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The same report describes the plan as reducing waste per person in the region by more than one third by 2031 (page 4). The chart draws the 250 kg line without a calendar year." }, { "kind": "higher", "doc": "bc_zero_waste", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Higher government target: the Province has set a disposal target of 350 kg per person. 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The chart draws the cap that applies to each year shown. The policy prints no formula for the ratio. The ratio calculated here from the City’s published rates was 3.50 in 2025 and 3.40 in 2026, the same as the caps for those years." } ], "caveat_replace": [ "The policy prints no formula for the ratio.", "The policy prints no formula for the ratio. The ratio calculated here from the City’s published rates was 3.50 in 2025 and 3.40 in 2026, the same as the caps for those years. The cap is drawn for each year shown." ], "meta": { "set_by": "COV", "instrument": "bylaw", "polarity": "cap", "unit": "to 1", "status_note": "The policy prints no formula for the ratio; the ratio calculated here equalled the cap in 2025 and in 2026.", "refs": { "cap": { "end": "City cap", "local": true, "path": true } } } }, "transit-on-time": { "rung": 1, "refs": [ { "key": "otp", "style": "target", "label": "BC Transit on-time target, reported to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission", "short": "BC Transit target", "doc": "bct_fall26", "page": 4, "area": "Victoria Regional Transit System", "steps": [ { "start": "2024-11-01", "end": "2025-01-31", "value": 70, "doc": "bct_mar25" }, { "start": "2025-02-01", "end": null, "value": 72.5, "doc": "bct_jun25" } ] } ], "items": [ { "kind": "target", "doc": "bct_fall26", "page": 4, "area": "Victoria Regional Transit System", "text": "Target: BC Transit reports on-time performance to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission against a target. The target was 70% in the report for November 2024 to January 2025, and 72.5% in every report since, starting with February to May 2025. The chart draws the target in force for each period shown. The reports cited here do not print BC Transit’s definition of “on time”." }, { "kind": "target", "doc": "bct_fall26", "page": 3, "area": "Victoria Regional Transit System", "text": "The same report sets a 99.5% target for scheduled service delivered. Service delivered was 100% from April to July 2026 (see “Also in the report”)." } ], "meta": { "set_by": "BCT", "instrument": "plan", "polarity": "floor", "unit": "%", "refs": { "otp": { "end": "Target: 72.5%", "local": true } } } }, "community-ghg-emissions": { "rung": 1, "items": [ { "kind": "target", "doc": "ghg_page", "area": "City of Victoria", "text": "Adopted target: the City has committed to cutting community greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, compared with 2007. No chart is drawn yet, because only one inventory year is shown." }, { "kind": "caveat", "doc": "clp2024", "page": 4, "area": "City of Victoria", "text": "The 2050 target is not shown, because City documents differ. The City’s 2024 climate action survey response gives an 80% cut from 2007 by 2050, and the 2024 Climate Leadership Plan progress report says an updated plan will replace that goal with net zero emissions by 2050. The City’s greenhouse gas page names a shift to 100% renewable energy by 2050." } ], "docs_extra": [ "lgcap2024" ], "meta": { "set_by": "COV", "instrument": "plan", "polarity": "lower_is_better", "unit": "% change from 2007", "text_targets": [ { "value": -50, "by_date": "2030", "baseline_value": 0, "baseline_date": "2007", "fit": "full", "local": true, "doc": "ghg_page", "label": "Cut community greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, compared with 2007", "short": "Target: 50% cut by 2030" } ] } }, "housing-target-progress": { "rung": 1, "items": [ { "kind": "target", "doc": "hto", "area": "City of Victoria", "text": "Adopted target: the Province’s Housing Target Order for Victoria. The cumulative target is drawn as its own line. The next progress report is due November 14, 2026; this page will update after it is published." } ], "meta": { "set_by": "BC", "instrument": "order", "polarity": "higher_is_better", "unit": "net new homes", "text_targets": [ { "value": null, "by_date": "2028-09-30", "fit": "full", "local": true, "path": true, "doc": "hto", "label": "Housing Target Order M286/2023: cumulative targets for each year, drawn as their own line", "short": "Target to date" } ] } }, "consumer-prices-victoria": { "rung": 2, "relabel": { "label": "2% inflation-control target, set by the Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada (target applies to Canada)", "short": "2% target (applies to Canada)" }, "items": [ { "kind": "higher", "doc": "boc", "area": "Canada", "text": "Higher government target: the Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada aim to keep inflation at 2%, the midpoint of a 1% to 3% control range, renewed in November 2026. Target applies to Canada; Victoria’s rate is shown against it for reference. The range is shaded on the chart." }, { "kind": "compare", "doc": null, "area": "British Columbia, Canada", "text": "The B.C. and Canada lines are comparisons, not goals." } ], "refs": [ { "key": "boc_band", "style": "band", "band": [ 1, 3 ], "label": "1% to 3% inflation-control range, set by the Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada (applies to Canada)", "short": "1% to 3% range (applies to Canada)", "doc": "boc", "area": "Canada" } ], "meta": { "set_by": "BOC", "instrument": "agreement", "polarity": "band", "unit": "%", "refs": { "boc_band": { "end": "1% to 3% (Canada)", "local": false, "set_by": "CAN" } }, "ref_rl": { "end": "2% (Canada)", "local": false } } }, "rental-vacancy-rate": { "rung": 2, "chart": 0, "refs": [ { "key": "hnr3", "style": "higher", "value": 3, "label": "3% healthy vacancy rate used in the Province’s housing needs method (June 2024 guidance)", "short": "3% in provincial housing needs method", "doc": "hnr_guide", "page": 11, "area": "Each municipality", "steps": [ { "start": "2024-06-01", "end": null, "value": 3 } ] } ], "items": [ { "kind": "higher", "doc": "hnr_guide", "page": 11, "area": "Each municipality", "text": "Higher government benchmark: the Province’s housing needs method, in its June 2024 guidance, says rates between 3% and 5% are typically considered healthy and uses 3% when it calculates how many homes a community needs. It is a planning benchmark, not a target with a date. It is drawn from 2024, when that guidance applies." } ], "meta": { "set_by": "BC", "instrument": "guidance", "polarity": "floor", "unit": "%", "refs": { "hnr3": { "end": "3% (provincial method)", "local": false } } } }, "emergency-wait": { "rung": 3, "chart": 0, "refs": [ { "key": "caep", "style": "standard", "value": 3, "label": "Professional standard, not a government commitment: 9 in 10 patients seen by a doctor within 3 hours (Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, 2013)", "short": "Professional standard: 3 hours (not a government commitment)", "doc": "caep", "area": "Any emergency department", "steps": [ { "start": "2013-01-01", "end": null, "value": 3 } ] } ], "items": [ { "kind": "standard", "doc": "caep", "area": "Any emergency department", "text": "Professional standard, not a government commitment: the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians says 9 in 10 patients should see a doctor within 3 hours of arriving, the same 90th percentile measure shown here." }, { "kind": "none", "doc": "moh_sp", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "No government target for emergency department waits found in the Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C. and Island Health.", "group": "Province of B.C.", "who": "Province of B.C. and Island Health" }, { "kind": "compare", "doc": null, "area": "Island Health, British Columbia, Canada", "text": "The Island Health, B.C. and Canada lines on the second chart are comparisons, not goals." } ], "meta": { "set_by": null, "instrument": "standard", "polarity": "lower_is_better", "unit": "hours", "refs": { "caep": { "end": "Standard: 3 hours", "local": false } } } }, "toxic-drug-deaths": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "moh_sp", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "No target for toxic drug deaths found in the Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C.", "group": "Province of B.C.", "who": "Province of B.C." }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "moh_sp", "page": 8, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: the same plan aims for 46% of people on opioid agonist treatment to stay on it for at least 12 months in 2026/27, rising to 48% in 2028/29. It measures treatment, not deaths." } ] }, "people-experiencing-homelessness": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "belonging", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "No target for the number of people experiencing homelessness found in Belonging in BC (the Province’s homelessness plan) or the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C., the Capital Regional District and municipalities.", "docs": [ "belonging", "hous_sp" ], "group": "Several governments", "who": "Province of B.C., Capital Regional District and municipalities" }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "reaching_home", "area": "Canada", "text": "Related target, not drawn: Canada’s Reaching Home strategy aims to reduce chronic homelessness by 50 percent by 2027-28, across Canada. It covers chronic homelessness only, so it does not fit a count of everyone experiencing homelessness." } ] }, "point-in-time-count": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "belonging", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "No target for the number of people experiencing homelessness found in Belonging in BC (the Province’s homelessness plan) or the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C., the Capital Regional District and municipalities.", "docs": [ "belonging", "hous_sp" ], "group": "Several governments", "who": "Province of B.C., Capital Regional District and municipalities" }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "reaching_home", "area": "Canada", "text": "Related target, not drawn: Canada’s Reaching Home strategy aims to reduce chronic homelessness by 50 percent by 2027-28, across Canada. It covers chronic homelessness only, so it does not fit a count of everyone experiencing homelessness." } ] }, "crime-severity-index": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "pssg_sp", "area": "Greater Victoria", "docs": [ "pssg_sp", "vicpd_plan" ], "text": "No target for Greater Victoria’s Crime Severity Index found in the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026) or the Victoria Police Department’s strategic plan page, as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the region’s police boards and the Province of B.C.", "group": "Police boards", "who": "The region’s police boards and the Province of B.C." }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "pssg_sp", "page": 8, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: the same plan aims to lower B.C.’s violent Crime Severity Index to 90.4 in 2026, 88.6 in 2027 and 86.8 in 2028, and the non-violent index to 89.6, 87.8 and 86.0. Those targets apply to all of B.C. and split violent from non-violent crime, so they are not drawn on this chart." } ] }, "csi-police-service": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "pssg_sp", "area": "Victoria and Esquimalt", "docs": [ "pssg_sp", "vicpd_plan" ], "text": "No target for this Crime Severity Index found in the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026) or the Victoria Police Department’s strategic plan page, as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board, with the City, and the Province of B.C.", "group": "Police boards", "who": "Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board, with the City, and the Province of B.C." }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "pssg_sp", "page": 8, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: the same plan aims to lower B.C.’s violent Crime Severity Index to 90.4 in 2026, 88.6 in 2027 and 86.8 in 2028, and the non-violent index to 89.6, 87.8 and 86.0. Those targets apply to all of B.C. and split violent from non-violent crime, so they are not drawn on this chart." } ] }, "multi-unit-permit-days": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "city_permits", "area": "City of Victoria", "docs": [ "fin_plan", "city_permits" ], "text": "No target for permit times found in the City’s Five Year Financial Plan Bylaw, 2026 or its Building Permits and Building and Renovating web pages, as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: Victoria City Council.", "group": "City Council", "who": "Victoria City Council" } ] }, "fsa-on-track": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "educ_sp", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "No target for Grade 7 numeracy found in the Ministry of Education and Child Care 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C. and boards of education.", "group": "Province of B.C.", "who": "Province of B.C. and boards of education" } ] }, "police-satisfaction": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "vicpd_plan", "area": "Victoria and Esquimalt", "text": "No target for this survey result found in the Victoria Police Department’s strategic plan page, as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board.", "group": "Police boards", "who": "Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board" }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "pssg_sp", "page": 12, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan aims to raise the share of British Columbians with a lot of confidence in their local municipal police to 50% in 2026, 51% in 2027 and 52% in 2028. It is a different survey and question, for all of B.C., so it is not drawn." } ] }, "capital-delivery": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "fin_plan", "area": "City of Victoria", "docs": [ "fin_plan", "ar2025" ], "text": "No target for the share of planned capital work carried out found in the City’s Five Year Financial Plan Bylaw, 2026 or its 2025 Annual Report, as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: Victoria City Council.", "group": "City Council", "who": "Victoria City Council" } ] }, "scheduled-surgery-wait": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "moh_sp", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "No target for this measure found in the Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C. and Island Health.", "group": "Province of B.C.", "who": "Province of B.C. and Island Health" }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "moh_sp", "page": 10, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: the same plan aims for 70% of urgent surgeries to be done within four weeks in 2026/27, 72% in 2027/28 and 74% in 2028/29, for all of B.C. This page does not show that share." }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "cihi_hip", "area": "Canada", "text": "Related benchmark, not drawn: the national benchmark that the Canadian Institute for Health Information reports for hip and knee replacement is 26 weeks, counted from when the patient is ready for surgery. The B.C. file used here counts from when the health authority receives the booking form, so the two are not the same measure." } ] }, "surgery-waiting-list-weeks": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "moh_sp", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "No target for this measure found in the Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C. and Island Health.", "group": "Province of B.C.", "who": "Province of B.C. and Island Health" }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "moh_sp", "page": 10, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: the same plan aims for 70% of urgent surgeries to be done within four weeks in 2026/27, 72% in 2027/28 and 74% in 2028/29, for all of B.C. This page does not show that share." } ] }, "regular-health-care-provider": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "related", "doc": "moh_sp", "page": 8, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: the Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan aims for 78% of British Columbians to be attached to a family doctor or nurse practitioner in 2026/27, rising to 80% in 2028/29. It counts people on the Province’s attachment lists, not survey answers, so it is not drawn on this survey chart." } ] }, "school-completion": { "rung": 2, "chart": 1, "refs": [ { "key": "nonind", "style": "higher", "label": "Ministry target, non-Indigenous students, five-year completion (applies to all of B.C.)", "short": "Target, non-Indigenous students (all of B.C.)", "doc": "educ_sp", "page": 7, "area": "British Columbia", "steps": [ { "start": "2026-07-01", "end": "2027-06-30", "value": 93 }, { "start": "2027-07-01", "end": "2028-06-30", "value": 94 }, { "start": "2028-07-01", "end": "2029-06-30", "value": 95 } ] }, { "key": "ind", "style": "higher", "label": "Ministry target, Indigenous students, five-year completion (applies to all of B.C.)", "short": "Target, Indigenous students (all of B.C.)", "doc": "educ_sp", "page": 7, "area": "British Columbia", "steps": [ { "start": "2026-07-01", "end": "2027-06-30", "value": 69 }, { "start": "2027-07-01", "end": "2028-06-30", "value": 71 }, { "start": "2028-07-01", "end": "2029-06-30", "value": 73 } ] } ], "items": [ { "kind": "higher", "doc": "educ_sp", "page": 7, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Higher government target, not drawn yet: the Ministry of Education and Child Care 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan aims for five-year completion of 93% for non-Indigenous students and 69% for Indigenous students in 2026/27, rising to 95% and 73% in 2028/29. Targets apply to all of B.C. The second chart shows the same five-year rate from the Province’s file. The targets start with the 2026/27 school year, after the latest year shown, so their lines appear only once that year is published. They are not drawn on the six-year chart." }, { "kind": "note", "doc": "edu_file", "area": "School districts 61, 62 and 63, and B.C.", "text": "The five-year rates by Indigenous status come from the same Province file as the six-year rate, combined for the three districts as successes divided by the cohort less estimated out-migration." } ], "meta": { "set_by": "BC", "instrument": "plan", "polarity": "higher_is_better", "unit": "%", "refs": { "nonind": { "end": "B.C. target", "local": false }, "ind": { "end": "B.C. target", "local": false } } } }, "average-rent-2-bedroom": { "rung": 4, "items": [ { "kind": "cap", "doc": "rtb", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Legal limit for sitting tenants, not drawn: the Province’s yearly limit on rent increases for existing tenants was 3% in 2025 and is 2.3% in 2026 (2.2% in 2027). CMHC’s average rent covers sitting tenants and new tenancies together, and this page shows rent in dollars, not a yearly change, so the limit is not drawn." } ], "rung_name": "Legal limit for sitting tenants, not drawn" }, "asking-rent-2-bedroom": { "rung": 4, "items": [ { "kind": "note", "doc": "rtb", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Asking rents are for homes listed for a new tenancy. The Province’s yearly limit applies to rent increases for existing tenants; the Residential Tenancy Branch page names no limit on the rent set at the beginning of a new tenancy." } ] }, "below-market-and-family-homes": { "rung": 1, "items": [ { "kind": "guideline", "doc": "hto_pres", "area": "City of Victoria", "text": "Provincial guideline attached to the target order: 1,798 below-market rental homes and 736 homes with three or more bedrooms over the order’s five years, to September 30, 2028, as shown in the City’s November 13, 2025 progress report to Council. Since October 1, 2023, the Province’s report form shows 363 below-market homes and 181 homes with three or more bedrooms (110 with three bedrooms and 71 with four or more). The second chart adds up each category since October 2023 and draws both guidelines as grey dashed lines. They are guidelines for the five-year total, so no status is given before 2028." }, { "kind": "note", "doc": "hto_y2", "area": "City of Victoria", "text": "The cumulative counts above are from Section 3 of the City’s reporting period 2 form (net new units since the order took effect)." } ], "chart": 1, "refs": [ { "key": "bm1798", "style": "guideline", "value": 1798, "label": "Provincial guideline attached to the target order: 1,798 below-market rental homes by September 30, 2028", "short": "Guideline: 1,798 below-market rental homes", "doc": "hto_pres", "area": "City of Victoria", "applies": "Five-year total, to September 30, 2028" }, { "key": "fam736", "style": "guideline", "value": 736, "label": "Provincial guideline attached to the target order: 736 homes with three or more bedrooms by September 30, 2028", "short": "Guideline: 736 homes with three or more bedrooms", "doc": "hto_pres", "area": "City of Victoria", "applies": "Five-year total, to September 30, 2028" } ], "meta": { "set_by": "BC", "instrument": "order", "polarity": "higher_is_better", "unit": "homes", "refs": { "bm1798": { "end": "Guideline: 1,798", "local": false }, "fam736": { "end": "Guideline: 736", "local": false } } }, "rung_name": "Provincial guideline attached to the target order" }, "new-homes-approved": { "rung": 1, "items": [ { "kind": "related", "doc": "city_haf", "area": "City of Victoria", "text": "Related target, not drawn: under its Housing Accelerator Fund agreement with the federal government, the City’s target is 3,203 units over three years, by September 2026, and continued funding depends on meeting it and advancing the agreed actions. This page counts homes in building permits by calendar year and over the latest 12 months, not over the agreement’s three-year window or by its definition, so the target is not drawn. The agreement’s September 2026 date has passed. The count against 3,203 under the agreement’s own definition is not published as data; it is listed under data requests." }, { "kind": "note", "doc": "cmhc_haf", "area": "Canada", "text": "The Housing Accelerator Fund is run by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which publishes each agreement’s action plan summary." } ] }, "housing-starts-city": { "rung": 3, "refs": [ { "key": "need5", "style": "need", "label": "Official need estimate, not a target: 8,254 homes in the 5 years to 2026, about 1,651 a year (City Interim Housing Needs Report, October 2024)", "short": "Need estimate: about 1,651 a year (not a target)", "doc": "ihnr", "page": 3, "area": "City of Victoria", "steps": [ { "start": "2021-01-01", "end": "2025-12-31", "value": 1650.8 } ] } ], "items": [ { "kind": "need", "doc": "ihnr", "page": 3, "area": "City of Victoria", "docs": [ "ihnr", "ihnr_pres" ], "text": "Official need estimate, not a target: the City’s Interim Housing Needs Report (October 2024), which the Province required by January 1, 2025, estimates that Victoria needs 8,254 new homes in the five years to 2026 and 26,604 by 2041, counted from 2021. The dotted line spreads 8,254 evenly over five years, about 1,651 a year, and is drawn on 2021 to 2025, the five calendar years closest to the estimate’s mid-2021 to mid-2026 period; the 20-year estimate is about 1,330 a year. From 2021 to 2025, 5,807 homes were started in the City, about 1,161 a year. A start is not a completion: homes started are not yet ready to live in." } ], "meta": { "set_by": "COV", "instrument": "plan", "polarity": "higher_is_better", "unit": "homes", "refs": { "need5": { "end": "Need estimate", "local": false } } } }, "crimes-solved": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "pssg_sp", "area": "Greater Victoria", "docs": [ "pssg_sp", "vicpd_plan" ], "text": "No target for the share of crimes solved found in the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026) or the Victoria Police Department’s strategic plan page, as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the region’s police boards and the Province of B.C.", "group": "Police boards", "who": "The region’s police boards and the Province of B.C." } ] }, "police-officers-vs-authorized": { "rung": 1, "items": [ { "kind": "authorized", "doc": "statcan_pas", "area": "Victoria and Esquimalt", "text": "Authorized strength: the number of officer positions set through the police budget approved by the Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board, drawn as its own line (260 in 2025). Officers working are counted against it. It is a ceiling set in a budget, not a target for a result, so this page reads it as positions filled and unfilled. The police service reports both figures to Statistics Canada." } ], "meta": { "set_by": "POL", "instrument": "budget_direction", "polarity": "floor", "unit": "officers", "status_text": "{v} officers working against {t} authorized positions. This page takes no position on how many officers there should be.", "text_targets": [ { "value": 260, "fit": "full", "local": true, "doc": "statcan_pas", "standing": true, "label": "Authorized strength: officer positions set through the police budget (260 in 2025)", "short": "Authorized: 260" } ], "neutral": { "name": "Authorized strength", "short": "Authorized", "at": "At authorized strength", "under": "Below authorized strength", "gap_under": "positions unfilled" } }, "rung_name": "Authorized strength (set through the police budget)" }, "city-reserves": { "rung": 4, "items": [ { "kind": "note", "doc": "reserve_policy", "area": "City of Victoria", "docs": [ "reserve_policy", "reserve_bylaw" ], "text": "The City’s Reserve Funds policy (revised November 2023) says a minimum and a maximum balance shall be established for each reserve fund. Neither the policy nor the Reserve Fund Bylaw lists those balances or a target for total reserves (checked November 12, 2026). Who could set them: Victoria City Council." } ] }, "net-debt-per-resident": { "rung": 2, "items": [ { "kind": "related", "doc": "mlr", "area": "Each B.C. municipality", "text": "Related limit, not drawn: under the Province’s Municipal Liabilities Regulation, a municipality may not take on a liability that would push its yearly cost of servicing debt above 25% of its revenue for the previous year, as calculated under the regulation. Borrowing needs no elector approval while that cost stays at or under 10%. This page shows debt per resident and debt payments as a share of spending, not of that revenue, so the limits are not drawn." } ] }, "income-assistance": { "rung": 2, "items": [ { "kind": "related", "doc": "bc_prsa", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: B.C.’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Act calls for initiatives to reduce the poverty rate for 2034 below the 2016 rate by at least 60% for all persons, 75% for persons under 18 and 50% for persons 65 and older. These targets apply to the poverty rate (the Market Basket Measure), not to assistance cases, so they are not drawn." }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "ca_pra", "area": "Canada", "text": "Related target, not drawn: Canada’s Poverty Reduction Act states an aim of 50% below the 2015 level of poverty by 2030, also measured by the poverty rate, not by assistance cases." } ] }, "transit-trips": { "rung": 2, "items": [ { "kind": "related", "doc": "bct_sp", "page": 7, "area": "All BC Transit systems", "text": "Related target, not drawn: BC Transit’s 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan aims for 58.8 million passenger trips across all of its systems in 2026/27, rising to 59.7 million in 2028/29. It counts conventional, custom and paratransit trips and gives no figure for Victoria, so it is not drawn." } ] }, "property-tax-increase": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "fin_plan", "area": "City of Victoria", "group": "City Council", "who": "Victoria City Council", "text": "No target or limit for the yearly property tax increase found in Schedule 5 (objectives and policies) of the City’s Five Year Financial Plan Bylaw, 2026, as of November 12, 2026. Its only numeric policy is the cap on the business to residential tax ratio. Who could set one: Victoria City Council." }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "budget2026_engage", "docs": [ "budget2026_engage", "tax_insert2026" ], "area": "City of Victoria", "text": "Related budget direction, not drawn: for the 2026 budget, Council asked staff for options to hold the City’s portion of the tax increase to 4%. The adopted overall increase was 7.28%: 2.22% for City services and 5.06% for police. Council spread it as 9.34% for residential properties, the figure on this page, and 4.78% for business properties. A one-year budget direction is not a standing target, and it covers a different figure, so no gap is shown." } ] }, "property-tax-vs-inflation": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "fin_plan", "area": "City of Victoria", "group": "City Council", "who": "Victoria City Council", "text": "No target or limit for the yearly property tax increase, including any link to inflation, found in Schedule 5 (objectives and policies) of the City’s Five Year Financial Plan Bylaw, 2026, as of November 12, 2026. Its only numeric policy is the cap on the business to residential tax ratio. Who could set one: Victoria City Council." } ] }, "city-spending-per-resident": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "fin_plan", "area": "City of Victoria", "group": "City Council", "who": "Victoria City Council", "text": "No target or limit for total spending or spending per resident found in Schedule 5 (objectives and policies) of the City’s Five Year Financial Plan Bylaw, 2026, as of November 12, 2026. Its only numeric policy is the cap on the business to residential tax ratio. Who could set one: Victoria City Council." } ] }, "homes-completed-vs-population": { "rung": 2, "items": [ { "kind": "related", "doc": "hto_orders", "docs": [ "hto_orders", "hto_rel_g1", "hto_rel_g2", "hto_rel_g3", "hto_rel_g4" ], "area": "10 of the 13 municipalities in Greater Victoria", "text": "Related targets, not drawn: the Province has made a housing target order, under the Housing Supply Act, for 10 of the 13 municipalities in Greater Victoria (all but Sooke, Metchosin and Highlands). Each order sets a minimum number of net new homes to be completed in that municipality over five years, at 75% of the estimated housing need. The ten targets add up to 16,923 homes (added here). They are not drawn on this page: no order covers the whole region, the orders start in different years (2023, 2024 and 2025), and they count net new homes in one municipality (homes completed minus homes demolished), while this page counts homes completed across the region for every 100 residents added.", "table": { "caption": "Housing target orders in Greater Victoria", "head": [ "Municipality, and when its target was announced", "Net new homes over five years" ], "rows": [ [ [ "Victoria", "September 2023" ], "4,902" ], [ [ "Saanich", "September 2023" ], "4,610" ], [ [ "Oak Bay", "September 2023" ], "664" ], [ [ "Central Saanich", "June 2024" ], "588" ], [ [ "Esquimalt", "June 2024" ], "754" ], [ [ "Sidney", "June 2024" ], "468" ], [ [ "Colwood", "July 2024" ], "940" ], [ [ "North Saanich", "July 2024" ], "419" ], [ [ "View Royal", "July 2024" ], "585" ], [ [ "Langford", "August 2025" ], "2,993" ], [ "Ten orders together (added here)", "16,923" ] ] }, "see": "housing-target-progress" }, { "kind": "note", "doc": "hous_sp", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "The Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026) has no target for the total number of homes completed, for B.C. or for any region. Its housing targets measure is the number of municipalities given an order." } ], "rung_name": "Related targets, not drawn" }, "housing-starts": { "rung": 2, "items": [ { "kind": "related", "doc": "hto_orders", "area": "10 of the 13 municipalities in Greater Victoria", "text": "Related targets, not drawn: the Province’s housing target orders for 10 of the 13 municipalities in Greater Victoria count net new homes completed, not homes started, and each covers one municipality over five years. A start is not a completion: homes started are not yet ready to live in. The ten orders are listed on the homes completed page.", "see": "homes-completed-vs-population" }, { "kind": "note", "doc": "hous_sp", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "The Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026) has no target for housing starts." } ], "rung_name": "Related targets, not drawn" }, "employment-rate": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "jeg_sp", "docs": [ "jeg_sp", "boc" ], "area": "Greater Victoria", "group": "Several governments", "who": "The Province of B.C. or the Government of Canada", "text": "No target for the employment rate, for Greater Victoria or for B.C., found in the Ministry of Jobs and Economic Growth 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026) or in the joint statement of the Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada renewing the inflation-control target (November 2026), as of November 12, 2026. The plan has no employment or unemployment measure. The joint statement says price stability supports maximum sustainable employment and sets no number for employment; its only numeric target is 2% inflation, within a range of 1% to 3%. Who could set one: the Province of B.C. or the Government of Canada." } ] }, "unemployment-rate": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "jeg_sp", "docs": [ "jeg_sp", "boc" ], "area": "Greater Victoria", "group": "Several governments", "who": "The Province of B.C. or the Government of Canada", "text": "No target for the unemployment rate, for Greater Victoria or for B.C., found in the Ministry of Jobs and Economic Growth 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026) or in the joint statement of the Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada renewing the inflation-control target (November 2026), as of November 12, 2026. The plan has no employment or unemployment measure. The joint statement says price stability supports maximum sustainable employment and sets no number for employment; its only numeric target is 2% inflation, within a range of 1% to 3%. Who could set one: the Province of B.C. or the Government of Canada." } ] }, "family-income": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "jeg_sp", "area": "Greater Victoria", "group": "Several governments", "who": "The Province of B.C. or the Government of Canada", "text": "No target for median family income found in the Ministry of Jobs and Economic Growth 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. The plan has no income or wage measure. Who could set one: the Province of B.C. or the Government of Canada." }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "bc_prsa", "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: B.C.’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Act sets targets for the poverty rate, not for median income. The low-income line on this page’s second chart is a different measure (after-tax low income), so the targets are not drawn there either. They are set out on the income assistance page.", "see": "income-assistance" }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "ca_pra", "area": "Canada", "text": "Related target, not drawn: Canada’s Poverty Reduction Act also states its aim as a lower poverty rate, not as an income level." } ] }, "active-businesses": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "jeg_sp", "area": "Greater Victoria", "group": "Province of B.C.", "who": "The Province of B.C.", "text": "No target for the number of active businesses, for Greater Victoria or for B.C., found in the Ministry of Jobs and Economic Growth 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C." }, { "kind": "related", "doc": "jeg_sp", "page": 10, "area": "British Columbia", "text": "Related target, not drawn: the same plan aims to grow the number of B.C. businesses with 10 or more employees to 55,060 in 2026/27, 55,700 in 2027/28 and 56,350 in 2028/29, from a forecast of 54,430 in 2025/26. It covers all of B.C. and only businesses with 10 or more employees, while this page counts every active business with employees in Greater Victoria, so it is not drawn." } ] }, "mortgage-share-of-income": { "rung": 5, "items": [ { "kind": "none", "doc": "hous_sp", "area": "Greater Victoria", "group": "Several governments", "who": "The Province of B.C. or the Government of Canada", "text": "No target for mortgage costs, or for the cost of owning a home as a share of income, found in the Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C. or the Government of Canada." } ] }, "crimes-by-type": { "inherit": "crime-severity-index", "inherit_text": "This page breaks down the same police-reported crime that the Crime Severity Index adds up, so it carries that measure’s target line. The lines below come from that page.", "items": [ { "kind": "note", "doc": "pssg_sp_2023", "docs": [ "pssg_sp_2023", "pssg_sp" ], "area": "British Columbia", "text": "The Province no longer sets targets for crime rates. Its Public Safety service plan for 2023/24 says police-reported crime rates, a measure in earlier plans, are no longer included, and it turns to the Crime Severity Index, which also weighs how serious each crime is. The 2026/27 plan has no target for a crime rate or for crimes by type." } ] }, "rent-after-inflation": { "inherit": "average-rent-2-bedroom", "inherit_text": "This page shows the same average two-bedroom rent after inflation, so it carries that measure’s target line. The line below comes from that page." } }, "gaps": { "Tree canopy": { "doc": "ocp2050", "page": 126, "text": "The Official Community Plan says City actions “will consider” a citywide tree canopy target of 40 per cent by 2050 (section 4.3.2). No canopy figure from an open file is shown yet." } }, "kinds": { "target": "Adopted target", "higher": "Higher government target or benchmark", "standard": "Professional standard, not a government commitment", "compare": "Comparison, not a goal", "related": "Related target", "none": "No target found", "note": "Note", "guideline": "Provincial guideline attached to the target order", "need": "Official need estimate, not a target", "cap": "Legal limit for sitting tenants", "context": "Context measure: no target expected", "authorized": "Authorized strength, set through the police budget" }, "no_target_expected": { "city-population": "A population count is background for the other numbers; governments forecast it, they do not set a target for it.", "gasoline-price": "A market price that no government here sets.", "police-calls-for-service": "A count of calls received. More or fewer calls is not a goal in itself.", "bylaw-calls": "A count of calls received. More or fewer calls is not a goal in itself.", "fire-incidents": "A count of incidents attended. Response time is the result that a standard could apply to, and it is not published as data.", "business-licences-issued": "A count of licences issued, shown as activity.", "downtown-business-permits": "A count of permits issued, shown as activity.", "downtown-pedestrian-counts": "A count from sidewalk counters, shown as activity.", "shelter-housing-share": "A share shown for context beside the City’s share of the region’s residents.", "voter-turnout": "Turnout is decided by voters. No body sets a target for it.", "house-tax-by-municipality": "A table that compares municipalities. Each council sets its own rate.", "homes-under-construction": "A count of homes being built at one point in time. It rises with starts and falls with completions; the targets found are for homes completed.", "police-cost-per-resident": "A cost that follows the police budget set each year. A budget is a decision, not a target, and the Province’s Public Safety service plan sets none for it." } }