Langley City council, February 9: 302 rentals on the Nazarene site, a $1.2 million waiver and a citizens' plan for community safety
Langley City council approved a six-storey rental building with a church and child care on 200 Street, waived $1.2 million in amenity fees for it and endorsed the Citizens' Assembly safety report.
- Meeting
- Regular Council Meeting, Monday, February 9, 2026, Langley City Hall
- Official record
- Minutes (PDF) · Agenda and reports
This was a long one, running to 8:59 pm, and it was the night a 302-unit rental project on 200 Street got its final approvals.
The Nazarene project: 302 rentals, a church and child care
The Pacific Nazarene Housing Society, working with the Province’s BC Builds program, plans a six-storey building on its church lands at 19991 49 Avenue, 19990 50 Avenue and 4951 to 4991 200 Street. It would hold 302 rental apartments, a new church, a child care centre and commercial space, and the plans include the start of a new greenway link to Conder Park.
When it was first presented, 60 of the units (20 per cent) were to rent at 20 per cent below appraised market rent. By final reading that had grown: under the housing agreement, 91 units (30 per cent) will be at 20 per cent below market. The other units are market rentals.
Council adopted the whole package that night:
- Official Community Plan amendment (Bylaw 3305): carried, Councillor Mack opposed.
- Rezoning to a new CD108 zone (Bylaw 3306): carried after a point of order.
- Housing Agreement (Bylaw 3316): adopted.
- Development Permit 13-24: approved, Councillor Mack opposed. It also allows 7,705 m² of environmentally sensitive area on the site to be replaced, with compensation under the City’s guidelines.
The $1.2 million question
The part that drew the most debate was a request to waive $1,208,000 in Community Amenity Contributions. CACs are money developers pay toward things like parks and community facilities as a project’s share of the cost of growth. Waiving them makes a below-market rental project easier to finance, which is the point of BC Builds. The trade-off is that the amenity money isn’t collected from this project, so it has to come from somewhere else or the amenities wait. The waiver carried, with Councillors Mack and White opposed.
Our guide to DCCs and amenity contributions explains how these charges work.
A citizens’ plan for community safety
Members of Langley City’s Citizens’ Assembly, a group of residents chosen to study an issue and report back, presented their Direct Report on Community Safety and Wellbeing. It has three main recommendations:
- Resilient Neighbour Networks
- A service navigation and advocacy framework, to help people find and get the help that exists
- Balancing prevention and visibility in community safety
There are four supporting ones: housing with supports, a future citizens’ assembly on housing, better communication systems, and a Mobile Integrated Crisis Response unit, which pairs police with a mental health professional. Council endorsed the report. The crisis response idea came back as a council motion on April 13.
SkyTrain update
The Transportation Investment Corporation’s project director for the Surrey Langley SkyTrain gave council an update on last year’s construction and what’s coming in 2026. The line extends the Expo Line along Fraser Highway, ending in Langley City.
Smaller items
- Triplex: Development Permit 09-23 approved a triplex at 5135 208A Street.
- Fraser Highway encroachment: an easement agreement was approved for the building at 20769 Fraser Highway, part of which sits in the road allowance.
- Road closure and radio bylaws: Bylaw 3311 (closing a 94.1 m² strip of road beside 4505–4525 200A Street so the City can sell it) and Bylaw 3333 (requiring systems that boost emergency responders’ radios inside buildings) got three readings. Both were adopted February 23.
- Tree bylaw fees and fines (Bylaws 3327 and 3328) were adopted.
- A mural in council chambers: Councillor Wallace’s motion carried to install an Expressive Youth Project mural on the west wall of the council chamber, a project of the Lower Fraser Valley Aboriginal Society funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Two motions that went nowhere
Councillor White’s motion on transparency and local input in regional representation found no seconder, so it wasn’t debated. Councillor Mack’s motion on commercial kennel disclosure (related to the animal control contract) was ruled out of order by the chair. She appealed the ruling, and the appeal was lost. Earlier, council had amended the agenda to change the wording of that motion from “direct” to “request”.
More background: How development gets approved · How to read a council agenda