Governance, consultation, and accountability
222 commitments from 14 parties, grouped by who published them.
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- Make the permit approval process more transparent and accessible for affected third parties.↗
- Introduce a bylaw to elect Vancouver city councillors from geographic wards rather than at large, advancing it through the normal legislative process.↗↗↗↗↗
- Create a clear process for escalating unresolved or recurring Van311 cases.↗
- Appoint an independent Electoral Boundaries Commission, provide it with resources, and have it recommend ward boundaries considering population, existing neighbourhood boundaries, geographic continuity, and public submissions.↗↗
- Submit the ward boundary bylaw to the Lieutenant Governor in Council for provincial approval and work with the Province to complete the statutory process under the Vancouver Charter.↗
- Establish a system of Neighbourhood Councils across Vancouver to provide neighbourhoods with a formal, ongoing advisory connection to City Hall, including the right to review significant City proposals, submit recommendations, hold regular meetings with ward councillors and staff, and escalate unresolved concerns.↗↗↗↗
- Properly resource Van311 so residents can reach City services efficiently.↗
- Restore the QuickFind Directory to the City website, including a public organizational chart of City staff and management with email and phone contact information for each person.↗↗
- Establish clear service and response standards for resident requests to Van311.↗
- Allow residents to track the status of their Van311 request and know which City department is responsible.↗
- Retain Vancouver's independent elected Park Board.↗
- Return administrative and operational resources transferred from the Park Board to City departments.↗
- Protect the Auditor General from political or administrative interference.↗↗↗↗
- Make Freedom of Information requests more accessible and timely.↗
- Require City departments to establish annual service plans, measurable performance benchmarks, and public reporting on results.↗↗
- Require City departments to provide public responses and timelines for audit recommendations, maintain a public tracker showing their status, and require a public explanation when recommendations are not implemented.↗
- Continue using independent audits to identify waste, inefficiency, and opportunities for better services.↗
- Strengthen protections for the Integrity Commissioner's independence, ensure complaints involving elected officials receive independent and impartial investigation, use qualified outside investigators where appropriate, review the Code of Conduct, and seek provincial changes where additional authority is required.↗↗
- Establish a public Lobbyist Registry disclosing who is lobbying City Hall, who they represent, what decision they seek to influence, and which elected officials or senior City decision-makers they contacted.↗↗↗↗↗
- Create public Community Amenity Contribution and Development Cost Levy registers.↗↗
- Release Council information early enough for residents to meaningfully review it.↗
- Publicly report audit findings so residents can see what is being spent, what results are being achieved, and where further action is required.↗
- Reinstate participatory community-based planning as the fundamental framework for Vancouver's future planning.↗↗↗↗↗↗
- Restrict participation in City engagement processes to verified Vancouver residents (owners and renters), business owners, and property owners.↗
- Develop diverse, inclusive City Advisory Committees for both renters and homeowners, with members randomly selected from volunteer pools to represent Vancouver's diverse perspectives.↗
- Publish all materials relating to public proceedings, including staff correspondence, financial documents, and Freedom of Information requests, at least one month before Council discussion, and notify residents, businesses, and local groups of their availability.↗↗
- Review current policies and practices around in-camera meetings with recommendations to limit them to only when truly essential, and ensure general staff briefings of Council are open to the public.↗↗
- Increase transparency in the budget process and give residents a meaningful voice in spending decisions.↗
- Change the budget process to enable Council and the public to review and set priorities within the operating and capital budgets, including review and approval of departmental budgets, service plans, and performance benchmarks.↗
- Enact a municipal moratorium on approval and permitting of AI data centres while local planning and regulatory frameworks are developed to mitigate negative consequences.↗
- Restore finance, operations, and facilities to Park Board jurisdiction to preserve its independence and self-sufficiency.↗↗
- Withdraw the City's request to the Province to amend the Vancouver Charter to eliminate the elected Park Board.↗
- Protect all public view cone corridors and reinstate view cones that were amended or eliminated over the last term.↗
- Simplify and make more publicly transparent the zoning, development, and building permitting processes to reduce costs and approval times for new development and renovations.↗↗
- Repeal the Official Development Plan (ODP), including related plans for Broadway, Jericho, Rupert & Renfrew, and Villages, to enable neighbourhood-based participatory community planning.↗↗
- Identify permitting bottlenecks and ensure staff are properly trained to handle permits appropriately.↗
- Streamline processes for smaller projects, including more flexible on-site review for renovation building permits.↗
- Re-establish the One Stop Renovation Centre and a similar service for approval of small construction projects, including laneway housing, secondary suites, duplexes, and small-scale ground-oriented infill without land assembly.↗
- Reinstate third-party appeals to the Board of Variance, which had been in place for 50 years, as a check and balance on the discretionary powers of the Director of Planning.↗
- Ensure that members of the Urban Design Panel have a strong track record for representing the public interest in design and planning.↗
- Develop a professional standard requiring that all development proposal photos and 3D renderings accurately portray impact on the entire neighbourhood and skyline, including all surrounding buildings, using a 50mm lens (or equivalent digital perspective) to replicate human vision.↗
- Require shadow studies at all four seasonal solar positions — winter solstice, spring equinox, summer solstice, and autumnal equinox — for all development initiatives, using 3D renderings that accurately portray impacts on the surrounding neighbourhood and skyline.↗
- Work with other municipalities to challenge and change provincial zoning legislation (Bills 44, 46, 47 of 2023; Bill 18 of 2024; M216 of 2025), including supporting judicial review, to reconsider the one-size-fits-all approach and ensure planned growth is supported by necessary infrastructure and amenities.↗↗
- Rethink the Broadway Plan, Rupert/Renfrew station area plans, and the Vancouver Plan, which are being implemented through area-wide prezoning and ODP adoption without meaningful public input.↗
- Publish a public housing and development dashboard to make City Hall's results transparent.↗
- Make City Hall more accessible.↗
- Establish a transparent, ongoing public process—involving residents, experts, businesses, and government representatives—to examine AI data centre opportunities and risks, forming the foundation for a broader, evolving municipal AI policy.↗
- Require the city to disclose to residents when an AI system was involved in making or recommending a decision that affects their lives, and explain the AI's role when appropriate.↗
- Prohibit AI from independently making final decisions involving residents' rights, access to essential services, enforcement, or significant financial consequences, requiring meaningful human oversight at every such step.↗
- Establish clear rules governing what resident, business, property, and public-service information can be provided to AI systems, how it is protected, and who is responsible when something goes wrong.↗
- Require AI systems used in consequential city services to be tested for accuracy and fairness before deployment, monitored during use, and subject to a challenge mechanism, with human supervision at every step.↗
- Ensure major uses of AI by city government are preceded by open public discussion about where AI belongs and where it does not, rather than appearing without prior consultation.↗
- Reform the public hearing process so residents are not required to queue for days or submit mass written objections to influence council decisions.↗
- Use transparent, verifiable, and publicly accessible data — including Vancouver's existing zoning capacity, StatsCan Census, CMHC, and regional/BC stats — for planning purposes.↗
- Re-establish neighbourhood planning offices.↗↗
- Urge City Council to listen to West End residents regarding the proposed 27-storey hotel rezoning on Barclay Street.↗
- Launch a neighbourhood consultation process following rescission of the Villages Plan.↗
- Launch a petition urging City Council to ensure all voters can cast a ballot in the October 17 civic election.↗
- Conduct a Downtown Eastside Audit examining City grants, programs, contracts, and other municipal spending; identify gaps and duplication across governments and service providers; and publicly report findings including what is working, what is not, and where resources are still needed.↗↗↗
- Build a new ODP through a grassroots-up, democratic, and participatory process rather than adopting the current version.↗
- Introduce digital identity authentication with privacy protections so councillors can verify whether speakers or correspondents are Vancouver residents, whether they are affected by the issue, and whether they represent an organization or commercial interest.↗
- Change the counting of written correspondence so that submissions from unidentified contributors are no longer counted as multiple pieces while a verifiable petition with many names counts as one.↗
- Present a plan for a more democratic and participatory approach to municipal governance and city planning at the neighbourhood tour events.↗
- Reverse the current process in which Council changes zoning rules to accommodate developer proposals, returning to planning the city according to what residents want.↗
- Run candidates for mayor, council, and the school and park boards in the October 17 election.↗
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- 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.↗
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- Bring in a wellbeing index for the City of Vancouver to measure residents' status on core issues using indicators beyond economic measures.↗↗
- Re-embed equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and reconciliation policy coordination across city departments following the closure of the standalone Equity Office.↗↗
- Re-instate the Older Persons Planner position that was eliminated in recent budget cuts.↗↗
- Make City Hall more transparent, responsive, and user-friendly, with clearer processes, better communication, and a culture focused on helping people solve problems.↗
- Support stronger provincial integrity legislation, safeguard the independence of ethics oversight, and ensure elected officials remain accountable to the public.↗↗
- Strengthen transparency around in-camera discussions, improve public reporting, and support timely disclosure of decisions and records once confidentiality is no longer necessary.↗↗
- Work with partners to bring ranked ballots to future mayoral elections.↗↗
- Ensure members of the public have more access at City Hall, including the ability for Council to ask follow-up questions of speakers.↗
- Expand the use of public performance dashboards so residents can track progress on major initiatives and monitor service standards.↗↗
- Pursue proactive and integrated board-to-board planning to align Council land use and urban development decisions with Vancouver School Board school needs and projections.↗
- Work to restore confidence in transparent and accountable Police Board operations.↗↗
- Make public board meetings accessible and easier to follow.↗
- Publish major reports and recommendations early enough for meaningful public review wherever possible.↗
- Provide plain-language summaries of major board decisions.↗
- Clearly explain the rationale for significant policy and budget choices.↗
- Publish easily accessible performance indicators to track progress and corrective actions for major Board priorities.↗
- Improve transparency concerning matters discussed in closed meetings while respecting legal privacy and confidentiality requirements.↗
- Improve engagement before major catchment, program, or school changes, and explain how public and stakeholder input influenced the final decision.↗
- Use multiple forms of engagement so participation is not limited to those able to attend traditional evening meetings.↗
- Establish regular, predictable dialogue between trustees and employee representatives.↗
- Amend the procedure by-law to allow public speakers on extraordinary zoning amendments, within provincial legislative limits.↗↗
- Create an Office of Strong Communities to serve as the city's neighbourhood engagement hub, working with residents, community organizations, BIAs, and neighbourhood groups to identify local priorities and inform cross-departmental planning.↗↗
- Introduce a motion at City Council to amend the City's Draft FIFA World Cup 2026 Human Rights Action Plan by adding clear standards, measurable targets, and independent monitoring.↗
- Develop a Human Rights Measurement Framework including clear indicators, baseline data, targets, and public reporting to Council.↗
- Establish a clear complaint and rapid response system to address urgent human rights concerns during the World Cup tournament.↗
- Release a platform covering housing affordability, climate resilience, transit improvements, community safety, and City Hall governance.↗
- Call for an immediate impartial review and unequivocal censure of Councillor Lenny Zhou's conduct.↗
- Introduce a motion directing staff to report back on a by-law establishing a City Comptroller as an independent officer reporting to Council, with responsibilities covering expenditure monitoring, citywide asset management framework development, public reporting on infrastructure and investments, and compliance with Council-approved financial policies.↗
- Establish a lobbyist registry so residents know who is influencing City Hall decisions.↗
- Reverse limits on public engagement and follow-up questions at City Hall.↗
- Give residents a direct role in funding neighbourhood projects through participatory budgeting.↗
- Base City policy on data and research rather than political ideology.↗
- Ensure the civil service is merit-based and separate from political direction.↗
- Maintain an independent, elected Park Board with clear authority.↗
- Maintain a commitment to transparent decision-making and accountability for results at City Hall.↗
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- 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.↗
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- Affirm Vancouver's opposition to the genocide in Gaza.↗
- Join Burnaby and Powell River in committing to the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge.↗
- Take all actions to withdraw Vancouver from any municipal contracts that support or empower apartheid and genocide.↗
- Recognize the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA) framework of Anti-Palestinian Racism.↗
- Introduce an Acceptable Use for AI Policy governing AI tool use by all elected officials, staff, and city employees, requiring privacy safeguards, disclosure of significant AI use, and consequences for elected officials who break the rules, including preventing sensitive resident information from being fed into unapproved AI systems.↗↗
- Bring a motion to City Council calling for a Ranked Choice Ballot for future mayoral elections.↗
- Explore possible amendments to the ODP regarding how staff interpret public comments and how changes in use for social housing projects trigger public hearings.↗
- Bring a motion asking Vancouver to join the Elect Respect campaign.↗
- Limit nominated candidates to up to five for City Council, up to four for School Board, and up to four for Park Board.↗
- Conduct a 'People's Audit' — a 360-degree review of city operations engaging the public and city staff to identify service delivery problems and cut waste.↗↗
- Establish a lobbyist registry and push fossil fuel and big business lobbyists out of City Hall.↗
- Increase time for public comment at Council, allow follow-up questions, and hold Town Hall-style meetings throughout the city.↗
- Protect and defend the Integrity Commissioner's office and work, and restore integrity oversight at City Hall.↗↗
- Restore door-to-door voter enumeration (voter registration) in Vancouver.↗
- Eliminate the extra municipal vote currently available to non-resident property owners in Vancouver elections.↗
- Push the province to implement civic voting rights for Permanent Residents.↗
- Expand and democratize advisory committees, improve public access to Council chambers, improve and disseminate Council meeting livestreams, and improve overall governance transparency.↗
- Commission a worker-led audit interviewing current and former city workers, partners, and the public to improve service delivery and reduce waste.↗↗
- Enhance the independence of the Auditor General and provide sufficient resources for needed investigations.↗↗
- Work across City Council, School Board, and Park Board to use public assets for the public good and grow Vancouver's social infrastructure.↗↗
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- Open the north doors to City Hall within 10 days of taking office.↗
- Create Neighbourhood Hubs that connect residents with City services, community resources, and support closer to home.↗
- Apply a policy evaluation framework (the 'Vancouver Test') requiring that every City Hall decision meet four criteria: service improvement or urgent need, long-term benefit, public trust, and measurable resident outcomes.↗
- Re-establish meaningful, genuine, transparent community-based neighbourhood planning, removing the Communications Group from those processes and re-empowering the Planning Department to lead them.↗
- Improve response times for essential public services including street cleaning and sanitation, snow and ice removal, and broken streetlights.↗
- Establish a 10-day response commitment for City Hall inquiries, meaning residents will hear back within 10 days about what the City plans to do to address their issue.↗
- Establish a dedicated team to streamline rezoning applications and help faith organizations navigate municipal development guidelines.↗
- Create single-point-of-contact service desks (concierge desks) for businesses, events, and community organizations navigating City Hall departments.↗
- Create a Seniors' Concierge Desk at City Hall where seniors can speak to a real person by phone or in person to navigate City departments.↗
- Publish the City's budget publicly online in a clear, understandable format.↗
- Leverage relationships with all orders of government to advocate for increased funding and support for affordable childcare, supportive housing, mental health and addiction supports, and schools, including advocating to the federal government for tax exemptions on municipal bonds.↗
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- Make City services and facilities more accessible for people of all ages and abilities.↗
- Ensure neighbourhood growth comes with the infrastructure communities actually need.↗
- Protect the independence of Vancouver's Integrity Commissioner.↗
- Strengthen ethics oversight and consequences for Code of Conduct breaches.↗
- Support open government by default.↗
- Improve public access to Council and City decision-making.↗
- Create a lobbyist registry.↗
- Create public performance dashboards for major City initiatives.↗
- Use evidence and measurable outcomes to guide City decision-making.↗
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- Start a monthly "ask me anything" session with the Mayor, including relevant Council and City representatives, to ensure transparency at City Hall.↗
- Launch and implement a Good Neighbour Policy within the first 100 days.↗
- Make City Hall permitting faster and easier.↗
- Create a strict performance-based action committee to set better metrics for families.↗
- Expand department head meetings (VANSTAT) to weekly check-ins.↗
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- Increase transparency, publish clear spending information, and hold elected officials and City departments accountable for results.↗↗
- Keep English as the standard language for official City services, signage, street names, and place names.↗
- End mandatory land acknowledgements in City contexts.↗
- Oppose ideological renaming of established streets and places, end mandatory land acknowledgements, and maintain Vancouver's civic and Canadian symbols.↗
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- Fight to bring in a ward system so each community has dedicated neighbourhood representation on council.↗
- Publicly acknowledge when the Province or federal government holds authority over a matter rather than making promises the City cannot deliver.↗
- Have the City work with businesses and residents before major construction begins, rather than after disruption has started.↗
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- Reform the city permitting process to allow qualified professionals such as architects and engineers to certify that construction meets applicable codes, reducing mandatory city review steps.↗
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- Oppose abolishing Vancouver's democratically elected Park Board.↗