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Langford Launches Bold, Innovative Proposal to Address Doctor Shortage, Add Housing, and Grow Neighbourhood Commercial Space

(Langford, B.C.): On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, the City of Langford announced a bold, action-driven plan that puts City land to work to address Langford’s doctor shortage, deliver additional housing, and expand neighbourhood commercial space.

Through a Request for Proposals (RFP), the City is seeking a development partner to design and build an up to six-storey mixed-use project that will include approximately 4,500 sq. ft. of medical clinic space to house 10-14 doctors (12,500 patient attachments), housing, and 2,400 sq. ft. of ground floor commercial space in one of Langford’s fastest-growing neighbourhoods. In exchange for contributing valuable development land, the City would retain ownership of the medical clinic space.

For too long, many Langford residents continue to leave their community to access basic healthcare, or wait anxiously in walk-in clinics, hoping for an appointment. With the medical office on the third floor of the City Hall building and the opening of the Goldstream Medical Clinic on Bryn Maur earlier this year, this proposal represents the third meaningful initiative led by the City of Langford in partnership with the South Island Primary Care Society toward bringing care closer to home.

“Langford has always taken a hands-on, solutions focused approach to challenges facing residents,” said Mayor Scott Goodmanson. “By leveraging the power of partnerships and underutilized City-owned land in a strategic way, we’re directly supporting access to medical care, while also encouraging more housing, and adding retail spaces that residents can walk to.”

Located at 3213 Happy Valley Road, the former trolley hall site and adjacent property (3217 Happy Valley Road) represent a major opportunity to deliver real, tangible benefits for residents. The City acquired the neighbouring property to the trolley hall as part of a strategic land assembly in 2024, and is now advancing plans to transform the sites into a vibrant, people focused hub that integrates healthcare, housing, and local amenities with the support of private sector partnership.

To advance the medical clinic component of the proposed development, the City has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the South Island Primary Care Society. The Society brings extensive experience in delivering and supporting community-based primary care services and has a demonstrated track record with the success of the new Goldstream Medical Clinic which opened on Bryn Maur Road in collaboration with the City earlier this year. The Goldstream Medical clinic is set to attach 12,500 new patients when fully staffed, with 7,000 patients already attached. Building on that success, this next project accelerates momentum to connect thousands more residents with a family doctor.

“7,000 attachments of patients to doctors at our Goldstream clinics are a direct result of our exceptional frontline teams, who have worked relentlessly, and a strong municipal non-profit partnership that acts quickly to address the primary care crisis, said Alyssa Andres, Executive Director, South Island Primary Care Society. “With more work ahead and more families needing access to doctors, we remain fully focused on addressing this primary care crisis.”

The proposed development will include 2,400 sq. ft. of ground-floor commercial space, designed to support neighbourhood-serving businesses such as cafes, retail, and personal services. The development will also incorporate active street-level features, including opportunities for an outdoor patio or public gathering space.

“A thriving community needs places to gather, cafés, restaurants, lounges, shops, and those interesting little local spots that become part of our daily lives. The place that makes the best muffins, the shop with the perfect gift, the businesses where owners, staff, and customers get to know each other by name,” says Kelly Darwin, President of the West Shore Chamber of Commerce. “This type of development helps create that kind of community. It brings opportunities for small businesses to grow and serve the people who live and work nearby. As Langford looks to the future and defines its next chapter, developments like this play an important role in creating a city where people can truly live, work, and play.”

By integrating these uses into a single project, the City is advancing its vision noted in the recently refreshed Official Community Plan of complete, walkable neighbourhoods, by bringing healthcare, housing, and services closer to where people live and along a key transit corridor. This integrated approach reflects the City’s continued commitment to delivering creative, local solutions to today’s healthcare challenges.

A Request for Proposals (RFP) will be issued this week to invite proposals from developers that will seek to leverage the City’s land in exchange for delivery of key community benefits, including the medical clinic space. The City welcomes proposals from a range of proponents, including non-profit housing providers. At the same time, the City will continue to work with every level of government for support to address the doctor shortage.

The RFP will close on July 31, 2026. A rezoning process for the land, in alignment with the Official Community Plan, will be brought forward concurrently with the RFP process.

The City is optimistic about strong interest from the development community and sees this project as another example of Langford’s decisive, partnership-driven leadership in tackling some of the most pressing challenges facing the community today.

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BACKGROUND:

The trolley hall has a long history of serving the Langford community. Constructed in 1964 as the original Glen Lake Fire Station, it operated as a volunteer fire hall for the surrounding area for more than four decades. In 2005, fire services transitioned to the current Station 2, and the building was subsequently repurposed for municipal uses, including housing Langford’s trolley fleet before being identified as an opportunity for redevelopment to better meet current and future public needs.

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