City of Colwood, British Columbia

The City of Colwood (population ~19,000) is on Vancouver Island, southwest of the City of Victoria in the province of British Columbia. The City of Colwood lies within British Columbia’s Capital Regional District and is one of the 13 component municipalities of Greater Victoria.

The City of Colwood’s Official Community Plan (2018) emphasizes natural features as valuable assets and contains objectives and policies to protect, maintain and enhance them. The City of Colwood’s Sustainable Infrastructure Replacement Plan provides quantitative and condition assessment information about its natural resources. It also explores opportunity costs, or the cost of building capital infrastructure to provide the same level of service that ecosystems currently provide.