Election Digest Vancouver 2026
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Amanda Bains

Candidate for Park Board · Vancouver Liberals Not elected

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Candidate commitments & stances · 4
Shared party record · 242

Positions published by Vancouver Liberals that apply to this slate — shown as party positions, not Amanda Bains's own statements. Candidate and party authorship are never blended.

Commitments · 216

Governance, consultation, and accountability 28

  • Reduce Freedom of Information request costs.↗
  • Conduct an independent external review of the Integrity Commissioner's office and strengthen the Code of Conduct for elected officials.↗↗↗
  • Defend Vancouver's elected Park Board against abolition and restore its authority over parks and recreation so City Hall administration cannot override elected commissioners.↗
  • Have the Park Board General Manager and senior staff report to elected commissioners rather than to central City Hall.↗
  • Provide Park Board commissioners with independent legal and administrative support.↗
  • Review the growth in Park Board director and associate-director roles and end duplication with City Hall.↗
  • Improve Park Board budget reporting and align spending to stated priorities to prevent failures such as the lifeguard cuts.↗
  • Create a single door for all permitting requests.↗↗
  • Conduct neighbourhood planning across all 22 neighbourhoods with public consultation at the outset, ensuring each plan addresses how growth is supported by schools, parks, childcare, transit, and city services.↗
  • Audit the City Manager's office and remove bureaucratic barriers that slow service, freeing frontline supervisors to deliver better direct services.↗
  • Publish a public dashboard showing repair times, 311 wait times, and results for every neighbourhood.↗
  • Establish a standing Public Celebrations Framework covering security, capacity, ticketing, and cost-sharing for playoff runs and cultural celebrations in advance.↗
  • Retain the IHRA working definition of antisemitism adopted in 2022 and work with Muslim community organizations to adopt a working definition of Islamophobia.↗
  • Ask the Province to set out legislative steps to bring the University Endowment Lands into the City of Vancouver.↗↗↗
  • Create a publicly accessible lobbyist registry disclosing who is lobbying City Hall and on whose behalf.↗↗↗
  • Require members of Council to reside in Vancouver.↗
  • Make publishing City records and data the default, with exemptions monitored by the Auditor General.↗
  • Require elected officials to disclose their cryptocurrency and alternative-currency holdings.↗
  • Govern City use of AI by protecting privacy, requiring human accountability for every automated decision, and keeping residents' data under Canadian control.↗
  • Call for an independent audit of Metro Vancouver and work with partner municipalities to reduce waste and reform regional governance.↗↗
  • Restore the City's Equity Office and its funding, hold every department to the same standard for serving residents fairly, and report publicly on the office's work each year.↗
  • Repeal the motion to abolish the Park Board and protect the independent, elected nature of the board.↗
  • Establish a Joint Budget Advisory Committee comprising Park Board Commissioners, City Councillors, the City's GM of Finance, and the Park Board GM to align capital and service budgeting between the City and the Park Board.↗
  • Ask Vancouverites about implementing a ward system in the next election.↗
  • Create a Citizens' Assembly to recommend how a ward system could work in Vancouver, with the resulting proposal put to voters in a referendum during the 2030 municipal election.↗↗↗
  • Eliminate the $10 flat fee for non-personal FOI requests and cut all other FOI request costs in half.↗↗
  • Run a full slate of candidates for council, school board, and park board in the 2026 municipal election.↗
  • Call for a formal new Vancouver Accord between the City, Province, and federal government to establish clear responsibilities, sustained funding, and measurable outcomes for housing, treatment and recovery, mental health, the toxic-drug crisis, SRO conditions, public safety, and economic revitalization.↗

Transportation, streets, and public space 28

  • Remove all parking meters in front of beaches and community centres throughout Vancouver within the first year of government.↗
  • Make completing the SkyTrain extension to UBC the top transportation priority.↗↗
  • Reform street parking, including eliminating parking fees at beaches and community centres, and reviewing two-hour parking limits.↗
  • Support alternative means of transportation and improve project planning to reduce traffic and congestion.↗
  • Align with Vision Zero by introducing slow zones at intersections where traffic injuries and fatalities occur most.↗
  • Add over 400 km to the All-Ages-and-Abilities cycling network by converting painted bike lanes to protected ones.↗
  • Synchronize one-way street traffic lights downtown to improve traffic flow at a speed that enhances safety for pedestrians and cyclists.↗
  • Study contraflow bus lanes on Howe and Seymour streets downtown alongside the pedestrianization of Granville Street.↗
  • Create and enforce clear safety rules for e-scooters and e-bikes while lowering fees and supporting more providers.↗
  • Roll out EV and e-bike charging at City facilities and require it in new development.↗
  • Work with TransLink to establish a full-time dedicated bus lane on Hastings Street from Boundary Road to downtown, with transit signal priority and improved traffic controls at problem intersections.↗
  • Require every bike lane, bus lane, pedestrian street, and rapid transit project to include a plan for deliveries, including functional loading zones, cargo-bike-width lanes, delivery windows, small last-mile delivery hubs, and keeping heavy trucks off school streets where possible.↗
  • Add secure, low-cost bike lockers with e-bike charging at community centres, libraries, shopping streets, and SkyTrain stations, in partnership with TransLink.↗
  • Give pedestrians a head start at crosswalks and clear sightlines at the most dangerous intersections, and publish an annual report on where people are hurt or killed and what has been fixed.↗
  • Work with the Province to accelerate removal of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts, work with the Hogan's Alley Society to rebuild a home for Vancouver's Black community on that block, and work with Chinatown to reconnect and revitalize the neighbourhood.↗
  • Launch an immediate repair-and-cleanup blitz for potholes, graffiti, and litter, with results measured and published within the first weeks.↗
  • Raise penalties under the City's motor vehicle noise bylaw, fund targeted enforcement where complaints are highest, and press the Province to increase fines for illegal exhaust modifications under the Motor Vehicle Act.↗
  • Add accessible public washrooms where they are missing and keep existing ones clean and open.↗
  • Explore pedestrianizing portions of Robson and Gastown year-round, repave Gastown's streets, add a permanent street market, and allow more accommodation in the downtown core.↗
  • Set public GHG emissions benchmarks for transportation aligned with provincial and federal targets, accelerate EV adoption where possible, and work with Port of Vancouver and YVR to reduce emissions, with annual progress reporting.↗
  • Pursue a new regional rapid transit agreement with Surrey that advances SkyTrain to UBC alongside improved rapid transit on King George Boulevard.↗
  • Bring SkyTrain to UBC back to the top of the regional agenda by engaging federal and provincial governments, TransLink, municipalities, First Nations, and the university.↗↗
  • Work with UBC, Indigenous Peoples and First Nations, the incoming provincial government, TransLink, and other partners to secure funding to extend the SkyTrain Millennium Line from Arbutus Street to UBC.↗↗
  • Eliminate parking fees at Vancouver beaches.↗↗
  • Coordinate city project planning so that road closures and lane reductions on parallel or nearby major arterials do not occur concurrently.↗
  • Support public transit, cycling infrastructure, and pedestrian options as the primary means of reducing road congestion.↗
  • Review two-hour parking restrictions across the city to make them work better for residents.↗
  • Implement business-friendly parking measures, such as free 15-minute parking in high-throughput areas, where appropriate.↗

Public safety and emergency services 25

  • Work with the Vancouver Police Board to set a strategic plan for its organizational response to intimate partner violence, aiming for a more responsive Intimate Partner Violence Unit and compliance with the Ministry of Attorney General's VAWIR policy guidelines, including thorough investigation of all domestic and intimate partner violence incidents.↗↗↗
  • Establish an independent board to oversee stable long-term fire funding and transparent deployment reflecting firefighters' first-responder workload.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Follow the next phase of the Darkhorse report to grow the fire service gradually, avoiding sudden tax spikes while keeping first responders safe.↗↗
  • Publish a list of Vancouver's highest seismic-risk buildings, press the Province and federal government to fund their upgrades with tenant protection, and ensure community centres become neighbourhood emergency hubs with backup power and supplies as they are renewed; prepare a recovery plan in advance.↗
  • Install publicly accessible AEDs in high-frequency public spaces to improve cardiac-arrest response.↗
  • Fund 15 new VPD financial-crimes officers to investigate proceeds of crime and dismantle the local and international drug economy.↗↗
  • Close Bitcoin ATMs, unregulated currency exchanges, and predatory lenders used to launder criminal proceeds.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Stabilize and expand community policing centres.↗
  • Fill every funded position on the mobile crisis and car teams.↗
  • Launch a Vancouver Violence Reduction Unit combining police, schools, health, and community and sports groups to reach at-risk youth using a public-health approach.↗
  • Declare intimate partner violence a public health and public safety crisis, back a victim-survivor-led action plan, and through the Police Board push for a more responsive IPV Unit and thorough investigation of every incident under the provincial VAWIR policy.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Fund rapid graffiti and vandalism cleanup and security grants for small businesses, community organizations, and faith institutions repeatedly targeted by crime or hate.↗
  • Work with VPD to provide security support to at-risk community groups, including additional officer deployment during religious holidays and cultural events.↗
  • Extend safe-access protections to include community centres.↗
  • Through the Vancouver Police Board, push for closer coordination between VPD, RCMP, and CSIS on organized crime, violent extremism, and foreign interference.↗
  • Scale Peer Assisted Care Teams and Car 87 to real citywide coverage so people in crisis receive mental health care.↗
  • Develop a Chinatown-specific community safety strategy in partnership with residents, businesses, community organizations, and frontline workers, with clear public reporting on whether conditions are improving.↗
  • Develop a victim-survivor-led action plan for a stronger municipal response to intimate partner violence.↗↗
  • Advocate to the provincial government for continued implementation of recommendations from Dr. Kim Stanton's independent systemic review of B.C.'s legal system's treatment of intimate partner and sexual violence.↗↗
  • Enforce existing bylaws consistently and citywide.↗
  • Increase VPD funding so that more officers can join the RCMP's Federal Serious Organized Crime unit.↗
  • Increase local cooperation with Canadian Border Services agents.↗
  • Advocate to senior levels of government for increases in the Canadian Coast Guard's underwater marine intervention capacity.↗
  • Tie firefighter staffing levels to city growth through a transparent formula reviewed annually.↗
  • On day one, initiate the creation of a blue-ribbon task force to address Vancouver's rat problem, including consultation with city officials and rat research organizations, and review of best practices from other cities.↗

Housing and land use 23

  • Eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and adopt the BC Building Code in its place.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and merge housing departments to deliver faster and cheaper housing construction.↗
  • On day one, reverse the ban on all types of new supportive housing construction in the city.↗
  • Adopt the BC Building Code for Vancouver building approvals to reduce cost and delay, while retaining the city's zero-carbon and energy standards; heritage building protections and enforcement are unaffected.↗↗↗
  • Deliver the Northeast False Creek Plan — including homes across all incomes, a larger waterfront park, and jobs — once the viaducts are removed, with transit, childcare, and community services in place from the start.↗
  • Consolidate twelve separate housing-approval departments into a single permitting path with one point of contact.↗↗↗
  • Review every bylaw and policy applying to new construction in the first year, resolve contradictions, repeal outdated rules, consolidate the remainder into one rulebook, and require new rules to quantify their cost and time impact.↗
  • Reform development cost charges with phased rates, clear exemptions for priority and non-market housing, and disciplined inflation indexing; require community amenity contributions to be paid in cash and published for every rezoning.↗
  • Lift the City's pause on new supportive housing and work with the Province to build well-staffed homes with health and social supports, with every new site operator held to clear, enforceable standards.↗
  • Work alongside neighbouring municipalities so supportive housing is available across the region, close to where people have family and community.↗
  • Create a community land trust to hold city-owned land so it cannot be sold, dedicated to affordable and co-op homes, sports and recreation, childcare, and community space.↗
  • Extend every co-op and non-profit lease on City land immediately with automatic renewals, back repairs with City financing, open more City land for co-op and non-market homes, and press federal and provincial governments to fund deeply affordable housing.↗
  • Restore the renters' office and protect tenants from renoviction and unfair eviction during City-led major redevelopment projects such as the Broadway Plan.↗
  • Undo the 'Uplifting the Downtown Eastside' changes that weakened protections for lowest-income residents, and maintain a strong share of new social housing at the shelter rate backed by City funding.↗
  • Make it easier for seniors to add a suite or laneway home, require more accessible units in new buildings, work with the Province on seniors' and assisted living in every neighbourhood, and partner with community groups on housing for queer seniors, Chinatown and immigrant seniors, and Indigenous Elders.↗
  • Crack down on neglect of heritage buildings, expand preservation incentives, and require relocation or deconstruction before demolition of older homes with an early removal permit system.↗
  • Reserve a share of below-market homes in new developer-required projects for firefighters, paramedics, nurses, and teachers, with the share set by staffing needs for Vancouver's schools, hospitals, and fire halls.↗
  • Allow churches, co-ops, and non-profits to build non-market and affordable housing on their land without a rezoning.↗
  • Allow small-scale shops, cafes, and restaurants in all residentially-zoned areas.↗
  • Press the provincial and federal governments for clear rules ensuring data centres are sited where land, power, and water can support them, and that they pay their full share of energy and water costs — not on land suitable for homes.↗
  • Press the Province to speed up investment in water, sewer, clean energy, and electrical capacity so new homes and businesses are not delayed waiting for utility hookups.↗
  • Require accountability agreements for new supportive housing or shelter sites in Vancouver, making the operator's name, contract, staffing levels, and service standards enforceable by the City.↗
  • End per-site co-op lease negotiations and replace them with a single blanket 25-year lease agreement covering all housing co-operatives on city-owned land, within the first 100 days of taking office.↗↗

Social policy, health, and community services 23

  • Build new public washrooms across the city.↗
  • Require every new supportive housing project in Vancouver to include 24-hour public bathrooms and showers accessible to unhoused people.↗
  • Cut property taxes in half for family doctors and walk-in clinics in the City of Vancouver.↗
  • Fund the Vancouver Food Policy Council, give it a mandate to coordinate food banks, schools, and health partners, and hold it to targets for reaching seniors and youth at risk.↗
  • Provide free public wifi across the Downtown Eastside so residents can access housing applications, health appointments, income assistance, and emergency services.↗↗↗
  • Expand the UBC food hub model into vacant City-owned commercial spaces, offering low-cost groceries and food support in partnership with the Food Policy Council and local partners.↗
  • Lower policing costs charged to neighbourhood festivals and community events.↗
  • Expand and fully fund a low-income access pass for youth, families, and seniors to use community centres and pools at low or no cost.↗
  • Maintain City, Park Board, and Library certification as living-wage employers, and require all City contractors — including janitorial, security, and food services — to pay a living wage.↗
  • Reduce barriers for new licensed childcare and create new drop-in child-minding spaces using city land, new development, and community centres.↗
  • Create a blue-ribbon committee of public health experts, pest control specialists, businesses, and residents to build Vancouver's first formal rat-control plan with clear targets and public reporting, drawing on Toronto and New York models.↗↗↗
  • Have community partners check on seniors and at-risk residents who live alone during heat or wildfire smoke warnings.↗
  • Fund a multi-disciplinary team combining police, health, housing, and social workers to intervene early with people who cycle through emergency calls.↗
  • Build a renewed six-pillar framework for addressing Vancouver's drug and social crisis, replacing the Four Pillar approach, with new pillars for housing and early intervention for youth mental health, focused on moving people into care and recovery with measurable results.↗↗
  • Produce a city meth response strategy within the first year, covering outreach, shelter and treatment siting, and business and residential impacts, with published targets and a public report card.↗
  • Work with service providers to ensure every person in an encampment is offered stable housing and the support they need.↗
  • Support the five policy actions put forward by Battered Women's Support Services.↗↗
  • Advocate to other levels of government for stronger access to housing and childcare for people experiencing intimate partner violence.↗↗
  • Coordinate outreach teams with shelter and treatment capacity so people are moved into care rather than moved along.↗
  • If elected, work with the Province to negotiate a deal for Vancouver on mental health and addiction care.↗↗
  • Seek a new formal tri-government agreement among Vancouver, British Columbia, and Canada to coordinate action on mental health, addiction, homelessness, housing, public safety, and the toxic-drug crisis.↗
  • Hire 400 frontline service workers, including maintenance, community centre, and library workers, in unionized positions.↗
  • Move ahead with before- and after-school childcare at every Vancouver school site that can accommodate it.↗

Parks, recreation, and natural spaces 23

  • Rebuild a strong, independent, and well-supported Vancouver Park Board with tools, budget stability, and modern facilities, through actions on governance, long-term planning, and better outcomes.↗
  • Keep the elected Park Board in place and properly fund parks to improve the quality of community centres, pools, and other facilities.↗
  • Keep public parkland off the market, refurbish smaller neighbourhood parks, and explore new green space as the city grows.↗
  • Rebuild the Aquatic Centre with a 50-metre pool, modernize pools to reduce operating costs, and restore lifeguards to every staffed beach including Trout Lake.↗
  • Work with the developer and Metro Vancouver to deliver the River District Community Centre, ensuring committed community benefits are delivered and developers are held accountable.↗
  • Restore Renfrew Community Centre to the Park Board capital plan, consistent with its second-place ranking in the Community Centre Strategy.↗
  • Maintain and expand sports fields, courts, rinks, and gyms; keep fees affordable for kids' and community leagues; and welcome major and professional events.↗
  • Deliver the Park Board's Washroom Strategy, add public washrooms across parks, and keep existing ones clean.↗↗
  • Eliminate parking fees at beaches and community centres.↗
  • Restore the Stanley Park miniature train and keep it operating.↗
  • Direct recreation investment to underserved neighbourhoods to equalise access across the city.↗
  • Redesign parks, pools, and community centres for seniors and people with disabilities, including level paths, armrest benches, and accessibility requirements built into every new Park Board project.↗↗↗
  • Refresh pitch-and-putt courses and expand affordable low-intensity recreation options including pickleball, lawn bowling, and outdoor table tennis.↗
  • Work to create pocket parks across the city in areas well served by transit, expanding community spaces and increasing tree cover.↗
  • Restore native ecosystems, pollinators, and wildlife corridors, and expand community gardens and urban growing spaces.↗
  • Designate one day per month for residents to clean up and beautify their community.↗
  • Implement climate-resilience strategies in parks, including increased canopy cover and cooling stations, to make parks usable during extreme heat and weather events.↗
  • Have the Park Board and City take preparatory and preventive measures to mitigate the effects of climate change on Vancouver's parks.↗
  • Ensure ageism is never part of Park Board decision-making.↗
  • Protect municipal golf courses as Park Board facilities that serve seniors, generate revenue for reinvestment, and support biodiversity.↗
  • Provide $1.35B in funding for the Vancouver Park Board's 2031–2034 capital cycle, comprising $300M for parks and open spaces, $50M for biodiversity restoration, and $1B for creation, management, and renewal of public assets including parks, community centres, and pools.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Restore oversight and day-to-day management of Parks and Recreation facilities to the Park Board to improve operational efficiency, accountability, and service quality.↗
  • Create a capital plan that includes one new community centre built per capital cycle and three existing centres updated and future-proofed per cycle.↗

Schools, students, facilities, and education governance 14

  • Advocate for recreational spaces and programming that encourage positive health outcomes for students.↗
  • Prioritise the 43 remaining high-seismic-risk schools at the top of the School Board capital plan and campaign for the Province to fund them on a firm timeline.↗
  • Fight to secure provincial funding to build the replacement for King George Secondary and prioritise expansion for the next most overcrowded schools.↗
  • Work with the City and developers to secure new schools and additions in conjunction with new housing development in growing neighbourhoods.↗
  • Protect school catchments and rule out a return to mass school closures, while working with the Province on funding and the City on housing growth to keep schools open.↗
  • Open before- and after-school childcare at every school site that can host it, and attach a childcare plan to every seismic rebuild.↗
  • Retain school district land for schools, childcare, playing fields, and public partners rather than transferring it to private interests.↗
  • Enforce strong protections against racism, bullying, and discrimination in every school, and support inclusion measures for students facing barriers.↗
  • Make school counsellors and student wellbeing a top budget priority and press the Province for funding to reach more schools.↗
  • Protect special-needs, inclusion, and learning supports from cuts when the School Board sets its budget.↗
  • Grow and protect school meal and nutrition programs in partnership with the Province and community partners.↗
  • Retain the reformed School Liaison Officer program in Vancouver schools.↗↗
  • Set district guidelines for AI in classrooms aligned with the Province and BC Teachers' Federation, including age-appropriate chatbot limits, privacy and data protection standards, teacher training before deployment, and prior consultation with parents and teachers before any expansion.↗
  • Press the Province for stable, adequate, and predictable funding for Vancouver schools.↗

Economic development and local business 14

  • Reduce property taxes by 50% for local businesses for the duration of SkyTrain construction, and introduce incentives for commercial landlords to lower rent for affected tenants.↗
  • Reinstate the Vancouver Economic Commission to attract head offices and support businesses, with a goal of cutting permitting time to three months.↗↗↗
  • Use the City's licensing and land use powers to remove predatory payday lenders and work with credit unions to expand savings-style banking in underserved neighbourhoods.↗
  • Amend zoning and regulations to allow a greater diversity of visitor accommodation, including hostels and pod hotels.↗
  • Use community benefit agreements on major city developments and construction projects to create apprenticeships, training, and hiring opportunities for local workers and equity-seeking groups, with living-wage and responsible-contractor standards.↗↗
  • Work with the Whitecaps, the Province, and the private sector to explore private-investment options — including new local ownership or privately financed stadium solutions — to keep the team in Vancouver, without public land or taxpayer cost.↗
  • Champion Vancouver as the North American home of the CANZUK partnership by bidding for its headquarters.↗
  • Position Vancouver as a ready host for major-league teams, championships, and international events through venues, fast approvals, and an events framework, and direct resulting momentum into youth sport and community fields.↗
  • Work with the federal government on a shared plan for Granville Island covering rents for artists and small businesses, filling empty spaces, improving transit and access, and preserving it as a working and making place.↗
  • Streamline business licensing and update zoning and business bylaws to reflect the digital economy, removing barriers for studios, startups, and online creators.↗↗
  • Offer simple, low-cost permits for pop-up shops and markets, and allow a single space to serve multiple uses without requiring separate approvals for each use.↗
  • Protect the city's remaining industrial land through an Industrial Land Reserve, and surround it with affordable housing for workers employed there.↗↗
  • Cut permitting times from eight months to three months at minimum.↗
  • Protect industrial and artist spaces to support small business.↗

Indigenous relations and reconciliation 13

  • Negotiate a new Indigenous Education Enhancement Agreement with Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and urban Indigenous families in the first year of the term, with public annual reporting on graduation and completion.↗
  • Hold quarterly council meetings with Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations on housing, jobs, and land stewardship, and strike an UNDRIP Task Force with public reporting on progress.↗↗
  • Create a Mayor's Task Force with urban Indigenous organizations to improve City services for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit members living in Vancouver, including culturally safe services, housing, and gathering spaces, with public reporting.↗
  • Work with the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations to ensure Indigenous voices shape Park Board decisions.↗
  • Hire a full-time Indigenous Relations Director in the mayor's office.↗
  • Consult the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations on the UBC SkyTrain extension and the amalgamation of the University Endowment Lands with Vancouver.↗
  • Maintain regular joint council meetings between the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and the City, plus additional meetings between respective mayors and staff.↗
  • Re-implement the Equity and Diversity Office that was defunded by the previous administration.↗
  • Ensure the Urban Indigenous Engagement Framework is operational and adhered to.↗
  • Prioritize housing, safety, child care, and service access in addressing urban Indigenous issues.↗
  • Fund restorative justice initiatives, including improved VPD training, to ensure urban Indigenous cases are handled appropriately and respectfully.↗
  • Include the Metro Vancouver Aboriginal Executive Council in decisions relating to Indigenous people and issues, and index its funding to inflation.↗
  • Support the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Development Corporation's Jericho Lands and Heather Lands developments and future projects.↗

City finances, taxation, and service delivery 12

  • Implement a tax on luxury yachts over 40 feet and use the revenue for property tax cuts for family doctors, walk-in clinics, food banks, and the creative sector.↗
  • Ban foreign travel for councillors and city staff.↗
  • Exempt the Greater Vancouver Food Bank from property tax on its Vancouver space in the first budget, with savings directed back into food.↗
  • Cut property taxes on businesses disrupted by City-permitted construction, including transit expansion, and require landlords to pass the relief through as lower rent.↗
  • Apply development-potential tax relief so small businesses are not taxed on land they will not develop, and advocate to the Province for a small-business property tax class reflecting actual use rather than development potential.↗↗
  • Reduce property taxes on family practice medical offices using tools available to council so more clinics can open in residential neighbourhoods.↗
  • Cap property tax increases at the rate of inflation and provide transparent explanations for any changes.↗
  • Reform middle-management roles, require every department to justify its spending, reduce management layers, and review every program's cost, performance, and value rather than automatically rolling over prior budgets.↗
  • Use the City's Auditor General to audit major projects and city-owned agencies that are over budget, including the Vancouver Art Gallery build and PNE finances.↗
  • Hire 400 unionized CUPE front-line workers to improve city services including parks, streets, sanitation, community centres, and libraries.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • End the practice of hiring consultants and managers whose role is to manage other managers, redirecting those funds to front-line workers.↗
  • Cancel any plans for a second city hall and redirect the approximately $800M in savings toward the Parks Plan.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗

Climate, environment, and resilience 7

  • Explore underground bins, fill-level sensors, and automated sorting to reduce collection costs and divert waste from landfill.↗
  • Add recycling depots across the city, run a food-waste diversion campaign, and publish an open dashboard showing waste reduction progress.↗↗
  • Plant more street trees in the neighbourhoods with the least tree cover and highest heat exposure.↗
  • Fund a Youth Climate Corps that hires young people at living wage to plant and care for trees in low-canopy neighbourhoods, restore habitat, and support neighbours through heat waves and smoke events, building skills for green economy and trades careers.↗
  • Keep community centres and libraries open late as cooling and clean-air spaces during heat or wildfire smoke warnings.↗
  • Maintain zero-carbon building standards and fund the Climate Emergency Action Plan with public reporting on progress.↗
  • Fund the Healthy Waters Plan (wastewater segregation project) so that separation of rainwater and sewage systems is completed by 2040, advancing the target from the current projected completion of 2070.↗↗↗↗

Arts, culture, libraries, and civic life 6

  • Establish an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across the city, providing resources such as studios and cutting property taxes in half for those locations.↗↗↗
  • Find a way to make policing costs affordable for all community events.↗
  • Create a Vancouver Arts Council to advise on funding, space, and policy for artists and cultural organizations.↗↗
  • Adopt an Agent of Change rule requiring new development to provide soundproofing rather than closing existing venues, reduce permit and licensing red tape, and extend late-night support to neighbourhood commercial streets.↗
  • Build and co-locate new library branches near SkyTrain and transit hubs, with study space and digital resources.↗
  • Use the Mayor's ex-officio trustee position on the Vancouver Art Gallery board to help bring the new gallery to fruition.↗

Stances · 26

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