Mandy Potter
Candidate for School Board · Vote Vancouver
Candidate commitments & stances
No personal commitment or stance has been extracted for Mandy Potter yet.
The party's shared record appears below.
Shared party record · 40
Positions published by Vote Vancouver that apply to this slate — shown as party positions, not Mandy Potter's own statements. Candidate and party authorship are never blended.
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: shown above when extracted from candidate sources.