Peachland, BC

The Ponderosa/Pincushion Ridge Area Structure Plan will govern development activities within the project area by prescribing, among other things, environmental management, future land use, infrastructure implementation, and settlement pattern. The Area Structure Plan seeks to create a sustainable future for this new part of Peachland by integrating land uses in a compact urban form. The adjacency of a complex variety of different land uses will reduce the need for vehicle transportation and help reduce the “carbon footprint” of the community by a strategy of proximity between the uses required for a balanced settlement. By providing for a variety of housing choices, the settlement will address the needs of affordable housing and age-in-place livability, and will offer a lifestyle-enriching, interactive social setting. The compact urban form of the settlement areas is a maintenance efficient urban pattern, offering benefits to the fiscal operation of the District of Peachland by reducing the servicing and upkeep costs on a unit basis. New property taxes for both residential, tourism and commercial uses is ongoing while Development Cost Charge payments will offset any burden on the general infrastructure for the impacts of growth on the broader community.