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Bella Lee

Victoria municipal election · 17 October 2026

CouncilNew candidateCentre-Left?

Council candidate, publicly launched 30 Mar 2026

GradeB14 of 55 answered

Fourteen scored cells, every one at Close, across housing, tenants, transit, parks, policing. Nothing on downtown order, Host Nations or Hall efficiency.mean 2.00 · 14/55 answered

Who they are

Bella Lee is a 27-year-old lifelong Victoria resident, renter and political and community campaign organizer. An Oak Bay Secondary graduate, she has worked as a senior government adviser and has campaign experience on regional cost-sharing for homelessness, Access BC’s successful free-contraception initiative and the Crystal Pool referendum. Her campaign also highlights experience in project management and public advocacy. For voters, she offers youth, renter and provincial-government perspectives, while her principal policy claim—lowering the cost of living—still requires municipal mechanisms and measurable targets.

How this grade was made

  1. The same 55 topics for every candidate.
  2. Actions beat words beat silence.
  3. A mark needs a URL and a date. Without both, the cell is a dash — unknown, not a fail.
  4. If they sat on Council this term, a sourced 2022–26 vote or decision beats a 2026 promise.
  5. A letter appears only after five scored answers.

The letter next to the name is the overall grade. The number next to it is how many scored answers that grade rests on.

Tap a mark to read the sentence it rests on. Tap a label in the legend for the one-line rule.

The five doors

A sourced sentence or a fact. Never a second grade.

Tax cap
—

No sourced sentence on this door. Silence, not a fail.

Downtown order
—

No sourced sentence on this door. Silence, not a fail.

Housing
said

"Encourage the building of 3 & 4 bedroom units, so families have space to live." Family mix named. No unit target and no 25/20/15 shares.

bellalee.ca · 2026-09-02

Household bill
—

No sourced sentence on this door. Silence, not a fail.

Written program
yes

Authorized /policy living document with eight named sections and bullets (Cost of Living, Housing, Healthcare, Public Safety, Homelessness, Arts & Recreation, Climate Change & Transportation, Thriving Communities). Written and current. Not costed. No tax formula, no unit target, no implementation calendar. Home and about are biography plus past campaigns. Lee is not on VoteMate Victoria as of this retrieve.

bellalee.ca · 2026-09-02

The 12 topics

Fifty-five cells. A dash is unknown, not a fail. Record lines are shown and do not add to the scored-answer count.

1. Housing that gets built2 scored
  1. M6 housing supply + composition
  2. M6b land bank + co-ops
  3. M7 permits + AI pre-screening
  4. M7b pattern-book housing
  5. M8/M8b 5% vacancy, DCC cuts, suite amnesty
2. Downtown ordersilence
  1. M26 Public Order Team
  2. M26b civilian crisis response
  3. M27 bylaw hours 6am–10pm
  4. M28 data-targeted enforcement
  5. M33 daytime sheltering bylaws
  6. M33b drug-use buffer (City: list + bylaw/DPOT + VicPD/CDSA; not City seizure)
  7. M34–M37 encampments, reclaiming spaces, night lighting
3. Household bill1 scored
  1. M66 tax glide path (capped on the residential rate)
  2. M66b/c over-collection refund + debt rule
  3. M66d the Household Bill
  4. M70/M70b provincial downloading ledger
  5. M70c CRD cost and the Goldstream plant
  6. M71–M73d business, downtown, one mandate not a new office
  7. M74/M75/M76 capital threshold, short-stay parking (15-min grace; first-hour gated Year 2), permit fees
4. Host Nationssilence
  1. M1–M5 Host Nations Foundation. Topic never drops out of the 12. A dash is still allowed on M1–M5.
5. Homelessness and waitlists2 scored
  1. M9/M9b/M64 tenant protections, STR, indoor heat (M9c struck; 26°C gated)
  2. M10 transparent algorithmic waitlists
  3. M11 Housing First + STEP throughput
6. Families1 scored
  1. M12/M13b/M13c childcare, doctors, youth (M13 school food is $0 → M13d)
  2. M13d standing School District 61 agreement
7. Streets and mobility3 scored
  1. M14/M16/M17/M18 cleanliness and the public realm
  2. M19/M22/M38/M40–M42b mobility + Vision Zero (M39 30 km/h struck; calming is M38)
  3. M20b/M23b walking and transit the City controls
  4. M24b/M25b accessibility and public washrooms
  5. M25 fix roads first
8. Policing and published safety1 scored
  1. M28b business security cost-spreading
  2. M28d community paramedicine
  3. M29/M29b VicPD funding + regional review (convene-and-publish; no binding other force) flag
  4. M30 smart LED lights, no surveillance
  5. M31/M31b/M31c/M32 safety dashboard, published enforcement record, crime target
9. Beauty as a public good2 scored
  1. M43–M46b heritage and cultural venues
  2. M45b/c pedestrianisation and the signature project
  3. M47–M49 heritage incentives, lighting, parks
  4. M50/M50b/M51/M52 culture, sport, and the arts funding floor flag
10. A smaller scored Hallsilence
  1. M15 managed competition
  2. M65 rotating zero-based reviews
  3. M67 quarterly performance dashboard
  4. M68 overhead reduction by attrition
  5. M69 real-estate rationalisation
  6. M53/M53b/M53c GIS, AI consultation imagery, LIDAR
  7. M53d published municipal AI standard
  8. M54–M57 local-tech procurement, open data, Wi-Fi, EV charging
11. Climate and trees as operations1 scored
  1. M58/M58b/M64b climate, district energy, seismic flag
  2. M59–M63 trees, mode share, ecosystems, emergency preparedness
12. Neighbourhoods and integrity1 scored
  1. M77/M78/M78b $25M referendum threshold, 5-step process, material-change rule
  2. M79/M79b Integrity Commissioner + 60-day consultation response
  3. M79c–f lobbyist registry, FOI fee, remuneration
  4. M80/M80b/M80c neighbourhoods, language access, Local Area Plans
  5. M82/M82b community surveys, turnout and ballot access
  6. M81 Saanich amalgamation (one line, not the whole topic)
Background

Evidence vintage (summary). Verified 1 Sep 2026 against the current authorized campaign site and biography, March launch coverage, June joint-candidate coverage, current campaign-linked Instagram and X accounts and public professional references. A detailed policy platform has not yet been published.

Web, campaign & socials (checked 1 Sep 2026). Campaign site · About · Campaign Instagram · X · Personal Instagram linked by campaign · LinkedIn · no campaign Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok or YouTube account was linked

Profile. Bella Lee is a 27-year-old lifelong Victoria resident, renter and political and community campaign organizer. An Oak Bay Secondary graduate, she has worked as a senior government adviser and has campaign experience on regional cost-sharing for homelessness, Access BC’s successful free-contraception initiative and the Crystal Pool referendum. Her campaign also highlights experience in project management and public advocacy. For voters, she offers youth, renter and provincial-government perspectives, while her principal policy claim—lowering the cost of living—still requires municipal mechanisms and measurable targets.

2026 campaign and social verification. bellalee.ca is a current, authorized council campaign with biography, donations, volunteering and sign requests. The public programme remains concise: lower the cost of living, build a caring and thriving city, support affordability, secure fairer CRD participation in homelessness costs and preserve vital community amenities. The site points to prior campaign achievements rather than a complete municipal platform and does not yet specify housing targets, City costs, tax measures, transit commitments or delivery dates. Instagram and X are linked directly from the campaign; a second personal Instagram feed is also embedded. No official Facebook, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok or YouTube campaign account was located.

Sources. Campaign site, candidate biography, 30 Mar launch coverage, June joint-candidate coverage, campaign-linked social profiles and public professional references. The CRD, contraception and pool items are past advocacy evidence, not automatically 2026 municipal promises.

Current-platform note. No detailed release was located as of 1 Sep. Existing marks below therefore remain based on the candidate’s stated affordability objective and prior advocacy record, not a complete programme. Re-score if the campaign publishes mechanisms before or after the 11 Sep nomination lock.

⚪ Still, including two that are worth naming. She is the candidate in this field with the most direct working knowledge of the provincial-downloading question (M70b), the framework's most cross-bloc measure, and has published no position on it. Childcare and family policy is her professional domain and that is background under banned inference 5, with no published municipal position on M12, M13, M13c or M13d. Also ⚪ on the fiscal-method suite, managed competition, enforcement and the referendum threshold.

Current verification gaps. No reliable current source confirmed whether she sought or received a Victoria Labour Council endorsement, and no inference should be made from the expired application deadline. Still needed: a full platform, funding sources, implementation dates, formal nomination filing and clarification of any joint-campaign arrangements with Jack Sandor.

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