Uptown TOD Project
Last updated on April 18, 2024The Uptown Transit Hub and TOD Project will create a mixed-use community that includes a future-ready transit exchange, multi-modal mobility connections, housing and public spaces.
In addition, the plan includes multiple buildings providing an increase in housing supply, new public gathering spaces, active-transportation connections, retail and commercial space, and potential for amenities, such as child care, community-health facilities and educational services.
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Uptown's Future
The development of the Uptown Transit Exchange and Transit Oriented Development project creates a future-ready transit exchange for the community. Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) involves urban planning strategies that focus on creating mixed-use, high-density communities around public transit hubs. These plans aim to increase housing supply, promote sustainable transportation options, and enhance overall livability.
The plan includes multiple buildings with hundreds of housing units, new public gathering spaces, active-transportation connections, retail and commercial space, and potential for amenities, such as child care, community-health facilities and educational services.
The new development will be designed to integrate with and enhance the existing Lochside and Galloping Goose regional trails to make it a nexus for active transportation and transit, with connections to downtown Victoria, the University of Victoria, the West Shore and the Saanich Peninsula.
In April 2022, the provincial government introduced changes to the Transportation Act that would allow the Province, through the BC Transportation Financing Authority (BCTFA), to acquire land for the purpose of building housing and community amenities to serve people near transit stations and bus exchanges.
Key Project Objectives
- Create a mixed-use community with a focus on transit and mobility hub connections, housing and public spaces.
- Provide a future-ready transit exchange.
- Increase market rental and affordable housing unit supply.
- Community services such as government offices, childcare, education, civic amenities, health clinics and retail and restaurant space.
Key Project Features
- The rapid bus exchange will have capacity to meet BC Transit’s expected long term (20+ year) service planning assumptions for local and regional bus service connections in the Uptown area of 95+ buses per hour at peak.
- The site will integrate with and enhance the existing regional trail network (Galloping Goose and Lochside trails), attracting active transportation users.
- Convenient proximity to the Trans Canada Highway #1.
Next Steps
Planning for this development is in the early conceptual stages and more information will be available when stakeholder engagement and detailed designs are advanced.
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tod@gov.bc.ca