Climate change is on the forefront for the City of Kelowna as the municipality supported updating regulations around new developments to address climate change. During a city council meeting on Monday, Feb. 23, council voted to support a series of bylaw amendments intending to make Kelowna more resilient to climate change and related weather effects. The city set out three sets of bylaw changes that aim to mitigate wildfire risk, provide more variety in tree growth and greens in new developments and to build more energy efficient buildings. For wildfire mitigation strategies, the city is using practices by FireSmartBC which tells homeowners to reduce fire fuel within 10 metres of a building. …To make greener buildings, the city is removing stepback requirements for within heights of five to 12 stories.