FVRD wins Silver for PIBC’s Award for Excellence in Planning Practice

June 8, 2026

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For Immediate Release

FVRD wins Silver for PIBC’s Award for Excellence in Planning Practice

Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) and Dialog BC received the 2026 Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) Award for Excellence in Planning Practice: Small Community and Rural Areas in the silver category for the Fraser Canyon Complete Community Assessment project.

The year-long project funded by the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) provided a detailed look at housing, transportation, infrastructure, and access to daily needs (services) in the canyon communities. The project was guided by four themes: housing, access to daily needs, transportation, and infrastructure.  The study identified opportunities to strengthen community hubs, improve local livability and inform the Official Community Plan update for parts of Electoral Areas A and B.

“This project helped to identify how the Fraser Canyon can evolve over the next 20-years,” said Patricia Ross, FVRD Board Chair. “I am extremely proud of the work by FVRD staff as well as how residents provided valuable feedback which showed their dedication in creating resilient communities for the future,” she said.    

The Fraser Canyon Complete Communities Study is available for viewing on the FVRD Have Your Say site https://haveyoursay.fvrd.ca/fraser-canyon-complete-communities-study.

The FVRD is the third most populous regional district in British Columbia and one of twenty-seven throughout the province. The FVRD delivers over 100 services to approximately 340,000 residents across a land base of 13,361 square kilometers. The FVRD’s eight electoral areas include all of the unincorporated communities on the north and south sides of the Fraser River, reaching up beyond the Nahatlatch River in the north and extending down to the U.S. border in the south. The FVRD is responsible for governance, administration and services for the eight electoral areas, each named separately by letters of the alphabet (A-H). Learn more about the FVRD at fvrd.ca.

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Media contact:

Samantha Piper

Manager of Communications

604-702-5089

spiper@fvrd.ca