Livable Region Strategic Plan

Adopted in 1996, the Livable Region Strategic Plan (LRSP) is Metro Vancouver's regional growth strategy. The primary goal of the plan is to help maintain regional livability and protect the environment in the face of anticipated growth. The four main objectives of the plan are:

• Protect the Green Zone: which includes major parks, watersheds, ecologically important areas and farmland. It also establishes a long-term growth boundary.
   
• Build complete communities: to provide urban centres of varying sizes where jobs are closer to where people live. These centres should be accessible by transit, have shopping and other services near home, and have a choice of housing types.
   
• Achieve a compact metropolitan region: by encouraging a greater proportion of the region's population to live within the "growth concentration area" in the central part of the region.
   
• Increase transportation choice: by promoting the use of public transit, walking and cycling.
   

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