Here are some highlights from the March 23, 2026, City Council meeting. For more information – including the full agenda listing – read the Regular Council Meeting Agenda and its attachments.
UNBC reverter clause support
Council received a presentation from the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) about their Land Trust initiative and plans for future redevelopment.
UNBC is proposing a long-term land trust development on 47 acres near its Prince George campus to create a mixed-use community with up to 1,800 housing units and space for economic activity.
The project aims to increase housing supply, support workforce attraction, and generate significant property tax revenue while strengthening connections between the university and the broader community. UNBC is requesting that Council advocate to the Province to remove a reverter clause on a portion of the land to enable development certainty and support partnerships needed to advance the project.
Council unanimously agreed to refer the matter of the land trust to the Standing Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs to continue advocacy to the Province for the removal of the Provincial reverter clause attached to the UNBC lands.
Studio 2880 rezoning
Council approved the first three readings of a zoning bylaw amendment application for the city owned property where Studio 2880 is located.
The rezoning changes the property from P3: Major Institutional to RM6: Mid-Rise Residential. This rezoning will facilitate a mixed use development on the subject property with a building height restriction of six storeys.
Committee of the whole grant decisions
Council approved the recommendations made at the March 3, 2026 Committee of the Whole meeting.
These approvals were for the 2026–2027 Limited Duration Operating Grant funding allocations, in the amount of $131,576 for each year. A total of 15 different non-profit organizations will share the funding.
The motion related to Existing Multiyear Funding Grant Agreements from the Committee of the Whole meeting was also approved, which requests administration bring a report back detailing possible mechanisms to consider increase funding requests in relation to these grants. This was after it was presented that five organizations in this grant stream were asking for increases in funding for 2027, totaling $53,050.
February building permit summary
Council received a building permit and development permit summary for February 2026. The report includes all residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional permits, and the estimated total construction value of each development. The February total is made up of 20 commercial/industrial permit and 17 residential permits, worth a combined total of $12.2 million. This is up on previous years for February numbers, with the 2025 February total being 16 permits totaling $3.1 million. The year-to-date figure for January and February combined for 2026 is 47 permits valued at $15 million.
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