Bill 44 Tracker
Bill 44 requires BC municipalities to permit small-scale multi-unit housing on most single-family lots. Implementation is happening one staff report at a time, across 21 municipalities in Metro Vancouver, and very little of it is reported.
This page tracks it, starting with Surrey. A script reads the city’s corporate reports and planning reports, along with regional and provincial news, and surfaces anything that touches SSMUH. Report titles are usually just an application number, so the search runs against the documents themselves rather than their headings.
Every entry published here has been read and annotated by me. The note is the point. An unreviewed feed would just be noise.
Related: my thesis on whether Bill 44 upzoning actually produces affordable housing.
3 reviewed items. Last checked 11 September 2026.
Planning Report 7926-0127-00, 13003 Old Yale Road
City of Surrey: Planning Reports
A six-unit SSMUH proposal at 13003 Old Yale Road combining a houseplex, a garden suite and a coach house. Staff recommend the application be referred back rather than supported: the requested setback variances do not comply with the Urban Residential (R3) zone, and staff want it revised to fit. A useful case of the distance between what SSMUH zoning permits and what a particular lot will actually carry.
R162: Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing Review Framework
City of Surrey: Corporate Reports
Surrey staff review of the roughly 72,000 properties made SSMUH-eligible inside the Urban Containment Boundary. The city has approved 465 building permits yielding 943 net new units: 71% duplexes, 22% garden suites or coach houses, 7% houseplexes. Engineering estimates $820 to $870 million to upsize 260 km of small diameter water main and 100 km of sanitary sewer over a 40 to 50 year horizon, and warns that without amendments to Subdivision and Development Bylaw 8830 those costs fall on existing ratepayers rather than on developing properties.
R149: Inclusionary Housing in Select Transit-Oriented Areas (Phased Implementation)
City of Surrey: Corporate Reports
Surrey’s framework for inclusionary zoning in transit-oriented areas, required to meet its $100.7 million Housing Accelerator Fund commitment to draft an inclusionary zoning bylaw by 30 September 2026. It amends Zoning Bylaw 12000 and creates Inclusionary Affordable Housing Reserve Fund Bylaw 22093, but phases implementation so the inclusionary requirements themselves are deferred in the near term, balancing the city’s affordability objectives against current economic and development conditions. The deadline gets met; the requirements wait.