being proposed for properties encircling these former businesses.

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The City of Chilliwack noted in a staff report dated July 23, 2024 from planner Adam Roberts that under Section 475 of the Local Government Act, a local government is mandated to determine whether referral to First Nations and other agencies, in addition to a public hearing, is appropriate. In this instance, since First Nations and other provincial and federal agencies were consulted during the creation of the overall South Vedder Neighbourhood Plan, the City of Chilliwack says pre-consultation is not considered necessary at this time as the proposal is not anticipated to have any impacts on the interests of these authorities/agencies. Staff recommended at its meeting held August 6 that Chilliwack City Council direct staff to not pre-consult with outside agencies with respect to the subject application, in conjunction with the the 2040 Official Community Plan designation for properties at 5471 Viola Street and 45651 Alma Avenue, and portions of 5446 and 5456 Vedder Road, from “South Vedder Commercial Core” to “Apartment Residential” as part of the South Vedder Neighbourhood Plan (RZ001437).