Candidate Questionnaire

Set up a City land bank, and sell or lease City land to non-profit and co-op builders below market price

Publish how long permit decisions should take, and report every three months on whether the City is hitting it

Publish pre-approved building designs that skip individual design review

Set a target rental vacancy rate, and manage supply against it

Give owners a simple, penalty-free way to legalise suites that were built without a permit

Cut or waive development cost charges for below-market and family-sized homes

Put bylaw officers and outreach workers on the same shift, as one team

Set up a civilian crisis team for calls that don't need a police officer

Keep bylaw officers on the street from roughly 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Publish a map of the blocks and hours with the most complaints, and send enforcement there

Publish every three months what enforcement did, and what came of it

Mark out and sign drug-free zones around schools, playgrounds and daycares

Publish a schedule for cleaning up and reopening a park after an encampment is cleared

Name the public spaces you'd return to general public use in your first year

Put better lighting on the streets with the most reported incidents

Publish one number each year: what a typical household pays the City in total, and how much that changed

Give money back to residents when the City collects more property tax than it needed

Write down a rule limiting how much new debt the City takes on each term

Keep a public running list of costs the Province or the CRD has pushed onto the City's budget

Vote no on CRD budget increases unless the CRD first publishes what's driving the cost and what the alternative was

Publish how long a business licence decision should take, and report against it

Run a review that deletes or merges bylaws and permits, instead of creating a new office to manage them

Give businesses and event organisers one named person at the City to deal with

Cut or restructure business licence and permit fees

Set a dollar figure above which any project needs its own published business case before council votes

Make the first 15 minutes of on-street parking downtown free

Check permit and application fees against what the service actually costs to deliver

Set up a standing joint committee that publishes its agendas and minutes

Give the Nations seats on City committees that decide land use

Report publicly each year on what was agreed and what actually got done

Fund staff whose job is this relationship, instead of handling it case by case

Push for First Nations representation on regional transit governance

Publish every three months how many people moved from the street into shelter, and from shelter into housing, and how long each waiting list is

Publish how the waiting list is ordered, and what puts one person ahead of another

Make landlords redeveloping a rental building help tenants move, and offer them their unit back afterwards

Tighten the short-term rental rules, and actually enforce them

Set a minimum indoor temperature landlords have to keep rental units at

Offer City land or space to licensed childcare operators at below-market rent

Put City money behind recruiting and keeping family doctors and nurse practitioners

Set aside youth-only hours at City recreation centres

Sign a standing agreement with School District 61 to share school grounds, gyms and fields outside school hours

Publish how fast the City will clear graffiti, litter and dumped garbage, and report every three months on whether it does

Clean downtown streets and sidewalks more often

Put more public garbage and recycling bins on the busiest streets

Fund a programme to keep benches, planters and public spaces in good repair

Time traffic signals to actual conditions, instead of running them on fixed cycles

Commit to Vision Zero, and publish a count of serious injuries and deaths every year

Build traffic calming from a published priority list, instead of wherever a petition arrives

Finish the gaps in the bike and walking network we already have before starting new routes

Use physical protection, not just paint, on bike lanes along busy streets

Oppose removing or narrowing bike lanes that already exist

Build sidewalks from a published priority list, with a set amount in the budget every year

Use the City's seat on the regional transit commission to push for specific service changes

Check City sidewalks, crossings and buildings for accessibility, and fund the fix list

Open more public washrooms, for longer, and publish where they are and when they're open

Split the cost of security with small businesses on the worst-hit blocks

Send paramedics or health workers, not police, to repeat non-emergency calls

Call and publish a review of how police services are shared across the region

Put smart LED lighting on the streets with the most incidents

Publish a safety dashboard every three months, showing incidents by type and location

Publish what enforcement did: actions taken, charges laid, what happened after

Publish how long the City takes to answer a bylaw complaint

Set and publish a target for cutting one named type of crime

Set design rules for new buildings on the main downtown streets, covering materials and what the ground floor looks like

Offer tax or fee breaks for restoring heritage buildings

Light up landmark buildings, the bridges and the waterfront at night

Fund a set of small park and public-space improvements every year

Make a developer replace a cultural or community space if the project pushes one out

Set a floor under arts and culture funding, so it isn't the first thing cut in a tight year

Sign multi-year grant agreements with established organisations, instead of renewing every year

Invest in sport and recreation facilities alongside arts and culture

Attach published criteria, a report on what it achieved, and an end date to every grant the City gives

Simplify permits for small events and cultural uses

Put at least one service the City now does itself out to tender

Review every department from zero over four years, a few at a time

Publish a performance dashboard every three months, against named targets and dates

Set a target for shrinking management and office jobs through retirements and vacancies, with no layoffs

Go through everything the City owns, and sell or redevelop what it doesn't need

Build one City map and open-data site the public can search

Publish realistic images of what a proposed building will actually look like, and use them in consultation

Publish rules for how the City uses AI, including a ban on decisions made without a person reviewing them

Give local suppliers weight in City technology contracts

Put public Wi-Fi in City buildings and main public spaces

Add EV charging on City property

Require a replacement tree when a mature tree comes down, on private land as well as public

Build a district energy system for downtown buildings

Publish a target for how people get around, and measure it every year

Protect and connect wildlife corridors when making land-use decisions

Name cooling and clean-air centres with guaranteed opening hours during heat waves and wildfire smoke

Offer grants or loans for cooling, air filtration and retrofits in existing homes

Publish a schedule, with an end date, for earthquake-proofing City buildings

Require new development to include rain gardens and green infrastructure for stormwater and heat

Follow the same published steps on every big project: what's needed, what the options are, what it costs, who was consulted, then the decision

Send a project back to council for a fresh vote if its cost or scope changes a lot

Appoint an Integrity Commissioner or ethics officer for council

Publish a written City response within 60 days of every formal consultation the City runs

Set up a lobbyist registry

Cut or scrap freedom-of-information fees for residents

Publish council expenses and pay in a format people can search

Have an independent body review what council is paid

Fund neighbourhood associations and give them formal standing, under published rules

Translate consultation materials into other languages

Finish or update the Local Area Plans that are out of date

Run a proper annual resident survey, and publish all of it

Add advance voting days and locations, to get turnout up