Leonard Vanderstar
Candidate for Park Board · Independent Parks Party
Candidate commitments & stances
No personal commitment or stance has been extracted for Leonard Vanderstar yet.
The party's shared record appears below.
Shared party record · 10
Positions published by Independent Parks Party that apply to this slate — shown as party positions, not Leonard Vanderstar's own statements. Candidate and party authorship are never blended.
Commitments · 10
Parks, recreation, and natural spaces 8
- Rescind the recent parking fee increase at Spanish Banks and return the rate to $1/hour.↗
- Rescind authorization for the BC Hydro substation at Nelson Park and formally request that the BC Utilities Commission deny the permit.↗
- Halt Britannia Pool renovations while the Vancouver Aquatic Centre is out of commission.↗
- Direct staff to cancel the planned rebuild of the Vancouver Aquatic Centre until a 50-metre pool is restored to the plan.↗
- Deny approval of additional artificial turf playing fields and direct staff to produce a plan for safe removal of existing artificial turf and replacement with natural grass.↗
- Prohibit further logging in Stanley Park and limit tree removal to individual trees determined to be imminently dangerous using provincially certified methods.↗
- Rescind the recently enacted tree inspection policy that allows trees in forested areas to be declared dangerous and removed without a provincially certified inspection.↗
- Establish the Green Canopy Protection Committee, a panel of experts from which City staff must receive permission before removing trees.↗
Coverage — registry: the City of Vancouver's official candidate list. Party policy: extracted and shown above. Candidate-level policy: shown above when extracted from candidate sources.