Amarys Joseph
Candidate for School Board · Vote Vancouver
Candidate commitments & stances
No commitment or stance published by Amarys Joseph personally was found in the sources
reviewed. Most candidates campaign on their party's shared platform,
which appears below as the party record.
Shared party record · 40
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Commitments · 39
Transportation, streets, and public space 14
- Make every timed crosswalk accessible within 12 months.↗↗
- Work with TransLink and the Province to make transit free for Vancouver youth under 18.↗↗
- Deliver an all-electric passenger ferry program as an additional transportation option.↗
- Review parking meter rates and locations.↗
- Protect short-term and accessible parking around medical facilities and places seniors rely on.↗
- Introduce a prepaid parking pass for people who do not use parking apps.↗
- Improve turnover in short-term parking spaces so more people can find parking.↗
- Repair broken streetlights within 72 hours of reporting.↗↗
- Fix known cycling trouble spots.↗
- Introduce clear safety rules for e-scooters.↗
- Complete the Broadway bike lane and improve connections to routes around it.↗
- Push to extend SkyTrain beyond Arbutus to UBC.↗
- Convert underused Downtown EasyPark space into free seasonal bike valets.↗↗
- Create 10 new pedestrian plazas over four years across Vancouver neighbourhoods.↗
Housing and land use 9
- Work with community land trusts and community organizations to build more co-op and community housing while keeping public land in community ownership.↗
- Support housing that connects residents with mental health and addiction services, case management, and employment and training services.↗
- Simplify and speed up the development approval process so housing can be built sooner.↗
- Use public land to build permanently affordable homes for middle-income earners, with not-for-profit childcare included in new developments.↗
- Make it easier to redevelop qualifying faith-based community sites into mixed-use communities with new homes.↗
- Better leverage the Affordable Housing Endowment Fund and pair it with City land to build affordable homes.↗
- Support new approaches to seniors housing, including Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, to help people age in their communities.↗
- Ensure new public housing is planned alongside childcare, schools, public spaces, healthcare, and community services.↗
- Work to replace unsafe SROs with affordable supportive housing.↗
Economic development and local business 5
- Create a Small Business Concierge — a single point of contact for help with permits, regulations, and City processes.↗
- Work to establish Vancouver as the western headquarters for growing sectors including natural resources and technology.↗
- Use better technology and simpler processes to cut permit delays and speed up decisions.↗
- Compete to bring more major events to Vancouver and retain teams and events already in the city.↗
- Open vacant City-owned commercial spaces to businesses, artists, and community organizations.↗
Social policy, health, and community services 3
- Make childcare part of Vancouver's economic strategy by creating new childcare facilities on underused City land.↗
- Create a Seniors Desk at City Hall to provide older Vancouver residents with direct, personal assistance accessing City services.↗
- Invest in community centres, libraries, and pools so residents of all ages have accessible places to learn, play, exercise, and gather.↗
Governance, consultation, and accountability 2
Climate, environment, and resilience 2
Arts, culture, libraries, and civic life 1
- Establish an Arts Council with greater independence from City Hall.↗
City finances, taxation, and service delivery 1
- Work to keep property tax increases in line with inflation.↗
Parks, recreation, and natural spaces 1
- Fully fund lifeguards to keep them on public beaches by Summer 2027.↗
Schools, students, facilities, and education governance 1
- Work to create more opportunities for school spaces to serve their communities outside school hours.↗
Stances · 1
- PositionCity spending and priorities should meet four criteria: improving service or meeting urgent need, strengthening Vancouver's long-term future, building public trust, and allowing residents to measure results.↗
Coverage — registry: the City of Vancouver's official candidate list. Party policy: extracted and shown above. Candidate-level policy: extracted where a candidate publishes their own; most candidates run on the party's shared record.