City of Nanaimo Projects

Title and Summary	Category	Status	Start Date	End date
Rent Supplements Rent supplements are support payments to renters that bridge the gap between what an individual or family can afford to pay and what the actual cost of housing is.	Category:	Active
Commercial Street Improvements - Wharf to Church Street This page provides information about the first phase of construction of the Design Commercial project.	Category: Engineering	Active
Bradley Street Traffic Calming	Category: Transportation	Active
Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing The Province of British Columbia has passed new legislation, Bill 44 – Housing Statutes Amendment Act 2023, requiring local governments to update zoning bylaws to allow Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing (SSMUH) on any lots currently zoned for a single family home or duplex by June 30, 2024.	Category:	Active
Transit-Oriented Areas The Province of British Columbia has passed new legislation, Bill 47 – Transit Oriented Areas Amendment Act to establish transit-supported densities adjacent to transit exchanges. Three transit exchanges in Nanaimo are subject Transit Oriented Areas: Woodgrove, Country Club & VIU.	Category:	Active
HEART and HEARTH The Ministry of Housing has identified the City of Nanaimo as a priority community to participate in the Provincial programs Homeless Encampment Action Response Team (HEART); and Homeless Encampment Action Response Temporary Housing (HEARTH).	Category: Planning	Active
First Street Utility Upgrades A comprehensive infrastructure improvement project, in the First St Area focusing on the upgrade and replacement of aging utility systems, including water and sanitary mains, along Bowen Road, Doric Avenue, and First Street. Key features include the construction of a raised intersection at Doric and Bowen.	Category:	Active
Park Avenue Concept Plan (933 Park Avenue)	Category: Planning	Active	07/22/2022
Downtown Transit Exchange	Category:	Active
South Downtown Waterfront - 1 Port Drive The City of Nanaimo acquired the lands at 1 Port Drive from CP Rail in March 2013	Category: Planning	Active
Nanaimo Waterfront Walkway In December 2017, Nanaimo City Council endorsed the Nanaimo Waterfront Walkway Implementation Plan which outlines how the waterfront walkway can be upgraded and expanded from Departure Bay to the Nanaimo River Estuary.	Category: Engineering	Active	05/17/2017
Nanaimo Region Rent Bank A rent bank is an eviction prevention and housing stability service that provides interest free loans to low-to-moderate income renter households facing eviction or in need of assistance to pay essential utilities because of a short-term financial crisis.	Category:	Active
MONITORING STRATEGY The Monitoring Strategy will be a supporting document to City Plan: Nanaimo ReImagined and the Integrated Action Plan, and is designed to assess the overall progress towards achieving City Plan's Nanaimo Framework. The Framework includes the Five City Goals: Green, Connected, Healthy, Empowered, & Prosperous.	Category: Planning	Active
6 Commercial Street Expression of Interest The City of Nanaimo has issued an Expression of Interest (EOI) to gauge interest in the redevelopment of the former Jean Burns property at 6 Commercial Street. Council is keen to see this high profile site brought back into productive use.	Category: Planning	Active
Albert / Fourth Complete Street & Utility Upgrades This page provides information about the Albert/Fourth Complete Street & Utility Upgrade Project.	Category: Engineering	Active
INTEGRATED ACTION PLAN Implementation of City Plan: Nanaimo ReImagined is supported by two key documents, an Integrated Action Plan and a Monitoring Strategy. The Integrated Action Plan is designed to communicate a range of key actions the City of Nanaimo is already doing on an ongoing basis as well as actions to be prioritized as “Immediate” to be done in the next four years or “Future” beyond four years. The Integrated Action Plan is intended to be reviewed and updated regularly and aligned with capital plans and budgets to ensure that actions are coordinated and reflect Council priorities to achieve City Plan Goals.	Category: Planning	Active
Nanaimo Acute Response Table The City of Nanaimo is working with community partners to develop a Situation Table (table) that consists of a multi-agency team focused on addressing specific situations where the probability of a vulnerable person or family experiencing harm is imminent, significant and cuts across multiple human service sectors. The table serves vulnerable individuals or families in situations of acutely elevated risk where risk prevention cannot be addressed by a single agency alone. Agencies at the table work collaboratively and rapidly to connect individuals and families to services before they experience a traumatic event.	Category: Planning	Active
Nanaimo BMX Race Track Redevelopment	Category: Parks	Active
Nanaimo Youth Resilience Strategy The City of Nanaimo is working to address gun and gang violence in partnership with Public Safety Canada through the Building Safer Communities Fund. The City of Nanaimo has been allocated $1.8 million over the next four years to develop and implement a strategy that will prevent gun and gang violence in Nanaimo. The Strategy was endorsed by Council at its regular Council meeting on May 1st, 2023. The City is working to develop a three year contribution agreement with Public Safety Canada. For all Strategy documents, see below.	Category: Planning	Active
Midtown Gateway Project The Midtown Gateway Project is transforming a legacy brownfield site impacted by past industrial activity into a revitalized neighbourhood gateway. It features new complete street transportation corridors, a new naturalized storm water wetland with public walking trails, and enhanced access to our premier recreation complex - Beban Park.	Category: Engineering	Active	08/22/2022	12/31/2024
Fifth Street Complete Street The Fifth Street Complete Street project aims to increase the safety and comfort for people who walk, bike, take transit, and drive along this corridor. This project will see the continuation of on-street cycling facilities between the Downtown Mobility Hub and Vancouver Island University Mobility Hub, which is the City's largest cycling destination. At this time, the construction of the corridor has been postponed, but the signalization of the Fifth Street and Bruce Avenue intersection was completed in December 2023.	Category: Engineering	Active
Mobility, Accessibility and Safety Improvement Projects A variety of small-scale mobility, accessibility, and safety improvements around the City.	Category: Transportation	Active	09/01/2018	12/31/2020
Third Street - Utility & Complete Street Upgrades This project is designed to enhance the safety and comfort of pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, and drivers, while simultaneously carrying out utility upgrades that align with the planned improvements to the surface infrastructure.	Category: Engineering	Active
Public Works Yard Updates (Nanaimo Operations Centre) To address the long-standing and increasingly unsustainable health, safety, environmental and operational shortcomings of the site in a fiscally responsible manner.	Category: Facilities	Active
Increasing Adaptable Housing This page provides information about the policy project intended to encourage more adaptable and accessible housing units within the City of Nanaimo. Adaptable and Accessible housing refers to housing that accommodates all residents regardless of their abilities. An Accessible dwelling is designed to meet the needs of people with all abilities; an Adaptable dwelling is designed to be easily renovated to meet tenant or owner's changing accessibility needs.	Category: Planning	Active	08/26/2021	01/01/2022
Increasing Family-Friendly Housing This page provides information about the policy project intended to encourage more multiple family-friendly housing units within the City of Nanaimo.	Category: Planning	Active	08/26/2021	01/01/2023
Terminal Avenue Upgrades Terminal Avenue is an important gateway to Nanaimo’s downtown core. Over a number of years, community consultation efforts have consistently highlighted the need for redevelopment along Terminal Avenue. Building off the “Terminal-Nicol Re-imagined” document (a grassroots effort to develop a planning document to push forward the redevelopment of Terminal Avenue) the City is taking steps to create a cohesive vision for a vibrant, thriving downtown Nanaimo.	Category: Engineering	Active
Midtown Water Supply Upgrades The Midtown Water Supply Project is an important multi-year / multi-phase major water infrastructure upgrade project that will serve the community for generations and will provide resiliency in the City's core water supply network.	Category: Engineering	Active	03/12/2021
Bowen Park Creatures Art Project This art project explores and celebrates Bowen Park, inviting curiosity about the life and relationships in the park– plant, animal, and human.	Category: Arts and Culture	Active
The Georgia Greenway "Slow Street" Phase 1 of the Georgia Greenway project was completed in 2019. The multi-year phased project is now underway will extend the Georgia Greenway from Fourth Street to Eighth Street by introducing several "Slow Street" measures including a reduced speed limit, traffic calming features, and cycling improvements.	Category: Transportation	Active	07/01/2020	04/15/2024
Lost Lake Road Traffic Calming	Category: Transportation	Active	05/04/2020	12/31/2023
REIMAGINE NANAIMO REIMAGINE NANAIMO represents an engagement process that involved thousands of inputs from the community, interested and affected agencies and organizations including government-to-government engagement with Snuneymuxw First Nation. City Plan: Nanaimo ReImagined, the City’s strategic planning document for the coming 25 years, is a result of that engagement process.	Category: Planning	Active
Harewood Centennial Playground Improvements In 2010, City Council adopted an improvement plan for Harewood Centennial Park to ensure that the outdated park amenities were improved to meet the recreational needs and desires of the changing community	Category: Parks	Active
Te'tuxwtun Project (Fifth Street Properties) The purpose of the Te’tuxwtun Project is for the Knowledge Partners to explore opportunities for joint development and partnership on all three properties. It is the Knowledge Partners’ intention to enhance the community through housing, services and amenities. The Te’tuxwtun Project, built on the teachings of the land, is envisioned to provide the foundation to both protect and improve the quality of life for all present and future community members. Priorities for the project include: New affordable rental housing A new location for the Learning Alternatives school district program Culture, parks and recreation services Other community services identified through the planning process, such as health services and childcare Snuneymuxw First Nation will guide the growth and development of the three properties, bringing a wealth of cultural knowledge to the project.	Category: Planning	Active	12/17/2018	03/31/2022
Linley Valley Park Planning With the addition of 20.2 hectares (50 acres) added in May 2018 located off of Tanya Drive, a planning process for Linley Valley Park will be undertaken.	Category: Parks	Active
Beban Park Master Plan Update In 2015, a master plan update process was completed to ensure that this park campus meets the current and future recreational needs of the community	Category: Parks	Active
Harewood Centennial Park Improvements In 2010, City Council adopted an improvement plan for Harewood Centennial Park to ensure that the outdated park amenities were improved to meet the recreational needs and desires of the changing community	Category: Parks	Active
Maffeo Sutton Park Master Plan Update The City of Nanaimo is working to further improve Maffeo Sutton Park.	Category: Parks	Active	06/21/2015

Last updated: June 20, 2024

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