This sidebar provides information on the major policies and planning tools in the Gabriola Official Community Plan (OCP) that address issues of growth and its management on Gabriola Island. It covers the following: 

• **Important Info: Growth on Gabriola **
• Key Policies on Managing Growth
• Key Policies on Density
• Subdivision Regulations
• Secondary Suites Regulations
• New Policies that May Address the Negative Impacts of Growth
• Gabriola Island Development Potential (2021 DRAFT) Map
• BC Energy Step Code & Universal Access Design
• Glossary

Key Considerations

Gabriola’s Official Community Plan speaks to growth largely in relation to limiting additional density rather than managing growth in ways that would help to meet important social and environmental goals, such as the need for affordable housing and the need to protect and preserve our Coastal Douglas-Fir ecosystem and groundwater.