Align with the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) Regional Growth Strategy (RGS). This includes updating the Regional Context Statement and relevant OCP policies, including amendments to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and the renewable energy goal timeline.

At least once every five years, the SLRD must consider whether the RGS must be reviewed for possible amendment. As the last RGS review was adopted in 2019, in 2024 the SLRD was required to consider a review of the RGS which resulted in a minor amendment to the RGS Bylaw. 

As the outcome of the RGS minor amendment process, on January 29, 2025, the SLRD Board adopted “Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Regional Growth Strategy Bylaw No. 1062, 2008, Amendment Bylaw No. 1872-2024”.

The amended RGS includes new policies that are required to be addressed through the regional context statements and OCP policies of member municipalities within the next two years.  

Based on analysis of the RGS minor amendments and current RMOW plans and policies, RMOW OCP policies and regional context statements are required to be updated to address the following RGS policy: