UDI Lower Mainland submission to the Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions on the CleanBC Review.

All levels of government will need to work together in order to resolve the cost-of-delivery crisis British Columbia is facing. This includes reviewing government policies and standards being imposed on new housing. They not only need to stop growing, but they also need to be reduced. UDI's feedback on the CleanBC Review details the challenges these policies and standards impose, calling for a moratorium on adding new green building requirements at the Provincial and municipal levels. This moratorium would need to include any future plans to implement higher tiers of the step codes, as well as EVC requirements, embodied carbon standards and sustainability regulations on existing buildings. This needs to be followed up with an assessment of which green building provisions, again at the Provincial and local levels, can be relaxed with a focus on those that can provide substantial cost savings. This would include a reassessment of the implementation of the higher steps of the ESC and ZCSC at the local level and their other mandates.