Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) has undergone significant expansion over the past few years, presenting various challenges that affect livability in the neighbourhood.

We worked closely with the Interior Health Authority on a Hospital Area Plan to guide future redevelopment and address parking and transportation needs. Overall, the Hospital Area Plan is a combined land use, transportation and parking strategy, with the goal of creating a vibrant health district that supports hospital-related services while maintaining the integrity of established neighbourhoods.

Our built environment, including homes, neighbourhoods, schools, streets, workplaces and parks, are the places and spaces in which we live, work, play and learn. When strategically designed, these places can reduce obesity and chronic diseases, like heart disease and diabetes, and improve our well-being and social connections.

Like many other cities around the world, Kelowna is grappling with how to build a vibrant, healthy and sustainable city in the face of challenges including climate change, a growing prevalence of chronic health conditions and an aging population.

Agriculture is historically significant in Kelowna, shaping both its development pattern and economy. Agricultural land plays an essential role in improving our residents’ quality of life, offers an aesthetically diverse landscape, is an essential part of our green infrastructure (retaining rainwater, preventing flooding and recharging aquifers), and ensures food security. An agriculture plan focuses on a community's farm area to discover practical solutions to challenges, identify opportunities to strengthen farming and ultimately contribute to agriculture and the community'

We're working to create vibrant urban centres, a balanced transportation network and an inclusive community. Infrastructure projects improve and maintain outdoor spaces, buildings, active transportation networks, utilities, roads and bridges. 

We have an inventory and maps of environmentally sensitive areas including creeks, wetlands, grasslands, old growth forests, sensitive ecosystems and the Okanagan Lake foreshore. Twenty-seven creeks and 278 wetlands have been identified within the city.  

These inventories help us, the development community and residents better protect, improve and enhance our environmentally sensitive ecosystems. 

Current City of Kelowna rebate top-up programs

Thinking about installing EV chargers in your multi-unit residential building?

The City of Kelowna has partnered with the Province of British Columbia and FortisBC to offer top-up rebates to building owners and strata councils for implementing EV charging solutions. The current rebate offerings including top-ups are the following:

You can help protect and clean Kelowna’s waterbodies through the Adopt-a-Stream and Yellow Fish Road programs.

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Kelowna has experienced the havoc that climate change can cause to a community, with back-to-back years of record spring precipitation causing historic flooding followed by hot dry summers that contributed to droughts and wildfires (2017 and 2018).