Election Digest Vancouver 2026
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Tyler Petersen

Candidate for Park Board · OneCity Vancouver Not elected

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Candidate commitments & stances
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Commitments · 276

Transportation, streets, and public space 44

  • Work with TransLink on transit-priority streets so buses run faster and more reliably.↗↗↗
  • Build a connected, all-ages-and-abilities walking and cycling network rather than isolated projects.↗↗↗
  • Prioritize safe routes to schools, parks, and daily needs in active transportation investment.↗↗↗
  • Direct new active transportation investment first to neighbourhoods furthest behind, rather than wherever is politically easiest.↗↗↗
  • Publish a public, neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood mobility report card showing where active transportation investment is going and where it is not.↗↗↗
  • Explore public ownership of Mobi, Vancouver's bike share system, to protect it from financial instability.↗↗↗
  • Build active transportation infrastructure faster and at lower cost per kilometre by using proven quick-build materials, while maintaining safety standards.↗↗↗
  • Direct staff to develop a three-year seasonal pilot for the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone over the next three summers.↗↗↗
  • Direct staff to identify measures to reduce ongoing costs of security and engineering for the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone.↗↗↗
  • Voted in favour of extending the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone operation from 19 July to 5 September.↗
  • Work to bring the Park Drive bike lane back if elected to the Park Board.↗↗↗
  • Ensure safe walking, rolling, and scooting in every neighbourhood through the Connect Vancouver initiative.↗
  • Establish a 'Built for Everyone Standard' ensuring equal access to well-lit spaces and bus shelters across all Vancouver neighbourhoods, from downtown to Kits, South Van, and Boundary Road.↗↗
  • Install new, well-lit bus stops across Vancouver.↗↗
  • Engage Vancouver-based community and advocacy organisations to develop bus shelter standards that meet residents' needs.↗↗
  • Adopt a citywide Transit Signal Priority System to give buses priority at stoplights, and work with TransLink to provide fast, frequent, affordable transit through bus priority corridors across Vancouver.↗↗
  • Advocate for expansion of the Get on Board! transit pass program for youth and extend it to low-income transit riders.↗↗
  • Work with provincial and federal governments to secure funding to extend the Broadway SkyTrain line to UBC.↗↗
  • Reform city parking through a single app, apply a public-purpose standard to surface parking, and review surface lots for conversion to non-market housing, childcare, cultural space, public washrooms, and mobility hubs.↗
  • Build a citywide connected and protected active transport network so that no car is needed to travel within the city.↗
  • Examine options to preserve Mobi bike-share under public ownership and expand it to more neighbourhoods including South Vancouver, with improved accessibility for more riders.↗↗
  • Install lighting on streets, bus stops, parks, and pathways in every neighbourhood to improve nighttime safety.↗
  • Prohibit hostile architecture in public spaces and ensure bus stops provide weather protection.↗
  • Build a protected, connected walking and cycling network enabling car-free travel across the whole city.↗↗
  • Direct initial mobility investments to the areas furthest behind and publish neighbourhood-level mobility data so residents can track where investment is and is not going.↗↗
  • Reduce speed limits on busy shopping streets, school and park frontages, and high-injury corridors.↗↗
  • Dedicate a Vision Zero Rapid Response Fund to proactively identify and immediately address street safety issues based on historical data and evidence.↗↗
  • Expand access to secure charging facilities for active transport and eliminate the sale and rental of uncertified or modified e-bike batteries.↗↗
  • Champion an off-peak, leashed dog pilot on SkyTrain and SeaBus with behaviour rules, designated boarding areas, and retained operator discretion, with intention to expand if successful.↗↗↗↗
  • Make it easier, cheaper, and faster to hold block parties and create a simple process for temporarily closing streets for children's play.↗
  • Update Vancouver's traffic lights and implement public transit signal priority to reduce travel times by approximately 20%.↗
  • Use smart signals to reduce pedestrian-vehicle conflicts and install diagonal crosswalks at busy intersections.↗
  • Explore how World Cup momentum can translate into an ongoing seasonal or permanent pedestrian zone on Granville Street, and expand pedestrian areas to other streets including Robson Street, Water Street, and Mainland and Hamilton Streets in Yaletown.↗↗↗
  • Implement smart signal systems and transit-priority corridors to speed up traffic and transit.↗
  • Provide transit fare subsidies for low-income residents and those under 19.↗
  • Extend SkyTrain service to UBC.↗
  • Save and expand the Mobi bike-share system city-wide.↗
  • Build an interconnected walking and cycling network.↗
  • Publish community mobility data and prioritise improvements in underserved areas.↗
  • Lower speed limits on high-pedestrian and high-collision road segments to reduce casualties.↗
  • Establish Vision Zero rapid-response funding to improve dangerous road segments quickly.↗
  • Provide safe charging facilities for electric micro-mobility devices and remove high-risk batteries from use.↗
  • Ensure all transit stops have shelters.↗
  • Advocate for a pilot program allowing leashed pets on public transit during off-peak hours.↗

Economic development and local business 39

  • Apply a Good Jobs Procurement Standard to city contracts that rewards companies offering good jobs, strong safety standards, and youth training programs.↗↗↗
  • Extend the Good Jobs labour standard to city capital projects — including community centres, libraries, housing, and infrastructure — requiring apprenticeships, local hiring, and training pathways.↗↗↗
  • Launch Youth Jobs Vancouver, creating up to 375 youth-only positions per year at a living wage.↗↗↗
  • Give the City's Chinatown Advisory Committee a funded mandate, with public annual reporting on the Plaza's empty storefronts, and ensure storefronts are filled for the community.↗↗↗
  • Create a direct link between Chinatown Plaza's empty storefronts and Council's storefront activation pilot, alongside the City's broader commercial vacancy work.↗↗
  • Connect Chinatown Plaza investment to the City's broader neighbourhood plans and economic revitalization strategy to reinforce rather than duplicate existing work.↗↗
  • Direct staff to report back within one year with an Enabling the Neighbourhood Economy Action Plan, including a review of zoning and licensing barriers, a modernized home-based business policy, and a public engagement process with renters, seniors, small businesses, immigrant entrepreneurs, and other cultural organizations and stakeholders.↗↗
  • Begin implementation with pilot areas representing different neighbourhood contexts — a neighbourhood facing commercial displacement, an outer-city area with limited local services, and a high-growth apartment corridor.↗↗
  • Bring forward zoning and licensing amendments citywide within two years.↗↗
  • Establish a new Business & Investment Office funded at $3 million, and work to reform, fund, and stabilize the regional Invest Vancouver as a partner agency.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Establish an Entrepreneur Liaison Office with dedicated staff to help entrepreneurs and small and medium businesses navigate permits, licensing, and funding across all levels of government.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Create a tiered micro-grant system for small businesses and non-profits, administered by a non-partisan committee of business, labour, and community representatives.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Establish a three-year procurement pilot — Buy Vancouver — prioritizing City spending on goods and services from Vancouver, British Columbia, and Canada, and redirecting away from foreign multinationals.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Establish a Good Jobs Procurement Standard that rewards fair wages, responsible contractors, apprenticeships, safety, and local and inclusive hiring in City contracts rather than awarding solely on lowest price.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • If elected with a council majority, urgently move additional measures to bolster the local economy and leverage the Vancouver Charter in response to U.S. tariffs.↗↗
  • Direct city staff to identify actions the City can pursue to support businesses, workers, and residents in response to U.S. tariffs, via an emergency motion.↗↗↗
  • Assemble, and where necessary purchase, land; prepare it with roads, water, and sewer; and sell or rent it to businesses needing distribution warehouses or commercial/light-industrial space.↗↗↗
  • Streamline City permitting processes so businesses pursuing important projects receive quick, clear answers.↗↗↗
  • Offer tax breaks to businesses that create jobs, provide training, and construct buildings in Vancouver.↗
  • Commission a study on how to incentivize businesses to put idle, unused land parcels to productive use, including examining how such land is taxed relative to active properties.↗↗↗
  • Direct city staff to identify and evaluate additional opportunities, using powers under the Vancouver Charter, to support Vancouver businesses (particularly small and medium enterprises and not-for-profits), workers, and residents against U.S. tariff impacts, including measures conditioned on measurable outcomes such as quality employment, apprenticeships, continued industrial use, and other public benefits.↗↗
  • Direct city staff to evaluate options for using the City's authority and resources to support redevelopment of underutilized industrial and employment lands, including establishing a modern Industry Commissioner under Section 337 of the Vancouver Charter and considering applications of Section 193A to assemble, expedite, and approve investment in industrial lands.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Direct city staff to facilitate dialogue with affected businesses, workers, and residents to consult them about how to support them most effectively.↗↗
  • Direct city staff to report back to Council before the end of Q4 2026 with a recommended action plan to advance Vancouver's economic resilience, covering measures to support businesses and workers, intergovernmental opportunities, consultation findings, and the financial and operational resources needed.↗↗
  • Direct Labour, Economic Development, and Inclusive City policy teams to identify concrete municipal actions to strengthen economic resiliency for communities and the province.↗↗
  • Expand affordable commercial space by making fuller use of second-storey commercial opportunities under the Villages Plan to support small businesses.↗
  • Create a pilot micro-grant program to provide quick funding to businesses, non-profits, and service organizations for repairs, replacements, and responses to vandalism and property crime.↗
  • Establish impact-management rules covering noise, waste, accessibility, and hours of operation to accompany expanded neighbourhood business permissions.↗↗
  • Simplify the approval process for small cultural and community venues.↗
  • Streamline permitting for pop-ups and temporary uses in vacant storefronts, plazas, libraries, and underused civic spaces for markets, food vendors, and local business testing.↗↗↗↗
  • Match chronically vacant storefronts with short-term renters such as artists and entrepreneurs to foster community activity while identifying structural barriers and developing durable solutions.↗↗↗
  • Reform the City's Change of Use process to allow low-risk businesses to occupy existing spaces faster, addressing licensing, upgrades, occupancy, zoning, and new development in one consolidated process.↗↗↗
  • Create a good-paying youth-only job program to provide meaningful work experience and career pathways that allow young people to remain in Vancouver long-term.↗↗
  • Create legal pathways for residents to run low-impact businesses from home, paired with rules on noise, food and workplace safety, accessibility, and standard hours of operation.↗↗↗↗
  • Simplify late-night operating rules to allow responsible businesses to stay open later.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Propose a certified Working Cat program in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health to allow vaccinated cats in small shops for pest control.↗↗
  • Update home-based business rules, establish a small business start-up liaison office, introduce small grants for small businesses, and require public spending to create good jobs, pay fair wages, and apply responsible procurement.↗
  • Permit corner stores and small neighbourhood shops — including grocers, bakeries, cafés, florists, barbers, bike repair, and pharmacies — in residential areas, prioritized near schools, parks, transit, and seniors' housing.↗↗↗↗
  • Offer tax breaks to businesses that create jobs, training programs, and new buildings.↗↗

Governance, consultation, and accountability 37

  • Establish a Labour Partnership Table bringing Council, senior staff, and city workers' unions together quarterly to address workplace problems before they become crises.↗↗↗
  • Announce a plan to build parks, pools, pipes, and homes in the coming weeks.↗
  • Within the first three months of taking office, formally identify every climate rollback made under the previous council, reinstate retrofit and compliance funding in the 2027 budget, and enact bylaw and permitting changes in 2027–2028.↗
  • Publish a public annual report on Chinatown Plaza with real numbers on occupancy, programming, and outcomes.↗↗
  • If re-elected, continue working with OneCity council colleagues to keep Vancouver's needs at the forefront of provincial government investment and policy decisions on housing, childcare, infrastructure, climate, road safety, transit, and active transportation.↗↗
  • Establish a new public engagement process for supportive housing projects, supported by a new Office of Community Engagement.↗
  • Write to the Chief Election Officer asking his office to reconsider its position on the name-designation challenge.↗
  • Move a motion directing staff to develop a framework to assess the risks and impacts of hyperscale AI data centres, propose a new Data Centre Public Impact Requirement, and temporarily pause consideration of such facilities in the interim.↗↗↗
  • Direct staff to consider geographic spread when recommending additional assisted-voting locations, and to recommend a communications plan to alert voters to accessible voting options.↗↗
  • With a OneCity majority on Council, reestablish Advisory Committees, fund them, and listen to their priorities, including reappointing a dedicated Seniors Strategic Lead and accessible transport champion, and properly resourcing seniors' housing planners and accessibility improvements.↗↗↗
  • Move a motion to recognise National Accessibility Week as an Official City of Vancouver Observance.↗↗↗
  • Limit nominated candidates to up to five for City Council, up to five for School Board, and up to three for Park Board, for a maximum of thirteen non-mayor candidates.↗↗
  • Work with City staff to award contracts to local businesses or Canadian companies, and ensure, to the extent possible, city dollars do not flow to states complicit in genocide.↗↗
  • Defend the right of Vancouverites to protest and never silence advocacy for rights, freedoms, and justice.↗↗
  • Convene Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Jewish Vancouverites together to establish local policies to combat anti-Palestinian, antisemitic, and Islamophobic racism, rather than adopting the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association's external framework.↗↗
  • Affirm that none of the tariff-response directions are intended to contravene the pre-election quiet period convention or presume the decisions of the next elected Council, and that directions are intended to enable informed decision-making without presuming incoming Council choices.↗↗
  • Scale participatory budgeting citywide, giving residents real spending power backed by numbers, extending the timeline through summer and using the Office of Community Engagement for direct resident engagement.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Coordinate Shared Services Agreements across City Council, Park Board, and School Board to eliminate silos and scale services more efficiently.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Create a new Office of Direct Community Engagement that deploys city staff into communities for policy, planning, and resourcing decisions.↗↗
  • Launch a pilot programme of mobile 3-1-1 Service Vans to connect residents who are disconnected from basic city services.↗↗
  • Implement an instant run-off ranked ballot for mayor and support a Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform to recommend a proportional, ward, or hybrid system ahead of the 2030 election.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Communicate the City's budget in plain language with line-by-line accountability.↗↗↗
  • Adopt a Public Services Protection Test before any cuts, contracting out, privatization, or service reductions.↗↗↗↗
  • Restore meaningful public participation, transparency, and democratic accountability at the VSB by opening board and committee meetings to the public, providing open opportunities for input, and publishing information early and publicly.↗↗↗
  • Complete the Vancouver Plan by fixing problem areas and engaging residents.↗↗
  • Establish notification requirements for sensitive business classes, launch a voluntary privacy-first certification, and update bylaws to ban wearable recording devices in pools, washrooms, and other public spaces.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Create a Community Choice Fund giving residents, neighbourhoods, and community organizations direct access to funding and city staff support for local projects.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Implement quarterly and annual monitoring of pace of change and change of use under the Villages Plan.↗↗↗
  • Conduct three months of public conversation during the election on how Vancouver grows over the next 30 years, starting immediately.↗↗↗
  • Deliver a comprehensive consultation on Centres and Villages Plans within six months of a OneCity majority, completed no later than April 2027, to position Vancouver to secure federal and provincial funding for parks, pools, and community amenities.↗↗↗
  • Support a Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform that will recommend a proportional, ward, or hybrid council election system ahead of the 2030 election.↗
  • Make it easier for residents to hold block parties on their own streets.↗
  • The proposed Data Centre Public Impact Requirement would direct companies to commission credible assessments of planned facilities' impacts on water, energy, pollution, noise, and heat, outline mitigation measures, and evaluate employment opportunities relative to other industrial or commercial land uses.↗
  • Direct staff to explore adding four additional voting locations where assisted voting devices are available, report back as soon as possible, account for geographic spread to maximise accessibility and privacy, and recommend a communications plan to improve uptake of accessible voting options.↗↗↗
  • Ensure transparent, accountable, and open school board governance.↗
  • Legalize shop cats as a pest-control measure.↗
  • Simplify the permit process for street parties and temporary play zones.↗

City finances, taxation, and service delivery 27

  • Explore a progressive property tax in Vancouver so the wealthiest landowners contribute more.↗↗
  • End tax write-offs for owners with building permits who do not build housing and infrastructure.↗↗↗
  • Protect city services through fair annual property tax rates that enable new critical infrastructure such as pipes, parks, and pools.↗↗
  • Produce a readable budget, implement participatory budgeting citywide, seek a fair-share contribution from the most resource-intensive landowners, and introduce a ranked ballot for mayor.↗
  • Bring forward a motion proposing a progressive property tax system for Vancouver after October 17.↗↗↗
  • Bring forward a motion targeting developers who designate undeveloped land as a dog park to reduce their tax obligation after October 17.↗↗↗
  • Ensure the Park Board retains the revenue it earns rather than losing it to the general city coffers, as part of a long-term strategy to increase Park Board independence and financial resilience.↗↗
  • Introduce water meters citywide to monitor usage and inform infrastructure investment.↗↗
  • Replace property-tax funding for storm and sewer infrastructure with a stormwater fee based on lot size, so that condo owners and renters pay less, with freed property-tax revenue redirected to parks and community centres.↗↗
  • Guarantee that a typical home on a typical lot will pay less overall after the water metering and stormwater fee changes are enacted.↗↗
  • Invest in water system upgrades enabled by a progressive water metering system to reduce long-term costs.↗↗
  • Double the Infrastructure Levy from 1% to 2% and pay down the current Infrastructure Deficit 20 years sooner.↗
  • Run an Infrastructure Liability Audit to disclose the city's true deferred maintenance bill.↗
  • Adopt a Public Services Protection Test — requiring analysis of service, workforce, equity, and long-term cost impacts — before cutting, contracting out, privatizing, or reducing any municipal service, implemented via a Council motion amending budget and procurement reporting requirements.↗
  • Recertify the City of Vancouver and School Board as living wage employers, applied to new contracts and renewals in the next budget year, via a Council motion or budget direction, and establish a plain-language compliance process so workers can raise concerns without legal assistance.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Adopt a preventative maintenance and scheduled renewal approach to aging city infrastructure, identifying issues early and carrying out repairs before manageable problems become expensive failures.↗↗↗↗
  • Introduce water meters to lower utility costs for average residents and charge heavy water users — such as mansion owners — proportionally more.↗↗↗
  • Protect existing city services through annual property tax rates that fund new critical infrastructure such as pipes, parks, and pools.↗
  • Produce a city budget in a publicly readable format.↗
  • Secure a fair-share contribution from the most resource-intensive landowners.↗
  • Publish the city budget in plain, line-by-line detail so finances are transparent and accessible.↗
  • Research a progressive property tax to reduce the burden on low- and middle-income property owners while balancing revenues.↗
  • End tax concessions for developers who obtain approval but do not proceed with development on land held empty.↗
  • Protect public services and infrastructure by rejecting budget austerity, maintained through stable and equitable property tax rates.↗
  • Implement preventive maintenance of public facilities to reduce long-term infrastructure costs.↗
  • Apply fair wages and responsible procurement standards to city purchasing.↗
  • Prioritize Vancouver-based businesses in city procurement.↗

Housing and land use 23

  • Pass the Social Housing Initiative as one of the first motions after taking office.↗↗
  • Build 4,000 affordable homes on city land, protect renters in every neighbourhood, and rezone Vancouver to enable more housing.↗
  • Establish a city-run 'People's Builder' to construct 4,000 affordable family homes on city-owned land, with the city guaranteeing loans, drawing in federal funding, and recycling project revenue into subsequent projects.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Enact a Community Land Trust Support Strategy giving non-profits the first right to purchase affordable buildings and land when they come up for sale.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Legalize 25-foot lots (reduced from 33 ft), reduce setbacks to five feet, permit courtyard buildings between four-storey structures, legalize single-stair buildings across Vancouver, allow four-floor buildings with corner stores citywide, and allow six-floor buildings with services near city centres.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Fix and complete the Vancouver Plan.↗↗
  • Expand the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy (TRPP) citywide and reduce the residency period required to qualify for protections from one year to six months.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Require developers to compensate tenants when delayed construction postpones their move-in date.↗↗↗↗↗
  • End the prohibition on pets in city-owned housing and advocate to the Province to eliminate blanket no-pet clauses.↗↗↗↗
  • Lift the freeze on approvals for net-new supportive housing.↗↗↗↗
  • Prohibit landlords from preventing tenants from using portable air conditioning units, with a $1,000 fine for non-compliance, subject to exemptions for buildings with electrical, structural, or safety constraints.↗
  • Pursue Housing First as the foundational pillar of the public safety response.↗↗↗↗
  • Prioritize securing funding with senior governments to remove the viaducts and redevelop Hogan's Alley, delivering housing, culturally appropriate public spaces, and community benefits, led by the community.↗↗↗↗
  • Adopt permissive zoning instead of required upzoning for four- to six-storey housing and ground-and-second-storey commercial space, letting neighbourhoods choose where it applies rather than mandating uniform design.↗
  • Re-establish and fund a Renters' Office with staff to defend renters, work with legal advocates, and proactively monitor landlords and developers for rule compliance.↗↗↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • End Vancouver's apartment ban and allow 4-storey buildings and corner stores in every neighbourhood, and 6-storey buildings near city centres and where local conditions support it.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Allow mid-size apartments near services and high-streets such as Main Street and 4th Avenue.↗↗↗
  • Create a fund to acquire and protect affordable housing from redevelopment to market rents.↗↗↗
  • Strengthen protections for low-income seniors and renters.↗
  • Keep the Kingsgate Mall land in public ownership and redevelop it as a Community Commons in partnership with Host Nations and the OneCity Park Board and Council teams, including a new public school, community centre, licensed public/non-profit/Indigenous childcare (including before- and after-school care), affordable and subsidized rental housing, and a pool in Mount Pleasant.↗
  • Protect renters in every neighbourhood.↗
  • Pair new supportive housing approvals with a public engagement process supported by a new Office of Community Engagement.↗
  • End the prohibition on pets in city-owned housing.↗↗

Parks, recreation, and natural spaces 20

  • Keep every pool open and every beach guarded, build new pools in Mount Pleasant, Hastings, and Marpole, and fix pipes proactively, as part of a Park Board plan.↗↗
  • Update Parks, Recreation, and Library rules to explicitly ban wearable recording devices in pools, change rooms, washrooms, and other municipal spaces.↗↗
  • If elected to Park Board, follow the Community Centre Strategy priority list approved in April 2022.↗↗↗
  • Advocate for rapid provision of a new 50-metre pool, possibly at Hastings Park, including a community centre rebuild, located on city-owned parking lots at Renfrew Street and Hastings Street to avoid loss of green space, with shovels in the ground at a suitable site within the first term.↗↗↗
  • Work with Park Board staff to understand what is driving swimming lesson waitlists and find solutions, starting with funding VanSplash and at least one 50-metre pool.↗↗
  • Advocate for both accelerated street tree planting and funding for care of new trees.↗↗
  • Launch a gift-shop program in some parks to generate revenue for the Park Board without raising fees.↗↗
  • Increase the urban tree canopy target to 40% of city land.↗↗↗
  • Grow park land from 11% to 12% of total city land.↗↗
  • Daylight up to three creek systems currently buried under city streets.↗↗
  • Keep public pools open, staff them with qualified lifeguards through city-run equity-focused certification, and fund them long-term.↗↗↗↗
  • Build three new pools — in Mount Pleasant (via Kingsgate redevelopment), at Hastings Community Centre, and in Marpole — including a new 50-metre pool.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Continue to advocate for accelerated street tree planting and funding for care of new trees.↗
  • Increase parkland, grow urban meadows, and resurface buried creek systems to expand access to green and wild spaces.↗↗↗
  • Update the Urban Forest Strategy to raise the tree canopy target to 40%.↗
  • Build Park Board revenue through no- and low-cost tools and develop a long-term strategy to increase the independence and resiliency of the Park Board.↗↗↗
  • Keep public pools open, staff them with qualified lifeguards through city-run, equity-focused certification, and fund them long-term.↗
  • Establish a practical path to deliver a comprehensive West End waterfront plan integrating improved parks and safe, sustainable downtown transportation.↗↗↗
  • Consult with local court sports groups to resurface courts and paint lines for both pickleball and tennis, and explore alternating time slots.↗↗
  • Expedite planning for a year-round 50-metre indoor swimming and diving pool complex suitable for training, competition, and water polo, including consultation, design, and a location decision, in time for consideration of construction funding in the 2031–2034 Capital Plan.↗

Public safety and emergency services 20

  • Fund a program to move people off the street rather than cycling them through jail.↗
  • Establish one coordinated crisis response system in which trained mental health professionals and peer responders answer calls that do not require police, freeing police to focus on organized and major crime.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Conduct an independent, publicly reported organizational review of the VPD to identify investment needs, efficiencies, and calls that could be handled by other responses.↗↗↗↗
  • Deploy community violence intervention using trusted community messengers, such as CRCL teams, to de-escalate conflict before it escalates.↗↗
  • Expand restorative justice, building on Vancouver's Downtown Community Court and Indigenous-led community safety models, to reduce reoffending.↗↗↗
  • Implement ReLight Vancouver to improve lighting on streets, parks, pathways, and bus stops in every neighbourhood, and ban hostile architecture on City-owned benches and shelters.↗↗↗↗
  • Regulate businesses selling unsafe e-bikes and batteries, and work with the Province on a battery trade-in program, while creating safe operating standards for e-bikes and e-scooters.↗↗
  • Conduct a structured safety audit prioritising well-lit sightlines, adding mirrors on corners, and eliminating obstructed pathways.↗↗↗↗
  • Audit lighting coverage specifically in parks, pathways, and streets to ensure all routes home are well-lit and easy to navigate.↗↗
  • Prohibit 'hostile' architecture on City-owned benches and bus shelters.↗↗
  • Launch a public monitoring system to identify and fix existing lighting and infrastructure gaps, with accountability for progress.↗↗
  • Prioritize creating a building risk inventory and conducting seismic retrofits of community centres, and consider upgrading seismic standards for post-disaster infrastructure.↗↗↗
  • Support community-led restorative justice initiatives, including in partnership with other levels of government.↗
  • Fund and implement the Four Pillars Drug Strategy (prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and enforcement) through programs including peer support and community intervention, a Crisis Response Systems Review, the Restorative City Framework, and a Housing First framework integrated with community safety and recovery.↗↗
  • Set air quality and temperature standards for municipal facilities so residents have safe refuges during extreme heat and wildfire smoke events.↗
  • Implement an aggressive public safety framework using all available tools, centred on housing-first, employment reintegration, community-led crisis response teams, restorative justice, and a four-pillar approach to the drug crisis (expanded voluntary treatment and recovery, public education on substances, harm reduction services where needed, and community-business partnerships).↗
  • Ensure transparent, accountable, and effective allocation of police department funding.↗
  • Conduct systematic environmental safety audits to reduce road blind spots.↗
  • Increase public waste infrastructure to keep streets clean.↗
  • Ban the use of video-capable smart glasses in pools and public washrooms.↗

Social policy, health, and community services 19

  • Directly install cooling, air filtration, and heat pumps in approximately 500 high-risk homes at an estimated gross cost of $4–$7.5 million, with net City cost reduced by stacking BC Hydro, provincial, federal, and non-profit funding.↗↗
  • Re-scope the Uplifting Chinatown Action Plan to include cleaning, sanitation, accessible washrooms, and other accessibility requirements in Chinatown Plaza's interior.↗↗
  • Create a Vancouver Shelter Standard for all city-funded shelters to ensure they are safe and welcoming.↗↗
  • Move a motion to scale up childcare centre development by prioritizing childcare inclusion in new developments, funding transformation of identified City-owned amenity sites, and making the inventory of potential sites publicly accessible.↗↗↗
  • Create a Survivor Safety Fund delivering fast, low-barrier emergency money through frontline organizations for survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence, and establish a Community Safety Table to coordinate neighbourhood response and services for survivors.↗↗
  • Make it easier, cheaper, and faster to hold block parties, and create a simple process to temporarily close streets for children's play such as street hockey.↗↗↗
  • Create a Vancouver Shelter Standard to encourage shelters to meet the cultural and community needs of Indigenous, Two Spirit, and gender-diverse people.↗↗↗
  • Create a Survivor Safety Program providing low-barrier frontline services and community-led roundtables to protect survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and identify service gaps.↗↗↗
  • Propose a certified Working Cat program in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health, placing vaccinated cats in small shops across the city for chemical-free pest control.↗↗
  • Expand treatment centres, low-barrier non-profit recovery houses, and evidence-informed harm reduction education to support housing and employment stability for people with addictions.↗↗↗
  • Follow a Four Pillars, evidence-based approach to the drug poisoning emergency by expanding voluntary treatment and recovery programs, crisis response, and public education about substance use.↗↗
  • Support an increase of harm reduction services — including overdose prevention sites — through collaboration with the regional health authority and community organizations, zoning and permitting approvals, and favourable lease agreements on public property; with meaningful engagement of neighbours and businesses in implementation.↗
  • Provide additional grants to community organizations engaged in naloxone distribution, drug-checking services, and community outreach.↗
  • Advocate to other levels of government for additional mental health services, detox, patient-centred voluntary treatment, and prescribed pharmaceutical alternatives to the toxic street supply.↗↗
  • Expand childcare spaces city-wide to reduce the burden on families.↗
  • Prohibit 'hostile' architecture on City-owned benches and bus shelters.↗
  • Restore a living wage for frontline workers at the city and school board.↗
  • End the ban on supportive housing so that homeless people can access stable accommodation.↗
  • Create a youth employment programme offering entry-level jobs and career-building experience.↗

Arts, culture, libraries, and civic life 18

  • Create a new small cultural venue licence category with risk-based safety requirements, a compliance-first approach, a dedicated Venue Navigator, and a code-compliance grant stream for fire and building safety upgrades.↗↗↗
  • Establish a Cultural Space Security Program including an annual cultural space inventory, a no-net-loss test for redevelopment, expanded accessibility and safety upgrade grants, and a requirement that major rezonings and public land projects consider cultural production space.↗↗↗
  • Create an independent, sector-led Vancouver Arts and Culture Council governed by a board with arts, culture, equity, and Indigenous expertise to adjudicate civic arts grants through peer assessment, while City Council retains authority over the overall funding envelope and policy direction.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Help small venues open and stay open, put a preloaded cultural pass on every library card, and make it easier to hold a block party on a public street.↗
  • Give the City's existing Chinatown Advisory Committee a funded and measurable mandate to lead the renewal of Chinatown Plaza, with clear deadlines, dedicated funding, and measurable targets, reactivating the space with a year-round plan.↗
  • Deliver cultural programming at Chinatown Plaza shaped by Chinatown residents, cultural organizations, and small businesses.↗↗
  • Give the Chinatown Advisory Committee a funded mandate to animate Chinatown Plaza with cultural programming, new businesses, restaurants, pop-ups, and safety improvements.↗↗↗↗
  • Propose a Vancouver Library Card Plus+ program reimagining the former Vancouver Inspiration Pass, preloading library cards with access to free or low-cost cultural events, recreation, public programs, digital tools, and community spaces.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Make Vancouver Public Library the anchor of a citywide third-space revival with two new libraries, renewal of three aging branches, expanded community programming, and funding of the VPL Facilities Master Plan.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Simplify busking permit rules and expand permit-free locations so more artists can perform in more areas of the city.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Reform permitting for small cultural venues and community spaces to reduce approval time to weeks or months.↗↗
  • Support small arts and culture venues through a new small venue licence category with risk-based safety requirements, a dedicated venue liaison, and a compliance-first approach focused on helping operators fix problems rather than shutting them down.↗↗↗
  • Create an annual cultural space inventory to track losses, establish replacement or relocation requirements, expand accessibility grants, and set a goal to increase total arts and culture spaces.↗↗↗
  • Help small music and cultural venues open and remain open.↗
  • Place a preloaded cultural pass on every Vancouver Public Library card.↗
  • Treat small cultural and community venues — including rehearsal rooms, art studios, galleries, community kitchens, and maker spaces — as permitted uses in neighbourhoods, with simplified approvals.↗
  • Revitalize Chinatown Plaza as a cultural hub.↗
  • Revive Hogan's Alley by providing new housing and cultural space.↗

Schools, students, facilities, and education governance 14

  • Keep the Kingsgate Mall land in public ownership and redevelop the site into a community commons including a new public school, community centre, licensed public/non-profit/Indigenous childcare (including before- and after-school care), affordable and subsidized rental housing, and a pool for Mount Pleasant, in partnership with Host Nations and the OneCity Park Board and Council teams.↗↗↗↗
  • Expand school-based mental health and substance use services, strengthen prevention and early-intervention programs, and improve partnerships with families, health providers, and community organizations through a district-wide strategy.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Adopt a learner-centred harm-reduction approach to AI in schools, including new safeguards, AI literacy education, privacy protections, age-appropriate access limits, and restriction of AI chatbot access to Grades 10–12 only, while ensuring human relationships and supervision are available at all times.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Enact a plan with City Council, Park Board, and other public and community partners to rebuild the entire 18-acre Britannia site as an integrated public campus including rebuilt elementary and secondary schools, public childcare, a new community centre and ice rink, food security and social development programs, and non-profit permanently affordable housing.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Place neighbourhood schools at the centre of a coordinated public and non-profit childcare system, with VSB-led pilots and planning.↗↗↗↗
  • Build a universal, nutritious school food program so that every VSB student can access healthy food during the school day, regardless of financial background.↗↗↗↗
  • Integrate school planning with neighbourhood growth, protect school lands for future generations, and keep school grounds available for responsible public use outside school hours.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Reverse recent cuts to arts, music, physical education, and school libraries, and establish minimum service standards to protect these programs as core to public education.↗↗↗↗
  • Target provincial advocacy to improve staffing, funding allocation, and professional development for educators supporting students with disabilities.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Keep Kingsgate Mall and Britannia in public hands and rebuild them as community hubs with new schools, public childcare, a Mount Pleasant pool, and affordable housing.↗↗
  • Bring a motion to the Vancouver School Board to study what it would take for the VSB to run its own before and after school care programs in public schools, with $50,000 allocated toward establishing Out of School Care.↗↗
  • Ask the school board to take initiative in delivering childcare, including before- and after-school care, by leveraging existing infrastructure of over 100 school sites across the district and existing, qualified VSB staff.↗↗↗
  • Continue to fight to keep school lands in public hands rather than leased to private entities.↗
  • Protect curriculum diversity and ensure inclusive education in schools.↗

Climate, environment, and resilience 13

  • Introduce a flat, low-cost, streamlined heat pump permitting pathway for homeowners so that choosing a heat pump never costs more in permit fees than replacing with a gas appliance.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Directly install cooling, air filtration, and heat pumps in approximately 500 high-risk homes at an estimated gross cost of $4–$7.5 million, with net City costs reduced by stacking external funding sources.↗↗↗↗
  • Establish a Public Rooftop Solar and Community Energy Program placing solar panels on schools, libraries, and community centres, with community subscription models so renters, co-op residents, and non-profits can access clean energy benefits.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Within the first three months of taking office, formally identify every climate rollback made under the current ABC administration, reinstate retrofit and compliance funding in the 2027 budget, and enact bylaw and permitting changes in 2027–2028.↗↗
  • Implement a four-year plan to bring every City, Park Board, and school facility in Vancouver up to a shared standard for air quality and temperature control, with facility assessments beginning in Year 1, a public retrofit schedule published in Year 2, and upgrades continuing through Year 4.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Require resource-intensive land and energy users — including data centres, surface parking lots, and large luxury homes — to disclose and mitigate their impacts on public infrastructure.↗↗↗
  • Restore climate leadership standards in building construction that were previously repealed, making buildings more future-proof and energy-efficient.↗
  • Deliver reliable public garbage collection, expand public recycling beyond downtown, and establish a clear citywide service standard for waste disposal.↗↗↗↗
  • Update the Urban Forest Strategy to raise the tree canopy target to 40%.↗
  • Introduce water meters to lower utility costs for average residents and charge high-volume users more.↗
  • Reverse the reduction in green retrofit bylaw enforcement, reinstate the ban on gas-powered hot water systems, disallow gas for space and water heating in new buildings, and restore the zero-emissions heating requirement for new low-rise buildings that was in place from January 2022.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Deliver a comprehensive clean energy buildings program including topped-up BC Hydro solar and battery incentives, restored replacement requirements for aging gas equipment, a low-income retrofit program modelled on Edmonton's, and expanded thermal energy networks including the False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility.↗↗↗↗↗↗
  • Charge heavy water users more, so large consumers pay a higher share of water costs.↗

Indigenous relations and reconciliation 2

  • Work in partnership with the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations to strengthen Indigenous language learning, Indigenous-led land-based education, culturally safe student supports, and accountability for Indigenous student success.↗↗↗↗↗
  • Continue the work already unanimously adopted by the City of Vancouver to implement the UNDRIP Action Plan.↗↗↗↗

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