[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":7894},["ShallowReactive",2],{"party-green-party-of-vancouver":3,"platform-green-party-of-vancouver-2026-platform":406,"platform-chapters-green-party-of-vancouver-2026-platform-all":724,"party-roster-Green Party of Vancouver":3785,"parties-all":4563,"platforms-all":7881},{"id":4,"aliases":5,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":7,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":14,"history":15,"leadership":25,"logo":13,"meta":31,"money":32,"name":47,"news":48,"overview":54,"palette":59,"platform":64,"questions":312,"record":347,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":353,"slug":354,"sources":355,"stem":403,"summary":404,"website":358,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":405},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver.json",[],"2026-09-26",{"hex":8,"note":9,"cites":10},"#a9c94f","Read from the party website on September 22, 2026.",[11],"green-home","json",null,"Pete Fry for mayor, with a housing plan built on faster approvals",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":19,"gaps":22,"entries":24},"unresearched",false,"2026-09-22",[20,21],"The party website","A web search for the party name with past Vancouver election results",[23],"Founding, past results and any name changes have not been checked for this party yet.",[],[26],{"role":27,"name":28,"cites":29},"Mayoral candidate","Pete Fry",[11,30],"city-candidates",{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":34,"gaps":37,"searchUrl":39,"filings":40,"notes":41},"researched",[35,36],"The Elections BC local elections disclosure system","The Elections BC elector organization reporting rules",[38],"This party's own filings have not been retrieved and transcribed yet, so this page explains where to look rather than showing the figures.","https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002FLESearch.aspx",[],[42,43,44,45,46],"Registered parties in British Columbia are called elector organizations. Only a registered elector organization can endorse candidates, take campaign contributions and spend money on an election.","Each one files a report within 90 days after general voting day, another by March 31 for every calendar year, and a final one within six months of closing down.","General voting day is October 17, 2026, so this election’s filing is due by about mid-January 2027. It is not on the public record during the campaign.","What is on the record now: the reports filed for each calendar year, and the full filings from the 2022 Vancouver election.","Anyone who gives $100 or more to a party or a candidate has their name and the amount published.","Green Party of Vancouver",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":49,"gaps":51,"entries":53},[50],"A web search for the party name, September 2026",[52],"No dated coverage index has been compiled for this party yet.",[],[55,56,57,58],"The Green Party of Vancouver is running 10 candidates: Pete Fry for mayor at ballot number 51, 4 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 2 for School Board.","Pete Fry is a two-term sitting Vancouver city councillor.","The party released a housing plan on September 16, 2026. It had not published a full platform document on its website when we checked on September 22, 2026.","Its housing position is notably close to parties on the other side of this ballot on approvals and prefabrication, and splits from them on keeping Vancouver’s own building bylaw.",{"accent":60,"onAccent":61,"tint":62,"ink":63},"#667D26","#FFFFFF","#F2F7E4","#607524",[65,122,139,163,183,213,243,256,283,296],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":67,"proposals":72,"questions":105,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":116,"gaps":119,"headline":120,"summary":121},"housing",[68,69,70,71],"Pete Fry released this plan on September 16, 2026. Its shape is faster approvals and cheaper construction methods rather than a supply target or a spending number.","Pre-approved designs mean the city approves a set of building plans in advance, so a builder using one skips much of the permit process.","The clearest difference from other parties is on the Vancouver Building By-law. Vancouver is the only city in British Columbia with its own building bylaw, under the Vancouver Charter. The Greens would keep it, arguing it allows climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber. The Vancouver Liberals would abolish it and adopt the provincial code instead.","No dollar figures, numerical targets or deadlines were stated in the plan as reported.",[73,79,84,88,93,97,101],{"title":74,"detail":75,"cites":76,"authority":78},"Launch pre-approved housing designs","The party would launch pre-approved housing designs including prefabricated options, so qualifying projects skip much of the permit process.",[77],"green-housing","The city controls its own permit process.",{"title":80,"detail":81,"cites":82,"authority":83},"Partner with Build Canada Homes","The Greens would partner with Build Canada Homes to attract investment and fast-track qualifying projects.",[77],"Build Canada Homes is a federal programme.",{"title":85,"detail":86,"cites":87},"Streamline permitting for low-rise construction","Permitting would be streamlined for low-rise apartments, row homes, townhomes, infill and wood-frame construction.",[77],{"title":89,"detail":90,"cites":91,"authority":92},"Keep the Vancouver Building By-law","The Greens would support Vancouver’s own building bylaw and allow innovative climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber and decarbonisation.",[77],"Vancouver holds this power under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":94,"detail":95,"cites":96},"Champion Canadian procurement on major developments","The party would champion Canadian procurement and employment requirements for major developments.",[77],{"title":98,"detail":99,"cites":100},"Secure rental and non-market homes from new value","The Greens commit to ensuring some of the value created by new development comes back as secured rental and non-market homes.",[77],{"title":102,"detail":103,"cites":104},"Fund retrofits through federal and provincial accelerators","The party would partner with the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and the BC Retrofit Accelerator to fund climate-smart retrofits.",[77],[106,111],{"question":107,"answer":108,"cites":109},"What is the Vancouver Building By-law, and why does it matter?","Vancouver is the only city in British Columbia allowed to write its own building rules, under the Vancouver Charter. Every other city follows the provincial code. The Greens would keep this power. The Vancouver Liberals would give it up and adopt the provincial code instead. It is one of the sharpest splits on this ballot.",[77,110],"liberals-home",{"question":112,"answer":113,"cites":114},"What are pre-approved housing designs?","The city approves a set of building plans in advance. A builder who uses one of those plans skips most of the design review, which makes the project faster and cheaper. It works best for repeatable buildings such as townhomes and small apartment blocks.",[77],true,[117,118],"The Green Party of Vancouver home page","News coverage of the September 16, 2026 housing plan release",[],"Pre-approved designs, mass timber and Build Canada Homes","The Green housing plan would launch pre-approved and prefabricated housing designs, partner with Build Canada Homes, streamline permitting for low-rise construction, and keep the Vancouver Building By-law.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":124,"proposals":126,"questions":133,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":134,"gaps":136,"headline":128,"summary":138},"homelessness",[125],"The party published a call for rapid shelters on its own website. We have recorded the call itself; the detail of how many shelters, where and at what cost has not been transcribed onto this page.",[127],{"title":128,"detail":129,"cites":130,"cost":132},"Rapid shelters ahead of the World Cup","Pete Fry called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness in Vancouver ahead of the World Cup.",[131],"green-shelters","Not published",[],[135],"The Green Party of Vancouver news page",[137],"The number, locations and cost of the proposed shelters have not been transcribed onto this page.","Pete Fry has called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness in Vancouver ahead of the World Cup.",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":141,"proposals":144,"questions":155,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":156,"gaps":160,"headline":162},"public-safety",[142,143],"The party's clearest public-safety position is at the School Board: it opposed reinstating police liaison officers in Vancouver schools and calls for civilian oversight, training and clear rules for the program the Board did approve.","Its City Council priorities describe safety in terms of harm reduction for addiction and mental health, without naming a police budget position or a specific bylaw.",[145,150],{"title":146,"detail":147,"cites":148},"Civilian oversight of the School Liaison Officer program","The party says it voted against reinstating School Liaison Officers, which the ABC-led Board approved, and calls for comprehensive SLO training and clear, enforced rules for the program, with civilian oversight as recommended by a provincial all-party police reform report.",[149],"green-school-board",{"title":151,"detail":152,"cites":153},"Harm reduction for addiction and mental health","The party commits to harm reduction strategies for addiction and mental health so community members feel safe and supported.",[154],"green-city-council",[],[157,158,159],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002F","The party's Priorities page and its three linked sub-pages: city_council_priorities, park_board_priorities, school_board_priorities","The City of Vancouver official candidate list",[161],"The priorities page states party positions with no candidate named as their author, and no dollar figure or date for any of them.","Civilian oversight of school liaison officers, and safe, supported neighbourhoods",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":165,"proposals":168,"questions":179,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":180,"gaps":181,"headline":182},"transport",[166,167],"The party's clearest transport commitment is restoring the protected bike lane on Stanley Park Drive, a road the Park Board controls.","For the city at large, it backs a mix of slower streets, more bike lanes, dedicated transit lanes and pedestrian infrastructure, without a route, a budget or a completion date.",[169,175],{"title":170,"detail":171,"cites":172,"authority":174},"Bring back the Stanley Park bike lane","The party would restore a protected active transportation lane on Stanley Park Drive and across the city's parks.",[173],"green-park-board","The Park Board decides the roads and paths inside its own parks, including Stanley Park Drive.",{"title":176,"detail":177,"cites":178},"A multimodal city transportation approach","The party backs slower, safer streets, more bike lanes, dedicated transit lanes and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure across the city.",[154],[],[157,158,159],[161],"A rebuilt Stanley Park bike lane, and a multimodal city",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":185,"proposals":188,"questions":209,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":210,"gaps":211,"headline":212},"parks",[186,187],"The party's Park Board priorities cover coastal flooding, pollinator habitat, and keeping parks and community centres affordable and useful for children, families and seniors.","None of the six priorities on this page states a dollar figure or a date.",[189,193,197,201,205],{"title":190,"detail":191,"cites":192},"A 100-year plan for Vancouver's coastal parks","The party would develop a 100-year plan for the city's 28 kilometres of coastal parks to address sea-level rise and biodiversity loss, rather than repeatedly rebuilding the seawall after storms.",[173],{"title":194,"detail":195,"cites":196},"Protect pollinator corridors and bird migration pathways","The party would strengthen the urban tree canopy, community gardens and rainwater capture zones to protect pollinator corridors and migratory bird pathways.",[173],{"title":198,"detail":199,"cites":200},"Disclose the carbon cost of Park Board budgets","The party would require every Park Board operating and capital budget to disclose the carbon dioxide cost of city operations and construction, with new staff tools to make the analysis and reporting simpler.",[173],{"title":202,"detail":203,"cites":204},"Expand community food gardens and Indigenous healing gardens","The party would expand community food gardens and forests and Indigenous healing gardens on Park Board land.",[173],{"title":206,"detail":207,"cites":208},"Keep parks and community centres affordable and accessible","Parks, facilities and services would stay available, accessible, affordable and welcoming, with programs prioritized for children, families and seniors.",[173],[],[157,158,159],[161],"A 100-year coastal plan, pollinator corridors, and parks that meet daily needs",{"issue":214,"paragraphs":215,"proposals":218,"questions":239,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":240,"gaps":241,"headline":242},"schools",[216,217],"The party's School Board priorities track the Board's own Education Plan, push to expand child care on school property, and look for funding the province has not provided.","It repeats its opposition to reinstating police liaison officers here as a School Board matter, in addition to the public-safety area above.",[219,223,227,231,235],{"title":220,"detail":221,"cites":222},"Monitor the Education Plan and student achievement gaps","Green trustees would track the Education Plan using both system data and qualitative feedback, to assess student success and identify and close achievement gaps.",[149],{"title":224,"detail":225,"cites":226},"Expand child care on school sites","The party would explore expanding child care spaces on school sites, including before and after school and ages 0 to 5, and monitor the district's Seamless Day child care pilot.",[149],{"title":228,"detail":229,"cites":230},"Find alternative funding for capital projects and operations","Facing what it calls inadequate provincial funding, the party would look for other ways to fund capital projects and school operations.",[149],{"title":232,"detail":233,"cites":234},"Expand Universal Design for Learning","The party would further develop Universal Design for Learning practices in every school and press the province for more support and funding for students with diverse learning needs.",[149],{"title":236,"detail":237,"cites":238},"Build a universal school food program","Green trustees would build on the district's Food Framework Vision and look for ways to bring food systems, and food and nutrition education, into every Vancouver school.",[149],[],[157,158,159],[161],"Monitor the Education Plan, expand child care on school sites, and creative capital funding",{"issue":244,"paragraphs":245,"proposals":247,"questions":252,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":253,"gaps":254,"headline":255},"taxes-and-budget",[246],"The party's one specific city-wide budget position is a disclosure rule, not a tax or spending figure.",[248],{"title":249,"detail":250,"cites":251},"Disclose the carbon cost of every city budget","The party would require every city operating and capital budget to disclose the carbon dioxide cost of city operations and construction projects, with new staff tools to make the reporting simpler.",[154],[],[157,158,159],[161],"Disclose the carbon cost of city budgets",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":258,"proposals":262,"questions":275,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":276,"gaps":278,"headline":281,"summary":282},"climate",[259,260,261],"The Green climate position published so far runs through buildings rather than through a separate climate plan.","Keeping the Vancouver Building By-law is the mechanism: it is what lets the city set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings, which no other BC city can do.","The party had not published a full climate platform when we checked on September 22, 2026.",[263,267,271],{"title":264,"detail":265,"cites":266,"authority":92},"Keep Vancouver’s own building bylaw for climate rules","The Greens would support the Vancouver Building By-law and allow innovative climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber and decarbonisation.",[77],{"title":268,"detail":269,"cites":270},"Fund retrofits through the federal and provincial accelerators","The party would partner with the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and the BC Retrofit Accelerator.",[77],{"title":272,"detail":273,"cites":274},"Use mass timber and wood-frame construction","The party describes mass timber and wood-frame construction as faster and more cost-effective, and would use them.",[77],[],[117,277],"News coverage of the September 16, 2026 housing plan",[279,280],"No emissions target is published.","No transport emissions commitment is published.","Keep the building bylaw, and fund retrofits","The Greens would keep Vancouver’s own building bylaw to allow decarbonisation measures, and partner with federal and provincial programmes to fund building retrofits.",{"issue":284,"paragraphs":285,"proposals":287,"questions":292,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":293,"gaps":294,"headline":295},"culture",[286],"The party's culture-adjacent position sits inside a broader \"complete communities\" priority about urban design, rather than a dedicated arts or nightlife policy.",[288],{"title":289,"detail":290,"cites":291},"Public amenities in every neighbourhood","The party backs urban design that includes green space and community-oriented streets, and wants public amenities such as parklets, plazas and libraries accessible in every neighbourhood, alongside active transportation infrastructure.",[154],[],[157,158,159],[161],"Public amenities as part of complete, livable communities",{"issue":297,"paragraphs":298,"proposals":300,"questions":308,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":309,"gaps":310,"headline":311},"child-care",[299],"The party's child care position for the city appears inside its \"complete communities\" priority. Its clearer, more specific commitment is at the School Board, on child care sited at schools.",[301,305],{"title":302,"detail":303,"cites":304},"Child care as a public amenity in every neighbourhood","The party lists childcare facilities among the public amenities it wants accessible in every neighbourhood.",[154],{"title":224,"detail":306,"cites":307},"The party would explore expanding child care spaces on school sites, including before and after school and ages 0 to 5.",[149],[],[157,158,159],[161],"Child care as part of complete communities, and on school sites",[313,317,321,325,329,333,337,341],{"question":314,"answer":315,"cites":316},"Who is the Green Party of Vancouver’s mayoral candidate?","Pete Fry, a two-term sitting Vancouver city councillor, at ballot number 51.",[11,30],{"question":318,"answer":319,"cites":320},"How many candidates are the Greens running?","10: Pete Fry for mayor, 4 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 2 for School Board.",[30],{"question":322,"answer":323,"cites":324},"What is in the Green housing plan?","Pre-approved and prefabricated designs, a partnership with the federal Build Canada Homes programme, streamlined permitting for low-rise buildings, mass timber construction, and keeping Vancouver’s own building bylaw. It was released on September 16, 2026.",[77],{"question":326,"answer":327,"cites":328},"Do the Greens publish a housing target?","No. The plan is about how homes get approved and built rather than how many. No dollar figures, targets or deadlines were stated.",[77],{"question":330,"answer":331,"cites":332},"What is the split over the Vancouver Building By-law?","Vancouver is the only BC city that writes its own building rules. The Greens would keep that power, arguing it allows mass timber and decarbonisation. The Vancouver Liberals would give it up and adopt the provincial code.",[77,110],{"question":334,"answer":335,"cites":336},"Have the Greens published a full platform?","Not when we checked on September 22, 2026. A housing plan had been released on September 16 and a call for rapid shelters was published on the party site.",[11],{"question":338,"answer":339,"cites":340},"What have the Greens said about homelessness?","Pete Fry called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness ahead of the World Cup. The number, locations and cost were not published.",[131],{"question":342,"answer":343,"cites":344},"Where can I see the Green Party’s campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is due by about mid-January 2027.",[345,346],"ebc-search","ebc-org",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":348,"gaps":350,"entries":352},[20,349],"The City of Vancouver council and board decision records",[351],"No decision, vote or funded-work record has been checked for this party yet.",[],"Green","green-party-of-vancouver",[356,360,363,369,373,378,381,384,388,391,394,397],{"id":11,"label":357,"url":358,"publisher":47,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"Green Party of Vancouver home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002F","subject",{"id":131,"label":361,"url":362,"publisher":47,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"Pete Fry calls for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness ahead of World Cup","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fpete_fry_calls_for_rapid_shelters_to_address_rising_homelessness_in_vancouver_ahead_of_world_cup",{"id":77,"label":364,"url":365,"publisher":366,"kind":367,"publishedAt":368,"checkedAt":18},"Pete Fry unveils Green Party of Vancouver housing plan","https:\u002F\u002Fdailyhive.com\u002Fvancouver\u002Fpete-fry-green-party-vancouver-housing","Daily Hive","news","2026-09-16",{"id":110,"label":370,"url":371,"publisher":372,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"Vancouver Liberals home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002F","Vancouver Liberals",{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},"Who is running: official 2026 candidate list","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fyour-government\u002F2026-candidate-information.aspx","City of Vancouver","government",{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},"Local elections disclosure statement search","Elections BC",{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},"Elector organizations: registration and financial reporting duties","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Flocal-elections\u002Felector-organizations\u002F",{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},"ebc-contrib","Making a campaign contribution","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Flocal-elections\u002Fmaking-a-campaign-contribution\u002F",{"id":154,"label":389,"url":390,"publisher":47,"kind":359,"checkedAt":6},"Green Party of Vancouver: City Council Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fcity_council_priorities",{"id":173,"label":392,"url":393,"publisher":47,"kind":359,"checkedAt":6},"Green Party of Vancouver: Park Board Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fpark_board_priorities",{"id":149,"label":395,"url":396,"publisher":47,"kind":359,"checkedAt":6},"Green Party of Vancouver: School Board Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fschool_board_priorities",{"id":398,"label":399,"url":400,"publisher":47,"kind":359,"publishedAt":401,"checkedAt":402},"green-platform-2026","Platform 2026, Green Party of Vancouver (72-page PDF, last updated September 29, 2026)","https:\u002F\u002Fassets.nationbuilder.com\u002Fvangreens\u002Fpages\u002F6122\u002Fattachments\u002Foriginal\u002F1790718545\u002FPlatform_2026_-_Green_Party_of_Vancouver_%281%29.pdf?1790718545","2026-09-29","2026-09-30","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver","The Green Party of Vancouver is running 10 candidates behind mayoral candidate Pete Fry, a sitting city councillor. Its published housing plan centres on faster approvals, prefabricated designs and Canadian-built construction.","23mzjAQTDXDak-5_dBNbVtM5j5UO08kexqHfz6FLHhw",{"id":407,"title":408,"checkedAt":402,"context":409,"corrections":410,"extension":12,"headline":417,"intro":418,"meta":422,"pageCount":423,"party":354,"pillars":424,"questions":698,"slug":717,"sourceId":398,"sourceIds":718,"stem":719,"summary":720,"tagline":721,"updatedAt":401,"url":400,"__hash__":723},"platforms\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatforms\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver.json","Platform 2026",[],[411,414],{"page":412,"note":413},7,"The party updated the wording of \"Moratorium on micro-units\" for clarity.",{"page":415,"note":416},11,"The party fixed a typo under \"Decarbonizing new builds\". It once read \"keep fossil gas heating\" and now reads \"ban fossil gas heating\".","The Green Party of Vancouver 2026 platform, chapter by chapter",[419,420,421],"The Green Party of Vancouver calls its 2026 platform \"A City That Works For You.\" The party published it as one PDF, with sections for City Council, the Park Board and the School Board, and a page listing its candidates for each board.","These pages split the document into its chapters. Each chapter page lists every commitment in the party's own order, with the PDF page it comes from, so you can check the wording yourself. We added one thing the PDF does not give: which government would have to act for each commitment, and why.","The council sections cover growth and housing, the cost of living, safety and health, the local economy, and how City Hall is run. The Park Board section covers nature in parks, fees and recreation programs. The School Board section covers funding, student support, school buildings and safety, and how the board makes decisions.",{},"72",[425,468,502,546,579,621,662],{"slug":426,"title":427,"race":428,"order":429,"pages":430,"aim":433,"headline":434,"summary":435,"intro":436,"questions":440,"context":459},"sustainable-growth","Sustainable Growth","City Council",1,{"from":431,"to":432},4,16,"Responsible development that promotes livability, housing options, greenspaces, and resilient neighbourhoods while preparing Vancouver for the future.","Green Party of Vancouver on growth: housing, streets, trees, climate and waste","Sustainable Growth is the first section of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform. It proposes dynamic zoning, a pause on micro-suites, city land for co-ops, 30 km\u002Fh streets, converting 11% of streets to community use, a 3-30-300 tree goal and a gas heating ban in new buildings.",[437,438,439],"The Green Party of Vancouver opens its 2026 platform with Sustainable Growth, a section on pages 4 to 16. Its chapters cover city planning, housing, transportation, green buildings, trees and nature, infrastructure, and waste, and every chapter is aimed at decisions made by City Council. The party states the aim of the section as \"Responsible development that promotes livability, housing options, greenspaces, and resilient neighbourhoods while preparing Vancouver for the future.\"","The largest commitments are spread across the chapters. On housing, the Greens would use city-owned land for affordable housing and co-ops, pause micro-suites as small as 250 sq ft, and offer pre-approved home designs. On streets, they would expand 30 km\u002Fh limits, add bike lanes on Broadway and convert at least 11% of streets from car use to community use. On climate, they would bring back a ban on fossil gas heating in new buildings, adopt a 3-30-300 goal for trees and green space, and end raw sewage outflows.","Most of these steps sit with City Council, which controls zoning, permits, city streets, Vancouver's own building bylaw and the capital plan. Several depend on others: TransLink runs buses and plans the SkyTrain line to UBC, the Province set the housing targets the party wants changed, BC Hydro runs the electrical grid, and the separately elected Park Board runs parks. On those points the party can only ask, negotiate or work alongside another body.",[441,444,447,450,453,456],{"question":442,"answer":443},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's Sustainable Growth platform?","Sustainable Growth is the first section of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform, with chapters on planning, housing, transportation, green buildings, ecosystems, infrastructure and zero waste. The party describes its aim as responsible development that promotes livability, housing options, greenspaces and resilient neighbourhoods (platform, page 4).",{"question":445,"answer":446},"What are the Vancouver Green Party's biggest housing promises for 2026?","The Greens would use city-owned land for affordable housing, co-ops and community land trusts, pause micro-suites as small as 250 sq ft, and offer pre-approved home designs. They also support 4 to 6 storey wood-frame apartments in all neighbourhoods (platform, pages 6 to 7).",{"question":448,"answer":449},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver propose for streets and transit?","The party would expand 30 km\u002Fh limits near parks and schools, add bike lanes on Broadway while the subway is built, and convert at least 11% of streets from car use to community use. It would work with TransLink on faster buses and seek a binding timeline for rapid transit to UBC (platform, pages 8 to 10).",{"question":451,"answer":452},"What are the Vancouver Greens' climate policies for buildings?","The Green Party of Vancouver would re-establish a ban on fossil gas heating for heat and hot water in new buildings, require green roofs on larger buildings, make solar easier to permit and return a standalone Sustainability and Climate Office to City Hall (platform, page 11).",{"question":454,"answer":455},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for trees?","The Greens would strengthen tree protection bylaws, create a municipal arborist office, make occupancy permits depend on tree health reviews and require rezonings to add canopy. Their goal is the 3-30-300 rule: 3 trees in view of every home, a 30% canopy and a green space within 300m (platform, pages 12 to 13).",{"question":457,"answer":458},"Who would have the power to carry out the Green Party of Vancouver's Sustainable Growth plan?","Most of it is City Council's to decide, since Council controls zoning, permits, city streets, the building bylaw and the capital plan. The Greens' plans for buses and a UBC line depend on TransLink, their grid plans depend on BC Hydro, which the Province owns, and the housing targets they want changed were set by the Province (platform, pages 4 to 16).",[460,464],{"label":461,"url":462,"publisher":463,"checkedAt":402},"Millennium Line UBC Extension","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.translink.ca\u002Fplans-and-projects\u002Fprojects\u002Frapid-transit-projects\u002Fmillennium-line-ubc-extension","TransLink",{"label":465,"url":466,"publisher":467,"checkedAt":402},"BC Hydro: about us (provincial Crown corporation)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bchydro.com\u002Ftoolbar\u002Fabout.html","BC Hydro",{"slug":469,"title":470,"race":428,"order":471,"pages":472,"aim":475,"headline":476,"summary":477,"intro":478,"questions":482,"context":501},"affordable-living","Affordable Living",2,{"from":473,"to":474},17,22,"A city that works for everyone starts with affordability. We'll make it easier to find a home, get around, access services, and build a good life in the communities people love.","Green Party of Vancouver on affordability: housing, transit, childcare and food","The Green Party of Vancouver's affordable living plan covers housing, transit costs, childcare and recreation, and food. It proposes a Vancouver Affordability Index, housing targets based on 30% of median household incomes, a public housing bond, a restored Renter's Office and cheaper childcare space.",[479,480,481],"Affordable Living is the second part of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform, on pages 17 to 22. It opens with one proposal for the whole section: a Vancouver Affordability Index that would track real household costs against local incomes. The party says this data would guide decisions on housing, transportation, taxes and planning, and that city policies should be judged by whether they make life more affordable for residents.","Housing is the largest chapter, and it opens with the Affordability Index. The Greens would base affordability targets on 30% of median household incomes, create a Vancouver Public Housing Bond, require affordable homes in large developments, and restore a Renter's Office paid for by the Empty Homes Tax. The other chapters cover cheaper transit and safer streets, childcare and recreation, and food security through food hubs, food recovery and community gardens.","City Council would act on most of these, because it controls zoning, permit fees, city staff and city-owned land. Some commitments depend on other bodies. TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs the buses, so the party can only press it for lower fares. Community centres belong to the separately elected Park Board. The platform also asks the Province and the federal government for housing money, including $2 billion from the federal government.",[483,486,489,492,495,498],{"question":484,"answer":485},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's Affordability Index?","The Green Party of Vancouver would create a Vancouver Affordability Index that tracks real household costs against local incomes. The party says the city would use this data to guide housing, transportation, taxation and planning decisions, and would judge its policies by whether they make life more affordable for residents (platform, page 17).",{"question":487,"answer":488},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver promise on the cost of living?","The Green Party of Vancouver's affordable living section covers housing, transit, childcare and recreation, and food. They include housing targets based on 30% of median household incomes, a public housing bond, low-income transit fares, below-market rent for childcare in City-owned buildings, and neighbourhood food hubs (platform, pages 17 to 22).",{"question":490,"answer":491},"What are the Vancouver Greens' biggest housing promises?","The Green Party of Vancouver would base affordability targets on 30% of median household incomes, create a Vancouver Public Housing Bond, require large developments to provide affordable homes or contribute land, homes or cash, and restore the Renter's Office using Empty Homes Tax money (platform, pages 17 to 19).",{"question":493,"answer":494},"Could Vancouver City Council deliver the Green Party's affordability plan alone?","Most of it, yes, because Council controls zoning, permit fees, city staff and city-owned land. Transit fares belong to TransLink, community centres belong to the Park Board, and the Green Party of Vancouver says it would ask the Province and the federal government for housing funding, including $2 billion from the federal government (platform, pages 19 to 21).",{"question":496,"answer":497},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do for renters?","The Green Party of Vancouver would restore a Renter's Office at City Hall, strengthen the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy when rental housing is redeveloped, and create a fund to buy at-risk rental buildings. It says the Empty Homes Tax would pay for the Renter's Office (platform, pages 18 and 19).",{"question":499,"answer":500},"Which parts of the Green Party of Vancouver platform cover childcare and food?","Childcare, families and public recreation are on page 21 of the Green Party of Vancouver's platform, with faster approvals, lower permit fees and City-owned space for licensed childcare. Food security is on page 22, with neighbourhood food hubs, food recovery and community food gardens in every neighbourhood (platform, pages 21 and 22).",[],{"slug":503,"title":504,"race":428,"order":505,"pages":506,"aim":509,"headline":510,"summary":511,"intro":512,"questions":516,"context":538},"safety-and-wellbeing","Safety and Wellbeing",3,{"from":507,"to":508},23,31,"That means places for people to go, care people can actually reach, and public spaces that are maintained and managed, clean and vibrant, so they stay usable and welcoming for everyone.","Green Party of Vancouver on safety, health and homelessness","The Green Party of Vancouver's safety and wellbeing plan includes a 24\u002F7 outreach team called CROW, independent reviews of police spending, restored Sex Worker Safety Coordinators, a wellbeing index, stricter mould rules for rentals, 30 km\u002Fhr streets and micro-cabin shelter villages.",[513,514,515],"Pages 23 to 31 of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform hold its plans for safety, health and homelessness. The party opens by saying people are worried about safety and disorder, and that ABC achieved little in its four years. The section's chapters cover community safety, clean streets and greenery, wellbeing, health, accessibility, and people without homes.","The largest chapter covers safety. The Greens would create an Office of Community Safety, a 24\u002F7 outreach team called CROW for non-emergency calls, city permit conditions for health and shelter sites aimed at fewer overdoses, and regular independent reviews of police spending, which the party says is 24% of the city budget. They would restore funding for Sex Worker Safety Coordinators and support the MMIWG2S+ Calls for Justice, the recommendations of the national inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people. Other chapters propose a wellbeing index, a stricter Standards of Maintenance By-law on mould in rentals, public washrooms, 30 km\u002Fhr streets, and small shelter villages of locking micro-cabins.","Most of these commitments fall to City Council, which sets the city budget, permits and bylaws. Some need other bodies. The Vancouver Police Board directs the police, the Park Board runs parks, community centres and street trees, and the province runs health services and sets school funding. Each chapter page names, for every commitment, the body that would have to act on it.",[517,520,523,526,529,532,535],{"question":518,"answer":519},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for public safety?","The Green Party of Vancouver would create an Office of Community Safety, a 24\u002F7 outreach team called CROW for non-emergency calls, and de-escalation and restorative justice programs. It would also require regular independent reviews of police performance and more reporting from the Vancouver Police Board to Council (platform, pages 23 to 25).",{"question":521,"answer":522},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver say about the police budget?","The Green Party of Vancouver says police services take 24% of the city budget. It would require regular independent reviews so that police spending is based on evidence and open to the public, and wants the Police Board to report to Council on budgets and results (platform, page 25).",{"question":524,"answer":525},"How would the Vancouver Greens deal with homelessness and encampments?","The Green Party of Vancouver would provide places for unhoused people to gather and rest, expand daytime spaces and lockers, and build small shelter villages of locking micro-cabins with support staff. It would also reverse what it calls Sim's ban on supportive housing (platform, pages 23 and 31).",{"question":527,"answer":528},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about overdoses?","The Green Party of Vancouver would write city licence, zoning and permit conditions for health and shelter sites that aim to reduce public drug use and overdose risk and connect people to health care. The party would also create the CROW outreach team for non-emergency calls about people with addictions (platform, page 24).",{"question":530,"answer":531},"What are the Green Party of Vancouver's commitments on MMIWG2S+ and sex worker safety?","The Green Party of Vancouver would restore funding for Sex Worker Safety Coordinators, which the platform says ABC cut this year, and support the MMIWG2S+ Calls for Justice and the Red Women Rising recommendations. MMIWG2S+ stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people (platform, page 25).",{"question":533,"answer":534},"Which parts of the Green Party of Vancouver's safety plan can City Council do on its own?","Council approves the city budget, permits and bylaws, so it could fund CROW, the safety office, shelter villages and street changes, and update the Standards of Maintenance By-law. The Green Party of Vancouver's police reviews need the Vancouver Police Board, park washrooms need the Park Board, and mental health services and school food funding depend on the province (platform, pages 23 to 31).",{"question":536,"answer":537},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver promise for seniors and people with disabilities?","The Green Party of Vancouver would bring back the Older Persons Planner job, make Vancouver an age-friendly city, and add curb cuts, tactile surfaces and audible crossings in every neighbourhood. It would also expand public washrooms through a citywide strategy (platform, page 30).",[539,543],{"label":540,"url":541,"publisher":542,"checkedAt":402},"National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and its final report","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca\u002Feng\u002F1448633299414\u002F1534526479029","Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada",{"label":544,"url":545,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},"City of Vancouver street tree guidelines: Street Tree By-law No. 5985 places care, custody and control of boulevard trees with the Board of Parks and Recreation","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Ffiles\u002Fcov\u002FStreetTreeGuidelines.pdf",{"slug":547,"title":548,"race":428,"order":431,"pages":549,"aim":552,"headline":553,"summary":554,"intro":555,"questions":559,"context":578},"economic-development","Economic Development",{"from":550,"to":551},32,41,"Our job is to protect our businesses and industries, our arts and culture, and grow the next generation of local opportunity.","Green Party of Vancouver economic plan: small business, main streets, arts and food","The Green Party of Vancouver's economic plan, chapter by chapter. It would give small businesses one contact at City Hall, require redevelopments to replace affordable shop space, restore arts grants, protect industrial land and plan a Future Food Hub.",[556,557,558],"Economic Development is the fourth part of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform, on pages 32 to 41. It opens with the party's view that Vancouver leads in creativity, innovation, resilience and quality of life amid global economic disruption. It then covers City Hall service for business, main streets, arts and culture, employment land, new economies, food, and community wealth building.","The largest commitments are a Business Navigator Service that gives each small business one contact person at the city, a \"no net loss\" rule that would make major redevelopments replace the affordable commercial space they remove, and the return of arts staff and grants that the party says ABC's council cut. The Greens would also let qualified venues hold up to eight events a month for up to 60 people, write new zoning rules for large AI data centres, and plan a regional Future Food Hub.","Most of these items use powers City Council holds: zoning, business licences, permit fees, the city budget and city purchasing. A few depend on other governments. Property tax flexibility and commercial tenant protections would need the Province, which the party says it would work with or ask. Night transit is run by TransLink, and the Future Food Hub is described as regional infrastructure.",[560,563,566,569,572,575],{"question":561,"answer":562},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for the economy?","The Green Party of Vancouver's economic plan, chapter by chapter. It includes a Business Navigator Service for small businesses, a no net loss rule for affordable commercial space, restored arts grants, protection for industrial land, new zoning rules for large data centres and a Future Food Hub (platform, pages 32 to 41).",{"question":564,"answer":565},"What would the Vancouver Greens do for small businesses?","The Vancouver Greens would cut red tape and permit costs, speed up approvals and give each small business one contact person through a Business Navigator Service. They would also require major redevelopments to replace affordable commercial space, and ask the Province for commercial tenant protections and property tax flexibility (platform, pages 32 to 34).",{"question":567,"answer":568},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to restore arts funding?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would restore and expand the arts and culture staffing and grants that it says ABC cut, create a City-funded Festival Fund and support Cultural Land Trusts that keep buildings for arts use (platform, page 36).",{"question":570,"answer":571},"What are the Vancouver Greens' plans for AI and data centres?","The Vancouver Greens would create new land use and zoning rules for hyperscale data centres, the large computer facilities that make extraordinary demands on power, water and local infrastructure. The party says these facilities must meet higher standards and give greater benefits to residents (platform, page 38).",{"question":573,"answer":574},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver protect jobs on industrial land?","The Green Party of Vancouver would protect employment and industrial lands from speculative conversion and keep them for manufacturing, logistics, marine industries and food processing. It would also grow jobs in building retrofits, clean technology and a circular economy (platform, page 37).",{"question":576,"answer":577},"Which parts of the Green Party of Vancouver's economic plan need another government?","Most of the plan uses City Council's own powers over zoning, licences, fees, the budget and purchasing. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would work with or ask the Province for property tax flexibility and commercial tenant protections. More night transit would need TransLink, and the Future Food Hub is described as regional infrastructure (platform, pages 34 to 40).",[],{"slug":580,"title":581,"race":428,"order":582,"pages":583,"aim":586,"headline":587,"summary":588,"intro":589,"questions":593,"context":612},"good-government","Good Government",5,{"from":584,"to":585},42,47,"A City Hall that's transparent, accountable, and works for the people it serves, not political interests, so every dollar and every decision earns the public's trust.","Vancouver Greens on City Hall: open budgets, ranked ballots, elected Park Board","The Green Party of Vancouver's Good Government plan would publish line-item budgets, support a voluntary lobbyist registry, work toward ranked ballots for mayor, pay city workers a Living Wage, keep an elected Park Board, and restore trust in the Police Board.",[590,591,592],"Good Government is the part of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform about how City Hall itself works. It runs from page 42 to page 47 and covers service to the public, open decision-making, the city budget, and relations with other governments. The party's stated aim is a City Hall that is transparent, accountable and earns the public's trust with every dollar and decision.","Most of the commitments are ones Council could carry out alone, because Council sets its own meeting rules, approves the budget and directs city staff. Among them, the Greens would pay city workers and major contractors a Living Wage, publish line-item budgets, set up a voluntary lobbyist registry, hold fewer closed meetings, reveal the final costs and revenues of FIFA, and let residents decide how a portion of city money is spent.","Some commitments depend on other governments. Ranked ballots for mayor, stronger integrity laws and the future of the elected Park Board are matters for the Province, which writes the Vancouver Charter. The Police Board is set up under the provincial Police Act. The platform also criticises Mayor Ken Sim and ABC on budget detail, public access, the Integrity Commissioner and the Police Board, and commits the party to work with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.",[594,597,600,603,606,609],{"question":595,"answer":596},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for City Hall?","The Green Party of Vancouver's Good Government plan would pay city workers a Living Wage, publish line-item budgets, support a voluntary lobbyist registry, hold fewer closed meetings and expand public performance dashboards. It also backs ranked ballots for mayor and an elected Park Board (platform, pages 42 to 47).",{"question":598,"answer":599},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support ranked ballots for mayor?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would work with partners to bring ranked ballots to future mayoral elections, so voters can choose without worrying about vote-splitting. The Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, would have to change first (platform, page 44).",{"question":601,"answer":602},"Which parts of the Vancouver Greens' good government plan need the Province?","Ranked ballots, stronger integrity laws and the future of the elected Park Board all depend on the Province, which writes the Vancouver Charter. The Police Board is set up under the provincial Police Act, so Council cannot reform it alone. Budgets, meeting rules and a voluntary lobbyist registry are within Council's own powers (platform, pages 43 to 47).",{"question":604,"answer":605},"What do the Vancouver Greens say about Ken Sim's budgets?","The platform says that under Ken Sim, budget documents that once ran to hundreds of pages were reduced to two dozen. The Green Party of Vancouver would publish clear line-item budgets and reveal the final costs and revenues of FIFA (platform, page 46).",{"question":607,"answer":608},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to keep an elected Park Board?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would maintain an independent, elected Park Board with clear authority over parks, beaches, recreation, urban forestry and community facilities, and says major governance changes should go to public consultation (platform, page 47).",{"question":610,"answer":611},"Would the Vancouver Greens pay city workers a living wage?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would require the City and its major contractors to pay a Living Wage, so the people who deliver public services can afford to live in Vancouver. Council sets the pay rules in the city's own hiring and contracts (platform, page 43).",[613,617],{"label":614,"url":615,"publisher":616,"checkedAt":402},"Vancouver Charter, Part I, section 108: declaration of official election results","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bclaws.gov.bc.ca\u002Fcivix\u002Fdocument\u002Fid\u002Fcomplete\u002Fstatreg\u002Fvanch_02","BC Laws, Province of British Columbia",{"label":618,"url":619,"publisher":620,"checkedAt":402},"Meet the Board: composition of the Vancouver Police Board under the Police Act","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouverpoliceboard.ca\u002Fabout\u002Fmeet-the-board\u002F","Vancouver Police Board",{"slug":622,"title":623,"race":623,"order":624,"pages":625,"aim":628,"headline":629,"summary":630,"intro":631,"questions":635,"context":654},"park-board","Park Board",6,{"from":626,"to":627},48,50,"Enhance urban ecosystems. No one priced out of public facilities.","Green Party of Vancouver Park Board platform: trees, fees, pools and budget","The Green Party of Vancouver's Park Board platform, pages 48 to 50, promises 5,000 new trees in place of old stumps, lower fees for swimming lessons and ice time, talks on co-managing parkland with three Nations, a new 50m pool, and $6m more city money for parks.",[632,633,634],"The Green Party of Vancouver sets out its plan for the elected Park Board on pages 48 to 50 of its 2026 platform. The Park Board is the body Vancouver voters elect separately to run parks, beaches, community centres, pools and rinks. The Greens split the section into chapters on urban ecosystems and fees, programs for all ages and abilities together with reconciliation, and facilities together with the board's budget.","The largest numbers in the section are the party's own. The Greens say they would remove 5,000 stumps and replant toward a 30% tree canopy, pilot three Miyawaki forests, build a new 50m pool at Hastings or Kensington, and return $6m to the Park Board budget. The platform puts the board's dependence on user fee revenue at 56% under ABC and calls it excessive.","Park Board commissioners could carry out most of these commitments, since the board controls parks and recreation sites. Others need City Council, which approves the capital plan and the city budget that funds the board, and some need the Province or the three Nations. The elected board exists under the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law. Mayor Ken Sim's ABC party campaigned to end it, and the Province withdrew a 2025 bill that the plan needed. In July 2026 ABC said it would run Park Board candidates and no longer seek to abolish the board.",[636,639,642,645,648,651],{"question":637,"answer":638},"What is in the Green Party of Vancouver's Park Board platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver's Park Board section has chapters on urban ecosystems and affordable access, programming for all generations and abilities, and facilities for the future. It covers tree planting, recreation fees, sports field bookings, reconciliation with three Nations, pools, community centres and the Park Board budget (platform, pages 48 to 50).",{"question":640,"answer":641},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to keep the elected Park Board?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would celebrate and honour the independent elected Park Board and its 136 year role in local democracy. In July 2026 ABC also said it would run Park Board candidates and no longer seek to abolish the board (platform, page 50).",{"question":643,"answer":644},"What would Vancouver's Greens do about park and recreation fees?","The Greens say they would subsidize fees for swimming lessons, field permits and ice rentals and expand the Leisure Access Program for seniors and low income families. They would also cut what they call excessive dependence on user fee revenue, which the platform puts at 56% under ABC (platform, pages 48 and 50).",{"question":646,"answer":647},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver build for the Park Board?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would renew Hastings, Kensington and Renfrew community centres, keep working on Britannia, and renew the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, Kitsilano Pool, Kerrisdale and Britannia pools. It would also build a new 50m pool at Hastings or Kensington (platform, page 50).",{"question":649,"answer":650},"What do the Vancouver Greens promise on trees and green space?","The Greens say they would remove 5,000 existing stumps and plant new trees toward 30% tree canopy city-wide, starting with Strathcona, and pilot three Miyawaki forests. They would work with City Council on the 3-30-300 rule: three trees visible from every home, 30 per cent neighbourhood canopy, and green space within 300 metres (platform, page 48).",{"question":652,"answer":653},"Who has the power to carry out the Green Party of Vancouver's Park Board plan?","Park Board commissioners control parks, community centres, pools and rinks, so they could act on most items. City Council approves the capital plan and the budget that funds the board, so pool rebuilds and the $6m the Greens promise need Council's vote. The Green Party of Vancouver also names City Council, the School Board and three Nations as partners (platform, pages 48 to 50).",[655,658],{"label":656,"url":657,"publisher":366,"checkedAt":402},"ABC Vancouver will run Park Board candidates and no longer seek to abolish the board; the Province withdrew the 2025 Vancouver Charter bill (13 July 2026)","https:\u002F\u002Fdailyhive.com\u002Fvancouver\u002Fabc-vancouver-park-board-mayor-ken-sim-2026-election-approach",{"label":659,"url":660,"publisher":661,"checkedAt":402},"Vancouver mayor says he won't try to eliminate the park board if re-elected (13 July 2026)","https:\u002F\u002Fca.news.yahoo.com\u002Fvancouver-mayor-says-won-t-222419316.html","CBC News, via Yahoo News Canada",{"slug":663,"title":664,"race":664,"order":412,"pages":665,"aim":668,"headline":669,"summary":670,"intro":671,"questions":675,"context":697},"school-board","School Board",{"from":666,"to":667},51,70,"Vancouver's public schools should give every student the opportunity to learn, belong and succeed.","The Green Party of Vancouver's plan for the Vancouver School Board","The Green Party of Vancouver's school board platform asks the Province for stable, multi-year school funding, puts classroom staff first in budgets, keeps seismic upgrades at the top of building priorities, requests a pause on AI chatbots in schools, and opens schools to child care and community use.",[672,673,674],"The school board section of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform runs from page 51 to page 70 and sets out what the party's candidates for the Vancouver Board of Education would do. The party states its aim as 'Vancouver's public schools should give every student the opportunity to learn, belong and succeed.' It names four guiding principles: student success, equity, reconciliation and environmental stewardship. Its chapters cover school funding and budgets, support for students, safe and climate-ready buildings, schools as community spaces, and governance and reconciliation.","The party's own summary on page 52 lists its largest commitments. The Greens would press for stable, multi-year provincial funding, put teachers, educational assistants and counsellors first in budget decisions, and review school fees that keep students out. They would keep seismic safety at the top of capital priorities, citing 43 of 106 VSB buildings at high seismic risk, request a pause on AI chatbots in schools for a review, expand child care on school sites, and make board decisions easier for the public to follow.","The party says it would focus on what the board can deliver directly and be clear when provincial action and funding are needed. The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, sets catchment boundaries and approves the district budget. The Province sets teacher pay and the funding formula, and the platform itself looks to the Province for seismic and other capital funding. Street safety near schools depends on City Council, and several items are shared with the Park Board.",[676,679,682,685,688,691,694],{"question":677,"answer":678},"What is in the Green Party of Vancouver's school board platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver's school board platform, on pages 51 to 70, covers school funding and budgets, support for every student, safe and climate-resilient buildings, schools as community spaces, and governance and reconciliation. The party says its aim is for every student to have the opportunity to learn, belong and succeed (platform, page 51).",{"question":680,"answer":681},"What are the Vancouver Greens' top priorities for the Vancouver School Board?","The Greens' summary lists these priorities: fully fund public education and spend it responsibly, support the people who make schools work, remove barriers so every student can take part, make schools safe, healthy and climate-resilient, turn schools into community resilience hubs, and govern transparently while advancing reconciliation (platform, page 52).",{"question":683,"answer":684},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to pause AI chatbots in schools?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would request a pause on AI chatbots in schools so students, parents and educators can be consulted, with a full review of policy and procedures, including ethics and effects on thinking and learning (platform, pages 52 and 63).",{"question":686,"answer":687},"Can the Vancouver School Board fix school funding by itself?","The Province sets the funding formula and teacher pay, so the board can only ask for more. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would focus on what the board can deliver directly and be clear when provincial action and funding are required (platform, page 51).",{"question":689,"answer":690},"What would Green school trustees do about earthquake safety in Vancouver schools?","The Green Party of Vancouver would keep seismic safety at the top of the board's capital priorities, saying 43 of 106 VSB buildings remain at high seismic risk at an estimated $1.63 billion. It would ask the Province to approve and fund outstanding seismic projects (platform, page 61).",{"question":692,"answer":693},"How would the Vancouver Greens connect schools with the wider community?","The Greens would expand child care and after-school care on school sites, open more school gyms, fields, libraries and kitchens to community use outside class hours, and work with City Council and the Park Board on safer walking and cycling routes to school (platform, pages 64 and 65).",{"question":695,"answer":696},"How does the Green Party of Vancouver sum up its school board plan?","The Green Party of Vancouver closes with five aims: fund the classrooms, support the students, take care of our schools, connect schools to the community, and govern openly and responsibly. It says that when a solution sits outside the board's authority, it will say so clearly and build the partnerships required (platform, page 70).",[],[699,702,705,708,711,714],{"question":700,"answer":701},"What is in the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform, titled \"A City That Works For You\", has City Council sections on Sustainable Growth, Affordable Living, Safety and Wellbeing, Economic Development and Good Government. It also has a Park Board platform and a School Board platform. Each section is split into chapters, and this site has a page for every chapter.",{"question":703,"answer":704},"When was the Green Party of Vancouver platform last updated?","The party's PDF says it was last updated on September 29, 2026. That update reworded the micro-units commitment on page 7 and fixed a typo on page 11, where the text on new buildings once read \"keep fossil gas heating\" and now reads \"ban fossil gas heating\" (platform, page 72).",{"question":706,"answer":707},"Who are the Green Party of Vancouver candidates in the 2026 Vancouver election?","Pete Fry is the Green Party of Vancouver's candidate for mayor. Annette Reilly, Bridget Burns, Camil Dumont and Stephanie Smith are running for City Council. Breanne Smart, Spencer van Vloten and Tom Digby are running for Park Board, and Alisha Masongsong and Julie Strilesky for School Board, according to the City of Vancouver's official candidate list.",{"question":709,"answer":710},"Where can I read the Green Party of Vancouver platform PDF?","The party publishes the PDF on its own website, vangreens.ca. On this site, every commitment links to the exact page of that PDF, so you can read the party's own wording next to our summary.",{"question":712,"answer":713},"Could the Greens carry out their whole platform if they win?","Some commitments are within the power of City Council, the Park Board or the School Board. Others ask the province, the federal government or TransLink to act, and the party can only press them. A council decision also needs six of the eleven votes. Each commitment on these pages is labelled with the body that would have to act.",{"question":715,"answer":716},"Who wrote these pages about the Green Party of Vancouver platform?","voche.me, an independent guide to the 2026 Vancouver election, wrote these pages from the party's own PDF. The Green Party of Vancouver did not write or approve them. Every commitment is reported as something the party says it would do.","2026-platform",[],"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatforms\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver","Every commitment in the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform, sorted by chapter, with the PDF page for each one and the government that would have to act. Covers City Council, Park Board and School Board.",{"text":722,"page":429},"A city that works for you.","y9yZsOJsIyjqEIbsuNNrh9orG-l5t7sNzElD0zf7an0",[725,776,835,893,1005,1079,1130,1192,1264,1332,1395,1465,1533,1594,1666,1728,1825,1921,2011,2076,2128,2225,2283,2340,2414,2580,2747,2889,3018,3140,3205,3333,3432,3522,3644,3728],{"id":726,"title":727,"checkedAt":402,"context":728,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":729,"headline":730,"issues":731,"meta":732,"order":733,"pages":734,"paragraphs":736,"party":354,"pillar":469,"proposals":740,"questions":756,"slug":772,"source":13,"stem":773,"summary":774,"__hash__":775},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Faffordable-living--affordable-transportation.json","Affordable Transportation",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on travel costs: low-income transit fares and safer streets",[164],{},"2",{"from":735,"to":735},20,[737,738,739],"Page 20 of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform treats the cost of getting around as part of the cost of living. The party says residents should not need to own a car to take full part in city life. It groups these commitments here: a general aim to make car-free travel cheaper, cheaper transit fares for people with low incomes, and safer, more accessible streets.","On transit, the Greens would work with TransLink, the TransLink Mayors' Council and senior governments to expand low-income fare programs. On streets, the platform lists sidewalks, curb cuts (the low ramps where a sidewalk meets the road), pedestrian crossings, lighting and protected cycling routes. It says transit stops, sidewalks and crossings should work for seniors, people with disabilities, parents with strollers and anyone who has trouble moving around. The party also names public bike share as one of the affordable choices it would support.","The commitments in this chapter depend on different bodies. The city owns and designs its own streets, sidewalks and bike lanes, so Council can fund the street work directly. TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs the buses and SkyTrain, so on fares the city can only ask and negotiate. The platform also names senior governments, meaning the Province and the federal government, as partners in this work.",[741,746,751],{"title":742,"detail":743,"page":735,"authority":744,"authorityNote":745},"Transportation You Can Afford","The platform says Vancouver residents should not have to own a car to take full part in city life. The Greens would work to expand low-income transit fares and connections, improve walking and cycling routes and public bike share, and support affordable choices other than owning a car.","city-with-others","The city builds its own walking and cycling routes, but transit fares and service belong to TransLink, a regional body the city does not control.",{"title":747,"detail":748,"page":735,"authority":749,"authorityNote":750},"Affordable transit for folks who need it most","The Greens would work with TransLink, the TransLink Mayors' Council and senior governments to expand low-income transit programs so that people who need them pay lower fares.","regional","TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, runs the buses and SkyTrain, so the city can only press for cheaper fares.",{"title":752,"detail":753,"page":735,"authority":754,"authorityNote":755},"Safer streets","The Greens would invest in sidewalks, curb cuts, pedestrian crossings, lighting and protected cycling routes. They would make sure transit stops, sidewalks, crossings and other transport structures are accessible for seniors, people with disabilities, parents with strollers and anyone with mobility challenges.","city-council","The city owns and designs its streets, sidewalks and bike lanes, so Council can pay for this work in its own budget.",[757,760,763,766,769],{"question":758,"answer":759},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do to make transit cheaper?","The Green Party of Vancouver would work with TransLink, the TransLink Mayors' Council and senior governments to expand low-income transit programs, so that the people who need them most pay lower fares (platform, page 20).",{"question":761,"answer":762},"Can Vancouver City Council lower bus fares under the Green plan?","No. Buses and SkyTrain are run by TransLink, a regional body the city does not control. The Green Party of Vancouver's platform says it would work with TransLink, its Mayors' Council and senior governments to expand low-income fares, so the city's role is to ask and negotiate (platform, page 20).",{"question":764,"answer":765},"Do the Vancouver Greens want people to live without a car?","The Green Party of Vancouver says residents should not have to own a car to take full part in city life. It would improve walking and cycling routes and public bike share, and support affordable choices other than owning a car (platform, page 20).",{"question":767,"answer":768},"What street safety changes does the Green Party of Vancouver propose?","The Green Party of Vancouver would invest in sidewalks, curb cuts, pedestrian crossings, lighting and protected cycling routes. The city owns and designs these streets, so Council could fund this work itself (platform, page 20).",{"question":770,"answer":771},"How would Vancouver's Greens make streets accessible for seniors and people with disabilities?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would make sure transit stops, sidewalks, crossings and other transport structures are accessible for seniors, people with disabilities, parents with strollers and anyone with mobility challenges (platform, page 20).","affordable-transportation","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Faffordable-living--affordable-transportation","The Green Party of Vancouver says residents should be able to live fully without owning a car. It would press TransLink and senior governments for more low-income transit fares, and invest in sidewalks, curb cuts, crossings, lighting and protected bike routes that work for seniors and people with disabilities.","7ZesiUEqOe6DIlQqD3Zk7wYdG7C2jDugQ3FPHdQ3HCQ",{"id":777,"title":778,"checkedAt":402,"context":779,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":780,"headline":781,"issues":782,"meta":783,"order":784,"pages":785,"paragraphs":787,"party":354,"pillar":469,"proposals":791,"questions":812,"slug":831,"source":13,"stem":832,"summary":833,"__hash__":834},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Faffordable-living--childcare-families-and-public-recreation.json","Childcare, Families and Public Recreation",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on childcare: faster approvals, lower fees and space in city buildings",[297,184],{},"3",{"from":786,"to":786},21,[788,789,790],"The Green Party of Vancouver's childcare and recreation commitments fill page 21 of its 2026 platform. There are five of them. Three deal with childcare: letting it open in more places, making it cheaper to open, and using city buildings to house it. The other two deal with the cost of free time, through cheaper recreation and shared lending libraries for tools and gear.","The party says families should find quality childcare close to where they live, work and learn, including at the times of day and night they need it. To get there, the Greens would allow childcare wherever it fits, cut permit fees, speed up approvals and remove rules the platform calls unnecessary for licensed providers. They would also lease suitable City-owned spaces to licensed providers at rents below market rates, and work with the Park Board to add childcare in community centres.","On recreation, the platform promises more fee assistance, more low-cost programs and community centre budgets that stay properly funded. It would support equipment libraries where residents borrow tools, sports gear, gardening supplies and repair equipment. Council controls the zoning and permits behind childcare, while the Province licenses and funds it. The elected Park Board runs community centres, so recreation fees and programs there are its decision.",[792,796,800,804,808],{"title":793,"detail":794,"page":786,"authority":754,"authorityNote":795},"Childcare everywhere","The Greens would make it faster and easier to create childcare spaces in every community, allowing childcare wherever appropriate and speeding up approvals. The platform says this would make it easier and more affordable to open childcare centres, so families find quality childcare close to where they live, work and learn, at the times of day and night they need it.","Council sets the zoning and approvals that decide where childcare can open, while licensing and operating funding are set by the Province.",{"title":797,"detail":798,"page":786,"authority":754,"authorityNote":799},"Reduce childcare costs by cutting rules and fees","The Greens would reduce permit fees, speed up approvals and remove what the platform calls unnecessary rules for licensed childcare providers, to lower the cost of opening and expanding childcare.","Council sets the city's permit fees and runs its own approval process.",{"title":801,"detail":802,"page":786,"authority":744,"authorityNote":803},"Childcare in City-owned facilities","The Greens would lease or support suitable City-owned spaces at below-market rates for licensed childcare providers. They would work with the Park Board to expand childcare in community centres across Vancouver.","Council decides how City-owned buildings are used, but community centres are run by the separately elected Park Board, which would have to agree.",{"title":805,"detail":806,"page":786,"authority":622,"authorityNote":807},"Recreation everyone can afford","The Greens would expand affordable recreation by increasing fee assistance, adding more low-cost programs, and making sure community centre budgets stay properly funded.","The elected Park Board controls community centres, pools and rinks, so recreation fees and programs are its decision.",{"title":809,"detail":810,"page":786,"authority":754,"authorityNote":811},"Community equipment libraries","The Greens would support equipment lending libraries that give residents low-cost access to tools, sports equipment, recreation gear, gardening supplies, repair equipment and other shared items. The platform says this would reduce household costs and build connections between neighbours.","Council can fund community groups through city grants and offer them city space.",[813,816,819,822,825,828],{"question":814,"answer":815},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for childcare?","The Green Party of Vancouver would allow childcare wherever appropriate, speed up approvals, and cut permit fees for licensed providers. It would also lease City-owned spaces to licensed providers below market rates and work with the Park Board to add childcare in community centres (platform, page 21).",{"question":817,"answer":818},"Would the Vancouver Greens cut permit fees for daycares?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would reduce permit fees, speed up approvals and remove what it calls unnecessary rules for licensed childcare providers, to lower the cost of opening and expanding childcare (platform, page 21).",{"question":820,"answer":821},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support childcare at night?","The Green Party of Vancouver says families should be able to find quality childcare close to where they live, work and learn, during the times of day and night that they need it (platform, page 21).",{"question":823,"answer":824},"Can Vancouver City Council lower childcare fees under the Green plan?","Council controls the zoning, permits and City-owned buildings that affect what it costs to open a childcare centre, and the Green Party of Vancouver's plan works through those. Licensing, parent subsidies and operating funding for childcare are set by the Province, so those parts are outside Council's control (platform, page 21).",{"question":826,"answer":827},"What would Vancouver's Greens do about recreation costs?","The Green Party of Vancouver would increase fee assistance, add more low-cost programs and make sure community centre budgets stay properly funded. Community centres are run by the elected Park Board, so these changes need its support (platform, page 21).",{"question":829,"answer":830},"What are the community equipment libraries in the Green Party of Vancouver platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver would support lending libraries where residents borrow tools, sports equipment, recreation gear, gardening supplies and repair equipment. The party says this would lower household costs and build connections between neighbours (platform, page 21).","childcare-families-and-public-recreation","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Faffordable-living--childcare-families-and-public-recreation","The Green Party of Vancouver would allow childcare in more places, cut permit fees and speed up approvals for licensed providers, and lease City-owned space to them below market rates. It would also add recreation fee assistance, more low-cost programs and support for equipment lending libraries.","wa1KZGK_j-YCNYi9G6HIbpIF7ZOgpkoWljx_zQTY_4U",{"id":836,"title":837,"checkedAt":402,"context":838,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":839,"headline":840,"issues":841,"meta":842,"order":843,"pages":844,"paragraphs":845,"party":354,"pillar":469,"proposals":849,"questions":870,"slug":889,"source":13,"stem":890,"summary":891,"__hash__":892},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Faffordable-living--food-security.json","Food Security",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on food security: food hubs, food recovery and gardens in every area",[],{},"4",{"from":474,"to":474},[846,847,848],"The Green Party of Vancouver closes the affordable living part of its 2026 platform with its commitments on food, all on page 22. The party says its aim is to increase access to healthy, affordable food. It would expand support for community gardens, urban farming, farmers markets and local food producers. It would also bring back city food planning jobs that, according to the platform, Mayor Ken Sim and ABC cut.","Two proposals get the most detail. The first is neighbourhood food hubs: single buildings that combine food distribution, meal programs, community kitchens, gardening, nutrition classes and affordable markets. The platform says these should go first to food deserts, meaning areas where it is hard to buy fresh, affordable food nearby. The second is food recovery, which moves surplus food from businesses, institutions and events to people who need it. The platform describes Vancouver's current food recovery system as one of the most effective in North America.","Most of this work would be done with others. The city can pay for staff, give grants and offer land, while community groups and food organisations would do the daily work. The Greens also want city support for local food production, processing, storage and emergency food networks, and a place for community food gardens in every neighbourhood. Garden space in a park would need the agreement of the separately elected Park Board.",[850,854,858,862,866],{"title":851,"detail":852,"page":474,"authority":754,"authorityNote":853},"Local food security","The Greens would strengthen local food networks wherever possible and expand support for community gardens, urban agriculture, farmers markets and local food producers, to increase access to healthy, affordable food. They would reinstate and expand food planning roles that the platform says were cut by Ken Sim and ABC.","Council approves city staff positions and grants, so it could restore the food planning roles and fund the support itself.",{"title":855,"detail":856,"page":474,"authority":744,"authorityNote":857},"Neighbourhood food hubs","The Greens would support community food hubs that bring food distribution, meal programs, community kitchens, gardening, nutrition education and local food services under one roof. The platform says these would go especially to food desert areas (places with few nearby shops selling fresh, affordable food), with affordable markets, food education, cultural food programs, kitchen access, food recovery and distribution.","The city can fund hubs and offer space, but community groups and food organisations would run them.",{"title":859,"detail":860,"page":474,"authority":744,"authorityNote":861},"Food recovery","The Greens would expand food recovery programs that send surplus food from businesses, institutions and events to the people who need it most. The platform describes Vancouver's current food recovery system as one of the most effective in North America.","The surplus food comes from businesses, institutions and events, so the city's part would be funding and support for the groups that move it.",{"title":863,"detail":864,"page":474,"authority":744,"authorityNote":865},"Food system resilience","The Greens would strengthen Vancouver's food system by supporting local food production, processing, distribution, storage and emergency food networks.","Farms, processors and food groups do this work, and the city can support them through zoning, grants and emergency planning.",{"title":867,"detail":868,"page":474,"authority":744,"authorityNote":869},"Community food gardens","The Greens would improve food security by creating locations for community food gardens and food production in every neighbourhood.","Council can offer city land for gardens, but any garden in a park needs the Park Board, which controls Vancouver's parks.",[871,874,877,880,883,886],{"question":872,"answer":873},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for food security?","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand support for community gardens, urban agriculture, farmers markets and local food producers. It would also create neighbourhood food hubs, expand food recovery and find locations for community food gardens in every neighbourhood (platform, page 22).",{"question":875,"answer":876},"Would the Vancouver Greens bring back city food planning staff?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would reinstate and expand food planning roles that its platform says were cut by Ken Sim and ABC (platform, page 22).",{"question":878,"answer":879},"What are neighbourhood food hubs in the Green Party of Vancouver platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver would support community food hubs that combine food distribution, meal programs, community kitchens, gardening, nutrition education and affordable markets under one roof. The platform says they would go especially to food desert areas, where fresh, affordable food is hard to find nearby (platform, page 22).",{"question":881,"answer":882},"What do Vancouver's Greens propose for food waste and food recovery?","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand food recovery programs that send surplus food from businesses, institutions and events to people who need it most. The platform describes Vancouver's current system as one of the most effective in North America (platform, page 22).",{"question":884,"answer":885},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want community gardens in every neighbourhood?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would create locations for community food gardens and food production in every neighbourhood (platform, page 22).",{"question":887,"answer":888},"Who would carry out the Green Party of Vancouver's food security plan?","City Council could restore the food planning jobs and fund gardens, hubs and food programs through its budget. Community groups, food organisations and businesses would do most of the daily work, and gardens on park land would need the Park Board. The Green Party of Vancouver describes its role as support and expansion (platform, page 22).","food-security","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Faffordable-living--food-security","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand support for community gardens, farmers markets and local food producers, and restore city food planning jobs it says Ken Sim and ABC cut. It proposes neighbourhood food hubs, more food recovery, and space for community food gardens in every neighbourhood.","izGACx5a4XqBhFAP9SMxB9EQYdiA6FXQAR9EPEYaK6U",{"id":894,"title":895,"checkedAt":402,"context":896,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":900,"headline":911,"issues":912,"meta":913,"order":914,"pages":915,"paragraphs":916,"party":354,"pillar":469,"proposals":921,"questions":976,"slug":1001,"source":13,"stem":1002,"summary":1003,"__hash__":1004},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Faffordable-living--homes-for-people-who-call-vancouver-home.json","Homes for People Who Call Vancouver Home",[897],{"label":898,"url":899,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},"City of Vancouver Vacancy Tax By-law No. 11674, the bylaw behind the Empty Homes Tax","https:\u002F\u002Fbylaws.vancouver.ca\u002Fconsolidated\u002F11674.PDF",[901,904,907],{"value":902,"label":903,"page":473},"30%","Share of median household incomes the party would use as its affordability target",{"value":905,"label":906,"page":473},"Early 2000s","When the city's Housing Centre operated, the model the party cites for its Affordable Housing Czar",{"value":908,"label":909,"page":910},"$2 billion","Federal funding the party would lobby for, for homes for people on the lowest and low incomes",19,"Vancouver Greens housing plan: income-based targets, housing bonds and a renter office",[66],{},"1",{"from":473,"to":910},[917,918,919,920],"The Green Party of Vancouver sets out its housing plan on pages 17 to 19 of its 2026 platform, under the heading \"Homes for People Who Call Vancouver Home\". The plan starts with a Vancouver Affordability Index that would track household costs against local incomes. The party describes the city's housing crisis as a crisis of affordability. Its first step is a new way to measure what counts as affordable: the platform proposes targets based on 30% of median household incomes, in place of the current measure, which it says is based on market rents.","Several commitments deal with how new homes would be paid for. The Greens would create a Vancouver Public Housing Bond, a way for people and institutions to lend money to the city for affordable, city-owned housing in return for a small, steady return. The platform also proposes inclusionary zoning, a rule that large developments must include affordable homes or give land, homes or cash toward city-owned and non-profit housing. It adds lower fees and faster permits for what it calls truly affordable housing, and a fund to buy at-risk rental buildings before they are lost.","Renters get their own section. The party would bring back a Renter's Office at City Hall, which the platform says ABC removed. The office would help tenants with city processes, track the loss of rental homes and the number of tenants forced to move, and keep a record of problem landlords. The party says the Empty Homes Tax would pay for the office, and that it could help renters cover security deposits.","City Council could do most of this alone, because it sets zoning, permit fees, city staffing and the city's own policies. Some steps need other governments. The platform asks the Province to help close Empty Homes Tax loopholes and to replace the BC Community Housing Fund. It asks the federal government to bring back a home repair program called RRAP and to provide $2 billion for homes for low-income households.",[922,926,930,934,938,943,947,951,955,959,963,968,972],{"title":923,"detail":924,"page":473,"authority":754,"authorityNote":925},"Creating an Affordability Index","The Greens would create a Vancouver Affordability Index that tracks real household costs against local incomes, and use that data to guide housing, transportation, taxation and planning decisions. The platform says city policies should be judged by whether they make life more affordable for residents, instead of by benchmarks it calls outdated or market-based.","Council decides what city staff measure and report on, and how that data is used in city decisions, so it could create the index on its own.",{"title":927,"detail":928,"page":473,"authority":754,"authorityNote":929},"Vancouver's housing crisis is a housing affordability crisis","The Greens would set affordability targets, and report on them, using 30% of median household incomes. This would replace the current measure, which the platform says is based on market rents.","Council sets the city's own housing targets and decides what city staff report on.",{"title":931,"detail":932,"page":473,"authority":754,"authorityNote":933},"Recognizing the right to housing","The platform says City of Vancouver policies should be guided by the right to safe, adequate and affordable homes.","Council decides the policies the city follows, so it could adopt this principle on its own.",{"title":935,"detail":936,"page":473,"authority":754,"authorityNote":937},"Affordable Housing Czar","The Greens would create a new city role, which the platform calls an Affordable Housing Czar, to work on partnerships and policies that deliver non-market housing (homes owned by government or non-profit groups and rented below market rent) and supportive housing (homes with support staff on site). The party compares it to the city's Housing Centre of the early 2000s, which it calls successful.","Council approves the city budget and its staff positions, so it could create this role.",{"title":939,"detail":940,"page":941,"authority":744,"authorityNote":942},"Close Empty Homes Tax loopholes and test compliance","The Greens would work with the Province to close loopholes that, according to the platform, allow apartment buildings to stay empty. Before any step-by-step rate increases, they would audit and review how many owners follow the tax and how many avoid it.",18,"The Empty Homes Tax is a City of Vancouver bylaw that the Vancouver Charter allows, and the platform itself says closing the loopholes needs the Province.",{"title":944,"detail":945,"page":941,"authority":754,"authorityNote":946},"City Land: Vancouver Public Housing Bonds","Using what the platform describes as the city's authority under the Vancouver Charter, the Greens would create a Vancouver Public Housing Bond to build affordable city-owned housing. The party says individual savers and large investing organisations (the platform's \"retail and institutional investors\") would accept a modest, predictable return in exchange for financing housing that stays publicly owned and affordable.","The platform presents this as a power Council already holds under the Vancouver Charter, the provincial law that sets the city's powers.",{"title":948,"detail":949,"page":941,"authority":754,"authorityNote":950},"Expand tenant protections","The Greens would strengthen and enforce the Tenant Relocation and Protection Policy whenever rental housing is redeveloped anywhere in the city. This would include secondary-market rentals (rented condos and suites owned by individuals), with fair compensation, relocation support and strong protections against tenants being forced out.","Council makes the city's rental and tenant-protection rules for redevelopment, while the Province sets tenancy law and rent increase limits.",{"title":952,"detail":953,"page":941,"authority":754,"authorityNote":954},"Inclusionary zoning either on-site or in-lieu","The platform proposes inclusionary zoning: large developments would have to provide affordable homes on the same site, or instead (\"in lieu\") contribute land, homes or cash toward building city-owned and non-profit affordable housing.","Council sets zoning and approves rezonings, so it can attach these requirements to large developments.",{"title":956,"detail":957,"page":941,"authority":754,"authorityNote":958},"Use city fees and permitting to build the housing we need","The Greens would make lower fees and levies, and faster permits, a priority for what the platform calls truly affordable housing.","Council sets the city's own permit fees and charges on new buildings, and runs its own permit process.",{"title":960,"detail":961,"page":941,"authority":744,"authorityNote":962},"Protect affordable rentals before they're lost","The Greens would create a Rental Housing Acquisition and Preservation program to keep at-risk rental housing. It would use a dedicated fund for buying buildings quickly, along with partnerships, to protect existing affordable homes before they are lost to speculation or redevelopment.","Council can set up and fund the program, and the platform says partners would share the work.",{"title":964,"detail":965,"page":910,"authority":966,"authorityNote":967},"Advocate to senior government partners","The platform calls for reversing what it calls Mayor Ken Sim's supportive housing ban and for renewed work with the Province on housing with supports that fit Vancouver's needs. It would urge a replacement for the BC Community Housing Fund, push for the return of Canada's RRAP (Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program), and lobby the federal government for $2 billion in funding for homes for people on the lowest and low incomes.","province","The funds and programs named here belong to the Province and the federal government, so the city can only ask, while Council itself decides where supportive housing is approved in Vancouver.",{"title":969,"detail":970,"page":910,"authority":744,"authorityNote":971},"Remove barriers to faith, community, and non-profit housing development","Working with partners and communities, the Greens would develop a toolkit to speed up affordable and non-profit housing on non-market lands, such as land held by faith groups, community groups and non-profits.","The city controls zoning and permits, and the platform says it would build the toolkit together with the groups involved.",{"title":973,"detail":974,"page":910,"authority":754,"authorityNote":975},"A City Hall That Works For Renters","The Greens would restore Vancouver's Renter's Office, which the platform calls a Green policy that ABC eliminated, as one place for tenants to get information, support and protection from being forced out. The office would help renters with City processes; track renter density, rental housing loss and tenant displacement; oversee a landlord registry and identify repeat offenders and problem properties; tie fair tenant practices to incentives for purpose-built rental buildings; work more closely with tenant advocates and housing providers; and give staff and Council better data for tenant protections. The party says the Empty Homes Tax would fund it, and that the office could back renters' security deposits to help them get stable homes.","Council approves city staffing and the city budget, so it could restore this office on its own.",[977,980,983,986,989,992,995,998],{"question":978,"answer":979},"What is the Vancouver Affordability Index proposed by the Green Party of Vancouver?","The Green Party of Vancouver would create a Vancouver Affordability Index that tracks real household costs against local incomes. The party says the data would guide housing, transportation, taxation and planning decisions, and that city policies should be judged by whether they make life more affordable for residents (platform, page 17).",{"question":981,"answer":982},"How does the Green Party of Vancouver define affordable housing?","The Green Party of Vancouver would set affordability targets and reporting based on 30% of median household incomes. The platform says this would replace the current measure, which it says is based on market rents (platform, page 17).",{"question":984,"answer":985},"What is the Vancouver Public Housing Bond in the Green Party platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver proposes a Vancouver Public Housing Bond to pay for affordable, city-owned housing. The party says individual savers and large investing organisations (the platform's \"retail and institutional investors\") would accept a modest, predictable return, and the homes would stay publicly owned and affordable. It says the Vancouver Charter gives the city the power to do this (platform, page 18).",{"question":987,"answer":988},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to bring back the Renter's Office?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would restore the Renter's Office, which its platform says ABC eliminated. The office would help tenants with City processes, track rental housing loss and tenant displacement, and oversee a landlord registry. The party says the Empty Homes Tax would fund it, and that it could back renters' security deposits (platform, page 19).",{"question":990,"answer":991},"What would Vancouver's Greens do about the Empty Homes Tax?","The Green Party of Vancouver would work with the Province to close loopholes that, according to its platform, allow apartment buildings to stay empty. It would audit how many owners follow the tax and how many avoid it before any step-by-step rate increases. The party would also use the tax to fund a Renter's Office (platform, pages 18 and 19).",{"question":993,"answer":994},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's position on supportive housing?","The Green Party of Vancouver calls for reversing what its platform calls Mayor Ken Sim's supportive housing ban. It would renew work with the Province to build housing with supports that fit Vancouver's needs. The party would also create an Affordable Housing Czar role to deliver non-market and supportive housing (platform, pages 17 and 19).",{"question":996,"answer":997},"Do the Vancouver Greens support inclusionary zoning?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would require large developments to provide affordable homes on the same site, or to contribute land, homes or cash toward city-owned and non-profit affordable housing (platform, page 18).",{"question":999,"answer":1000},"Could Vancouver City Council carry out the Green Party's housing plan on its own?","Much of it, yes. Council sets zoning, permit fees, city staffing and tenant rules for redevelopment, which covers the Greens' inclusionary zoning, fee cuts and Renter's Office. Other parts need other governments: the Green Party of Vancouver says it would work with the Province on Empty Homes Tax loopholes and lobby the federal government for $2 billion for low-income homes (platform, pages 18 and 19).","homes-for-people-who-call-vancouver-home","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Faffordable-living--homes-for-people-who-call-vancouver-home","The Green Party of Vancouver proposes housing targets based on 30% of median household incomes, a Vancouver Public Housing Bond for city-owned homes, required affordable homes in large developments, a fund to buy at-risk rentals, and a restored Renter's Office paid for by the Empty Homes Tax.","pcWSVJHyyEwHsMQKv1SNyx6kEoj3XRFiYKhrVDDrjZU",{"id":1006,"title":1007,"checkedAt":402,"context":1008,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1009,"headline":1017,"issues":1018,"meta":1020,"order":784,"pages":1021,"paragraphs":1022,"party":354,"pillar":547,"proposals":1027,"questions":1056,"slug":1075,"source":13,"stem":1076,"summary":1077,"__hash__":1078},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--arts-and-culture.json","Arts and Culture",[],[1010,1014],{"value":1011,"label":1012,"page":1013},"8","Events per month the party would allow at qualified venues while a new licence category is created",36,{"value":1015,"label":1016,"page":1013},"60","People the party would allow in qualified venues under the interim occupancy limit","Vancouver Greens on the arts: restored grants, a festival fund, 8 events a month",[284,1019],"economy",{},{"from":1013,"to":1013},[1023,1024,1025,1026],"The Green Party of Vancouver treats arts and culture as part of the city's economy, and places this chapter inside its economic plan. All of it sits on one page of the platform. They deal with money for artists and festivals, the cost of creative space, and the city rules that decide when a small venue can hold an event.","On money, the Greens would restore and expand the arts and culture staff and grants that the platform says ABC's council cut. They would write a new city-wide strategy for arts jobs and arts businesses. The party would also support a dedicated Festival Fund paid for by the City, because it says festivals face growing gaps in funding and sponsorship.","On space, the party would protect and create affordable studios, live-work units, workshops and venues by reusing old buildings and loosening land-use rules. It would support Cultural Land Trusts, which are non-profit groups that buy buildings and keep them for arts use. The Greens would also build up the Eastside as an arts district, keeping creative space affordable there through zoning, land-use conditions and incentives.","The most specific promise is about small venues. The Greens would create a new licence category for qualified venues. Until that exists, they would raise the limits so a venue could hold up to eight events per month with up to 60 people, while keeping safety standards. The city licenses venues and events, so council could make these changes. Liquor licensing is shared with the province.",[1028,1032,1036,1040,1044,1048,1052],{"title":1029,"detail":1030,"page":1013,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1031},"Eastside Arts District","The party would strengthen the Eastside's identity as a neighbourhood for arts, culture and creativity. It would preserve affordable creative space and support artists and cultural organizations through zoning, land-use conditions and incentives.","Council sets zoning and land-use conditions, which are the tools this item names.",{"title":1033,"detail":1034,"page":1013,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1035},"Support arts, culture, and creative economies","The Greens would support artists, cultural organizations, creative businesses and arts districts. The party says a strong creative sector makes Vancouver more resilient and connected.","The city funds cultural grants and spaces through its own budget, which council approves.",{"title":1037,"detail":1038,"page":1013,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1039},"Restore City arts funding and a new strategy","The party would restore and expand the arts and culture staffing and grants that it says ABC cut, and put in place a new city-wide strategy to support arts economic development and employment.","Council approves the operating budget, which pays for city arts staff and grants.",{"title":1041,"detail":1042,"page":1013,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1043},"Making space for arts","The Greens would protect and create affordable studios, live-work spaces, workshops and cultural venues through adaptive reuse (turning existing buildings to new uses), flexible land-use policies and creative building conversions.","Council controls zoning and building permits, which decide how an existing building can be converted.",{"title":1045,"detail":1046,"page":1013,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1047},"Making it easier for creative-use spaces and venues to operate","The party would reduce red tape around event licensing and occupancy rules while keeping safety standards. It would create a new licensing category for qualified venues and, in the meantime, raise limits to allow up to eight events per month and up to 60 people.","The city licenses venues and events, so council can create a licence category and change these limits; liquor licensing is shared with the province.",{"title":1049,"detail":1050,"page":1013,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1051},"Cultural Land Trusts","The Greens would support Cultural Land Trusts that buy and keep creative spaces, cultural venues, artist studios and live-work buildings as non-profit community assets.","The trusts are non-profit groups that would own the buildings, and council can help them with city funding, land or zoning.",{"title":1053,"detail":1054,"page":1013,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1055},"Stable funding for festivals","Citing growing gaps in funding and sponsorship, the party would support a dedicated City-funded Festival Fund that gives reliable support to arts, cultural and community events.","A City-funded festival fund would come from the city budget, which council approves each year.",[1057,1060,1063,1066,1069,1072],{"question":1058,"answer":1059},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do for small music and arts venues?","The Green Party of Vancouver would create a new licensing category for qualified venues and cut red tape on event licences and occupancy rules, while keeping safety standards. Until the new category exists, it would raise the limits to allow up to eight events per month and up to 60 people (platform, page 36).",{"question":1061,"answer":1062},"Would the Vancouver Greens restore arts grants cut by ABC?","Yes. The Vancouver Greens say they would restore and expand the arts and culture staffing and grants that the platform says ABC cut. They would also put in place a new city-wide strategy for arts economic development and jobs (platform, page 36).",{"question":1064,"answer":1065},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver have a plan for festival funding?","The Green Party of Vancouver would support a dedicated City-funded Festival Fund to give reliable support to arts, cultural and community events. The party says festivals face growing gaps in funding and sponsorship (platform, page 36).",{"question":1067,"answer":1068},"What is a Cultural Land Trust in the Vancouver Green platform?","In the Green Party of Vancouver's platform, a Cultural Land Trust buys and keeps creative spaces, venues, artist studios and live-work buildings as non-profit community assets. The party says it would support these trusts (platform, page 36).",{"question":1070,"answer":1071},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's Eastside Arts District?","The Green Party of Vancouver would strengthen the Eastside's identity as a neighbourhood for arts, culture and creativity. It would keep affordable creative space and support artists and cultural groups through zoning, land-use conditions and incentives (platform, page 36).",{"question":1073,"answer":1074},"Who decides whether Vancouver venues can hold more events?","City Council. The city licenses venues and events and sets its own occupancy rules, so council could create the new licence category and the interim limits of eight events a month and 60 people that the Green Party of Vancouver proposes. Liquor licensing is shared with the province (platform, page 36).","arts-and-culture","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--arts-and-culture","The Green Party of Vancouver would restore arts staff and grants it says ABC cut, create a City-funded Festival Fund, back Cultural Land Trusts, and let qualified venues hold up to eight events a month for up to 60 people until a new licence category exists.","i7wi-kl_7yucmQqjYhm9EKEeIAN_-wsrxo9j15bmEcs",{"id":1080,"title":1081,"checkedAt":402,"context":1082,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1083,"headline":1084,"issues":1085,"meta":1086,"order":1087,"pages":1088,"paragraphs":1089,"party":354,"pillar":547,"proposals":1093,"questions":1110,"slug":1126,"source":13,"stem":1127,"summary":1128,"__hash__":1129},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--community-wealth-building.json","Community Wealth Building",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on local wealth: home businesses, enterprise hubs, buy local",[1019],{},"7",{"from":551,"to":551},[1090,1091,1092],"The Green Party of Vancouver closes its economic plan with the heading Community Wealth Building. The party's aim is to keep public money moving in the local economy and to build that economy one entrepreneur at a time. They focus on the smallest businesses: people who work from home, market vendors, makers, co-ops and social enterprises, which are businesses run to meet a social goal.","The Greens say it should not be easier to host strangers in a short-term rental than to have clients visit a home-based business. They would support home-based businesses, market vendors, makers, artists and food entrepreneurs with reasonable rules, affordable permits and business support. For micro-entrepreneurs, co-ops and other small firms, the party would also offer affordable space, shared equipment, mentorship and faster approvals.","Two items would change how the city spends and uses its own resources. The party would create neighbourhood enterprise hubs, low-cost spaces where start-ups, non-profits and small firms share equipment and workspace. It would also give local businesses, social enterprises and community-benefit groups priority in City procurement, the process the city uses to buy goods and services. Council sets business licence rules and the city's purchasing policy.",[1094,1098,1102,1106],{"title":1095,"detail":1096,"page":551,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1097},"Grow local wealth","The Greens would support micro-entrepreneurs, co-ops, social enterprises and small businesses with affordable space, shared infrastructure, mentorship and streamlined approvals. The party says a stronger local economy is built one entrepreneur at a time.","Council runs the city's approval process and decides how city space and business support are used.",{"title":1099,"detail":1100,"page":551,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1101},"Home-based businesses","The party says it should not be easier to host strangers in a short-term rental than to have clients visit a home-based business. It would support home-based businesses, market vendors, makers, artists, food entrepreneurs and proprietors with reasonable rules, affordable permits and business support.","Council issues business licences and sets licence and permit fees, including the rules for businesses run from a home.",{"title":1103,"detail":1104,"page":551,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1105},"Neighbourhood enterprise hubs","The Greens would create low-cost spaces where start-ups, makers, non-profits, social enterprises and small businesses can use shared equipment, get mentorship and work in shared workspaces.","Council decides how the city uses its own buildings and budget, and sets the zoning for such spaces.",{"title":1107,"detail":1108,"page":551,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1109},"Buy local, build local","The party would give local businesses, social enterprises and community-benefit organizations priority in City procurement, to keep public money moving in the local economy.","Council sets the city's purchasing policy.",[1111,1114,1117,1120,1123],{"question":1112,"answer":1113},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do for home-based businesses?","The Green Party of Vancouver would support home-based businesses, market vendors, makers, artists and food entrepreneurs with reasonable rules, affordable permits and business support. The party says it should not be easier to host strangers in a short-term rental than to have clients visit a home-based business (platform, page 41).",{"question":1115,"answer":1116},"What are the Vancouver Greens' neighbourhood enterprise hubs?","The Vancouver Greens would create neighbourhood enterprise hubs: low-cost spaces where start-ups, makers, non-profits, social enterprises and small businesses share equipment, get mentorship and work side by side (platform, page 41).",{"question":1118,"answer":1119},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver make the city buy from local businesses?","The Green Party of Vancouver would give local businesses, social enterprises and community-benefit organizations priority in City procurement, so public money keeps moving in the local economy (platform, page 41).",{"question":1121,"answer":1122},"Does the Vancouver Green Party support co-ops and social enterprises?","Yes. The Vancouver Green Party would support micro-entrepreneurs, co-ops, social enterprises and small businesses with affordable space, shared infrastructure, mentorship and faster approvals (platform, page 41).",{"question":1124,"answer":1125},"Who has the power to change Vancouver's rules for home-based businesses?","City Council issues business licences and sets licence and permit fees in Vancouver, so the Green Party of Vancouver's promise of reasonable rules and affordable permits for home-based businesses would be a council decision (platform, page 41).","community-wealth-building","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--community-wealth-building","The Green Party of Vancouver would ease rules and permit costs for home-based businesses, create low-cost neighbourhood enterprise hubs with shared equipment and mentorship, and give local businesses, co-ops and social enterprises priority in City purchasing.","ENithM8g1_e4q-w0Zy9mmTPwH2WsUk4X9b2uPpbil9s",{"id":1131,"title":1132,"checkedAt":402,"context":1133,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1134,"headline":1135,"issues":1136,"meta":1137,"order":843,"pages":1138,"paragraphs":1140,"party":354,"pillar":547,"proposals":1144,"questions":1169,"slug":1188,"source":13,"stem":1189,"summary":1190,"__hash__":1191},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--employment-land-protection.json","Employment Land Protection",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on industrial land: keep it for jobs, grow clean tech and reuse",[1019,257],{},{"from":1139,"to":1139},37,[1141,1142,1143],"Employment land means land zoned for work, such as factories, warehouses, workshops and docks. The Green Party of Vancouver says this land is at risk of being converted by speculators to other uses. The first three commitments protect the land and the jobs on it. The last three are about new industries the party wants to grow there.","The Greens would protect employment land and cultural spaces so they stay focused on jobs, production and manufacturing. They would keep industrial land for manufacturing, logistics, marine industries, food processing and other industrial work where it fits. The party would also use Vancouver's position as a port city and regional centre to attract investment and grow trade and manufacturing jobs that can support a family.","The second half of the chapter looks at climate work. The party would create jobs in building retrofits, which means upgrading existing buildings to use less energy, and in clean technology, green infrastructure and climate adaptation. It would support a circular economy, where materials are reused, repaired and remanufactured instead of thrown away. Council zones industrial land, so the land protections are its decision. Growing new industries also depends on private companies.",[1145,1149,1153,1157,1161,1165],{"title":1146,"detail":1147,"page":1139,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1148},"Protect employment lands","The Greens would protect employment lands and cultural spaces from speculative conversion, and make sure they keep putting job creation, production and manufacturing first.","Council zones commercial and industrial land, so it decides whether that land can be changed to other uses.",{"title":1150,"detail":1151,"page":1139,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1152},"Protect industrial jobs and production","The party would preserve industrial lands for manufacturing, logistics, marine industries, food processing and other job-creating industrial uses where appropriate.","Council sets the zoning that decides which industrial uses are allowed on each site.",{"title":1154,"detail":1155,"page":1139,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1156},"Canada's gateway to the Pacific","The Greens would use Vancouver's location as a port city and regional capital to attract investment, support local industry, strengthen supply chains and grow family-supporting jobs in trade, manufacturing, logistics, marine industries and value-added production.","Council can offer zoning and business support, but investment and jobs depend on private companies and other governments.",{"title":1158,"detail":1159,"page":1139,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1160},"Grow the climate resilience economy","The party would create jobs through building retrofits, clean technology, green infrastructure and climate adaptation projects. The Greens say the right policies would let Vancouver cut emissions and become more resilient by investing in future industries.","Council sets Vancouver's own building bylaw and pays for city infrastructure, while most retrofit work is done by private owners and companies.",{"title":1162,"detail":1163,"page":1139,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1164},"Clean technology leadership","The Greens would support Vancouver's leadership in green buildings, energy systems, climate adaptation and clean transportation by helping local companies, workers and innovators grow in the global clean economy.","Council decides what business support the city offers through its own staff and budget.",{"title":1166,"detail":1167,"page":1139,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1168},"Waste less, build more","The party would support a circular economy in which materials are reused, repaired, recovered and remanufactured instead of thrown away. The platform says the cheapest, cleanest and most resilient resource is the one we already have.","Council can set city rules and purchasing, but reuse and repair depend on businesses and residents across the region.",[1170,1173,1176,1179,1182,1185],{"question":1171,"answer":1172},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to protect industrial land?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would protect employment and industrial lands from speculative conversion and keep them for manufacturing, logistics, marine industries, food processing and other industrial jobs where appropriate (platform, page 37).",{"question":1174,"answer":1175},"What does the Vancouver Green Party mean by employment land?","Employment land is land zoned for work such as factories, warehouses and workshops. The Vancouver Green Party says it would keep this land, and cultural spaces, focused on job creation, production and manufacturing (platform, page 37).",{"question":1177,"answer":1178},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about green jobs?","The Green Party of Vancouver would create jobs in building retrofits, clean technology, green infrastructure and climate adaptation projects. It would also help local companies in green buildings, energy systems and clean transportation grow in the global clean economy (platform, page 37).",{"question":1180,"answer":1181},"Does the Vancouver Green Party support a circular economy?","Yes. Under the heading Waste less, build more, the Vancouver Green Party would support a circular economy where materials are reused, repaired, recovered and remanufactured instead of thrown away (platform, page 37).",{"question":1183,"answer":1184},"What do Vancouver's Greens say about the port?","Vancouver's Greens would use the city's location as a port city and regional capital to attract investment, strengthen supply chains and grow family-supporting jobs in trade, manufacturing, logistics, marine industries and value-added production (platform, page 37).",{"question":1186,"answer":1187},"Can Vancouver City Council stop industrial land from being rezoned?","Council zones commercial and industrial land in Vancouver, so the Green Party of Vancouver's promise to protect employment land from conversion would be carried out through council's zoning decisions (platform, page 37).","employment-land-protection","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--employment-land-protection","The Green Party of Vancouver would protect industrial and employment land from speculative conversion, keep it for manufacturing, logistics, marine industries and food processing, and grow jobs in building retrofits, clean technology and a circular economy.","UrDtnjyNaJNdfVdCE5eIOI58tECujIPYHqE6p9dXBTA",{"id":1193,"title":1194,"checkedAt":402,"context":1195,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1196,"headline":1197,"issues":1198,"meta":1199,"order":1200,"pages":1201,"paragraphs":1204,"party":354,"pillar":547,"proposals":1209,"questions":1241,"slug":1260,"source":13,"stem":1261,"summary":1262,"__hash__":1263},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--food-systems-and-agritech.json","Food Systems and Agritech",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on food: permanent farmers markets, shared kitchens, a food hub",[1019],{},"6",{"from":1202,"to":1203},39,40,[1205,1206,1207,1208],"The Green Party of Vancouver's food chapter runs across two pages. It covers how food reaches people in the city, from farmers markets and surplus food to the kitchens where small food businesses cook. The party links food to trade: it says farmers markets support food sovereignty, meaning local control over the food supply, in times of trade and economic turmoil.","Farmers markets get two separate promises. The Greens would restart food policy planning at the City and write a new strategy to spread independent food and farmers markets across the city. They would also replace the current mix of one-off approvals and temporary licences with a clear framework, so markets that run on a regular schedule can operate with more certainty.","The party would support the groups that collect surplus food from grocery stores, restaurants, farms and events and give it to people in need. It would encourage vertical gardens, rooftop farms and indoor hydroponics, which means growing plants in water instead of soil. The Greens would also add shared commercial kitchens where caterers and new food businesses can cook and package food.","The largest item is a Future Food Hub. The platform says the region's food distribution buildings are aging, and it would plan one shared site for wholesale distribution, local food processing, food recovery and food security. Council controls city licences, zoning and planning staff, so it could act on the farmers market, kitchen and rooftop farm items. A regional food hub would need partners outside City Hall.",[1210,1214,1218,1222,1226,1230,1233,1237],{"title":1211,"detail":1212,"page":1202,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1213},"Support and grow food recovery network","The Greens would strengthen and expand Vancouver's food recovery network by supporting organizations that rescue surplus food from grocery stores, restaurants, farms, institutions and events and redirect it to people in need. The party says this would cut food waste and improve access to healthy food.","The rescue work is done by independent organizations, and council can support them with city grants or space.",{"title":1215,"detail":1216,"page":1202,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1217},"Growing a food\u002Ffarmers market strategy","The party would reinstate food policy planning at the City and develop a new strategy for spreading independent food and farmers markets, and food production, across the city. It says farmers markets support local food, small businesses and neighbourhood gathering, and a network for food sovereignty in times of trade and economic turmoil.","Council decides what planning work city staff do, so it can restart food policy planning and order a new strategy.",{"title":1219,"detail":1220,"page":1202,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1221},"Support permanent, regularized farmers markets","The Greens would replace ad hoc approvals and temporary licensing with a clear, streamlined framework that lets recurring farmers markets operate with more certainty.","Council issues business licences and sets the city's approval rules for markets.",{"title":1223,"detail":1224,"page":1202,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1225},"Urban food production","The party would encourage better use of limited space with vertical gardens, rooftop farms, energy-efficient indoor hydroponics and other urban agriculture in public and private developments.","Council sets zoning and development conditions, which decide what can be built on roofs and in new buildings.",{"title":1227,"detail":1228,"page":1202,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1229},"Food innovation and commissary kitchens","The Greens would create more shared commercial kitchen space for local food manufacturing, food innovation, catering businesses and new food enterprises. The party says a stronger food economy starts with affordable places to produce, process and distribute food locally.","Council controls zoning and city-owned space, which decide where shared kitchens can open.",{"title":1231,"detail":1232,"page":1203,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1164},"Plant-based food economy","The party would support Vancouver's leadership in plant-based foods, sustainable food production and food innovation, while growing local businesses and creating green jobs.",{"title":1234,"detail":1235,"page":1203,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1236},"Healthy food, healthy planet","The Greens would encourage climate-friendly food systems and support projects that improve access to affordable, sustainable and nutritious food for all residents.","Council can fund and encourage projects, and the wider food system also depends on growers, stores and other governments.",{"title":1238,"detail":1239,"page":1203,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1240},"Future Food Hub","The party would plan to replace and modernize aging regional food distribution infrastructure with a co-located food hub, one site that supports wholesale distribution, local food processing, food recovery, innovation and food security. The platform says a resilient city needs resilient food infrastructure.","The platform describes regional infrastructure, so the city would need partners beyond its own government to plan and build it.",[1242,1245,1248,1251,1254,1257],{"question":1243,"answer":1244},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for farmers markets?","The Green Party of Vancouver would reinstate food policy planning at the City and write a new strategy to spread independent food and farmers markets across the city. It would also replace ad hoc approvals and temporary licences with a clear framework so recurring markets can operate with more certainty (platform, page 39).",{"question":1246,"answer":1247},"What is the Vancouver Greens' Future Food Hub?","The Future Food Hub is the Vancouver Greens' plan to replace aging regional food distribution infrastructure with one shared site. It would support wholesale distribution, local food processing, food recovery, innovation and food security (platform, page 40).",{"question":1249,"answer":1250},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver support rooftop farms?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would encourage vertical gardens, rooftop farms, energy-efficient indoor hydroponics and other urban agriculture in public and private developments (platform, page 39).",{"question":1252,"answer":1253},"What would the Vancouver Green Party do about food waste?","The Vancouver Green Party would strengthen and expand the city's food recovery network by supporting groups that collect surplus food from grocery stores, restaurants, farms, institutions and events and give it to people in need (platform, page 39).",{"question":1255,"answer":1256},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support commissary kitchens for food businesses?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would create more shared commercial kitchen space for local food manufacturing, food innovation, catering businesses and new food enterprises (platform, page 39).",{"question":1258,"answer":1259},"Who would have to act on the Green Party of Vancouver's food plan?","Council could restart city food policy planning, change the licensing rules for farmers markets, and set zoning for rooftop farms and shared kitchens. The Green Party of Vancouver's Future Food Hub is described as regional infrastructure, so it would need partners outside City Hall (platform, pages 39 to 40).","food-systems-and-agritech","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--food-systems-and-agritech","The Green Party of Vancouver would bring back city food policy planning, give recurring farmers markets a permanent framework, expand food recovery, add shared commercial kitchens and rooftop farms, and plan a Future Food Hub to replace aging regional food infrastructure.","i5jQTz3gcYPMYiBaCBZ1fqXy7l0wdVW9HR0Z92wgCsE",{"id":1265,"title":1266,"checkedAt":402,"context":1267,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1268,"headline":1269,"issues":1270,"meta":1271,"order":733,"pages":1272,"paragraphs":1275,"party":354,"pillar":547,"proposals":1280,"questions":1309,"slug":1328,"source":13,"stem":1329,"summary":1330,"__hash__":1331},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--main-streets-first.json","Main Streets First",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on main streets: no net loss of shop space and property tax relief",[1019,244],{},{"from":1273,"to":1274},34,35,[1276,1277,1278,1279],"Main Streets First is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for shopping streets and the independent businesses on them. The party says rising rents and redevelopment are pushing out local shops, social enterprises and arts groups. The chapter mixes city rules that council can change with requests to the Province, which holds some of the powers the party wants to use.","Two items depend on the Province. The Greens would work with the Province to give Vancouver more freedom to protect small businesses from large property tax increases. They would also ask the Province for protections for commercial tenants. The platform itself names the Province for both items, so a Green council could ask for these changes but would need the Province to make them.","The rest are city tools. The party's \"no net loss\" policy would require major redevelopment projects to replace the affordable commercial space they remove. The Greens would change zoning so buildings can have narrow storefronts, small shop spaces and businesses on upper floors. They would also give Business Improvement Areas, the local business groups that council approves, more flexibility and support.","For downtown, the party says remote work is here to stay. It would encourage offices to become homes, attract schools and colleges, expand arts programs, add family amenities and loosen zoning. The Greens would also explore fair payments from high-volume e-commerce delivery and logistics companies, to help maintain the public streets that support them. The platform gives no amount for these payments, and council, which controls city streets, would have to decide on them.",[1281,1285,1289,1293,1297,1301,1305],{"title":1282,"detail":1283,"page":1273,"authority":966,"authorityNote":1284},"Progressive Property Tax Relief","The Greens would work with the Province to give Vancouver more flexibility to protect small businesses from disproportionate property tax increases, while still paying for the services and infrastructure the city needs.","The Vancouver Charter sets how the city may tax property, and only the Province can change it, so council can only ask for this power.",{"title":1286,"detail":1287,"page":1273,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1288},"Empowered and responsive Business Improvement Areas","The party would strengthen partnerships with Business Improvement Areas (BIAs), give them more flexibility and support for local projects, and help them build shared, local solutions for safety, economic activity, public spaces and communities.","Council approves Business Improvement Areas under the Vancouver Charter and decides how the city works with them.",{"title":1290,"detail":1291,"page":1273,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1292},"Commercial rent protection advocacy and local retention strategies","The Greens say independent businesses, social enterprises and arts groups are being pushed out by rising rents and redevelopment. The party would ask the Province for commercial tenant protections, and would use tax incentives, land-use policies, transition supports and targeted financial help to keep affordable commercial space for local businesses.","The platform says tenant protections would come from the Province, while the land-use tools and city funding it names are council's.",{"title":1294,"detail":1295,"page":1273,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1296},"Protect local businesses from displacement","The party would adopt a \"no net loss\" policy for affordable commercial space, requiring major redevelopment projects to replace the affordable commercial space they would otherwise remove.","Council approves rezonings and development permits, which is where the city sets conditions on major redevelopments.",{"title":1298,"detail":1299,"page":1273,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1300},"Human-scale mixed use","The Greens would support building patterns with narrow storefronts, small spaces and flexible mixed use, so homes, shops, studios, offices and services can share a street. They would update zoning to support active ground floors, small shop frontages and business uses on upper storeys.","Council sets zoning, which decides what can be built and used on each piece of land.",{"title":1302,"detail":1303,"page":1274,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1304},"Downtown reinvention","The party says remote work will continue and downtown must change with it. It would encourage office-to-housing conversions, attract educational institutions, expand arts and cultural programming, support family-friendly amenities and update zoning to allow more flexibility.","Council controls downtown zoning and city arts programs, and can invite schools and colleges to locate there.",{"title":1306,"detail":1307,"page":1274,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1308},"Fair Curbside Contributions","As delivery volumes grow, the Greens say they would explore fair contributions from high-volume e-commerce delivery and logistics operations to help maintain the public streets and curbs those operations use.","The city owns its streets and sets curb and parking rules, so any charge would start with a council decision.",[1310,1313,1316,1319,1322,1325],{"question":1311,"answer":1312},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's no net loss policy for commercial space?","The Green Party of Vancouver would require major redevelopment projects to replace the affordable commercial space they would otherwise remove. The party says independent businesses, cultural groups and local retailers deserve a place in the city's future (platform, page 34).",{"question":1314,"answer":1315},"Would the Vancouver Greens bring in commercial rent control?","The Vancouver Greens say they would ask the Province for commercial tenant protections. At the city level they would use tax incentives, land-use policies, transition supports and targeted financial help to keep affordable commercial space for local businesses (platform, page 34).",{"question":1317,"answer":1318},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver lower property taxes for small businesses?","The Green Party of Vancouver would work with the Province to give Vancouver more flexibility to protect small businesses from disproportionate property tax increases. Because the Vancouver Charter is a provincial law, this needs the Province to act (platform, page 34).",{"question":1320,"answer":1321},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver charge e-commerce delivery companies for using city streets?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would explore fair contributions from high-volume e-commerce delivery and logistics operations, to help maintain the public infrastructure they use. The platform gives no amount or start date for these payments (platform, page 35).",{"question":1323,"answer":1324},"What is the Vancouver Greens' plan for downtown Vancouver?","The Vancouver Greens say remote work is here to stay and downtown has to change. They would encourage office-to-housing conversions, attract educational institutions, expand arts and cultural programming, support family amenities and make downtown zoning more flexible (platform, page 35).",{"question":1326,"answer":1327},"Which of the Green Party of Vancouver's main street promises need the Province?","Two of them. The property tax flexibility and the commercial tenant protections both need the Province, which the Green Party of Vancouver says it would work with or ask. The no net loss rule, the zoning changes, the downtown plan and the Business Improvement Area support are all council decisions (platform, page 34).","main-streets-first","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--main-streets-first","The Green Party of Vancouver would require major redevelopments to replace affordable commercial space, ask the Province for property tax flexibility and commercial tenant protections, and explore charges on high-volume e-commerce delivery operations.","ZuQKiVkhuk8ucxbCoVQSQvzgqLWfrt-dMimSJHec7wQ",{"id":1333,"title":1334,"checkedAt":402,"context":1335,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1336,"headline":1341,"issues":1342,"meta":1343,"order":1344,"pages":1345,"paragraphs":1346,"party":354,"pillar":547,"proposals":1351,"questions":1372,"slug":1391,"source":13,"stem":1392,"summary":1393,"__hash__":1394},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--new-economies.json","New Economies",[],[1337],{"value":1338,"label":1339,"page":1340},"24 hour","The party's name for a night-time economy with round-the-clock land uses, night transit and extended permits",38,"Vancouver Greens on AI data centres, the night economy and childcare at work",[1019,284,297],{},"5",{"from":1340,"to":1340},[1347,1348,1349,1350],"The Green Party of Vancouver groups five newer parts of the economy in this chapter. They are artificial intelligence and large data centres, film and gaming, the night-time economy, services for older people, and childcare near places of work. Each item is short, but together they show where the party wants the city's zoning and business support to go next.","The longest item is about hyperscale data centres. These are large buildings full of computers that run services such as artificial intelligence, and they use large amounts of power and water. The Greens say many questions about AI are outside city control, but land use is the city's job. The party would write new land use and zoning rules for these facilities, with higher standards and more benefits for residents.","The night-time plan is called the 24 hour economy. The Greens would push for more night transit, allow live music venues in more zones, permit industrial and creative work around the clock, and extend permits for hospitality. The city controls zoning and permits. Night transit is run by TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, so that part needs TransLink to agree.","The party would also grow film, gaming, visual effects and extended reality work with affordable workspaces and creative hubs, and support businesses in healthy aging and health technology. For childcare, the Greens would work with the health authority and the city's building staff to allow childcare in unusual locations and at unusual hours. The item's title, Childcare where people work, states the goal: care for children close to their parents' jobs.",[1352,1356,1360,1364,1368],{"title":1353,"detail":1354,"page":1340,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1355},"Responsible AI and Hyperscale Data Facilities","The party says Vancouver welcomes digital infrastructure that brings community benefits, responsible resource use and good jobs. It says many questions about AI fall outside city powers, but land use must serve the public interest. Facilities with extraordinary demands on power, water and local infrastructure would face new land use and zoning rules and conditions, with higher standards and greater benefits to residents.","Council sets zoning and land use conditions, which are the tools the platform names for data centres.",{"title":1357,"detail":1358,"page":1340,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1359},"Digital and creative economy","The Greens would grow Vancouver's film, gaming, VFX (visual effects), XR (extended reality) and creative sectors through affordable workspaces, creative hubs and cluster development, meaning groups of related businesses located near each other.","Council controls zoning and city business support, which decide where and how creative workspaces can open.",{"title":1361,"detail":1362,"page":1340,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1363},"24 hour economy","The party would support a night-time strategy with more night transit, zoning for more live music venues, 24 hour industrial and creative land uses, extended permits and hospitality.","Council controls zoning and permits, but night transit is run by TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, and liquor licensing is shared with the province.",{"title":1365,"detail":1366,"page":1340,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1367},"Health and longevity economy","The Greens would make Vancouver a leader in healthy aging, health technology, accessibility innovation and seniors services. The party says supporting industries that help people age well and live independently would create jobs and attract investment.","Council can use city business support and land use rules, while health services themselves are run by the province.",{"title":1369,"detail":1370,"page":1340,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1371},"Childcare where people work","The party would work with the health authority and the city's building departments to create new rules and chances for childcare in hard-to-use locations and at non-standard hours of operation.","Child care licensing is provincial, so the city can change its own building and zoning rules but needs the health authority the platform names to take part.",[1373,1376,1379,1382,1385,1388],{"question":1374,"answer":1375},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's position on AI data centres?","The Green Party of Vancouver says the city welcomes digital infrastructure that brings community benefits, responsible resource use and good jobs. For hyperscale data centres with extraordinary demands on power, water and local infrastructure, it would create new land use and zoning rules with higher standards and greater benefits to residents (platform, page 38).",{"question":1377,"answer":1378},"Would the Vancouver Greens ban hyperscale data centres?","The platform proposes new land use and zoning rules and conditions for hyperscale data centres, with higher standards and greater benefits for residents. The Vancouver Greens say the issue is the scale of their impact on the community (platform, page 38).",{"question":1380,"answer":1381},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's 24 hour economy plan?","The Green Party of Vancouver would support a night-time strategy with more night transit, zoning for more live music venues, 24 hour industrial and creative land uses, extended permits and hospitality (platform, page 38).",{"question":1383,"answer":1384},"What would the Vancouver Greens do for the film and video game industry?","The Vancouver Greens would grow the city's film, gaming, visual effects, extended reality and creative sectors through affordable workspaces, creative hubs and groups of related businesses located together (platform, page 38).",{"question":1386,"answer":1387},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver create childcare near workplaces?","The Green Party of Vancouver would work with the health authority and the city's building departments to allow childcare in hard-to-use locations and at non-standard hours. Child care licensing is provincial, so the city needs the health authority to take part (platform, page 38).",{"question":1389,"answer":1390},"Could Vancouver council add night transit under the Green Party plan?","Night transit is run by TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, so the Green Party of Vancouver's call for more night transit would need TransLink to act. The zoning and permit parts of the 24 hour economy plan are council decisions (platform, page 38).","new-economies","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--new-economies","The Green Party of Vancouver would write new zoning rules and higher standards for hyperscale data centres, grow film, gaming and VFX work, plan a 24 hour night economy with more night transit, and allow childcare in workplaces at unusual hours.","BpLWHM8pM_JleyatbU7LPAOWn6RXiUXTEsUs9mFFOns",{"id":1396,"title":1397,"checkedAt":402,"context":1398,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1399,"headline":1404,"issues":1405,"meta":1406,"order":914,"pages":1407,"paragraphs":1408,"party":354,"pillar":547,"proposals":1413,"questions":1442,"slug":1461,"source":13,"stem":1462,"summary":1463,"__hash__":1464},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--taking-care-of-business.json","Taking Care of Business",[],[1400],{"value":1401,"label":1402,"page":1403},"2025","The year the party says Pete Fry introduced one of Canada's first municipal responses to the Trump tariffs",33,"Vancouver Greens on business: a navigator service, faster permits, local buying",[1019],{},{"from":550,"to":1403},[1409,1410,1411,1412],"The Green Party of Vancouver opens its economic section with City Hall itself. The party says it wants Vancouver to be the best city in Canada to start, grow and invest in a business, and it lists seven steps to get there. Most of them change how the city handles permits, licences and questions from business owners. All seven use powers that City Council already holds.","The largest new service in the chapter is a Business Navigator Service. The Greens would give each small business one contact person at the city. That person would guide an application through permits and licences, work across departments, find problems early and keep the owner informed until the end. The party would also give the city's Business and Economy Office a wider job, more staff and an online business portal.","The Greens would also speed up change-of-use permits. This is the city's approval to switch what a space is used for, for example from a shop to a cafe. The party wants one space to allow more than one use, and it wants open data that shows which uses are already approved. It would compare Vancouver's permit times, fees and rules with leading North American cities on a regular schedule.","The last item is called Elbows Up: Buy Vancouver, Build Canada. The platform says councillor Pete Fry brought one of Canada's first city responses to the Trump tariffs in 2025. The Greens would use city purchasing to favour local businesses, social enterprises and community enterprises where possible. They would also bring back community benefit agreements, which the platform says ABC's council cut.",[1414,1418,1422,1426,1430,1434,1438],{"title":1415,"detail":1416,"page":550,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1417},"Strengthen the Business and Economy Office","The party would give the City's Business and Economy Office a wider mandate and more capacity to support local business growth, retention and economic development. It names a user-friendly digital business portal, better coordination across departments, and stronger support for entrepreneurs and job creation.","The office is part of the city's own staff, so council decides its job and its budget.",{"title":1419,"detail":1420,"page":550,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1421},"Compete for investment","The Greens say they would make Vancouver the best city in Canada to start, grow and invest in a business by improving approval timelines, modernizing regulations and actively attracting investment that creates good jobs. The party says it would focus on certainty, responsiveness, infrastructure and efficient government.","Council sets the city's own approval process and business rules, which are the tools this item names.",{"title":1423,"detail":1424,"page":550,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1425},"Benchmark Vancouver","The party would regularly compare Vancouver's permitting timelines, fees, regulations and business climate with leading North American cities.","Council can direct city staff to collect and publish this comparison.",{"title":1427,"detail":1428,"page":550,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1429},"Make it easier for small business to do business","The Greens would cut red tape, lower permit costs, speed up approvals and create a single point of contact for business owners dealing with City Hall.","Council sets permit and licence fees and runs the city's approval process.",{"title":1431,"detail":1432,"page":1403,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1433},"Business Navigator Service","The party would create a Business Navigator Service that gives each small business a dedicated contact person. That person would guide applications through the City's permitting and licensing process, coordinate across departments, identify issues early and keep applicants informed from start to finish.","This would be a new city service run by city staff, so council can create and fund it.",{"title":1435,"detail":1436,"page":1403,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1437},"Change is hard. A change of use shouldn't be","The Greens would simplify and fast-track change-of-use permits for existing commercial spaces, so vacant storefronts and underused buildings can become businesses, services and community spaces. They would add flexibility for multiple uses in one space and publish open data showing which uses are already approved.","Council controls the city's zoning and its own permit process.",{"title":1439,"detail":1440,"page":1403,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1441},"Elbows Up: Buy Vancouver, Build Canada","The platform says Pete Fry introduced one of Canada's first municipal responses to the Trump tariffs in 2025. The Greens would use City purchasing power to support local businesses, social enterprises and community enterprises whenever possible, and would reinstate community benefit agreements, which the platform says ABC's council cut.","Council sets the city's purchasing policy and the conditions it attaches to city contracts.",[1443,1446,1449,1452,1455,1458],{"question":1444,"answer":1445},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's Business Navigator Service?","The Green Party of Vancouver would create a Business Navigator Service that gives each small business one dedicated contact person at the city. That person would guide applications through permits and licences, coordinate across departments, find issues early and keep the owner informed from start to finish (platform, page 33).",{"question":1447,"answer":1448},"What would Vancouver's Greens do about permit costs for small businesses?","The Vancouver Greens say they would cut red tape, lower permit costs and speed up approvals for small businesses. They would also create a single point of contact for business owners dealing with City Hall (platform, page 32).",{"question":1450,"answer":1451},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver fill empty storefronts?","The Green Party of Vancouver would simplify and fast-track change-of-use permits, which let a space switch from one use to another. The party would allow more than one use in a space and publish open data on which uses are already approved, so vacant storefronts and underused buildings can become businesses and community spaces (platform, page 33).",{"question":1453,"answer":1454},"What is the Vancouver Green Party's Elbows Up buy local plan?","Under the name Elbows Up: Buy Vancouver, Build Canada, the Green Party of Vancouver would use city purchasing to support local businesses, social enterprises and community enterprises whenever possible. The party would also bring back community benefit agreements, which it says ABC's council cut. The platform says Pete Fry introduced one of Canada's first municipal responses to the Trump tariffs in 2025 (platform, page 33).",{"question":1456,"answer":1457},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver compare Vancouver with other cities on permits?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would regularly compare Vancouver's permit times, fees, regulations and business climate with leading North American cities (platform, page 32).",{"question":1459,"answer":1460},"Who would have to act on the Green Party of Vancouver's business plan?","City Council. Each item in this part of the Green Party of Vancouver's platform uses a tool council already controls: the city's permit and licence process, its fees, its own staff and its purchasing policy. Each change would need a majority vote on council (platform, pages 32 to 33).","taking-care-of-business","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Feconomic-development--taking-care-of-business","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would give small businesses one contact person at City Hall, cut permit costs and approval times, make change-of-use permits faster, and use city purchasing to favour local businesses and social enterprises.","KXya5-dZi6hSvv5EB4Vt_5tWW4xnthJimrKZfbEpbPo",{"id":1466,"title":1467,"checkedAt":402,"context":1468,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1469,"headline":1470,"issues":1471,"meta":1473,"order":914,"pages":1474,"paragraphs":1476,"party":354,"pillar":580,"proposals":1481,"questions":1510,"slug":1529,"source":13,"stem":1530,"summary":1531,"__hash__":1532},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fgood-government--a-city-that-works-for-you.json","A City That Works for You",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on City Hall service: living wage, public spaces, ethics",[1472,164],"governance",{},{"from":584,"to":1475},43,[1477,1478,1479,1480],"A City That Works for You is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for how City Hall treats the people who use it. The party says the public service should run well, work in the open and put customer service first. The chapter runs from benches and plazas on city streets to the pay of the workers who deliver city services.","Two items deal with public places. The Greens would put amenities for people first, naming active transportation (walking, cycling and rolling), street furniture, slow streets, parklets and plazas. They would also invest in what the platform calls third spaces: libraries, community centres and other places where people meet outside home and work. Council decides street design, while community centres belong to the Park Board.","The rest of the chapter is about City Hall as an employer and a service. The party would require the City and its major contractors to pay a Living Wage, meaning pay high enough to live in Vancouver. It promises clearer processes and better communication so that dealing with the city is less confusing. The platform says Vancouver is already one of BC's Top Employers and that the Greens would build on that.","The last item is ethics. The platform says Pete Fry opposed moves by ABC to suspend and weaken Vancouver's Integrity Commissioner, the official who handles complaints about how council members behave. The Greens say they would support stronger provincial integrity laws and protect the independence of ethics oversight. Those provincial laws are for the Province to pass; Council can only ask.",[1482,1486,1490,1494,1498,1502,1506],{"title":1483,"detail":1484,"page":584,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1485},"A City that Works For You","The Greens say they would prioritize a well-organized public service that runs efficiently and transparently and puts customer service and satisfaction first in all its activities.","Council sets the direction and budget for the city's own staff and services.",{"title":1487,"detail":1488,"page":584,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1489},"People first","The party would prioritize public amenities that put people first, from active transportation infrastructure to street furniture and benches, slow streets, parklets and plazas.","The city owns and designs its own streets and sidewalks, so Council can decide this alone.",{"title":1491,"detail":1492,"page":584,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1493},"Public spaces","The Greens would invest in third spaces such as libraries, community centres and other public gathering places, which the platform calls essential civic infrastructure. The party says these places should be clean and welcoming to all.","Council can fund public spaces, but the Park Board runs community centres, so it would have to act on that part.",{"title":1495,"detail":1496,"page":1475,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1497},"City services as customer service","The party would make City Hall more transparent, responsive and user-friendly, with clearer processes, better communication and a staff culture focused on helping people solve problems. The platform says local government should not be intimidating, confusing or frustrating.","Council directs how the city runs its own counters, permits and public communication.",{"title":1499,"detail":1500,"page":1475,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1501},"A living wage for every city worker","The Greens would require the City and its major contractors to pay a Living Wage, so that people who deliver public services can afford to live in the city they serve.","Council decides the pay rules in the city's own hiring and in the contracts it signs.",{"title":1503,"detail":1504,"page":1475,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1505},"Vancouver's reputation as a top employer","The platform says Vancouver is already recognized as one of BC's Top Employers. The Greens say they would build on that through stable leadership, respect in the workplace and a high standard of public service.","Council oversees the city as an employer and sets the tone for its staff.",{"title":1507,"detail":1508,"page":1475,"authority":966,"authorityNote":1509},"Integrity and Transparency","The platform says Pete Fry opposed ABC's attempts to suspend and undermine Vancouver's Integrity Commissioner. The Greens would support stronger provincial integrity legislation, protect the independence of ethics oversight and keep elected officials accountable to the public.","Integrity laws for local governments would come from the Province, so Council can only ask for them.",[1511,1514,1517,1520,1523,1526],{"question":1512,"answer":1513},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want a living wage for city workers?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would require the City and its major contractors to pay a Living Wage. The party says the people who deliver public services should earn enough to live in the city they serve (platform, page 43).",{"question":1515,"answer":1516},"What would Vancouver's Greens do to make City Hall easier to deal with?","The Greens say they would make City Hall more transparent, responsive and user-friendly. They promise clearer processes, better communication and a staff culture focused on helping people solve problems (platform, page 43).",{"question":1518,"answer":1519},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver say about the Integrity Commissioner?","The platform says Pete Fry opposed ABC's attempts to suspend and undermine Vancouver's Integrity Commissioner. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would protect the independence of ethics oversight and support stronger provincial integrity legislation (platform, page 43).",{"question":1521,"answer":1522},"Would the Vancouver Greens invest in libraries and community centres?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would invest in libraries, community centres and other public gathering places, which it calls third spaces and essential civic infrastructure. The party says these places should be clean and welcoming to all (platform, page 42).",{"question":1524,"answer":1525},"What street amenities does the Green Party of Vancouver want?","The Green Party of Vancouver would prioritize amenities that put people first. The platform names active transportation infrastructure, street furniture and benches, slow streets, parklets and plazas (platform, page 42).",{"question":1527,"answer":1528},"Can Vancouver City Council pass the integrity laws the Greens want?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would support stronger provincial integrity legislation, and laws of that kind are passed by the Province, so Council can only ask for them (platform, page 43).","a-city-that-works-for-you","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fgood-government--a-city-that-works-for-you","The Green Party of Vancouver would require the City and its major contractors to pay a Living Wage, invest in libraries and community centres, make City Hall easier to deal with, and back stronger provincial integrity laws and an independent ethics office.","eOvGob0BkyU2ceFPPmHyuetaFwOrV4IVJNzHiVrqHrc",{"id":1534,"title":1535,"checkedAt":402,"context":1536,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1538,"headline":1539,"issues":1540,"meta":1541,"order":843,"pages":1542,"paragraphs":1543,"party":354,"pillar":580,"proposals":1548,"questions":1569,"slug":1590,"source":13,"stem":1591,"summary":1592,"__hash__":1593},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fgood-government--government-to-government.json","Government to Government",[1537],{"label":618,"url":619,"publisher":620,"checkedAt":402},[],"Vancouver Greens: keep an elected Park Board, reform the Police Board, UNDRIP",[1472,184,140],{},{"from":585,"to":585},[1544,1545,1546,1547],"Government to Government is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for how City Council deals with the other bodies that share power in the city. Its commitments cover the Park Board, the School Board, the provincial and federal governments, the Vancouver Police Board, and the three First Nations on whose unceded lands, the platform says, Vancouver is located. Each of these bodies has powers of its own, so most items here describe how Council would work with them.","The Greens would keep the Park Board independent and elected, with clear authority over parks, beaches, recreation, urban forestry and community facilities. They say any major change to how the board is governed should go to public consultation and respect the voters' choice of an elected board. The Park Board is created by the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, so only the Province can change it. With the School Board, the party wants joint planning so that council land use decisions match school needs.","Two items criticise the current mayor and council. The platform accuses Ken Sim of blaming other governments and of defying provincial mandates and Charter rights, and promises good-faith work with senior governments instead. It says that under ABC the Police Board has acted as an extension of the mayor's public-safety agenda, and it points to resignations in protest of political interference. The Greens say they would work to restore trust in the board.","The last item is reconciliation. The Greens say they are committed to a working relationship with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. The party affirms the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It also wants better outcomes for Indigenous people living in the city, while respecting the leadership of the local Nations.",[1549,1553,1557,1561,1565],{"title":1550,"detail":1551,"page":585,"authority":966,"authorityNote":1552},"Protect the autonomy of Vancouver's elected Park Board","The Greens would maintain an independent, elected Park Board with clear authority over parks, beaches, recreation, urban forestry and community facilities. They would make sure major governance changes go to public consultation and a transparent decision that respects voters' choice of an elected board.","The Vancouver Charter creates the Park Board and only the Province can change that act, so Council's part is what it asks the Province to do.",{"title":1554,"detail":1555,"page":585,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1556},"Work with Vancouver School Board in planning","The party would set up planning between Council and the School Board ahead of time, so that council land use decisions and urban development match school needs and projections.","Council decides land use and the School Board plans schools, so both elected boards would have to take part.",{"title":1558,"detail":1559,"page":585,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1560},"Respectful relations with senior government","The Greens would work with the provincial and federal governments collaboratively and in good faith. The platform accuses Mayor Ken Sim of blaming other governments and of defying provincial mandates and Charter rights.","How Council behaves toward the Province and Ottawa is Council's own choice.",{"title":1562,"detail":1563,"page":585,"authority":966,"authorityNote":1564},"Police Board accountability","The platform says that under ABC the Police Board has acted as an extension of the mayor's public-safety agenda, and it cites concerns about political interference, transparency and procedural fairness, the board's handling of complaints, and high-profile resignations in protest of political interference. The Greens would work to restore confidence in transparent and accountable board operations.","Under the provincial Police Act, the Province appoints up to seven Police Board members and Council appoints one, so Council cannot change how the board works on its own.",{"title":1566,"detail":1567,"page":585,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1568},"Reconciliation In Action","The Greens say they are committed to ongoing reconciliation and a working relationship with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. The party affirms the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and advancing recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and would work to improve outcomes for urban Indigenous people while respecting the rights, priorities and leadership of the local First Nations.","Council sets the city's own approach, and the work is done together with the governments of the three Nations.",[1570,1572,1575,1578,1581,1584,1587],{"question":640,"answer":1571},"Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would maintain an independent, elected Park Board with clear authority over parks, beaches, recreation, urban forestry and community facilities. The party says any major change to how it is governed should go to public consultation (platform, page 47).",{"question":1573,"answer":1574},"Who decides whether Vancouver keeps an elected Park Board?","The Park Board is created by the Vancouver Charter, and only the Province can change that act, so Council can only ask. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would keep the board independent and elected (platform, page 47).",{"question":1576,"answer":1577},"What would the Vancouver Greens change about the Police Board?","The Green Party of Vancouver says that under ABC the Police Board has acted as an extension of the mayor's public-safety agenda, and it points to resignations in protest of political interference. The party says it would work to restore confidence in transparent and accountable board operations (platform, page 47).",{"question":1579,"answer":1580},"Can Vancouver City Council reform the Police Board?","Under the provincial Police Act, the Province appoints up to seven Police Board members and Council appoints one, so Council cannot change the board alone. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would work to restore confidence in the board (platform, page 47).",{"question":1582,"answer":1583},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support UNDRIP?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver affirms support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and for advancing the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It commits to a working relationship with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations (platform, page 47).",{"question":1585,"answer":1586},"What do the Vancouver Greens say about Ken Sim and the provincial government?","The platform accuses Mayor Ken Sim of blaming other governments and of defying provincial mandates and Charter rights. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would work with senior governments collaboratively and in good faith (platform, page 47).",{"question":1588,"answer":1589},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver work with the Vancouver School Board?","The Green Party of Vancouver wants Council and the School Board to plan together ahead of time, so that council land use decisions and new development match school needs and projections (platform, page 47).","government-to-government","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fgood-government--government-to-government","The Green Party of Vancouver would keep an independent, elected Park Board, plan land use with the School Board, work in good faith with the Province, restore trust in the Police Board, and work with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.","J5OnezxhF2grE5Bq3QboHmZlWJX3Wm8EH2ZZbXNGrqc",{"id":1595,"title":1596,"checkedAt":402,"context":1597,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1599,"headline":1600,"issues":1601,"meta":1602,"order":733,"pages":1603,"paragraphs":1606,"party":354,"pillar":580,"proposals":1611,"questions":1640,"slug":1662,"source":13,"stem":1663,"summary":1664,"__hash__":1665},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fgood-government--public-interest-first.json","Public Interest First",[1598],{"label":614,"url":615,"publisher":616,"checkedAt":402},[],"Vancouver Greens: lobbyist registry, ranked ballots for mayor, fewer closed meetings",[1472],{},{"from":1604,"to":1605},44,45,[1607,1608,1609,1610],"Public Interest First sets out how the Green Party of Vancouver says decisions at City Hall should be made and who should be able to see them. Its commitments cover the use of evidence, the role of city staff, lobbying, closed meetings, the voting system for mayor, public access to council, and reports on the city's progress. Almost all of them concern rules that Council sets for itself.","On who influences council, the party says residents deserve to know who is lobbying and on what issues. Pointing to the lack of a provincial law, the Greens say they support a voluntary lobbyist registry, a public list where people who lobby council record their contacts. On closed meetings, called in-camera meetings, the Greens would make them the exception and publish decisions and records once they no longer need to be kept private.","One item would change how the mayor is elected. The Greens would work with partners to bring ranked ballots to future mayoral elections. On a ranked ballot, voters list candidates in order of preference, so a vote can move to a second choice. The party says this would end worries about vote-splitting. The Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, now says the candidate with the most votes wins, so the Province would have to change it.","The chapter also criticises the current council. The platform says ABC limited public access to City Hall and created procedural barriers. The Greens say they would give the public more access and let councillors ask follow-up questions of speakers. They would also expand public performance dashboards, web pages where residents can track major projects and service standards. Council sets its own meeting rules, so it could make these changes without another government.",[1612,1616,1620,1624,1628,1632,1636],{"title":1613,"detail":1614,"page":1604,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1615},"Evidence-based decision making","The Greens say decisions should rest on evidence instead of political ideology or guesswork, and that policies and bylaws should be drafted using objective data, community feedback and proven research.","Council writes and passes the city's own bylaws and decides what information it asks for first.",{"title":1617,"detail":1618,"page":1604,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1619},"Independent civil service","The party would champion a transparent, merit-based public administration and a clear separation between political direction and professional decision-making, so that city staff can give independent advice and run programs in a fair way.","Council decides how it gives direction to city staff, so this line is Council's to draw.",{"title":1621,"detail":1622,"page":1604,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1623},"Lobbyist registry","In the absence of provincial legislation, the Greens support a voluntary lobbyist registry so residents can see who is influencing public decisions and on what issues. The platform says this builds on Pete Fry's work on transparency at City Hall.","Council can set up a voluntary registry itself, which is what the platform proposes.",{"title":1625,"detail":1626,"page":1604,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1627},"Open government by default","The Greens would make closed meetings the exception, strengthen transparency around in-camera (closed-door) discussions, improve public reporting, and release decisions and records on time once confidentiality is no longer needed. The platform says this builds on Pete Fry's work to make City Hall more open.","Council sets its own meeting rules and decides what it reports from closed meetings.",{"title":1629,"detail":1630,"page":1604,"authority":966,"authorityNote":1631},"Ranked ballots for Mayoral elections","The Greens would work with partners to bring ranked ballots to future mayoral elections, so that voters can choose without worrying about vote-splitting. The party says results would then reflect what voters want instead of the limits of first-past-the-post, where the candidate with the most votes wins.","The Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, says the mayoral candidate with the most votes is elected, so only the Province can allow ranked ballots.",{"title":1633,"detail":1634,"page":1605,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1635},"Restore access at city hall","The platform says ABC limited public access to City Hall and created procedural barriers. The Greens would give members of the public more access and give councillors the chance to ask follow-up questions of speakers.","Council sets its own meeting rules, including how members of the public speak to it.",{"title":1637,"detail":1638,"page":1605,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1639},"Public performance dashboards","The Greens would expand public performance dashboards so residents can track progress on major projects, check service standards and hold City Hall to account for results.","Council can direct city staff to collect and publish these numbers.",[1641,1644,1647,1650,1653,1656,1659],{"question":1642,"answer":1643},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support ranked ballots?","Yes, for mayoral elections. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would work with partners to bring ranked ballots to future mayoral elections, so voters can choose without worrying about vote-splitting (platform, page 44).",{"question":1645,"answer":1646},"Can Vancouver City Council switch to ranked ballots on its own?","The Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, says the mayoral candidate with the most valid votes is elected, so the Province would have to change it. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would work with partners to bring ranked ballots to future mayoral elections (platform, page 44).",{"question":1648,"answer":1649},"What is the Vancouver Greens' plan for a lobbyist registry?","The Green Party of Vancouver supports a voluntary lobbyist registry, and says it does so in the absence of provincial legislation. The party says residents deserve to know who is influencing public decisions and what issues are discussed (platform, page 44).",{"question":1651,"answer":1652},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about closed council meetings?","The Green Party of Vancouver says closed meetings should be the exception. The party would strengthen transparency around in-camera discussions, improve public reporting and release decisions and records once confidentiality is no longer needed (platform, page 44).",{"question":1654,"answer":1655},"What do the Vancouver Greens say ABC did to public access at City Hall?","The platform says ABC limited public access to City Hall and created procedural barriers. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would give the public more access and let councillors ask follow-up questions of speakers (platform, page 45).",{"question":1657,"answer":1658},"What are the Green Party of Vancouver's public performance dashboards?","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand public dashboards where residents can track progress on major projects, check service standards and hold City Hall to account for results. The party says what gets reported builds public trust (platform, page 45).",{"question":1660,"answer":1661},"How do Vancouver's Greens want city staff and politicians to work together?","The Green Party of Vancouver would champion a transparent, merit-based public service and a clear separation between political direction and professional decision-making. The party says staff should be able to give independent advice and run programs in a fair way (platform, page 44).","public-interest-first","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fgood-government--public-interest-first","The Green Party of Vancouver would support a voluntary lobbyist registry, hold fewer closed council meetings, work toward ranked ballots for mayoral elections, restore public access to council, and expand public dashboards that track City Hall's results.","qphGFxJ82bpDc1Xhd6ySKLMEHBhl6KABn4a9sN2DueQ",{"id":1667,"title":1668,"checkedAt":402,"context":1669,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1670,"headline":1675,"issues":1676,"meta":1677,"order":784,"pages":1678,"paragraphs":1679,"party":354,"pillar":580,"proposals":1684,"questions":1705,"slug":1724,"source":13,"stem":1725,"summary":1726,"__hash__":1727},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fgood-government--spending-your-money.json","Spending Your Money",[],[1671],{"value":1672,"label":1673,"page":1674},"Two dozen","Pages in the city's budget documents under Ken Sim, down from hundreds of pages before, according to the party",46,"Vancouver Greens on the budget: line-item detail, FIFA costs, participatory budgeting",[244,1472],{},{"from":1674,"to":1674},[1680,1681,1682,1683],"Spending Your Money is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for the city budget and how it is shown to the public. All of its commitments sit on one page. Each one deals with money that Council itself controls: the yearly operating budget, the long-term plan for buildings and infrastructure, and spending on large events. The chapter also names Mayor Ken Sim in its criticism of how the budget is presented today.","The first item is about how much budget detail residents can see. The Greens would publish clear line-item budgets, which list each type of spending on its own line. The platform says that under Ken Sim, budget documents that used to run to hundreds of pages have been cut to two dozen. The party says more detail would build trust and help direct money to community priorities.","Two items deal with care of city money over time. The party promises careful financial management that protects essential services. It would also use an asset management framework, a plan for keeping roads, pipes and buildings in good repair before they break down, which the platform says reduces deferred maintenance, meaning repair work that has been put off. Council approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for this work.","The last two items give residents a direct say and ask for a public accounting. Through participatory budgeting, residents would decide how a portion of city funding goes to neighbourhood projects. On FIFA, the platform says Vancouver, unlike Toronto, has not released its detailed spending categories, and the Greens would push to reveal final costs and revenues once in office.",[1685,1689,1693,1697,1701],{"title":1686,"detail":1687,"page":1674,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1688},"Transparent and Accountable Budgets","The Greens would make city spending easier to understand through clear, accessible line-item budgets that show how public money is allocated and spent. The platform says that under Ken Sim, detailed budget documents that once ran to hundreds of pages have been reduced to two dozen.","Council approves the city's operating budget each year and decides how much detail staff publish with it.",{"title":1690,"detail":1691,"page":1674,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1692},"Prudent stewardship of the public purse","The party promises responsible financial management, transparent budgeting and spending decisions based on evidence. It says it would protect essential services while making sure taxpayers get the greatest benefit from every public dollar.","Council sets the property tax rate and approves the budget, so spending choices are its own.",{"title":1694,"detail":1695,"page":1674,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1696},"Asset management framework","The Greens would use evidence-based asset management to guide infrastructure investment, reduce deferred maintenance and keep public assets in a state of good repair. The platform says planning ahead saves money and protects public investments.","Council approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for city buildings and infrastructure.",{"title":1698,"detail":1699,"page":1674,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1700},"Participatory budgeting for community priorities","The party would give residents a direct role in deciding how a portion of city funding is invested in neighbourhood projects, community amenities and local improvements.","Council controls the city budget, so it can set aside a share for residents to allocate.",{"title":1702,"detail":1703,"page":1674,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1704},"FIFA cost accountability","The platform says Vancouver, unlike Toronto, has not released the detailed spending categories for FIFA. The Greens would push to reveal the final costs and revenues when they take office.","Council can direct city staff to publish the city's own spending and revenue records.",[1706,1709,1712,1715,1718,1721],{"question":1707,"answer":1708},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver say about FIFA costs in Vancouver?","The platform says Vancouver, unlike Toronto, has not released the detailed spending categories for FIFA. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would push to reveal the final costs and revenues once it takes office (platform, page 46).",{"question":1710,"answer":1711},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support participatory budgeting?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would give residents a direct role in deciding how a portion of city funding goes to neighbourhood projects, community amenities and local improvements. The platform leaves the size of that portion open (platform, page 46).",{"question":1713,"answer":1714},"What do the Vancouver Greens say Ken Sim changed about the city budget?","The platform says that under Ken Sim, budget documents that once ran to hundreds of pages were reduced to two dozen. The Green Party of Vancouver would publish clear, accessible line-item budgets so residents can see how money is allocated and spent (platform, page 46).",{"question":1716,"answer":1717},"Who decides how much budget detail Vancouver publishes?","Council approves the city's operating budget each year and can direct staff on what to publish with it. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would use that power to publish line-item budgets (platform, page 46).",{"question":1719,"answer":1720},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for city infrastructure repairs?","The Green Party of Vancouver would use an asset management framework to guide infrastructure investment, reduce deferred maintenance and keep public assets in good repair. The party says planning ahead saves money (platform, page 46).",{"question":1722,"answer":1723},"How would Vancouver's Greens handle city spending?","The Green Party of Vancouver promises responsible financial management, transparent budgets and spending decisions based on evidence. The party says it would protect essential services and get taxpayers the greatest benefit from every dollar (platform, page 46).","spending-your-money","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fgood-government--spending-your-money","The Green Party of Vancouver would publish clear line-item budgets, publish the final costs and revenues of FIFA, plan repairs to city assets ahead of time, and let residents decide how a portion of city money is spent in their neighbourhood.","MZ5nGs5koaeJ2VER96kXPwtucn4gbYHmnkYrU_7KnL4",{"id":1729,"title":1730,"checkedAt":402,"context":1731,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1732,"headline":1746,"issues":1747,"meta":1748,"order":914,"pages":1749,"paragraphs":1750,"party":354,"pillar":622,"proposals":1754,"questions":1799,"slug":1821,"source":13,"stem":1822,"summary":1823,"__hash__":1824},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fpark-board--ecosystems-and-affordable-access.json","Urban Ecosystems and Affordable Access",[],[1733,1735,1738,1741,1743],{"value":902,"label":1734,"page":626},"The party's city-wide tree canopy target",{"value":1736,"label":1737,"page":626},"5,000","Existing stumps the party would remove and replace with new trees",{"value":1739,"label":1740,"page":626},"9%","Strathcona's tree canopy cover as of 2022, according to the platform",{"value":784,"label":1742,"page":626},"Miyawaki forests the party would pilot",{"value":1744,"label":1745,"page":626},"3-30-300","The rule the party would pursue: three trees visible from every home, 30 per cent neighbourhood canopy, and green space within 300 metres","Greens' Park Board plan: 5,000 new trees, three Miyawaki forests, lower fees",[184,257],{},{"from":626,"to":626},[1751,1752,1753],"The Green Party of Vancouver opens its Park Board platform with trees. The party says its commissioners would keep working toward a tree canopy of 30% across the city, which means trees would cover 30% of the land when seen from above. To get there, the Greens would pull out 5,000 old stumps and plant new trees in their place. The platform names Strathcona as the first neighbourhood to get more trees, and says its canopy stood at 9% in 2022.","The rest of the list covers smaller sites. The Greens would protect community gardens and pollinator corridors, which are chains of planted areas that bees and butterflies use to feed and move across the city. They would restore natural shorelines, with Tatlow Park as the named example, and change old fountains so they reuse water or use less of it. The party would try three Miyawaki forests, small plots planted closely with native trees. New artificial turf fields would get its support only when they also hold rainwater and add habitat.","The second heading on page 48 is about cost. The party says fees for swimming lessons, field permits and ice time should stay within reach of Vancouver families, and it would expand the Leisure Access Program, which gives seniors and low income families cheaper entry to recreation. Most of these steps sit with the Park Board, which runs parks, pools and rinks. The 3-30-300 goal reaches past park borders, so the platform says the board would pursue it together with City Council.",[1755,1759,1763,1767,1771,1775,1779,1783,1787,1791,1795],{"title":1756,"detail":1757,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1758},"Remove 5,000 stumps and replant toward 30% canopy","The Greens would continue progress toward 30% tree canopy cover city-wide by removing 5,000 existing stumps and replacing them with new trees.","The Park Board plants and cares for trees in the parks it runs, so commissioners can direct this work and fund it in the board's budget.",{"title":1760,"detail":1761,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1762},"More tree canopy in underserved neighbourhoods, starting with Strathcona","The party would increase tree canopy cover in the neighbourhoods with the fewest trees, starting with Strathcona. The platform says Strathcona had only 9% tree canopy cover as of 2022.","The Park Board decides where it plants in the parks it runs, so it can put Strathcona first there.",{"title":1764,"detail":1765,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1766},"Protect community gardens and pollinator corridors","The Greens would protect community gardens and pollinator corridors, which are linked planted areas that bees, butterflies and other insects use to feed and move.","Gardens and plantings on park land are under the Park Board's control.",{"title":1768,"detail":1769,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1770},"Artificial turf only with rainwater retention and biodiversity","The party would support artificial turf sports fields only when each one is paired with rainwater retention and biodiversity initiatives, meaning features that hold rain on site and add habitat for plants and animals.","Sports fields in parks are built and managed by the Park Board.",{"title":1772,"detail":1773,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1774},"Native shoreline improvements and waterfront recreation","The Greens would promote native shoreline improvements, which means restoring the edges of the water with native plants, while providing accessible waterfront recreation areas. The platform names Tatlow Park as an example.","Tatlow Park and the city's beaches are park land run by the Park Board.",{"title":1776,"detail":1777,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1778},"Open park land and facilities for community food systems","The party would open up park land and facilities for community food systems. The platform gives no further detail on which sites or programs this would cover.","The Park Board decides how its land and buildings are used.",{"title":1780,"detail":1781,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1782},"Convert historic fountains to naturalized water features","The Greens would continue to convert historic fountains to circulating or low volume naturalized water features, meaning the water is reused or less of it is used, in a design meant to look natural.","Fountains in parks are Park Board property, so the board can change them.",{"title":1784,"detail":1785,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1786},"Pilot three Miyawaki forests","The party would pilot three Miyawaki forests. A Miyawaki forest is a small plot planted closely with many young native trees and shrubs so that it grows into a dense wood.","The Park Board can plant these on park land it controls.",{"title":1788,"detail":1789,"page":626,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1790},"Work with City Council on the 3-30-300 rule for every home","The Greens would work with City Council to make the 3-30-300 rule real for every home. The platform defines the rule as three trees visible from each home, 30 per cent tree canopy in each neighbourhood, and green space within 300 metres.","Trees on private lots and the land for new green space depend on Council's zoning and development decisions, so the Park Board cannot meet this goal alone.",{"title":1792,"detail":1793,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1794},"Subsidize fees for core activities","The party would subsidize fees for core activities, naming swimming lessons, field permits and ice rentals, so they stay within reach of Vancouver families.","The Park Board sets the fees at its pools, rinks and fields, while Council decides how much city money the board gets to cover lower fees.",{"title":1796,"detail":1797,"page":626,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1798},"Expand and promote the Leisure Access Program (LAP)","The Greens would expand and promote the Leisure Access Program (LAP), which the platform describes as subsidized access to recreation for seniors and low income families.","The Leisure Access Program is a Park Board program, so commissioners can decide to expand it.",[1800,1803,1806,1809,1812,1815,1818],{"question":1801,"answer":1802},"What is the Vancouver Green Party's tree planting plan for parks?","The Green Party of Vancouver says its Park Board commissioners would remove 5,000 existing stumps and replace them with new trees. The party ties this to a goal of 30% tree canopy cover across the city, and it would also pilot three Miyawaki forests (platform, page 48).",{"question":1804,"answer":1805},"Why do Vancouver's Greens want more trees in Strathcona?","The platform says Strathcona had only 9% tree canopy cover as of 2022. The Greens would start there when adding trees to the neighbourhoods with the fewest, as part of a city-wide target of 30% canopy (platform, page 48).",{"question":1807,"answer":1808},"What is the 3-30-300 rule in the Green Party of Vancouver platform?","The platform defines it as three trees visible from every home, 30 per cent tree canopy in each neighbourhood, and green space within 300 metres. The Green Party of Vancouver says the Park Board would work with City Council to make it true for every home (platform, page 48).",{"question":1810,"answer":1811},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support artificial turf fields?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would support artificial turf sports fields only when a field is paired with rainwater retention and biodiversity initiatives. That means the project would also hold rain on site and add habitat for plants and animals (platform, page 48).",{"question":1813,"answer":1814},"Would the Vancouver Greens lower fees for swimming lessons and ice rentals?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would subsidize fees for core activities such as swimming lessons, field permits and ice rentals so they stay within reach of families. It would also expand and promote the Leisure Access Program for seniors and low income families. The platform gives no dollar amount (platform, page 48).",{"question":1816,"answer":1817},"What is a Miyawaki forest, and how many would the Green Party of Vancouver plant?","A Miyawaki forest is a small plot planted closely with many young native trees and shrubs so that it grows into a dense wood. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would pilot three of them (platform, page 48).",{"question":1819,"answer":1820},"Who has the power to carry out the Greens' plans for park trees and fees?","Most of these commitments sit with the elected Park Board, which runs Vancouver's parks, pools and rinks. The Green Party of Vancouver says the 3-30-300 goal needs work with City Council, which sets zoning for the rest of the city (platform, page 48).","ecosystems-and-affordable-access","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fpark-board--ecosystems-and-affordable-access","The Green Party of Vancouver says its Park Board commissioners would remove 5,000 old stumps and plant new trees toward a 30% city-wide tree canopy, start in Strathcona, pilot three Miyawaki forests, and subsidize fees for swimming lessons, field permits and ice rentals.","x6haolEBh2Ib3SWyup0HtbuCi044zIGq9CZvUU0xWsI",{"id":1826,"title":1827,"checkedAt":402,"context":1828,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1831,"headline":1850,"issues":1851,"meta":1852,"order":784,"pages":1853,"paragraphs":1854,"party":354,"pillar":622,"proposals":1859,"questions":1896,"slug":1917,"source":13,"stem":1918,"summary":1919,"__hash__":1920},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fpark-board--facilities-for-the-future.json","Facilities for the Future",[1829,1830],{"label":656,"url":657,"publisher":366,"checkedAt":402},{"label":659,"url":660,"publisher":661,"checkedAt":402},[1832,1835,1838,1841,1844,1847],{"value":1833,"label":1834,"page":627},"2022","Year of the Community Centre Strategy the party would follow for renewals",{"value":1836,"label":1837,"page":627},"50m","Length of the new pool the party would build at Hastings or Kensington",{"value":1839,"label":1840,"page":627},"136","Years of the elected Park Board's role in Vancouver's local democracy, as the party counts it",{"value":1842,"label":1843,"page":627},"56%","The party's figure for the Park Board's dependence on user fee revenue under ABC",{"value":1845,"label":1846,"page":627},"50%","What the party calls the historical level of city funding in the park budget",{"value":1848,"label":1849,"page":627},"$6m","Money the party would return to the Park Board budget","Greens' Park Board plan: a new 50m pool, renewed centres and $6m back for parks",[184,244,1472],{},{"from":627,"to":627},[1855,1856,1857,1858],"The last page of the Green Party of Vancouver's Park Board platform turns to buildings. The party says it would put the renewal of Hastings, Kensington and Renfrew community centres first, following what the platform calls Community Centre Strategy 2022, and keep working on the Britannia renewal. For swimming, the Greens list the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, Kitsilano Pool, Kerrisdale and Britannia pools for renewal, and they would add a new 50m pool at either Hastings or Kensington.","Other items on the facilities list set standards for what gets built and sold. The platform says all new infrastructure would be built to climate-resilient gold standards, with carbon emissions kept low, though it does not name the rating system behind that gold standard. The party would keep adding safety enhanced, gender neutral washrooms in parks and public spaces. It would also establish a plant-based food mandate for all restaurants and concessions, and the platform gives no further detail on how that rule would apply.","The second heading on page 50 is about the board's independence and money. The Greens say they would celebrate and honour the independent elected Park Board and its 136 year role in local democracy. The platform puts the board's dependence on user fee revenue at 56% under ABC and calls it excessive. The party would restore the city-funded share of the park budget to what it calls the historical level of 50%, returning $6m to the Park Board budget, and would allow small businesses to offer services in parks.","Much of this chapter needs City Council. Council approves the capital plan that pays for new pools and community centres, and the $6m would come from the city budget that Council sets. The elected Park Board itself exists under the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law. Mayor Ken Sim's ABC party campaigned to end the elected board, and the Province withdrew a 2025 bill that the plan needed. In July 2026 ABC said it would run Park Board candidates and no longer seek to abolish the board.",[1860,1864,1868,1872,1876,1880,1884,1888,1892],{"title":1861,"detail":1862,"page":627,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1863},"Renew Hastings, Kensington and Renfrew community centres","The Greens would prioritize renewal of Hastings, Kensington and Renfrew community centres, as set out in Community Centre Strategy 2022. They would also maintain focus on the Britannia renewal.","The Park Board chooses which centres to renew first, but the money comes through the city's capital plan, which Council approves.",{"title":1865,"detail":1866,"page":627,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1867},"Renew pools and build a new 50m pool","The party would enhance swimming pool infrastructure by renewing the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, Kitsilano Pool, Kerrisdale and Britannia pools, and by building a new 50m pool at Hastings or Kensington.","The Park Board runs the pools, but rebuilding them and building a new one are paid for through the city's capital plan, which Council approves.",{"title":1869,"detail":1870,"page":627,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1871},"Climate-resilient gold standard for all new infrastructure","The Greens would build all new infrastructure to climate-resilient gold standards and minimize carbon emissions. The platform does not say which rating system the gold standard refers to.","New park buildings are paid for through the city's capital plan and must meet the city building bylaw, both set by Council, so the Park Board would need Council's support for a higher standard.",{"title":1873,"detail":1874,"page":627,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1875},"Safety enhanced gender neutral washrooms","The party would continue to invest in new safety enhanced, gender neutral washrooms in parks and public spaces.","Washrooms in parks are Park Board facilities, while those in other public spaces such as streets and plazas belong to the city.",{"title":1877,"detail":1878,"page":627,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1879},"Plant-based food mandate for restaurants and concessions","The Greens would establish a plant-based food mandate for all restaurants and concessions. The platform gives no timeline or further detail.","The Park Board leases the restaurant and concession spaces in its parks and on its beaches, so it sets the terms.",{"title":1881,"detail":1882,"page":627,"authority":966,"authorityNote":1883},"Celebrate and honour the independent elected Park Board","The party would celebrate and honour the independent elected Park Board and its 136 year role in Vancouver's local democracy.","The Park Board is created by the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, so only the Province can change whether it exists.",{"title":1885,"detail":1886,"page":627,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1887},"Reduce dependence on user fee revenue","The Greens would eliminate what they call excessive dependence on user fee revenue, which the platform says is currently 56% under ABC.","Less money from fees means more city funding, which Council decides when it sets the budget.",{"title":1889,"detail":1890,"page":627,"authority":754,"authorityNote":1891},"Restore city funding to 50% and return $6m","The party would restore the city-funded portion of the park budget to what it calls the historical level of 50%, and return $6m to the Park Board budget.","Council sets the city budget and decides how much of it goes to the Park Board, so the board can only ask for the money.",{"title":1893,"detail":1894,"page":627,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1895},"Microactivations and small business services in parks","The Greens would increase microactivations, meaning small-scale uses of parks and public spaces, and would permit small businesses to offer in-park services.","The Park Board issues the permits for businesses and events in parks.",[1897,1900,1903,1905,1908,1911,1914],{"question":1898,"answer":1899},"Where would the Green Party of Vancouver build a new 50m pool?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would build a new 50m pool at Hastings or Kensington. It would also renew the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, Kitsilano Pool, Kerrisdale and Britannia pools (platform, page 50).",{"question":1901,"answer":1902},"Which community centres would Vancouver's Greens renew first?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would prioritize renewal of Hastings, Kensington and Renfrew community centres, following Community Centre Strategy 2022. It would also keep its focus on the Britannia renewal (platform, page 50).",{"question":607,"answer":1904},"The Park Board is created by the Vancouver Charter, a provincial law, so only the Province can change whether it exists. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would celebrate and honour the independent elected Park Board and its 136 year role in Vancouver's local democracy (platform, page 50).",{"question":1906,"answer":1907},"How would the Vancouver Greens fund the Park Board?","The Greens say the Park Board depends too much on user fees, which the platform puts at 56% under ABC. The party would restore the city-funded share of the park budget to what it calls the historical level of 50% and return $6m to the Park Board budget (platform, page 50).",{"question":1909,"answer":1910},"Who decides whether the Park Board gets the $6m the Greens promise?","City Council sets the city budget and decides how much city money goes to the Park Board, so commissioners can only ask for it. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would return $6m to the Park Board budget (platform, page 50).",{"question":1912,"answer":1913},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plant-based food mandate?","The platform says the Greens would establish a plant-based food mandate for all restaurants and concessions, listed under the Park Board's facilities. It gives no timeline or further detail on how the rule would apply (platform, page 50).",{"question":1915,"answer":1916},"Would Vancouver's Greens allow small businesses in parks?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would increase microactivations, meaning small-scale uses of parks and public spaces, and permit small businesses to offer in-park services (platform, page 50).","facilities-for-the-future","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fpark-board--facilities-for-the-future","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would renew Hastings, Kensington and Renfrew community centres, renew four pools and add a 50m pool at Hastings or Kensington, cut the Park Board's reliance on user fees, which it puts at 56% under ABC, and return $6m to the park budget.","LWivkGM_a5-xXlc5ylveTAvtdcq1Frvl0jgarb0ZXIA",{"id":1922,"title":1923,"checkedAt":402,"context":1924,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":1925,"headline":1926,"issues":1927,"meta":1928,"order":733,"pages":1929,"paragraphs":1931,"party":354,"pillar":622,"proposals":1936,"questions":1985,"slug":2007,"source":13,"stem":2008,"summary":2009,"__hash__":2010},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fpark-board--programming-for-all-generations.json","Programming for All Generations and All Abilities",[],[],"Greens' Park Board plan: SafeSport, more dog parks, shared parkland with Nations",[184,164,123],{},{"from":1930,"to":1930},49,[1932,1933,1934,1935],"Page 49 of the Green Party of Vancouver platform is about who gets to use parks and community centres. The party says youth and equity-seeking communities, meaning groups that face barriers to taking part, should come first in the booking system for sports fields. It would bring in SafeSport standards, which the platform links to the right to train and compete in safe, respectful and supportive places. Park design and programs would have to meet inclusivity standards for people with disabilities, neurodivergent people and seniors.","Other items go beyond sport. The Greens would support child care at community centres and at the schools linked to them, and allow pop-up events and services in parks and on beaches where they fit the neighbourhood. They want more dog parks, with Mount Pleasant, Grandview and Kitsilano named first. On encampments, the platform says the party would keep parks free of them by paying for community safety and for peer stewardship programs, in which people who have lived through homelessness, poverty, mental illness or addiction help care for parks.","The chapter also covers bike routes and reconciliation. The Greens would expand and connect cycling routes and greenways, and work with City Council and the School Board on a network linking bike routes to schools, community centres, parks, transit and jobs. Under the heading on reconciliation, the party would work with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations to explore co-management of parkland, which means making shared decisions on how that land is run.","Park Board commissioners could act alone on field bookings, dog parks, park design and program rules, since the board runs those sites. Several items need partners. Child care licensing and operating money come from the Province, city streets and bike lanes are designed by Council, and any shared management of parkland would need the agreement of each Nation. School sites stay with the School Board.",[1937,1941,1945,1949,1953,1957,1961,1965,1969,1973,1977,1981],{"title":1938,"detail":1939,"page":1930,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1940},"Priority for youth and equity-seeking communities in field bookings","The Greens would prioritize youth and equity-seeking communities, meaning groups that face barriers to taking part, in the sports field booking system.","The Park Board runs the booking system for its sports fields and sets its rules.",{"title":1942,"detail":1943,"page":1930,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1944},"Implement SafeSport standards","The party would implement SafeSport standards. The platform says everyone has the right to train and compete in safe, respectful and supportive environments.","The Park Board can set conduct rules for its own sports programs and attach conditions to the permits it issues.",{"title":1946,"detail":1947,"page":1930,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1948},"Support childcare at community centres and connected schools","The Greens would support childcare initiatives at community centres and at the schools connected to them.","Child care licensing and operating funding are provincial and school sites are run by the School Board, so the Park Board can offer space and support at community centres.",{"title":1950,"detail":1951,"page":1930,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1952},"Pop-up events and services at parks and beaches","The party would support pop-up events and services at parks and beaches where they are consistent with neighbourhood values.","Events and services in parks and on beaches need permits from the Park Board.",{"title":1954,"detail":1955,"page":1930,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1956},"Inclusive park design and programming","The Greens would ensure park design and programming meet inclusivity standards for all abilities, for neurodiversity and for senior communities.","The Park Board designs its parks and runs its own programs.",{"title":1958,"detail":1959,"page":1930,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1960},"Keep parks free of encampments through safety and peer stewardship","The party would keep parks free of encampments by investing in community safety and in peer stewardship programs for people with lived experience of homelessness, poverty, mental health conditions and substance use disorders.","The Park Board controls park land, while shelter spaces are funded by Council and health and treatment services come from the Province and the federal government.",{"title":1962,"detail":1963,"page":1930,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1964},"More dog parks in Mount Pleasant, Grandview and Kitsilano","The Greens would increase the number of dog parks, especially in Mount Pleasant, Grandview and Kitsilano.","Dog parks are park land, which the Park Board plans and runs.",{"title":1966,"detail":1967,"page":1930,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1968},"Expand and connect safe cycling networks and greenways","The party would expand, improve and connect safe cycling networks and greenways. It would work with City Council and the School Board to build a safe and green active transportation network, meaning routes for walking, rolling and cycling, that connects cycling routes to schools, community centres, parks, transit and employment areas.","Council owns and designs city streets and bike lanes and the School Board runs school sites, while the Park Board builds the parts that run through parks.",{"title":1970,"detail":1971,"page":1930,"authority":744,"authorityNote":1972},"Explore co-management of parklands with three Nations","The Greens would prioritize collaboration with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations to explore opportunities for co-management of parklands, meaning shared decisions on how that land is run.","The Park Board can open talks, but any co-management plan needs the agreement of each Nation.",{"title":1974,"detail":1975,"page":1930,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1976},"Seek guidance from traditional knowledge keepers","The party would seek guidance from traditional knowledge keepers and amplify their voices on ways to support stewardship, meaning long-term care, of park ecosystems.","The Park Board decides how it cares for park land and whom it asks for advice.",{"title":1978,"detail":1979,"page":1930,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1980},"Include urban Indigenous organizations in Park Board planning","The Greens would work with urban Indigenous organizations and community members to make sure they are included in the planning and initiatives of the Park Board.","The Park Board sets its own planning and consultation process.",{"title":1982,"detail":1983,"page":1930,"authority":622,"authorityNote":1984},"Indigenous naming, values, art and healing gardens","The party would incorporate Indigenous naming, values, art and healing gardens, placing cultural recognition at the centre of how facilities and outdoor spaces are designed.","The Park Board designs its facilities and outdoor spaces and names its parks.",[1986,1989,1992,1995,1998,2001,2004],{"question":1987,"answer":1988},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to remove encampments from parks?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would keep parks free of encampments. Its stated approach is to invest in community safety and in peer stewardship programs for people with lived experience of homelessness, poverty, mental health conditions and substance use disorders (platform, page 49).",{"question":1990,"answer":1991},"Where would the Vancouver Greens add new dog parks?","The Greens say they would increase the number of dog parks in Vancouver, especially in Mount Pleasant, Grandview and Kitsilano. The platform does not give a number of new dog parks (platform, page 49).",{"question":1993,"answer":1994},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver adopt SafeSport standards?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would implement SafeSport standards, and the platform explains them as the right of everyone to train and compete in safe, respectful and supportive environments (platform, page 49).",{"question":1996,"answer":1997},"How would the Vancouver Greens change sports field bookings?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would give priority to youth and equity-seeking communities in the Park Board's sports field booking system. Equity-seeking communities are groups that face barriers to taking part (platform, page 49).",{"question":1999,"answer":2000},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver propose on reconciliation in parks?","The Greens would prioritize work with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations to explore co-management of parklands. They would also seek guidance from traditional knowledge keepers, include urban Indigenous organizations in Park Board planning, and add Indigenous naming, art and healing gardens to park design (platform, page 49).",{"question":2002,"answer":2003},"Can the Park Board build the Greens' bike network on its own?","The Green Party of Vancouver says the Park Board would work with City Council and the School Board on a network connecting cycling routes to schools, community centres, parks, transit and employment areas. Council owns and designs city streets and bike lanes, and the Park Board runs the parks, so both bodies would have to act (platform, page 49).",{"question":2005,"answer":2006},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support child care at community centres?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would support childcare initiatives at community centres and at the schools connected to them. Child care licensing and operating money come from the Province, so the Park Board's part is space and support (platform, page 49).","programming-for-all-generations","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fpark-board--programming-for-all-generations","The Green Party of Vancouver says its Park Board would give youth and equity-seeking groups priority for sports fields, adopt SafeSport standards, add dog parks in Mount Pleasant, Grandview and Kitsilano, keep parks free of encampments, and explore co-managing parkland with three Nations.","KMq9EiXm-YntCsCHvsjKMAFEgOyNqqGc2zY9QF_b4XM",{"id":2012,"title":2013,"checkedAt":402,"context":2014,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2015,"headline":2020,"issues":2021,"meta":2022,"order":1344,"pages":2023,"paragraphs":2024,"party":354,"pillar":503,"proposals":2028,"questions":2053,"slug":2072,"source":13,"stem":2073,"summary":2074,"__hash__":2075},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--accessible-city.json","Accessible City",[],[2016],{"value":2017,"label":2018,"page":2019},"30 km\u002Fhr","Speed limit of the slower safer streets program the Greens would expand",30,"Vancouver Greens on access: 30 km\u002Fhr streets, public washrooms, seniors planner",[164,184],{},{"from":2019,"to":2019},[2025,2026,2027],"The Green Party of Vancouver groups its commitments on page 30 of its 2026 platform under the idea of a city that people of any age or ability can move through. The first is Vision Zero, the goal of ending traffic deaths. The party would spend on walking and cycling, accessible sidewalks, curb cuts and pedestrian bulges, which are sidewalk extensions that shorten the distance to cross. It would also expand the 30 km\u002Fhr slower streets program, which the platform describes as started by the Greens.","Public washrooms get their own commitment. The Greens call them essential city infrastructure and would plan them citywide: find the areas with too few, keep some open longer, and build them into plazas, community facilities and large public spaces. For washrooms in parks, the party says it would work with the elected Park Board to fund them properly, since that board runs Vancouver's parks.","Three items look at age. The Greens would make Vancouver an age-friendly city by building universal design, meaning design that works for people of all ages and abilities, into city planning. They would re-create the Older Persons Planner position, which the platform says was cut in recent budgets, to speak for seniors inside City Hall. For children and families, they list safe routes to school, accessible playgrounds, affordable recreation, child care and access to nature. The last item adds curb cuts, tactile surfaces that people with low vision can feel underfoot, and crossings that give sound signals.",[2029,2033,2037,2041,2045,2049],{"title":2030,"detail":2031,"page":2019,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2032},"People-First Streets","The Greens would pursue Vision Zero, the goal of no traffic deaths, by investing in active transportation, accessible sidewalks, curb cuts and pedestrian bulges, and by calming car traffic. They would expand what the platform calls the Green-initiated 30 km\u002Fhr slower safer streets program and speed up work to end traffic deaths.","The city owns and designs its streets and sidewalks, so Council can set these rules and fund this work.",{"title":2034,"detail":2035,"page":2019,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2036},"Public washrooms as essential infrastructure","The party would expand clean, safe and accessible public washrooms through a citywide strategy that finds underserved areas, extends hours where needed, and builds washrooms into plazas, community facilities and major public spaces. It would work with the elected Park Board to properly fund washrooms in parks.","Council can fund washrooms on streets and city sites, while park washrooms are the responsibility of the separately elected Park Board.",{"title":2038,"detail":2039,"page":2019,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2040},"Age-friendly city for every stage of life","The Greens would make Vancouver an age-friendly city from childhood to older age by building universal design, accessibility, safety, social connection and healthy aging into city planning and services.","Council directs city planning and sets how city services are delivered.",{"title":2042,"detail":2043,"page":2019,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2044},"Older Persons Planner","The party would re-instate the Older Persons Planner position, which the platform says was eliminated in recent budget cuts, to speak for seniors' needs across city policies and services.","City staff positions are paid from the budget Council approves each year.",{"title":2046,"detail":2047,"page":2019,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2048},"A city that works for kids is a city that works for everyone","The Greens would prioritize safe routes to school, accessible parks and playgrounds, affordable recreation, child care, family-friendly public spaces and access to nature.","Council controls streets and helps create child care spaces, while parks and playgrounds belong to the Park Board and child care licensing and subsidies are provincial.",{"title":2050,"detail":2051,"page":2019,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2052},"Curb cuts, tactile surfaces and audible crossings","The party would expand curb cuts, tactile surfaces that people with low vision can feel underfoot, audible crossing signals and other barrier-free features in every neighbourhood, so streets and public spaces work for people of any age or ability.","Sidewalks, crossings and traffic signals are part of the city streets that Council designs and funds.",[2054,2057,2060,2063,2066,2069],{"question":2055,"answer":2056},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want 30 km\u002Fh speed limits?","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand the 30 km\u002Fhr slower safer streets program, which the platform describes as started by the Greens. It ties this to Vision Zero, the goal of ending traffic deaths, along with better sidewalks and curb cuts (platform, page 30).",{"question":2058,"answer":2059},"What would the Vancouver Greens do about public washrooms?","The Green Party of Vancouver calls public washrooms essential city infrastructure. It would plan them citywide, find underserved areas, extend hours and build washrooms into plazas and community facilities, and work with the elected Park Board to fund washrooms in parks (platform, page 30).",{"question":2061,"answer":2062},"What is the Older Persons Planner the Green Party of Vancouver wants to bring back?","It is a city staff position focused on seniors' needs in city policies and services. The Green Party of Vancouver says the job was eliminated in recent budget cuts and would re-instate it (platform, page 30).",{"question":2064,"answer":2065},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver make streets accessible for people with disabilities?","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand curb cuts, tactile surfaces, audible crossings and other barrier-free features in every neighbourhood. It would also invest in accessible sidewalks and pedestrian bulges as part of its Vision Zero commitment (platform, page 30).",{"question":2067,"answer":2068},"Who would have to act on the Green Party of Vancouver's accessibility plans?","City Council controls streets, sidewalks and crossings, so most of the Green Party of Vancouver's street changes are within its power. Park washrooms and playgrounds belong to the separately elected Park Board, and the party says it would work with that board (platform, page 30).",{"question":2070,"answer":2071},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver promise for kids and families?","The Green Party of Vancouver would prioritize safe routes to school, accessible parks and playgrounds, affordable recreation, child care, family-friendly public spaces and access to nature (platform, page 30).","accessible-city","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--accessible-city","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand the 30 km\u002Fhr slower streets program toward Vision Zero, add public washrooms through a citywide strategy, bring back the Older Persons Planner job, and add curb cuts, tactile paving and audible crossings in every neighbourhood.","dUYo4qNcmbj6yYEEAOlC1d2F5KdaolOidF5aA3JL_P4",{"id":2077,"title":2078,"checkedAt":402,"context":2079,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2081,"headline":2082,"issues":2083,"meta":2084,"order":733,"pages":2085,"paragraphs":2087,"party":354,"pillar":503,"proposals":2091,"questions":2108,"slug":2124,"source":13,"stem":2125,"summary":2126,"__hash__":2127},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--clean-and-green.json","Clean and Green",[2080],{"label":544,"url":545,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},[],"Vancouver Greens on clean streets: faster litter pickup, more bins, more trees",[184],{},{"from":2086,"to":2086},26,[2088,2089,2090],"Street cleaning and greenery fill page 26 of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform. The party says a clean city is a safe and welcoming city, and that the work starts with small tasks: picking up litter and debris and fixing minor damage before it grows. All of the page's commitments concern city streets, sidewalks and neighbourhood spaces.","For daily cleaning, the Greens promise faster action on litter, illegal dumping, graffiti and overflowing bins. They would add garbage, recycling and cigarette bins where many people walk, and clean streets more often near business districts, transit hubs, parks and schools. Against illegal dumping, the party would enforce the rules more strictly, especially against people who dump again and again, and give residents better tools to report problem spots. It also says it would work with businesses and property owners to keep public spaces clean.","The last commitment is about plants. The party would plant more trees, fund neighbourhood greening, and support community gardens, spaces for bees and other pollinators, and local volunteer care of green spaces. Street cleaning and garbage collection are city services that Council funds in its yearly budget. Tree planting is different. Under the city's Street Tree By-law, the Vancouver Park Board, a separately elected body, plants and cares for the trees along city streets as well as in parks, so the greening promise would need the board's work.",[2092,2096,2100,2104],{"title":2093,"detail":2094,"page":2086,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2095},"Commitment to our shared public spaces","The Greens commit to cleaner streets and greener neighbourhoods. The party says it would deal with litter, debris and minor maintenance problems early, to make public spaces cleaner, safer and more welcoming.","Council funds street cleaning and street maintenance in the city's yearly budget.",{"title":2097,"detail":2098,"page":2086,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2099},"Clean streets","The party promises faster response to litter, illegal dumping, graffiti and overflowing bins, more garbage, recycling and cigarette bins in high-traffic areas, and more street cleaning around business districts, transit hubs, parks and schools.","Street cleaning and public garbage bins are city services paid from the budget Council approves.",{"title":2101,"detail":2102,"page":2086,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2103},"Holding polluters accountable","The Greens would enforce the rules against illegal dumping more strictly, with a focus on people who dump again and again, build better reporting tools to find and fix problem areas quickly, and work with businesses and property owners to keep public spaces clean.","Council makes the city's bylaws on dumping and property upkeep, and city staff enforce them.",{"title":2105,"detail":2106,"page":2086,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2107},"Green neighbourhoods","The party would expand tree planting and neighbourhood greening projects, and support community gardens, spaces for pollinators such as bees, and local volunteer care of green spaces.","Under the city's Street Tree By-law, the separately elected Park Board plants and cares for street trees and park trees, while Council can fund greening on other city land.",[2109,2112,2115,2118,2121],{"question":2110,"answer":2111},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about litter and garbage?","The Green Party of Vancouver promises faster response to litter, illegal dumping, graffiti and overflowing bins. It would add garbage, recycling and cigarette bins in high-traffic areas and clean streets more often near business districts, transit hubs, parks and schools (platform, page 26).",{"question":2113,"answer":2114},"How would the Vancouver Greens stop illegal dumping?","The Green Party of Vancouver would enforce the rules against illegal dumping more strictly, with a focus on people who dump again and again. It would also build better tools for reporting problem areas and work with businesses and property owners (platform, page 26).",{"question":2116,"answer":2117},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver plan to plant more trees?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would expand tree planting and neighbourhood greening projects and support community gardens, spaces for pollinators and local volunteer care of green spaces (platform, page 26).",{"question":2119,"answer":2120},"Why does the Green Party of Vancouver link clean streets to safety?","The Green Party of Vancouver says a clean city is a safe and welcoming city. It argues that fixing litter, debris and small maintenance problems early makes public spaces safer and more welcoming, which is why street cleaning sits in its safety section (platform, page 26).",{"question":2122,"answer":2123},"Who is responsible for street cleaning and trees in Vancouver?","City Council funds street cleaning and public garbage bins through the city budget. Under the city's Street Tree By-law, the Vancouver Park Board, a separately elected body, plants and cares for trees along city streets and in parks, so the Green Party of Vancouver's tree planting plan would need the board (platform, page 26).","clean-and-green","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--clean-and-green","The Green Party of Vancouver promises faster response to litter, illegal dumping, graffiti and full bins, more garbage, recycling and cigarette bins in busy areas, stronger action against illegal dumping, and more tree planting and community gardens.","gFMCoRm6LkujACY_1ZdNapm4Jb_paHUUWk67goREmTc",{"id":2129,"title":2130,"checkedAt":402,"context":2131,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2133,"headline":2145,"issues":2146,"meta":2147,"order":914,"pages":2148,"paragraphs":2149,"party":354,"pillar":503,"proposals":2154,"questions":2199,"slug":2221,"source":13,"stem":2222,"summary":2223,"__hash__":2224},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--community-safety.json","Community Safety",[2132],{"label":540,"url":541,"publisher":542,"checkedAt":402},[2134,2138,2142],{"value":2135,"label":2136,"page":2137},"24%","Share of the City of Vancouver budget spent on police services, according to the platform",25,{"value":2139,"label":2140,"page":2141},"24\u002F7","Hours the proposed CROW outreach team would operate: all day, every day",24,{"value":2143,"label":2144,"page":2137},"2026","The year the platform calls one of the deadliest for sex workers in Vancouver in recent memory","Vancouver Greens on safety: CROW outreach team and independent police reviews",[140,123],{},{"from":507,"to":2137},[2150,2151,2152,2153],"The Green Party of Vancouver lists its commitments on community safety on pages 23 to 25 of its 2026 platform. The first is a new Office of Community Safety. The party says this office would bring fire, police, licensing, property use and planning staff together, so that they deal with neighbourhood problems early and as one team. The platform also calls for safe places where unhoused people can gather, rest and get support, which the party says would reduce encampments and street disorder.","Several items put care and outreach ahead of fines and arrests. The Greens would write city licence, zoning and permit conditions for health and shelter sites, with the goal of less drug use in public, fewer overdoses and fewer problems for the blocks around them. They would create CROW, the Community Response Outreach Workers team: a 24\u002F7 team with its own phone number, separate from police and ambulance services, for non-emergency calls about people who are homeless, using drugs or at risk in other ways. The platform also asks for money for de-escalation training and for restorative justice, where the person who caused harm meets the people affected and works to repair it.","Page 25 turns to violence against women and sex workers. The platform says ABC's council cut funding this year for Sex Worker Safety Coordinators, a role recommended by the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry led by Justice Wally Oppal, and the Greens would restore it. They also commit to the MMIWG2S+ Calls for Justice. MMIWG2S+ stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people, and the Calls for Justice are the recommendations in the final report of the national inquiry on that subject. The party would add a city strategy and task force on intimate partner violence, which means violence by a current or former partner.","On policing, the Greens want regular independent reviews of police performance and more public reports from the Vancouver Police Board to Council. Council approves the police budget, and the Police Board directs the department, so the two policing items would need the board's cooperation. CROW, the safety office and the coordinator funding would be paid from the city budget, which Council approves each year.",[2155,2159,2163,2167,2171,2175,2179,2183,2187,2191,2195],{"title":2156,"detail":2157,"page":507,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2158},"Office of Community Safety","The Greens would create an Office of Community Safety that joins neighbourhood services such as fire, police, licensing, property use and planning into one planned approach. The party says the office would be built on the right of residents and visitors to feel and be safe.","Council can create a city office and direct city staff, but police take part only through the Vancouver Police Board, which directs the department.",{"title":2160,"detail":2161,"page":507,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2162},"Street disorder and places to go","The party would provide safe places where unhoused and marginalized people can gather, rest, get support and connect with others. The platform says this would reduce encampments and street disorder and make the sharing of public spaces fairer.","Council funds shelter sites and city outreach and decides how city land and buildings are used.",{"title":2164,"detail":2165,"page":2141,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2166},"Overdose prevention, harm reduction, and community standards","The Greens would develop a legally workable set of city licence, zoning and permit conditions for health and shelter sites. The conditions would aim to reduce drug use in public and overdose risk, help people recover from intoxication and connect with health care, and limit effects on nearby areas, while requiring standards for service, cleanliness, public safety, accountability and good relations with neighbours.","Council sets the city's licence, zoning and permit rules, while health services and drug policy belong to the province and the federal government.",{"title":2168,"detail":2169,"page":2141,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2170},"Compassionate and consistent public space management","The party supports an approach to public spaces that puts diversion, outreach and connection to services before enforcement. The platform says public spaces must stay safe and open to everyone.","City staff manage streets and public spaces under Council's direction and budget.",{"title":2172,"detail":2173,"page":2141,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2174},"Safer communities through de-escalation","The Greens would invest in crisis intervention and de-escalation programs, which teach people how to calm a tense situation, for residents, businesses and communities. The platform says prevention and early action are effective public safety tools.","Council can fund training and community programs from the city budget.",{"title":2176,"detail":2177,"page":2141,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2178},"CROW (Community Response Outreach Workers) Team","The party would create a 24\u002F7 mobile response team, separate from police and medical services, to handle non-emergency calls about people experiencing homelessness, addiction or other vulnerabilities. It would have its own phone number for neighbours, businesses, emergency services and partner agencies, and the party says it would cost less than current responses and reduce the workload of emergency services.","Council funds city outreach, so it could create and pay for this team from the city budget.",{"title":2180,"detail":2181,"page":2141,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2182},"Restorative Vancouver","The Greens would release funding the party says has stalled for made-in-Vancouver restorative justice programs, which bring together the person who caused harm and the people affected to repair it. The party wants restorative practices used in schools, community organizations, public institutions and community life, to make Vancouver a restorative city and reduce repeat offending.","Council can fund community programs, but using these practices in schools would need the Vancouver School Board, which runs them.",{"title":2184,"detail":2185,"page":2137,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2186},"MMIWG2S+ Calls for Justice and sex worker safety","The platform says 2026 has been one of the deadliest years for sex workers in Vancouver in recent memory, and that ABC cut funding this year for Sex Worker Safety Coordinators, a role recommended by Justice Wally Oppal's Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. The Greens would restore that funding, keep supporting safety measures the party says it fought to protect earlier this year, and support the MMIWG2S+ (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit people) Calls for Justice and the Red Women Rising recommendations.","The coordinator positions are paid from the city budget, which Council approves each year.",{"title":2188,"detail":2189,"page":2137,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2190},"Intimate partner violence prevention strategy","The party would create a city strategy and a task force to prevent violence by a current or former partner. The plan would coordinate services, expand support for survivors, improve data and prevention education, and set clear responsibility for leading the work.","Council can set up a city strategy and task force, and coordinating services means working with the other governments and agencies that run them.",{"title":2192,"detail":2193,"page":2137,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2194},"Public safety accountability","The platform says police services take 24% of the city's budget. The Greens would require regular independent reviews of police performance, so that spending is based on evidence and is open and accountable.","Council approves the police budget, but the Vancouver Police Board directs the department, so a review would need the board's cooperation.",{"title":2196,"detail":2197,"page":2137,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2198},"Transparent and non-partisan police governance","The Greens would ask the Vancouver Police Board for regular reports to Council on budgets, performance, priorities and community safety results. The platform says policing needs strong civilian oversight and freedom from political interference, while staying accountable to the public.","The Vancouver Police Board, a separate body from Council, directs the police, so Council can request these reports but the board provides them.",[2200,2203,2206,2209,2212,2215,2218],{"question":2201,"answer":2202},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's CROW team?","CROW stands for Community Response Outreach Workers. The Green Party of Vancouver would create a 24\u002F7 mobile team, separate from police and medical services, with its own phone number, to answer non-emergency calls about people experiencing homelessness, addiction or other vulnerabilities. The party says it would cost less than current responses and reduce the workload of emergency services (platform, page 24).",{"question":2204,"answer":2205},"Would the Vancouver Greens cut the police budget?","The platform proposes reviews of police spending and names no cut. The Green Party of Vancouver says police services take 24% of the city budget and should face regular independent performance reviews so that spending is based on evidence and open to the public. It also wants the Vancouver Police Board to report to Council more often (platform, page 25).",{"question":2207,"answer":2208},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver say about sex worker safety?","The Green Party of Vancouver says ABC cut funding this year for Sex Worker Safety Coordinators, a role recommended by Justice Wally Oppal's Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. The Greens would restore that funding and support the MMIWG2S+ Calls for Justice and the Red Women Rising recommendations (platform, page 25).",{"question":2210,"answer":2211},"What would the Vancouver Greens do about overdoses and public drug use?","The Green Party of Vancouver would write city licence, zoning and permit conditions for health and shelter sites that aim to reduce public drug use and overdose risk and to connect people with health care. The conditions would also set standards for cleanliness, safety and relations with neighbours (platform, page 24).",{"question":2213,"answer":2214},"Can Vancouver City Council make the police report to it under the Green plan?","Council approves the police budget, but the Vancouver Police Board directs the police department. The Green Party of Vancouver's plan asks the Police Board for regular reports to Council on budgets, performance and results, so the board would have to take part (platform, page 25).",{"question":2216,"answer":2217},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's Office of Community Safety?","It is a proposed city office that would join fire, police, licensing, property use and planning services into one approach to neighbourhood safety. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would act on problems early and be based on the right of residents and visitors to feel and be safe (platform, page 23).",{"question":2219,"answer":2220},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver have a plan on intimate partner violence?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would create a city strategy and task force to prevent intimate partner violence, meaning violence by a current or former partner. It would coordinate services, expand support for survivors, and improve data and prevention education (platform, page 25).","community-safety","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--community-safety","The Green Party of Vancouver proposes an Office of Community Safety, a 24\u002F7 outreach team called CROW that is separate from police, restored funding for Sex Worker Safety Coordinators, and regular independent reviews of police spending, which the party says is 24% of the city budget.","n0f4B8QRh7QvuILIo7SvzHwXThvXk73S7MSOlw5H1FI",{"id":2226,"title":2227,"checkedAt":402,"context":2228,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2229,"headline":2230,"issues":2231,"meta":2232,"order":843,"pages":2233,"paragraphs":2235,"party":354,"pillar":503,"proposals":2239,"questions":2260,"slug":2279,"source":13,"stem":2280,"summary":2281,"__hash__":2282},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--healthy-city.json","Healthy City",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on health: mould rules for rentals, school food and cooling",[66,257,214],{},{"from":2234,"to":2234},29,[2236,2237,2238],"Page 29 of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform links health to housing, climate and food. One commitment would give every neighbourhood access to public spaces and buildings that stay safe during extreme heat, wildfire smoke and flooding, with more cooling and shade for the people most at risk. The party would also shape city plans around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of international goals on poverty, health, food and climate, which the Greens say would help the city win outside funding.","For renters, the Greens would update Vancouver's Standards of Maintenance By-law, the city rule that sets the minimum condition of rental homes. The new version would require landlords to fix mould, moisture, water damage and indoor air problems promptly, with stronger enforcement and tenant protection. Council writes and changes this bylaw itself. The party would also fund low-cost recreation programs and access to community facilities, and support walking and cycling as ways to stay active.","The last item concerns meals at school. The Greens would press the provincial and federal governments for a universal school food program that they pay for, and would have the city fill funding gaps when that money falls short. The platform credits city councillor Pete Fry with efforts to restore support for Vancouver School Board meal programs. School funding is set by the province, so the city's part would be advocacy plus any money Council chooses to add.",[2240,2244,2248,2252,2256],{"title":2241,"detail":2242,"page":2234,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2243},"Climate justice and equity","The Greens would ensure every neighbourhood and resident has access to public spaces and buildings that stay safe during extreme heat, smoke, flooding and other climate emergencies, and would invest in cooling, shade and community resilience for those most at risk.","Council decides how city buildings and public spaces are used and what the city budget pays for.",{"title":2245,"detail":2246,"page":2234,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2247},"Healthy city, healthy communities","The party would align city work with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to improve wellbeing, reduce poverty, strengthen food security, build climate resilience and create healthier communities. The platform says this would help Vancouver attract funding.","Council can adopt goals like these as city policy and direct staff to report against them.",{"title":2249,"detail":2250,"page":2234,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2251},"Fitness for life","The Greens would fund affordable recreation programs and access to community facilities, and support active transportation such as walking and cycling, so residents can stay healthy and active at every stage of life.","Community centres and recreation programs are run by the separately elected Park Board, while Council controls streets and bike lanes.",{"title":2253,"detail":2254,"page":2234,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2255},"Standards of maintenance for healthy homes","The party would update Vancouver's Standards of Maintenance By-law to require timely repair of mould, moisture, water damage and indoor air quality problems, with stronger enforcement and tenant protections. The platform says no renter should have to live in unhealthy housing.","Council makes the city's rental and tenant-protection bylaws, so it can change this bylaw on its own.",{"title":2257,"detail":2258,"page":2234,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2259},"Sustainable school food funding","The Greens would advocate for a universal school food program paid for by the provincial and federal governments, and have Vancouver fill funding gaps when that money falls short. The platform says this builds on Pete Fry's efforts to restore support for Vancouver School Board (VSB) meal programs.","School funding is set by the province, so the city's role is to ask for the program and add its own money to fill gaps.",[2261,2264,2267,2270,2273,2276],{"question":2262,"answer":2263},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about mould in rental homes?","The Green Party of Vancouver would update the city's Standards of Maintenance By-law to require landlords to fix mould, moisture, water damage and indoor air problems promptly. The party would also strengthen enforcement and tenant protections (platform, page 29).",{"question":2265,"answer":2266},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support free school meals?","The Green Party of Vancouver would advocate for a universal school food program paid for by the provincial and federal governments. It would have the city fill funding gaps when that money falls short, and credits Pete Fry with efforts to restore support for Vancouver School Board meal programs (platform, page 29).",{"question":2268,"answer":2269},"How would the Vancouver Greens protect people during heat waves and wildfire smoke?","The Green Party of Vancouver would ensure every neighbourhood has access to public spaces and buildings that stay safe during extreme heat, smoke and flooding. It would invest in cooling, shade and community support for the residents most at risk (platform, page 29).",{"question":2271,"answer":2272},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver say about the UN Sustainable Development Goals?","The Green Party of Vancouver would align city work with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on wellbeing, poverty, food security and climate resilience. The party says this would help Vancouver attract funding while improving results for residents (platform, page 29).",{"question":2274,"answer":2275},"Can Vancouver City Council change the Standards of Maintenance By-law without the province?","Yes. The Standards of Maintenance By-law is a city bylaw, and Council makes the city's rental and tenant-protection bylaws. The Green Party of Vancouver's plan to require timely repair of mould and water damage is therefore within Council's power (platform, page 29).",{"question":2277,"answer":2278},"What would the Vancouver Greens do for fitness and recreation?","The Green Party of Vancouver would fund affordable recreation programs and access to community facilities, and support walking and cycling so residents stay active at every age. Community centres are run by the Park Board, so that part would need the board (platform, page 29).","healthy-city","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--healthy-city","The Green Party of Vancouver would update the Standards of Maintenance By-law so landlords must fix mould and water damage on time, provide cool and clean-air public spaces during heat and smoke, fund affordable recreation, and fill gaps in school food funding.","TyFcbhk6k6i9IkRMVprpvec19XrzehEThbPI-6OgKqg",{"id":2284,"title":2285,"checkedAt":402,"context":2286,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2287,"headline":2288,"issues":2289,"meta":2290,"order":1200,"pages":2291,"paragraphs":2292,"party":354,"pillar":503,"proposals":2296,"questions":2317,"slug":2336,"source":13,"stem":2337,"summary":2338,"__hash__":2339},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--unhoused-neighbours.json","Unhoused Neighbours",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on homelessness: day spaces, lockers and micro-cabin villages",[123,66],{},{"from":508,"to":508},[2293,2294,2295],"Homelessness is the subject of page 31 of the Green Party of Vancouver's 2026 platform. The party describes people experiencing homelessness as among the city's most vulnerable residents and says it supports responses based on evidence that connect them to shelter, services and housing. Most of the page is about practical needs during the day: where to go, where to keep belongings, and where to sleep safely.","The Greens would expand low-barrier daytime spaces, meaning places with few entry rules, where people can reach services and housing help, store belongings and rest. They would also add secure storage and community lockers, so that people can keep their things safe while they look for work or housing. For sleeping, the party proposes rapid shelter villages: small groups of private micro-cabins that lock, with storage, washrooms and support staff on site. The platform says each resident would have case management, which is one worker who follows their housing plan, and a goal for moving into permanent housing.","The last item is about supportive housing, which is housing with staff on site to help tenants. The platform calls for reversing what it names Sim's housing ban, referring to Mayor Ken Sim, and says the ban has led to more people living on the street. The Greens would instead use occupancy permits, the city approval a building needs before people can move in, to require proper staffing and services. Council decides where supportive housing is approved, so this commitment is within its power.",[2297,2301,2305,2309,2313],{"title":2298,"detail":2299,"page":508,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2300},"Meeting people where they are","The Greens say they support compassionate, evidence-based responses that connect people experiencing homelessness to shelter, services and housing while treating everyone with dignity and respect.","Council funds city outreach and shelter sites, while health services are provincial.",{"title":2302,"detail":2303,"page":508,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2304},"Daytime shelters and places to be","The party would expand low-barrier daytime spaces, places with few entry rules, where people experiencing homelessness can access services, connect with housing supports, store belongings and rest during the day.","Council funds shelter sites and decides how city buildings and land are used.",{"title":2306,"detail":2307,"page":508,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2308},"Secure storage solutions for people without homes","The Greens would expand secure storage facilities and community lockers for people experiencing homelessness, so their belongings are protected while they access services, look for work and work toward permanent housing.","Council can fund storage sites and lockers from the city budget and place them on city property.",{"title":2310,"detail":2311,"page":508,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2312},"Reverse ban on supportive housing","The party would reverse what the platform calls Sim's housing ban, which it says has led to more unhoused people on the streets. It would use occupancy permit requirements to make sure supportive housing is staffed and serviced for good living conditions and good relations with neighbours.","Council decides where supportive housing is approved and controls the city's permits, including occupancy permits.",{"title":2314,"detail":2315,"page":508,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2316},"Rapid shelter villages","The Greens would set up small shelter villages with private, locking micro-cabins, storage, sanitation and on-site supports as a safe alternative to sleeping on the street. Each resident would have a clear path to permanent housing, case management and a housing placement goal.","Council funds shelter sites and approves the use of city land for them.",[2318,2321,2324,2327,2330,2333],{"question":2319,"answer":2320},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about homelessness?","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand daytime spaces and secure storage for people without homes and build small shelter villages of locking micro-cabins with on-site support. It would also reverse what it calls Sim's ban on supportive housing (platform, page 31).",{"question":2322,"answer":2323},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support tiny home villages for unhoused people?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would set up rapid shelter villages with private, locking micro-cabins, storage, sanitation and support staff on site. The party says every resident would have case management and a goal for moving into permanent housing (platform, page 31).",{"question":2325,"answer":2326},"What is the supportive housing ban the Vancouver Greens want to reverse?","The Green Party of Vancouver's platform calls it Sim's housing ban, referring to Mayor Ken Sim, and says it has led to more people living on the street. The Greens would reverse it and use occupancy permits to require proper staffing and services in supportive housing (platform, page 31).",{"question":2328,"answer":2329},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver provide lockers for homeless people?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would expand secure storage facilities and community lockers so people experiencing homelessness can protect their belongings while they access services, look for work and seek housing (platform, page 31).",{"question":2331,"answer":2332},"Can Vancouver City Council decide on supportive housing by itself?","Council decides where supportive housing is approved and controls the city's permits. The Green Party of Vancouver's plan to reverse the ban and use occupancy permits to require staffing is therefore within Council's power, while health services for residents are provincial (platform, page 31).",{"question":2334,"answer":2335},"What are the Green Party of Vancouver's daytime spaces for unhoused people?","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand low-barrier daytime spaces, places with few entry rules, where people experiencing homelessness can reach services and housing help, store belongings and rest (platform, page 31).","unhoused-neighbours","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--unhoused-neighbours","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand daytime spaces and secure storage for people without homes, build small shelter villages of locking micro-cabins with on-site support, and reverse what it calls Mayor Ken Sim's ban on supportive housing, using occupancy permits to require staffing.","Grnch9Q6gLEbj5yuohy_poSCl2pWczCkIobvYWkQsGg",{"id":2341,"title":2342,"checkedAt":402,"context":2343,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2348,"headline":2353,"issues":2354,"meta":2355,"order":784,"pages":2356,"paragraphs":2358,"party":354,"pillar":503,"proposals":2362,"questions":2391,"slug":2410,"source":13,"stem":2411,"summary":2412,"__hash__":2413},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--wellbeing.json","Wellbeing",[2344],{"label":2345,"url":2346,"publisher":2347,"checkedAt":402},"The City of Vancouver planned a suicide-prevention barrier on the Granville Bridge, coordinated with the bridge connector project","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.straight.com\u002Fnews\u002F1301391\u002Fsuicide-prevention-barrier-be-installed-city-vancouver-granville-bridge","The Georgia Straight",[2349],{"value":2350,"label":2351,"page":2352},"September 2025","When the platform says the City of Vancouver shut down its standalone Equity Office",27,"Vancouver Greens on wellbeing: a wellbeing index and a restored Equity Office",[1472,284],{},{"from":2352,"to":2357},28,[2359,2360,2361],"The Green Party of Vancouver sets out its commitments on wellbeing across pages 27 and 28 of its 2026 platform. The central idea is a wellbeing index. The party describes it as a measure of how people are doing in housing, health, income, safety, social connection, the environment and life satisfaction, used alongside economic measures such as GDP, the total value of what an economy produces. The Greens say the city would use the index to check whether its policies improve residents' lives.","Four commitments deal with equity and inclusion. According to the platform, the City of Vancouver closed its standalone Equity Office in September 2025. The party says that office coordinated equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism and reconciliation work across city departments, and the Greens would bring this work back into city policy. They would also support cultural festivals and gathering spaces for Indigenous, immigrant and cultural communities, and fund anti-racism and education work against discrimination based on race, disability or age.","Page 28 covers loneliness and mental health. The Greens would fund community programs, gathering spaces, recreation, arts and volunteering to bring people together. On mental health, the party would press other governments for more services and work with health authorities and non-profits. It also commits to completing what the platform calls means prevention on the Granville Bridge, which here means physical barriers that stop people from jumping, as part of the bridge upgrades. Health services are provincial, so on mental health care the city's role would be to ask the province for more.",[2363,2367,2371,2375,2379,2383,2387],{"title":2364,"detail":2365,"page":2352,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2366},"Wellbeing Index","The Greens would bring in a wellbeing index for the City of Vancouver to measure how residents are doing on core issues. The platform describes it as a tool that uses indicators such as housing, health, income, safety, social connection, environmental quality and life satisfaction, alongside economic measures like GDP.","Council can direct city staff to collect and report these measures.",{"title":2368,"detail":2369,"page":2352,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2370},"A city of equity","The party says it would support policies and strategies centred on equity and inclusion, so that marginalized, racialized and underrepresented communities have real access to opportunity, services and decision-making.","Council sets city policy and decides how city services are delivered.",{"title":2372,"detail":2373,"page":2352,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2374},"Celebrate cultural communities","The Greens would support community-led cultural projects, festivals, gathering spaces and programs that strengthen Vancouver's Indigenous, immigrant and cultural communities.","Council funds cultural grants and spaces and licenses festivals and events.",{"title":2376,"detail":2377,"page":2352,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2378},"Equity office","The platform says the City of Vancouver shut down its standalone Equity Office in September 2025, an office created to coordinate equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism and reconciliation work across city departments. The Greens would re-embed this work as core city policy.","Council decides how city departments are organized and funded in the city budget.",{"title":2380,"detail":2381,"page":2352,"authority":754,"authorityNote":2382},"Inclusive communities","The party would support city-led and community-based anti-racism work, cultural redress, reconciliation, education and partnerships that address discrimination, ableism (unfair treatment of people with disabilities) and ageism (unfair treatment based on age).","Council can fund city programs and community partners through the city budget.",{"title":2384,"detail":2385,"page":2357,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2386},"Social isolation","The Greens would invest in community-building programs, gathering spaces, recreation, arts and volunteer opportunities that bring people together and reduce social isolation.","Council funds arts and community programs, while community centres and recreation are run by the separately elected Park Board.",{"title":2388,"detail":2389,"page":2357,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2390},"Mental health","The party would advocate for more mental health services, support community wellness programs, and work more closely with health authorities, non-profits and community groups. The Greens also commit to completing means prevention on the Granville Bridge, meaning barriers to prevent suicide, as part of the bridge upgrades.","Health services are provincial, so the city can only ask for more, but the Granville Bridge barrier is a City of Vancouver project that Council can fund.",[2392,2395,2398,2401,2404,2407],{"question":2393,"answer":2394},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's wellbeing index?","The Green Party of Vancouver would bring in a wellbeing index to measure how residents are doing. The party says it would track housing, health, income, safety, social connection, environmental quality and life satisfaction alongside economic measures like GDP, to check whether city policies improve people's lives (platform, page 27).",{"question":2396,"answer":2397},"Would the Vancouver Greens bring back the city's Equity Office?","The Green Party of Vancouver says the city shut down its standalone Equity Office in September 2025. The party would re-embed the office's work on equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism and reconciliation as core city policy (platform, page 27).",{"question":2399,"answer":2400},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver propose for mental health?","The Green Party of Vancouver would advocate for more mental health services, support community wellness programs and work more closely with health authorities and non-profits. It also commits to completing barriers to prevent suicide on the Granville Bridge as part of the bridge upgrades (platform, page 28).",{"question":2402,"answer":2403},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support a suicide barrier on the Granville Bridge?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver commits to completing what it calls means prevention infrastructure, physical barriers that stop people from jumping, as part of the Granville Bridge upgrades (platform, page 28).",{"question":2405,"answer":2406},"How would the Vancouver Greens reduce loneliness and social isolation?","The Green Party of Vancouver would invest in community-building programs, gathering spaces, recreation, arts and volunteer opportunities that bring people together. The party says a healthier city is one where everyone feels connected and included (platform, page 28).",{"question":2408,"answer":2409},"Can Vancouver City Council expand mental health services on its own?","Health services are provincial, so Council's role is to ask the province for more. The Green Party of Vancouver's plan says the party would advocate for more services and work with health authorities, and the Granville Bridge barrier is the part the city controls (platform, page 28).","wellbeing","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsafety-and-wellbeing--wellbeing","The Green Party of Vancouver would bring in a wellbeing index to measure how residents are doing, re-establish the equity work of the Equity Office it says the city closed in September 2025, fund programs against social isolation, and complete barriers to prevent suicide on the Granville Bridge.","eieg0IAQM8UYNl3okyHpJEmldyoyfT71Y4KZvMh8NMg",{"id":2415,"title":2416,"checkedAt":402,"context":2417,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2418,"headline":2423,"issues":2424,"meta":2425,"order":733,"pages":2426,"paragraphs":2428,"party":354,"pillar":663,"proposals":2432,"questions":2551,"slug":2576,"source":13,"stem":2577,"summary":2578,"__hash__":2579},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--every-student-equipped-to-learn.json","Every Student Equipped to Learn",[],[2419],{"value":2420,"label":2421,"page":2422},"5 years","Length of the downward trend in literacy and numeracy proficiency that the party cites, particularly among grade 10 students",57,"Vancouver Greens on inclusive education, school food, mental health and student voice",[214],{},{"from":2422,"to":2427},60,[2429,2430,2431],"The Green Party of Vancouver starts this part of its school platform from the idea that learning depends on more than lessons. The party lists hunger, accessibility, mental health, safety, belonging and access to support as things that shape how well a student can learn. Its first commitment is to students with diverse learning needs: educational assistants and support staff based on need, better access to buildings and learning materials, and a new look at the decisions that reduced vice-principals, music teachers and librarians. The party also says it would address a five-year downward trend in literacy and numeracy results, with a focus on grade 10.","On food, the Greens would expand nutritious school food programs, ask the Province and the federal government for stable funding, and support school gardens and composting. On health, they would ask for more counsellors and school-based mental health staff, work with health authorities, and give help early, before a student is in crisis. The platform says the party would continue support for SOGI123 so that students of all sexual orientations and gender identities feel safe, and would support English language learners, settlement workers in schools and newcomer families.","The last two sections look ahead. The Greens would expand climate learning within the provincial curriculum, build links to trades apprenticeships and to jobs in clean energy, construction and electrification, and support early learning programs such as Strong Start as well as adult education. They would ask students, especially those from underrepresented communities, for input before major decisions. The Board of Education runs these programs in Vancouver schools, while the Province sets the funding formula, so several items take the form of requests to other governments.",[2433,2437,2441,2445,2449,2452,2455,2458,2461,2466,2470,2474,2478,2481,2484,2488,2492,2495,2498,2501,2506,2510,2514,2517,2521,2524,2528,2531,2535,2538,2542,2545,2548],{"title":2434,"detail":2435,"page":2422,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2436},"Support diverse learning needs and assess staff reductions","The Greens would give priority to adequate support for students with diverse learning needs. They would also assess the decisions that led to fewer vice-principals, music teachers and librarians.","The board decides how staff and programs are spread across its schools.",{"title":2438,"detail":2439,"page":2422,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2440},"Seek funding for inclusive education","The party would ask the Province for funding that reflects the real cost of inclusive education.","School funding is set by the Province, so the board can only ask for it.",{"title":2442,"detail":2443,"page":2422,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Address falling literacy and numeracy","The Greens would address what they call a five-year downward trend in literacy and numeracy proficiency across every student group, particularly among grade 10 students.","The board runs Vancouver public schools and sets its own policies, so it can act on this alone.",{"title":2446,"detail":2447,"page":2422,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2448},"Access to educational assistants based on need","The party would improve students' access to educational assistants and other support staff based on student need.","The board hires support staff and decides where they work.",{"title":2450,"detail":2451,"page":2422,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Improve accessibility of schools and materials","The Greens would make school buildings, programs, communications and learning materials more accessible.",{"title":2453,"detail":2454,"page":2422,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Identify gaps in participation","The party would find the gaps that keep students with accessibility or diverse learning needs from taking full part in school life.",{"title":2456,"detail":2457,"page":2422,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Consider accessibility earlier","The Greens would include accessibility earlier in decisions on buildings, programs and policies.",{"title":2459,"detail":2460,"page":2422,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Keep support steady between grades and schools","The party would work with families, students, educators and specialists so support continues as students move between grades and schools.",{"title":2462,"detail":2463,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2465},"Expand school food programs","The Greens would expand access to nutritious school food programs.",58,"The board runs food programs in its own schools.",{"title":2467,"detail":2468,"page":2464,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2469},"Seek stable school food funding","The party would ask the Province and the federal government for stable school food funding.","The money would come from the Province and the federal government, so the board can only ask.",{"title":2471,"detail":2472,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2473},"Expand food programs with partners","The Greens would work with community organizations and other partners to expand food programs and cooking lessons.","The board can make its own partnerships with community groups.",{"title":2475,"detail":2476,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2477},"Favour fresh and local food","The party would favour fresh, nutritious and locally produced food where practical and affordable.","The board decides what its own food programs buy.",{"title":2479,"detail":2480,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Reduce food waste","The Greens would reduce avoidable food waste through food recovery and composting.",{"title":2482,"detail":2483,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Food literacy and school gardens","The party would support school gardens and other hands-on ways for students to learn about food.",{"title":2485,"detail":2486,"page":2464,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2487},"Seek more school-based mental health resources","The Greens would ask for more school-based mental health resources, including counsellors and support staff, to give students and families clearer paths to help.","The platform frames this as advocacy, and health funding is provincial, so the board can only ask.",{"title":2489,"detail":2490,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2491},"Partner with health authorities and service providers","The party would strengthen partnerships with health authorities, community organizations and service providers.","The board can make partnerships, but health authorities are run by the Province.",{"title":2493,"detail":2494,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Support prevention and early help","The Greens would support prevention and early help so schools act before students reach a crisis.",{"title":2496,"detail":2497,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Expand equity and belonging programs","The party would expand programs on equity, anti-oppression, belonging, social connection and resilience.",{"title":2499,"detail":2500,"page":2464,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Continue support for SOGI123","The Greens would continue support for SOGI123 and make sure students of all sexual orientations and gender identities feel safe, supported and welcome in Vancouver schools.",{"title":2502,"detail":2503,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2505},"Carry out the Accessibility Act","The party would continue carrying out the Accessibility Act by supporting the district's Accessibility Plan and Accessibility Committee and acting on the feedback received.",59,"The board runs its own accessibility plan and committee.",{"title":2507,"detail":2508,"page":2504,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2509},"Support language learners and newcomer families","The Greens would advocate to all levels of government for English language learners, Multicultural Liaison workers, Settlement Workers in Schools (SWIS) and family support programs. They would make sure the district works together to support new immigrant and refugee families.","The platform frames this as advocacy to all levels of government, so the board can only ask them; how the district works with newcomer families is its own choice.",{"title":2511,"detail":2512,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2513},"Coordinate education, health and social supports","The party would improve coordination between education, health and social supports where responsibilities overlap.","The board can coordinate its own services, but health and social services belong to other governments.",{"title":2515,"detail":2516,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Safety policies that cover wellbeing","The Greens would make sure school safety policies reflect both physical safety and student wellbeing.",{"title":2518,"detail":2519,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2520},"Expand climate and sustainability learning","The party would expand climate and sustainability learning in line with provincial curriculum requirements.","The board chooses what its schools offer, within the provincial curriculum the platform refers to.",{"title":2522,"detail":2523,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Hands-on environmental learning","The Greens would support hands-on learning through school gardens, habitat restoration and other environmental projects.",{"title":2525,"detail":2526,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2527},"Expand skilled-trades programs","The party would partner with trades organizations and expand skilled-trades programs and links to apprenticeship programs.","The board chooses which programs and partnerships its schools offer.",{"title":2529,"detail":2530,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2527},"Build career pathways","The Greens would build stronger pathways into careers in clean energy, construction, electrification and other key sectors, and show students a wider range of career options.",{"title":2532,"detail":2533,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2534},"Partner for learning outside the classroom","The party would partner with post-secondary institutions, employers and community groups to expand learning by doing (the PDF says 'experiential learning'). It would encourage local education programs that meet the needs of Vancouver students.","The board can make its own partnerships with colleges, employers and community groups.",{"title":2536,"detail":2537,"page":2504,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Support learning from preschool to adult education","The Greens would work toward lifelong learning by supporting preschool programs such as Strong Start, Ready Set Learn and Welcome to Kindergarten, as well as adult education.",{"title":2539,"detail":2540,"page":2427,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Seek student input before major decisions","The party would seek student input, especially from underrepresented communities, before major decisions on school life, buildings or programs.","The board sets its own meeting rules, consultation and reporting, so it can do this itself.",{"title":2543,"detail":2544,"page":2427,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Let students speak directly to the Board","The Greens would give students more chances to speak directly to the Board on policies that affect them.",{"title":2546,"detail":2547,"page":2427,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Strengthen student leadership","The party would encourage schools to strengthen student leadership and democratic participation.",{"title":2549,"detail":2550,"page":2427,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Widen access to extracurricular activities","The Greens would widen fair access to extracurricular, leadership, arts, sports and enrichment activities.",[2552,2555,2558,2561,2564,2567,2570,2573],{"question":2553,"answer":2554},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver plan for students with special needs?","The Green Party of Vancouver would put adequate support for students with diverse learning needs first and give access to educational assistants and support staff based on student need. It would also ask the Province for funding that reflects the real cost of inclusive education (platform, page 57).",{"question":2556,"answer":2557},"What would the Vancouver Greens do about falling literacy and numeracy scores?","The Greens say they would address the five-year downward trend in literacy and numeracy proficiency across every student group, particularly among grade 10 students. In the same section the party says it would assess the decisions that led to fewer vice-principals, music teachers and librarians (platform, page 57).",{"question":2559,"answer":2560},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support school food programs?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would expand nutritious school food programs, favour fresh and locally produced food where practical and affordable, and ask the Province and the federal government for stable school food funding (platform, page 58).",{"question":2562,"answer":2563},"Do the Vancouver Greens support SOGI 123 in schools?","Yes. The Greens say they would continue support for SOGI123 and make sure students of all sexual orientations and gender identities feel safe, supported and welcome in Vancouver schools (platform, page 58).",{"question":2565,"answer":2566},"What would the Greens do for student mental health in Vancouver schools?","The Green Party of Vancouver would ask for more school-based mental health resources, including counsellors and support staff, and work with health authorities and community groups. It would support prevention and early help before students reach a crisis (platform, page 58).",{"question":2568,"answer":2569},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver add trades programs in high schools?","The Greens would partner with trades organizations, expand skilled-trades programs and links to apprenticeships, and build pathways into careers in clean energy, construction and electrification (platform, page 59).",{"question":2571,"answer":2572},"Can the Vancouver School Board pay for these student supports on its own?","Partly. The Board of Education approves the district budget and decides which programs its schools run, but the Province sets the funding formula. That is why the Green Party of Vancouver asks the Province, and for school food the federal government too, for stable funding (platform, pages 57 and 58).",{"question":2574,"answer":2575},"How would the Vancouver Greens give students a say in school decisions?","The Greens would seek student input, especially from underrepresented communities, before major decisions on school life, buildings or programs, and give students more chances to speak directly to the Board (platform, page 60).","every-student-equipped-to-learn","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--every-student-equipped-to-learn","The Green Party of Vancouver says its trustees would expand support for students with diverse learning needs, address a five-year fall in literacy and numeracy, grow school food programs, keep support for SOGI123, add trades and career pathways, and ask students for input before major decisions.","et8HkrWUedpy9OytP5llo3pc6kZHRMGws_VXRzcZHTU",{"id":2581,"title":2582,"checkedAt":402,"context":2583,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2584,"headline":2585,"issues":2586,"meta":2587,"order":914,"pages":2588,"paragraphs":2591,"party":354,"pillar":663,"proposals":2595,"questions":2721,"slug":2743,"source":13,"stem":2744,"summary":2745,"__hash__":2746},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--fully-funded-public-education.json","Fully Funded Public Education",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on school funding, budgets, school staff and school fees",[214],{},{"from":2589,"to":2590},53,56,[2592,2593,2594],"The Green Party of Vancouver opens its school board platform with money. The party says Vancouver schools cannot keep being asked to provide more services with less money, and that trustees should spend what they have with care while making the effects of provincial underfunding clear to the public. Its first commitments ask the Province for a stable, multi-year funding model that keeps pace with inflation and with the real cost of running schools in Vancouver. The Greens would also publish estimates of the gap between provincial funding and the cost of keeping existing services.","Inside the district, the party promises closer control of spending. It would keep independent audits, publish budgets in plain language, explain each program cut or expansion, and track whether large spending decisions produce the results trustees were promised. It also commits to a review of middle and upper management salaries at the school board, better forecasts for enrolment and staffing, and protection of targeted funding so the money reaches the students it was meant for. The platform says the board would avoid short-term savings that create larger costs in later years.","The last two parts deal with staff and with costs to families. The Greens would put teachers, educational assistants, counsellors and other staff who work with students first in budget decisions, plan staffing several years ahead, and keep a full on-call list so every classroom absence is covered. They would also review school fees and other costs that stop students from taking part, and look at equipment-lending programs and bursaries. The Board of Education approves the district budget, but the Province sets the funding formula and teacher pay, so many of these goals depend on provincial decisions.",[2596,2599,2603,2607,2611,2615,2619,2624,2627,2631,2635,2639,2642,2645,2649,2652,2655,2659,2662,2665,2668,2671,2675,2678,2682,2686,2690,2694,2698,2702,2706,2709,2712,2715,2718],{"title":2597,"detail":2598,"page":2589,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2440},"Advocate for a stable, multi-year funding model","The Greens would work with other school districts, education partners, unions, parents and community organizations to ask the Province for a stable, multi-year funding model. The party says the model should reflect inflation and the real cost of delivering public education in Vancouver.",{"title":2600,"detail":2601,"page":2589,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2602},"Publish the gap between funding and costs","The party would publish clear estimates of the difference between the funding the Province provides and the cost of keeping existing services.","The board controls its own budget reports, so it can publish these estimates itself.",{"title":2604,"detail":2605,"page":2589,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2606},"Seek stronger targeted funding","The Greens would ask for stronger targeted funding for inclusive education, student mental health, food programs and other areas where, the party says, student needs are increasing.","Targeted school funding comes from the Province, so the board can only ask for it.",{"title":2608,"detail":2609,"page":2589,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2610},"Show the impact of shortfalls during budget consultations","The party would make the impact of funding shortfalls clear to educators, parents and the public during budget consultations.","The board runs its own budget consultations, so it decides what they show.",{"title":2612,"detail":2613,"page":2589,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2614},"Request predictable capital funding","The Greens would ask the Province for predictable capital funding, the money for building work, so school upgrades and renewals can be planned over the long term instead of one project at a time.","The platform asks the Province for this money, so the board can only request it.",{"title":2616,"detail":2617,"page":2589,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2618},"Seek other sources of capital and operating money","Given limited provincial funding, the party would look for grants, partnerships, donations, use of district property (the PDF says 'activating capital assets') and other extra funding. It says it would do so only where these strengthen public education without compromising universal access or public accountability.","The board can apply for grants and make partnerships itself, within the powers the School Act gives it.",{"title":2620,"detail":2621,"page":2622,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2623},"Advocate on Ministry Area Standards","The Greens would keep pressing on Ministry Area Standards so that new schools are funded for enough space to give an excellent learning environment. The party also wants new schools designed to be climate-resilient as the climate crisis worsens.",54,"The standards belong to the provincial Ministry, so the board can only ask for changes.",{"title":2625,"detail":2626,"page":2622,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2440},"Increase funding for students with diverse learning needs","The party would ask for more funding for students with diverse learning needs. It calls the current Ministry allocation, which the VSB tops up, inadequate.",{"title":2628,"detail":2629,"page":2622,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2630},"Fund Living Wage commitments","The Greens would seek a provincial commitment to fund Living Wage commitments for all BC school district employees and contracts.","The platform asks the Province to pay for this, so the board can only ask.",{"title":2632,"detail":2633,"page":2622,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2634},"Keep strong financial oversight and independent audits","The party would maintain strong financial oversight and independent auditing of the district's finances.","The board oversees its own finances, so it can do this itself.",{"title":2636,"detail":2637,"page":2622,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Make audited financial information easier to understand","The Greens would present audited financial information in a way the public can understand more easily.","The Board of Education approves the district budget, so it can do this itself.",{"title":2640,"detail":2641,"page":2622,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Track major initiatives and plan for school property","The party would track major initiatives against clear objectives and strengthen long-term planning for the district's buildings and other property (the PDF calls this asset-management planning).",{"title":2643,"detail":2644,"page":2622,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Use evidence to review programs","The Greens would use evidence to identify programs that should be expanded, improved or reconsidered.",{"title":2646,"detail":2647,"page":2622,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2648},"Protect public school property","The party would protect public school property for long-term educational and community benefit.","The board holds its own school sites and decides how they are used.",{"title":2650,"detail":2651,"page":2622,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Report results after announcements","The Greens would improve reporting on implementation so that announcements are followed by measurable results.",{"title":2653,"detail":2654,"page":2622,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Review Board policies regularly","The party would regularly review Board policies for relevance, effectiveness and accessibility.",{"title":2656,"detail":2657,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Put student learning first and protect targeted funding","The Greens would put student learning and the supports that reach students directly (the PDF says 'frontline supports') at the centre of budget decisions. They would protect targeted funding for the students and services it is meant to support.",55,{"title":2660,"detail":2661,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Publish budgets in plain language","The party would publish budgets in clear, accessible language so families can see where education dollars go. It would give clear explanations when programs are expanded, reduced or changed.",{"title":2663,"detail":2664,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Review management salaries and improve forecasting","The Greens would conduct a review of middle and upper management salaries at the school board. They would also improve long-term forecasts for enrolment, staffing, facilities and other major cost pressures.",{"title":2666,"detail":2667,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Track the results of major spending","The party would track whether major spending decisions produce the outcomes trustees were told to expect.",{"title":2669,"detail":2670,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Avoid short-term financial decisions","The Greens would avoid short-term financial decisions that create larger costs or service gaps in future years.",{"title":2672,"detail":2673,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2674},"Prioritize staff who work with students","The party would put teachers, educational assistants, counsellors, support workers and other staff who work directly with students first when making budget decisions.","The board decides how its budget is split between jobs, while the Province sets teacher pay.",{"title":2676,"detail":2677,"page":2658,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2440},"Seek funding for adequate staffing","The Greens would ask the Province for funding that reflects the actual cost of adequate staffing.",{"title":2679,"detail":2680,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2681},"Develop multi-year staffing plans","The party would develop multi-year staffing plans to prepare for enrolment changes, retirements and hard-to-fill positions.","The board plans its own staffing, so it can do this itself.",{"title":2683,"detail":2684,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2685},"Strengthen recruitment partnerships","The Greens would strengthen hiring partnerships with universities, colleges and training institutions.","The board can make its own partnerships with schools that train staff.",{"title":2687,"detail":2688,"page":2658,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2689},"Offer professional development and career paths","The party would give educators a range of professional development, mentorship and career paths that help keep experienced staff and attract new staff.","The board runs its own staff training and mentoring, so it can do this itself.",{"title":2691,"detail":2692,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2693},"Keep a full on-call list","The Greens would keep a strong on-call list of teachers and support staff so that every classroom absence is fully covered.","The board manages its own on-call lists, so it can do this itself.",{"title":2695,"detail":2696,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2697},"Work regularly with employee groups","The party would work regularly with employee groups to find hiring, retention, workload and workplace-safety problems before they become crises.","The board can set up its own regular meetings with employee groups.",{"title":2699,"detail":2700,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2701},"Expand practicum and student-teacher partnerships","The Greens would look at more practicum placements, where student teachers train in schools, and other student-teacher partnerships that help build the next generation of educators.","The board decides whether its schools host student teachers.",{"title":2703,"detail":2704,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2705},"Review school fees and costs","The party would review school-related fees and costs to find barriers that stop students from taking full part in school.","School fees are set within the district, so the board can review them itself.",{"title":2707,"detail":2708,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Strengthen financial-hardship policies","The Greens would make financial-hardship policies better known and easier to use.",{"title":2710,"detail":2711,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Keep required learning materials free","The party would protect access to required learning materials without extra cost to families.",{"title":2713,"detail":2714,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Explore equipment-lending programs","The Greens would explore wider programs that lend students the equipment they need to take part in school activities.",{"title":2716,"detail":2717,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Support bursaries","The party would support bursaries and other financial help for students.",{"title":2719,"detail":2720,"page":2590,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Open activities to every household income","The Greens would work to make curricular, arts, trades and enrichment activities open to students whatever their household income.",[2722,2725,2728,2731,2734,2737,2740],{"question":2723,"answer":2724},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver propose for school funding in Vancouver?","The Green Party of Vancouver says its trustees would join other school districts, unions, parents and community groups to ask the Province for a stable, multi-year funding model that reflects inflation and the real cost of education in Vancouver. The party would also publish estimates of the gap between provincial funding and the cost of keeping existing services (platform, page 53).",{"question":2726,"answer":2727},"Can the Vancouver School Board raise its own money if the Greens win?","School funding is set by the Province, so the board can mainly ask for more. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would also seek grants, partnerships, donations, use of district property and other extra funding, where this does not compromise universal access or public accountability (platform, page 53).",{"question":2729,"answer":2730},"Would the Vancouver Greens cut school board management salaries?","The Green Party of Vancouver commits to a review of middle and upper management salaries at the school board. The platform names the review as the step and gives no target figure. The same section promises budgets in clear language, with explanations when programs are expanded, reduced or changed (platform, page 55).",{"question":2732,"answer":2733},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about teacher shortages and on-call teachers?","The Greens would build multi-year staffing plans for enrolment changes, retirements and hard-to-fill jobs, and strengthen hiring partnerships with universities, colleges and training schools. They would also keep a full on-call list of teachers and support staff so that every classroom absence is covered (platform, pages 55 and 56).",{"question":2735,"answer":2736},"Do the Vancouver Greens want to reduce school fees?","The Green Party of Vancouver would review school-related fees and costs that prevent students from taking full part in school, and keep required learning materials free of extra cost to families. It would also explore equipment-lending programs and support bursaries, so arts, trades and enrichment activities are open to students whatever their household income (platform, page 56).",{"question":2738,"answer":2739},"What do the Greens say about funding for students with diverse learning needs in Vancouver?","The Green Party of Vancouver calls the current Ministry allocation for students with diverse learning needs inadequate and says the VSB tops it up from its own budget. The party would ask the Province for more funding for these students (platform, page 54).",{"question":2741,"answer":2742},"Who would pay for a living wage for Vancouver school district workers under the Green plan?","The Green Party of Vancouver would ask the Province to commit to funding Living Wage commitments for all BC school district employees and contracts. The Province sets school funding, so the board can only make the request (platform, page 54).","fully-funded-public-education","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--fully-funded-public-education","The Green Party of Vancouver says its trustees would press the Province for stable, multi-year school funding that reflects inflation, publish the gap between funding and the cost of current services, review school board management salaries, put classroom staff first in budgets, and review fees that keep students out.","320ASLIP3Tz-csLk3mqzMty0mXiIyeCz0p77Cft8K2U",{"id":2748,"title":2749,"checkedAt":402,"context":2750,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2755,"headline":2760,"issues":2761,"meta":2762,"order":1344,"pages":2763,"paragraphs":2766,"party":354,"pillar":663,"proposals":2770,"questions":2863,"slug":2885,"source":13,"stem":2886,"summary":2887,"__hash__":2888},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--good-governance-relationships-and-reconciliation.json","Good Governance, Relationships and Reconciliation",[2751],{"label":2752,"url":2753,"publisher":2754,"checkedAt":402},"Framework for Enhancing Student Learning","https:\u002F\u002Fwww2.gov.bc.ca\u002Fgov\u002Fcontent\u002Feducation-training\u002Fk-12\u002Fadministration\u002Flegislation-policy\u002Fpublic-schools\u002Fframework","Province of British Columbia",[2756],{"value":2757,"label":2758,"page":2759},"~49%","Five-year Indigenous graduation rate in VSB's FESL data, as the party states it (the PDF marks the figure as approximate)",68,"Vancouver Greens on open school board decisions, reconciliation and staff relations",[214,1472],{},{"from":2764,"to":2765},67,69,[2767,2768,2769],"The Green Party of Vancouver's last school board chapter is about how trustees make decisions. The party says trustees answer for how a decision is made as well as for the decision itself. It would make public meetings easier to follow, publish major reports early enough for the public to review them, give plain-language summaries of major decisions, and explain the reasons for large policy and budget choices. The Greens would also publish performance indicators, measures that show progress on each major priority, and give more information on matters discussed in closed meetings where privacy law allows.","On reconciliation, the Greens would build ongoing relationships with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations and work closely with the Indigenous Education Council, which the platform says has legal duties of its own. The party points to the district's FESL data, the yearly report on student results that the Province requires of every school district, and says the five-year Indigenous graduation rate is falling and now sits below the provincial average. The platform gives that rate as ~49%. The Greens would report reconciliation actions publicly as measurable steps.","The final sections cover consultation and staff. The Greens would respect the role of Parent Advisory Councils and the District Parent Advisory Council, explain how public input changed each final decision, and offer ways to take part beyond evening meetings. With employee groups, they would hold regular talks with trustees, respect collective bargaining and existing agreements, and plan the workforce over longer periods. The Board of Education sets its own meeting rules, consultation and reporting, so most of this chapter is within the board's own power.",[2771,2774,2777,2780,2783,2786,2789,2793,2796,2800,2804,2807,2811,2815,2818,2821,2824,2827,2830,2833,2837,2840,2843,2847,2850,2854,2857,2860],{"title":2772,"detail":2773,"page":2764,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Make public meetings easier to follow","The Greens would make public meetings accessible and easier to follow.",{"title":2775,"detail":2776,"page":2764,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Publish major reports early","The party would publish major reports and recommendations early enough for real public review wherever possible.",{"title":2778,"detail":2779,"page":2764,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Plain-language summaries of decisions","The Greens would provide plain-language summaries of major decisions.",{"title":2781,"detail":2782,"page":2764,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Explain major policy and budget choices","The party would clearly explain the reasons for major policy and budget choices.",{"title":2784,"detail":2785,"page":2764,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Report on implementation after approval","The Greens would improve public reporting on how major initiatives are carried out after the Board approves them.",{"title":2787,"detail":2788,"page":2764,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Publish performance indicators","The party would publish easy-to-find performance indicators, measures that track progress and corrective actions on major Board priorities.",{"title":2790,"detail":2791,"page":2764,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2792},"More openness on closed meetings","The Greens would give more information on matters discussed in closed meetings while respecting legal privacy and confidentiality rules.","The board sets its own reporting, within the privacy and confidentiality rules that apply to it.",{"title":2794,"detail":2795,"page":2764,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Make public participation easier","The party would make it easier for the public to understand how and when they can take part, and add more meaningful ways to take part.",{"title":2797,"detail":2798,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2799},"Build relationships with the three Nations","The Greens would build respectful, ongoing relationships with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.","The board can build its own relationships with the Nations.",{"title":2801,"detail":2802,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2803},"Work with the Indigenous Education Council","The party would work closely with the Indigenous Education Council and respect its statutory responsibilities, the duties the law gives it.","The platform says the council holds legal duties of its own, which the board must respect.",{"title":2805,"detail":2806,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Improve outcomes for Indigenous students","The Greens would support better educational results for Indigenous students. The party says VSB's FESL data show a declining five-year Indigenous graduation rate (~49%), now below the provincial average and moving away from improving trends in other BC districts.",{"title":2808,"detail":2809,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2810},"Include Indigenous worldviews in learning","The party would strengthen the place of Indigenous worldviews, histories and perspectives in learning, in line with the provincial curriculum and local partnerships.","The board shapes learning in its schools, within the provincial curriculum the platform refers to.",{"title":2812,"detail":2813,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2814},"Review purchasing to support Indigenous businesses","The Greens would review purchasing and partnership opportunities that can support Indigenous businesses and organizations as appropriate.","The board decides its own purchasing and partnerships.",{"title":2816,"detail":2817,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Report reconciliation actions publicly","The party would make sure reconciliation commitments are reflected in measurable actions and reported publicly.",{"title":2819,"detail":2820,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Treat reconciliation as ongoing work","The Greens say they would recognize reconciliation as an ongoing responsibility of the institution.",{"title":2822,"detail":2823,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Consult students before major decisions","The party would strengthen consultation with students before major decisions on their education or school experience.",{"title":2825,"detail":2826,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Improve engagement with parents and caregivers","The Greens would improve engagement with parents and caregivers.",{"title":2828,"detail":2829,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Strengthen Parent Advisory Councils","The party would respect and strengthen the role of Parent Advisory Councils and the District Parent Advisory Council.",{"title":2831,"detail":2832,"page":2759,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Give employee groups a regular way to raise issues","The Greens would create predictable chances for employee groups to raise system-wide problems with trustees.",{"title":2834,"detail":2835,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2836},"Engage earlier before catchment and school changes","The party would engage the public earlier before major catchment changes (the boundaries that decide which school a child attends), program changes or school changes.","The board sets catchment boundaries and its own consultation rules, so it can do this itself.",{"title":2838,"detail":2839,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Explain how input shaped decisions","The Greens would explain how public and stakeholder input influenced each final decision.",{"title":2841,"detail":2842,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Offer ways to take part beyond evening meetings","The party would use new and varied forms of engagement so people who cannot attend evening meetings can still take part.",{"title":2844,"detail":2845,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2846},"Hold regular dialogue with employee representatives","The Greens would set up regular, predictable dialogue between trustees and employee representatives.","The board can set up its own meetings with employee groups.",{"title":2848,"detail":2849,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2846},"Listen earlier to staff problems","The party would listen earlier when staffing, workload, safety or implementation problems appear.",{"title":2851,"detail":2852,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2853},"Respect collective bargaining and agreements","The Greens would respect collective bargaining processes and existing agreements.","The board is bound by the agreements already in place, and teacher pay is set by the Province.",{"title":2855,"detail":2856,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Encourage joint working groups","The party would encourage joint working groups where district-wide operating problems can be worked through together.",{"title":2858,"detail":2859,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Report on workforce trends","The Greens would report more openly on workforce trends that are not confidential, such as vacancies, hiring and retention.",{"title":2861,"detail":2862,"page":2765,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2681},"Plan the workforce for the longer term","The party would develop longer-term workforce planning in place of repeated short-term fixes.",[2864,2867,2870,2873,2876,2879,2882],{"question":2865,"answer":2866},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver make school board decisions more open?","The Green Party of Vancouver would publish major reports early enough for public review, provide plain-language summaries of major decisions, and publish performance indicators that track progress on major priorities. It would also give more information on closed-meeting matters while respecting legal privacy rules (platform, page 67).",{"question":2868,"answer":2869},"What is the Vancouver Greens' plan for reconciliation in schools?","The Greens would build ongoing relationships with the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, work closely with the Indigenous Education Council, and report reconciliation commitments publicly as measurable actions (platform, page 68).",{"question":2871,"answer":2872},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver say about the Indigenous graduation rate at the VSB?","The Green Party of Vancouver says VSB's FESL data show a declining five-year Indigenous graduation rate, which it gives as ~49%, now below the provincial average. FESL is the Province's Framework for Enhancing Student Learning, under which every school district reports on student results each year (platform, page 68).",{"question":2874,"answer":2875},"Would the Vancouver Greens consult parents before changing school catchments or programs?","The Greens would engage the public earlier before major catchment, program or school changes and explain how that input shaped the final decision. They would also use new forms of engagement so people who cannot attend evening meetings can take part (platform, page 69).",{"question":2877,"answer":2878},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver work with teachers' unions and school staff?","The Green Party of Vancouver would set up regular dialogue between trustees and employee representatives, respect collective bargaining processes and existing agreements, and encourage joint working groups on district-wide problems. It would also plan the workforce over the longer term (platform, page 69).",{"question":2880,"answer":2881},"Can the Vancouver School Board make these governance changes without the Province?","For most of them, yes. The Board of Education sets its own meeting rules, consultation and reporting, so the Green Party of Vancouver's commitments on open meetings, plain-language summaries and public input are within its power. The School Act, which only the Province can change, sets the board's powers (platform, pages 67 to 69).",{"question":2883,"answer":2884},"Do the Vancouver Greens support Parent Advisory Councils?","Yes. The Greens would respect and strengthen the role of Parent Advisory Councils and the District Parent Advisory Council, and improve engagement with parents and caregivers (platform, page 68).","good-governance-relationships-and-reconciliation","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--good-governance-relationships-and-reconciliation","The Green Party of Vancouver would publish plain-language summaries and progress measures for major school board decisions, build relationships with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, work closely with the Indigenous Education Council, and hold regular talks between trustees and employee groups.","PUEPEXNNHcg6rSj5Vuii9O2Yhm6vz5Hj5zfKpev1-UQ",{"id":2890,"title":2891,"checkedAt":402,"context":2892,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":2893,"headline":2907,"issues":2908,"meta":2909,"order":784,"pages":2910,"paragraphs":2912,"party":354,"pillar":663,"proposals":2916,"questions":2992,"slug":3014,"source":13,"stem":3015,"summary":3016,"__hash__":3017},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--safe-healthy-and-climate-resilient-schools.json","Safe, Healthy and Climate Resilient Schools",[],[2894,2898,2901,2904],{"value":2895,"label":2896,"page":2897},"43","VSB buildings the party says remain seismically high-risk",61,{"value":2899,"label":2900,"page":2897},"106","Total VSB buildings the party counts in its seismic figure",{"value":2902,"label":2903,"page":2897},"$1.63 billion","Estimated cost the party gives for the seismically high-risk VSB buildings",{"value":2905,"label":2906,"page":2897},"166%","Capacity the party says King George Secondary is at","Vancouver Greens on seismic upgrades, school heat and smoke, and AI chatbots",[214,257],{},{"from":2897,"to":2911},63,[2913,2914,2915],"The Green Party of Vancouver's plan for school buildings puts earthquake safety first. The party says 43 of the Vancouver School Board's 106 buildings are still at high seismic risk and puts the cost at an estimated $1.63 billion. It would keep seismic work at the top of the board's capital priorities, the list of large building projects, and ask the Province to approve and fund the projects still waiting. The Greens also name two crowded schools to put first in capital planning: King George Secondary, which the party says is at 166% of capacity, and Carr Elementary, which it says is over capacity and uses portables.","The second section prepares schools for a hotter climate. The Greens would plan for extreme heat, wildfire smoke, flooding and power outages, seek provincial money for heat pumps and better ventilation during renewals, and send limited retrofit money first to the schools most at risk from heat. They would map which key schools have shade and use that list to decide where to plant trees. With the Park Board, they would try Miyawaki pilots, a way of planting forest that the platform says speeds up forest growth.","The third section covers student safety. The party would request a pause on AI chatbots in schools while students, parents and educators are consulted and policies are reviewed, including ethics and effects on thinking. It would review the Supporting and Connecting Youth (SACY) prevention program and evaluate any police or school liaison partnership using evidence and community input. The board ranks its own building needs and sets school policy, and the platform itself says seismic projects need provincial approval and funding.",[2917,2921,2925,2929,2932,2935,2939,2943,2947,2951,2955,2958,2961,2964,2968,2972,2976,2979,2982,2985,2988],{"title":2918,"detail":2919,"page":2897,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2920},"Keep seismic safety at the top of capital priorities","The Greens would keep seismic safety at the top of Vancouver's school capital priorities, the list of large building projects. The party says 43 of 106 VSB buildings remain seismically high-risk, at an estimated $1.63 billion.","The board sets its own list of building priorities.",{"title":2922,"detail":2923,"page":2897,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2924},"Seek provincial approval and funding for seismic projects","The party would ask the Province to approve and fund outstanding seismic projects.","The platform says these projects need provincial approval and funding, so the board can only ask.",{"title":2926,"detail":2927,"page":2897,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2928},"Deliver accessibility improvements with renewals","The Greens would make sure accessibility improvements are delivered alongside major school renewals.","The board plans its own renewal projects.",{"title":2930,"detail":2931,"page":2897,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Prioritize preventive maintenance","The party would give priority to maintenance that stops small building problems from becoming costly failures.",{"title":2933,"detail":2934,"page":2897,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Report on the condition of school buildings","The Greens would improve long-term public reporting on the condition of school buildings.",{"title":2936,"detail":2937,"page":2897,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2938},"Plan for growth, starting with King George and Carr","The party would match capital planning to expected neighbourhood growth and enrolment changes. It would put King George Secondary, which it says is at 166% capacity, and Carr Elementary, which it says is over capacity and using portables, first.","The board sets its own capital plan, while the platform looks to the Province for the money.",{"title":2940,"detail":2941,"page":2897,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2942},"Match neighbourhood growth with school space","The Greens would work with the City and the Province so that new neighbourhood growth comes with enough school space.","The City approves new housing and the platform looks to the Province for school building money, so the board can only work with both.",{"title":2944,"detail":2945,"page":2946,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Prepare schools for heat, smoke, floods and outages","The party would prepare schools for extreme heat, wildfire smoke, flooding, power outages and other risks.",62,{"title":2948,"detail":2949,"page":2946,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2950},"Reduce energy use and emissions","The Greens would reduce energy use and emissions from VSB buildings where technically and financially feasible.","The board runs its own buildings, within the money it has.",{"title":2952,"detail":2953,"page":2946,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2954},"Add natural areas and shade to school grounds","The party would add natural areas, water retention, shade and biodiversity to school-ground planning.","The board plans its own school grounds.",{"title":2956,"detail":2957,"page":2946,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Consider climate risk in capital decisions","The Greens would weigh climate risk in long-term capital and maintenance decisions.",{"title":2959,"detail":2960,"page":2946,"authority":966,"authorityNote":2614},"Seek provincial funding for heat pumps and ventilation","The party would pursue dedicated provincial capital funding for climate adaptation and energy-efficiency upgrades, including heat pumps and ventilation during building renewals.",{"title":2962,"detail":2963,"page":2946,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2638},"Retrofit the most vulnerable schools first","The Greens would give limited retrofit money first to the most vulnerable schools, including those most at risk from extreme heat that need cooling and better air quality.",{"title":2965,"detail":2966,"page":2946,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2967},"Shade inventory, tree planting and Miyawaki pilots","The party would create a shade inventory for key schools and use it to decide where to plant trees first. It would develop Miyawaki pilots with the Park Board, which the platform says would speed up forest growth.","The board controls its school grounds, and the Miyawaki pilots need the Park Board as a partner.",{"title":2969,"detail":2970,"page":2946,"authority":744,"authorityNote":2971},"Ensure emergency planning with partners","The Greens would make sure enough emergency planning is in place by the City of Vancouver, health authorities, nearby community facilities and other partners.","The City and health authorities make their own emergency plans, so the board can only work with them.",{"title":2973,"detail":2974,"page":2911,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2975},"Request a pause on AI chatbots","The party would request a pause on the use of AI chatbots in schools so students, parents and educators can be properly consulted. It would carry out a full review of policy and procedures, including ethics and effects on thinking and learning (the PDF says 'cognitive impacts').","The board sets policy for its own schools, including which tools they use.",{"title":2977,"detail":2978,"page":2911,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Strengthen prevention and early intervention","The Greens would strengthen evidence-based prevention and early-help programs so that students feel safe asking for help before problems grow.",{"title":2980,"detail":2981,"page":2911,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Support programs on substance use","The party would support and evaluate programs that address substance use and other risks young people face.",{"title":2983,"detail":2984,"page":2911,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Strengthen the SACY program","The Greens would review ways to strengthen the Supporting and Connecting Youth (SACY) program and similar prevention work.",{"title":2986,"detail":2987,"page":2911,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Safety procedures that respect diverse communities","The party would maintain clear safety approaches and emergency procedures and make sure they respect the needs and experiences of students from diverse communities.",{"title":2989,"detail":2990,"page":2911,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2991},"Evaluate school liaison and police partnerships","The Greens would evaluate the role and structure of any school liaison or police partnership based on student safety, evidence, community input and the Board's educational mandate.","The board sets policy for its own schools, including outside partnerships.",[2993,2996,2999,3002,3005,3008,3011],{"question":2994,"answer":2995},"How many Vancouver school buildings are at high seismic risk, according to the Green Party of Vancouver?","The Green Party of Vancouver says 43 of 106 VSB buildings remain at high seismic risk and puts the estimated cost at $1.63 billion. The party would keep seismic safety at the top of capital priorities and ask the Province to approve and fund outstanding projects (platform, page 61).",{"question":2997,"answer":2998},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to stop AI chatbots in schools?","The Green Party of Vancouver would request a pause on AI chatbots in schools. The Greens say the pause would allow consultation with students, parents and educators and a full review of policy and procedures, including ethics and effects on learning (platform, page 63).",{"question":3000,"answer":3001},"What would the Vancouver Greens do about overcrowding at King George Secondary?","The Greens would put King George Secondary first in capital planning, saying it is at 166% capacity, along with Carr Elementary, which the party says is over capacity and using portables. They would work with the City and Province so new neighbourhood growth comes with enough school space (platform, page 61).",{"question":3003,"answer":3004},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver protect students from extreme heat and wildfire smoke?","The Green Party of Vancouver would prepare every school for extreme heat, wildfire smoke, flooding and power outages, seek provincial money for heat pumps and ventilation during renewals, and give limited retrofit money first to the schools most at risk from heat (platform, page 62).",{"question":3006,"answer":3007},"Where do the Vancouver Greens stand on police liaison officers in schools?","The Greens would evaluate the role and structure of any school liaison or police partnership based on student safety, evidence, community input and the Board's educational mandate. The platform commits to that evaluation and names those four tests (platform, page 63).",{"question":3009,"answer":3010},"Who pays for seismic upgrades to Vancouver schools under the Green plan?","The Green Party of Vancouver says outstanding seismic projects need provincial approval and funding, and it would ask the Province for both. The board's part is to keep seismic safety at the top of its capital priorities (platform, page 61).",{"question":3012,"answer":3013},"What are the Greens' Miyawaki forest pilots for Vancouver schools?","The Green Party of Vancouver would develop Miyawaki pilots with the Park Board, which the platform says would speed up forest growth. The party would also create a shade inventory for key schools and use it to decide where to plant trees (platform, page 62).","safe-healthy-and-climate-resilient-schools","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--safe-healthy-and-climate-resilient-schools","The Green Party of Vancouver would keep seismic safety at the top of school building priorities, citing 43 of 106 VSB buildings still at high risk, prepare every school for extreme heat and wildfire smoke, and request a pause on AI chatbots in schools for a full review.","QTrqpeHXLVRLYd-pB771mImO7MELRmnxAkEXt7KQfhY",{"id":3019,"title":3020,"checkedAt":402,"context":3021,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":3022,"headline":3023,"issues":3024,"meta":3025,"order":843,"pages":3026,"paragraphs":3029,"party":354,"pillar":663,"proposals":3033,"questions":3117,"slug":3136,"source":13,"stem":3137,"summary":3138,"__hash__":3139},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--schools-at-the-centre-of-community.json","Schools at the Centre of Community",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on child care in schools, shared school spaces and safe routes",[214,297,164],{},{"from":3027,"to":3028},64,66,[3030,3031,3032],"The Green Party of Vancouver calls public school buildings some of the most important public assets in the city, and wants them used more before and after the school day where this does not get in the way of teaching. Its first priority is child care. The party would expand licensed child care on school property, find the schools with room for more spaces, and work with governments and licensed providers to add before-school and after-school care. It would also build child care into plans for renewed and new schools and remove unnecessary barriers for community providers who want to use suitable school rooms.","The second theme is shared space. The Greens would open more gyms, fields, libraries, kitchens and other rooms to community use outside class hours, review what stops community groups from getting access, and explore joint-use agreements, meaning formal deals to share buildings and land, with the City and the Park Board. The party says student learning, safety and school operations would come first whenever space is shared. It would also build ties with neighbourhood houses, arts groups, recreation providers, post-secondary schools and employers, and invite City Council to meet with the school board on common issues.","Safe routes to school depend on the city. The Greens would work with City Council and the Park Board on better walking, rolling and cycling routes to schools, ask for street changes that slow traffic near schools, and improve bike and mobility-device parking on school sites. Council owns and designs the streets, sidewalks and crossings, so the board can only ask for those changes. Child care licensing and operating money come from the Province, while the board decides how its own buildings are used.",[3034,3038,3042,3046,3050,3054,3058,3063,3067,3070,3074,3077,3080,3084,3088,3092,3096,3099,3103,3106,3110,3113],{"title":3035,"detail":3036,"page":3027,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3037},"Expand licensed child care on school property","The Greens would expand opportunities for licensed child care on school property.","The board decides how its buildings and land are used, while the Province licenses child care.",{"title":3039,"detail":3040,"page":3027,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3041},"Find sites for more child care","The party would identify schools and sites that can hold more child care.","The board decides how its buildings and land are used.",{"title":3043,"detail":3044,"page":3027,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3045},"Increase before-school and after-school care","The Greens would work with governments and licensed providers to increase before-school and after-school care.","The Province licenses child care and provides subsidies and operating funding, so the board needs other governments and providers.",{"title":3047,"detail":3048,"page":3027,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3049},"Plan child care into school renewals","The party would include child care in major school-renewal and new-school plans.","The board plans its own renewals and new schools.",{"title":3051,"detail":3052,"page":3027,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3053},"Reduce barriers for child care providers","The Greens would reduce unnecessary barriers for community child care providers who want to use suitable school spaces.","The board sets the rules for use of its own spaces.",{"title":3055,"detail":3056,"page":3027,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3057},"Match child care growth with neighbourhood needs","The party would coordinate with the City, the Province and community partners so child care growth matches neighbourhood needs.","The city creates child care spaces through zoning and its own buildings, and the Province licenses and funds them, so the board can only coordinate.",{"title":3059,"detail":3060,"page":3061,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3062},"Open school spaces outside class hours","The Greens would expand suitable community use of gyms, fields, libraries, kitchens and other school spaces outside class hours.",65,"The board controls access to its own buildings and fields.",{"title":3064,"detail":3065,"page":3061,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3066},"Review barriers to community access","The party would review the barriers that stop community organizations from using suitable school buildings.","The board sets the rules for use of its own buildings.",{"title":3068,"detail":3069,"page":3061,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2473},"Partner with neighbourhood houses and nonprofits","The Greens would build stronger partnerships with neighbourhood houses, arts organizations, recreation providers and nonprofits.",{"title":3071,"detail":3072,"page":3061,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3073},"Explore joint-use agreements","The party would explore joint-use agreements, formal deals to share buildings and land, with the City, the Park Board and other public bodies.","A joint-use agreement needs the City, the Park Board or another public body to agree as well.",{"title":3075,"detail":3076,"page":3061,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2541},"Publish which school spaces are available","The Greens would improve public information on which school buildings are available for community use.",{"title":3078,"detail":3079,"page":3061,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Put students first when sharing space","The party would keep student learning, safety and school operations as the first priority when sharing buildings.",{"title":3081,"detail":3082,"page":3061,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3083},"Improve walking, rolling and cycling routes","The Greens would work with Vancouver City Council and the Park Board to improve walking, rolling and cycling connections to schools and support school travel planning.","The city owns and designs its streets, sidewalks and bike routes, so the board can only work with Council.",{"title":3085,"detail":3086,"page":3061,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3087},"Advocate for traffic calming near schools","The party would ask for traffic-calming measures, street changes that slow cars, around schools where warranted.","The city owns and designs its streets, so the board can only ask Council to act.",{"title":3089,"detail":3090,"page":3061,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3091},"Improve bike and mobility-device parking","The Greens would improve secure bicycle and mobility-device parking on school sites where feasible.","Parking on school sites is the board's own decision.",{"title":3093,"detail":3094,"page":3061,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3095},"Coordinate with the City's transportation network","The party would coordinate school-site changes with the City's transportation network to fix dangerous intersections, missing sidewalks, unsafe crossings and gaps in cycling routes that affect students.","The city owns and designs its streets, sidewalks and crossings, so the board can only ask Council to fix them.",{"title":3097,"detail":3098,"page":3028,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2473},"Build ties with community organizations","The Greens would build stronger relationships with neighbourhood houses, nonprofits, community centres and cultural organizations.",{"title":3100,"detail":3101,"page":3028,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3102},"Expand post-secondary and employer partnerships","The party would expand partnerships with post-secondary institutions and employers.","The board can make its own partnerships with colleges and employers.",{"title":3104,"detail":3105,"page":3028,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2473},"Work with arts and recreation groups","The Greens would work with arts and recreation organizations to give students more opportunities.",{"title":3107,"detail":3108,"page":3028,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3109},"Connect schools with health and social services","The party would strengthen connections between schools and community health and social services.","The board can link its schools to these services, but health and social services belong to other governments.",{"title":3111,"detail":3112,"page":3028,"authority":663,"authorityNote":2444},"Make it easier for community partners to help","The Greens would make it easier for suitable community partners to help with student learning and wellbeing.",{"title":3114,"detail":3115,"page":3028,"authority":663,"authorityNote":3116},"Coordinate with City Council and the Park Board","The party would coordinate more closely with elected City Council and Park Board members on issues that cross their areas of responsibility. It would invite City Council to meet with the school board on common issues.","The board can invite Council to meet, but it cannot direct the City or the Park Board.",[3118,3121,3124,3127,3130,3133],{"question":3119,"answer":3120},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want more child care in schools?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would expand licensed child care on school property, identify schools with room for more spaces, and include child care in plans for renewed and new schools. It would also work with governments and licensed providers to increase before-school and after-school care (platform, page 64).",{"question":3122,"answer":3123},"Would the Vancouver Greens let community groups use school gyms and fields?","The Greens would expand suitable community use of gyms, fields, libraries, kitchens and other school spaces outside class hours and review the barriers that keep community groups out. They say student learning, safety and school operations would stay the first priority (platform, page 65).",{"question":3125,"answer":3126},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about traffic safety near schools?","The Green Party of Vancouver would work with City Council and the Park Board to improve walking, rolling and cycling routes to schools and ask for traffic calming near schools where warranted. It would also coordinate school-site changes with the City's transportation network to fix dangerous intersections, missing sidewalks and unsafe crossings (platform, page 65).",{"question":3128,"answer":3129},"Can the Vancouver School Board fix the streets around schools?","The City owns and designs Vancouver's streets, sidewalks and crossings, so the school board can only ask City Council to act. The Green Party of Vancouver's platform frames these items as working with the City and advocating, and keeps bike and mobility-device parking on school sites as a board task (platform, page 65).",{"question":3131,"answer":3132},"Who licenses child care in Vancouver schools under the Green plan?","The Province licenses child care and provides subsidies and operating funding, while the board decides how its buildings and land are used. The Green Party of Vancouver says it would coordinate with the City, the Province and community partners so child care growth matches neighbourhood needs (platform, page 64).",{"question":3134,"answer":3135},"How would the Vancouver Greens work with City Council and the Park Board on schools?","The Greens would coordinate more closely with elected City Council and Park Board members on issues that cross their responsibilities and invite City Council to meet with the school board on common issues. They would also explore joint-use agreements to share buildings and land with the City and the Park Board (platform, pages 65 and 66).","schools-at-the-centre-of-community","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fschool-board--schools-at-the-centre-of-community","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand licensed child care and before and after-school care on school property, open more school gyms, fields, libraries and kitchens to the community outside class hours, and work with City Council and the Park Board on safer walking and cycling routes to school.","Tz96gqvd2q3xMrYoUjm_NQu8xvk_kNLhgzJx_lN9TNc",{"id":3141,"title":3142,"checkedAt":402,"context":3143,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":3144,"headline":3145,"issues":3146,"meta":3147,"order":843,"pages":3148,"paragraphs":3149,"party":354,"pillar":426,"proposals":3153,"questions":3182,"slug":3201,"source":13,"stem":3202,"summary":3203,"__hash__":3204},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--building-green.json","Building Green",[],[],"Vancouver Greens on buildings: fossil gas ban in new builds, green roofs, solar",[257],{},{"from":415,"to":415},[3150,3151,3152],"In a one-page chapter on buildings and energy, the Green Party of Vancouver sets out its climate rules for construction. The commitment with the widest reach is on new construction: the party would re-establish policies that ban fossil gas heating for heat and hot water in new buildings, and bring back standard reporting of emissions and emission targets. The platform was corrected on September 29, 2026 so that this item reads \"ban fossil gas heating\".","Other items look at the buildings people already live in. The Greens would make permits simpler for rooftop solar panels and for plug-in solar panels sold directly to consumers. They would expand cooling, shade and clean-air spaces so tenants are protected from extreme heat and wildfire smoke, and they would pass a bylaw that requires green roofs, which are roofs covered in plants, on larger new and existing buildings.","At City Hall, the party would return a standalone Sustainability and Climate Office and count the emissions from making building materials, along with the emissions from running a building, in the city's climate reports. Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can set energy and emissions rules for new buildings that other BC cities cannot.",[3154,3158,3162,3166,3170,3174,3178],{"title":3155,"detail":3156,"page":415,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3157},"Solar ready, plug-in solar ready","The party would expand access to clean, affordable energy by making permits simpler, updating regulations and cutting red tape for rooftop solar and for new direct-to-consumer plug-in solar technology.","Council controls the city's own permit process and building rules for solar installations.",{"title":3159,"detail":3160,"page":415,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3161},"EV charging island modernized curbside infrastructure","The Greens would give priority to partnerships for electric vehicle charging on curbside lampposts and utility poles as part of street infrastructure everywhere. They would focus on places where older street lights are replaced with LED lights that leave spare electric capacity.","The lampposts stand on city streets, which the city owns, but the platform describes this as a partnership, so it would depend on outside partners that the platform does not name.",{"title":3163,"detail":3164,"page":415,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3165},"Decarbonizing new builds","The party would re-establish policies that ban fossil gas heating for heat and hot water in new construction types, and would return standard emission reporting and targets.","Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can set energy and emissions rules for new buildings.",{"title":3167,"detail":3168,"page":415,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3169},"Right to cool and clean air","The Greens would protect tenants from extreme heat and wildfire smoke at home by expanding cooling, shade and clean-air infrastructure across Vancouver.","Council sets building rules and funds city facilities, shade and trees through the city budget.",{"title":3171,"detail":3172,"page":415,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3173},"Return a standalone Sustainability and Climate Office to City Hall","The party would bring back a separate city office focused on climate action, clean energy, resilience and care for the environment. It says the office would improve accountability and coordination across departments.","Council approves the city budget and the structure of city departments.",{"title":3175,"detail":3176,"page":415,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3177},"Climate planning includes lifecycle emissions in reporting","The Greens would expand the city's emissions reporting to include embodied and lifecycle emissions, meaning the emissions from making materials and from a building's whole life, so the city can make better decisions about long-term climate impacts.","Council decides what the city measures and reports in its own climate plans.",{"title":3179,"detail":3180,"page":415,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3181},"Green roofs","The party would pass a bylaw that requires green roofs on larger new and existing buildings to reduce urban heat, manage stormwater, support biodiversity and make the city greener and more resilient.","Council passes city bylaws and sets building rules through Vancouver's own building bylaw.",[3183,3186,3189,3192,3195,3198],{"question":3184,"answer":3185},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to ban gas heating in new buildings?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would re-establish policies that ban fossil gas heating for heat and hot water in new construction, and bring back standard emission reporting and targets. The platform was corrected on September 29, 2026 to read \"ban fossil gas heating\" (platform, page 11).",{"question":3187,"answer":3188},"Would Vancouver's Greens require green roofs?","The Greens would pass a bylaw requiring green roofs on larger new and existing buildings. The party says they would reduce urban heat, manage stormwater and support biodiversity (platform, page 11).",{"question":3190,"answer":3191},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for plug-in solar?","The party would make permits simpler and update regulations for rooftop solar and for direct-to-consumer plug-in solar. The platform frames this as expanding access to clean, affordable energy (platform, page 11).",{"question":3193,"answer":3194},"What do the Vancouver Greens propose for heat waves and wildfire smoke?","The Green Party of Vancouver proposes a \"right to cool and clean air\". It would expand cooling, shade and clean-air infrastructure across the city to protect tenants from extreme heat and wildfire smoke at home (platform, page 11).",{"question":3196,"answer":3197},"Would the Green Party bring back Vancouver's climate office?","Yes. The Greens would return a standalone Sustainability and Climate Office to City Hall, focused on climate action, clean energy, resilience and care for the environment (platform, page 11).",{"question":3199,"answer":3200},"Can Vancouver City Council ban gas heating in new buildings, as the Greens propose?","Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can set energy and emissions rules for new buildings that other BC cities cannot. The Green Party of Vancouver's plan to re-establish a ban on fossil gas heating in new construction would use that power (platform, page 11).","building-green","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--building-green","The Green Party of Vancouver would bring back rules that ban fossil gas for heat and hot water in new buildings, require green roofs on larger buildings, make rooftop and plug-in solar easier to permit, and return a standalone Sustainability and Climate Office to City Hall.","GEfIv4x_JAMSjRPchJ43eHRVfwVeUDTqqQjMjCSBnnE",{"id":3206,"title":3207,"checkedAt":402,"context":3208,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":3215,"headline":3224,"issues":3225,"meta":3226,"order":1344,"pages":3227,"paragraphs":3229,"party":354,"pillar":426,"proposals":3234,"questions":3307,"slug":3329,"source":13,"stem":3330,"summary":3331,"__hash__":3332},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--ecosystems.json","Ecosystems",[3209,3212],{"label":3210,"url":3211,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},"Protection of Trees By-law 9958","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fyour-government\u002Fprotection-of-trees-bylaw.aspx",{"label":3213,"url":3214,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},"Bulletin: Development Cost Levies","https:\u002F\u002Fguidelines.vancouver.ca\u002Fbulletins\u002Fbulletin-development-cost-levies.pdf",[3216,3219,3221],{"value":784,"label":3217,"page":3218},"Trees the party says every household should be able to see",13,{"value":902,"label":3220,"page":3218},"Tree canopy the party says every neighbourhood should have",{"value":3222,"label":3223,"page":3218},"300m","Greatest distance from home to a green space under the party's 3-30-300 rule","Vancouver Greens on nature: tree canopy, city arborist office, 3-30-300 green space",[257,184],{},{"from":3228,"to":3218},12,[3230,3231,3232,3233],"Trees take up most of this chapter of the Green Party of Vancouver platform. Under the heading \"Trees for a Healthier City\", the party lists the steps it would take to grow a larger canopy. They include stronger tree protection bylaws, incentives for developers who keep large trees on private land, tighter rules for removing trees to make room for construction, and more replacement planting when mature trees are lost.","Two of the tree steps would change how development is checked. The Greens would make an occupancy permit, the city's final approval before people move into a new building, depend on a review of tree health after construction. They would also hire certified arborists, who are trained tree experts, into a new city office that reviews developers' tree reports independently.","The party's wider goal is the \"3-30-300\" rule: every household should see 3 trees from home, live in a neighbourhood with 30% tree canopy, and be within 300m of a green space. To get there, it would require rezonings to add canopy and green space, buy new park land with a restored developer levy for park purchases, restore wetlands and uncover buried creeks, and ban the sale of prohibited invasive plants in Vancouver.","Most of this chapter is Council's to decide. Council passes the city's tree bylaw, issues development and occupancy permits, sets the levies that developers pay, and approves the budget for planting and grants. A ban on selling invasive plants would also be a city bylaw. Work inside parks is different: the separately elected Park Board runs Vancouver's parks, so new planting, rewilding or creek restoration on park land would need its agreement.",[3235,3239,3243,3247,3251,3255,3259,3263,3267,3271,3275,3279,3283,3287,3291,3295,3299,3303],{"title":3236,"detail":3237,"page":3228,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3238},"Trees for a Healthier City","The party commits to growing a larger, healthier tree canopy to give more shade, cooler streets, cleaner air and healthier neighbourhoods city-wide.","Council's tree bylaw covers trees on private land, while trees in parks are managed by the Park Board.",{"title":3240,"detail":3241,"page":3228,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3242},"Protect and expand our urban forest","The Greens would strengthen tree protection bylaws and preserve mature trees.","Council passes the Protection of Trees By-law, which sets when a tree on private land may be removed.",{"title":3244,"detail":3245,"page":3228,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3246},"Reward tree retention","The party would offer incentives to developments that protect significant trees on private property.","Council sets the development rules and fees that incentives would change.",{"title":3248,"detail":3249,"page":3228,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3250},"Plant more climate-resilient trees","The Greens would commit dedicated funding to expand the city's canopy with tree species suited to a changing climate.","Council approves the city budget that would pay for the planting.",{"title":3252,"detail":3253,"page":3228,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3254},"Reform technical tree removal rules","The party would tighten the standards for tree removals justified by construction logistics, while creating clear, practical ways to allow for real construction and crane access needs.","The removal rules are in the city's tree bylaw, which Council can amend.",{"title":3256,"detail":3257,"page":3228,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3258},"Replace more trees than we remove","The Greens would require stronger mitigation, replacement planting and canopy restoration when mature trees are lost to development.","Council sets the conditions that come with tree removal permits and development permits.",{"title":3260,"detail":3261,"page":3228,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3262},"Protect trees for the long term","The party would make occupancy permits conditional on a review of tree health after construction, and on repairs where construction has damaged protected trees.","The city issues occupancy permits, so Council can add conditions to them.",{"title":3264,"detail":3265,"page":3228,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3266},"Create a municipal arborist office","The Greens would create a city office with in-house certified arborists to independently review tree assessments, improve transparency and build public confidence in tree decisions linked to development.","Council approves the city budget and the staff positions it pays for.",{"title":3268,"detail":3269,"page":3228,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3270},"Maintain and strengthen Vancouver's Bird Friendly City certification","The party would keep and strengthen the city's Bird Friendly City certification.","Keeping the certification depends on city programs and rules that Council funds and approves.",{"title":3272,"detail":3273,"page":3228,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3274},"Support a Youth Climate Corps for Urban Forestry","The Greens would support a Youth Climate Corps, with matching funding opportunities, to plant and maintain new tree canopy and give youth climate work at a living wage.","Council can fund its share, but the platform's plan for matching funding means other funders would have to take part.",{"title":3276,"detail":3277,"page":3218,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3278},"Require rezonings to increase the urban tree canopy and green spaces","As part of the Trees for a Healthier City strategy, the party would require rezonings to add tree canopy and green space, including green roofs and micro-forest understorey, the low plants under trees, with a focus on native and climate-resilient plants.","Council approves every rezoning and can set conditions on it.",{"title":3280,"detail":3281,"page":3218,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3282},"Add new green spaces","The Greens would add green spaces, in particular in areas targeted for new development and density, by buying land with a restored park acquisition developer cost levy, a charge developers pay to the city for new park land.","Council sets development cost levies by bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, and park land is one of the purposes they can pay for.",{"title":3284,"detail":3285,"page":3218,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3286},"Rewilding","The party would encourage more native plants and natural spaces, including micro-forests and understorey, to protect biodiversity, help pollinators and promote a healthier environment.","Council controls city streets and development rules, while the Park Board controls plantings in parks.",{"title":3288,"detail":3289,"page":3218,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3290},"Move to remove invasive species","The Greens would ban the sale of prohibited invasive species plants in Vancouver, and create an incentive program to help gardeners identify and remove invasive plants from their gardens.","Council would have to pass the sales ban as a city bylaw and fund the incentive program in the budget.",{"title":3292,"detail":3293,"page":3218,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3294},"Develop a Community Environmental Stewardship program","The party would offer small grants for low-cost, high-impact community care of ecological corridors and green spaces.","Council approves city grant programs through its budget.",{"title":3296,"detail":3297,"page":3218,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3298},"Value nature as infrastructure","The Greens would treat trees, wetlands, waterways and green spaces as critical infrastructure assets by adding Natural Asset Accounting, a way of putting a value on nature in the city's books, to city decisions and budgets.","Council approves the city budget and the capital plan, and decides how the city accounts for its assets.",{"title":3300,"detail":3301,"page":3218,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3302},"Restore wetlands and uncover buried creeks","The party would restore wetlands and uncover buried creeks to improve flood protection, biodiversity and climate resilience. The platform calls natural ecosystems some of Vancouver's most valuable infrastructure assets.","Council funds work on city land through the capital plan, and the Park Board would have to agree to work inside parks.",{"title":3304,"detail":3305,"page":3218,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3306},"3-30-300: Access to Greenspace","The Greens adopt the 3-30-300 rule: every household should be able to see 3 trees, live in a neighbourhood with a 30% tree canopy, and be 300m from a green space.","Council controls development rules and tree protection on private land, and the Park Board runs parks, so both bodies would have to act.",[3308,3311,3314,3317,3320,3323,3326],{"question":3309,"answer":3310},"What is the Vancouver Green Party's 3-30-300 rule?","The Green Party of Vancouver says every household should be able to see 3 trees, live in a neighbourhood with a 30% tree canopy, and be 300m from a green space. The platform calls it a rule for a healthier, greener city (platform, page 13).",{"question":3312,"answer":3313},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver protect trees from development?","The Greens would strengthen the tree protection bylaws, tighten the rules for removing trees for construction access, and require more replacement planting when mature trees are lost. They would also make occupancy permits depend on a tree health review after construction (platform, page 12).",{"question":3315,"answer":3316},"What is the municipal arborist office proposed by Vancouver's Greens?","The Green Party of Vancouver would create a city office with in-house certified arborists, trained tree experts, to review developers' tree assessments independently. The party says this would improve transparency and public confidence in tree decisions (platform, page 12).",{"question":3318,"answer":3319},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver ban invasive plants?","The Greens would ban the sale of prohibited invasive species plants in Vancouver. They would also create an incentive program to help gardeners identify and remove invasive plants from their gardens (platform, page 13).",{"question":3321,"answer":3322},"How would the Vancouver Greens pay for new parks in growing areas?","The Green Party of Vancouver would buy land for new green spaces with a restored park acquisition developer cost levy, a charge developers pay the city. It would focus on areas targeted for new development and density (platform, page 13).",{"question":3324,"answer":3325},"Who would carry out the Green Party of Vancouver's tree and nature plans?","City Council passes the tree bylaw, issues permits and sets developer levies, so it controls most of the chapter. Work inside parks, such as new planting or creek restoration, also needs the Park Board, which runs Vancouver's parks (platform, pages 12 to 13).",{"question":3327,"answer":3328},"What is the Youth Climate Corps in the Vancouver Green platform?","The Greens would support a Youth Climate Corps for Urban Forestry, with matching funding opportunities, to plant and care for new tree canopy. The party says it would give youth climate work at a living wage (platform, page 12).","ecosystems","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--ecosystems","The Green Party of Vancouver would strengthen tree protection bylaws, create a municipal arborist office, tie occupancy permits to tree health checks and require rezonings to add canopy. It adopts a 3-30-300 goal: 3 trees in view, a 30% canopy and green space within 300m of every home.","inj6BKCv51bLcYgquhHXMqQO0BWXy8D8qrgeB7TjG8k",{"id":3334,"title":3335,"checkedAt":402,"context":3336,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":3341,"headline":3348,"issues":3349,"meta":3350,"order":733,"pages":3351,"paragraphs":3352,"party":354,"pillar":426,"proposals":3357,"questions":3406,"slug":3428,"source":13,"stem":3429,"summary":3430,"__hash__":3431},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--housing-growth.json","Housing Growth",[3337],{"label":3338,"url":3339,"publisher":3340,"checkedAt":402},"Build Canada Homes, federal housing agency, launched September 2025","https:\u002F\u002Fpolicyoptions.irpp.org\u002F2026\u002F02\u002Fprefabricated-housing-canada\u002F","Policy Options (Institute for Research on Public Policy)",[3342,3345],{"value":3343,"label":3344,"page":624},"4 to 6 storeys","Height of the wood-frame low-rise apartments the party wants in all neighbourhoods",{"value":3346,"label":3347,"page":412},"250 sq ft","Smallest micro-suite size, kitchen and bathroom included, that the party says recent council policy allows","Vancouver Greens on housing: city land for co-ops, micro-suite pause, preset designs",[66,257],{},{"from":624,"to":412},[3353,3354,3355,3356],"The housing chapter of the Green Party of Vancouver platform starts with the land the city already owns. The party says taxpayer-owned land should hold affordable housing, co-ops and community land trusts, and should be planned for the public value it gives over the long term. The platform contrasts this with what it calls ABC's focus on dividends from for-profit housing on public land.","For the rest of the city, the Greens want more types of homes in every neighbourhood: rowhomes, townhomes, infill, and low-rise apartments of 4 to 6 storeys built with wood frames. The platform supports single egress staircase buildings, meaning apartment buildings served by a single exit stair. It also proposes Pre-Approved Housing Designs (PAHD), a set of home plans the city approves once so that builders can reuse them and get permits faster, and a modular or prefab \"Vancouver Special 2.0\".","The party would pause micro-suites. It says a recent council policy allows permanent homes as small as 250 sq ft, kitchen and bathroom included, and it calls homes this size an unsuitable answer to the housing shortage. For co-ops on city land, naming South False Creek, the Greens would speed up planning and lease renewals and limit the cost formulas that the platform says make renewal unaffordable.","Council controls zoning, permits and the use of city land, so most of this chapter is within its power. Vancouver also has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, which the Greens want to keep and simplify for larger apartment buildings. Funding for co-op, social and supportive homes would depend on partners: non-profits, the Province, and federal programs such as Build Canada Homes, a federal housing agency.",[3358,3362,3366,3370,3374,3378,3382,3386,3390,3394,3398,3402],{"title":3359,"detail":3360,"page":624,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3361},"Public land for public good","The party would make sure taxpayer-owned city land is used for affordable housing, co-ops and community land trusts. The platform contrasts this with what it describes as ABC's focus on dividends from for-profit housing on public land.","The city owns this land, so Council decides what is built on it and on what terms.",{"title":3363,"detail":3364,"page":624,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3365},"Best long-term public value from city land","The platform says the city's planning for land it owns would aim for the best long-term public value, a goal the platform ranks above the highest financial return.","Council sets the policy for how city-owned land is planned, leased and sold.",{"title":3367,"detail":3368,"page":624,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3369},"Tools to build more affordable housing city-wide","The Greens would partner with non-profits and senior governments to deliver co-op, social and supportive housing in every neighbourhood. They would fast-track zoning and permits for affordable housing.","Council controls zoning and permit speed, but the platform relies on non-profits and the provincial and federal governments to fund and run the housing.",{"title":3371,"detail":3372,"page":624,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3373},"Building for a changing climate","The party would restore sustainability work across city departments so that new and retrofitted buildings are cleaner and greener, putting resident health and comfort first as the climate changes.","How city departments are organized and what they work on is set through Council's budget and direction to staff.",{"title":3375,"detail":3376,"page":624,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3377},"Green retrofits: the greenest buildings are the ones already built","The platform would encourage partnerships through the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and the BC Retrofit Accelerator to help fund climate-smart retrofits of existing buildings. It would simplify the conditions on green retrofits by reducing the triggers that force owners into unrelated upgrades.","The city sets the permit conditions for retrofits, while the funding programs the platform names come from outside the city.",{"title":3379,"detail":3380,"page":624,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3381},"Missing middle housing: more of the housing we need","The Greens would support a wider variety of homes in all neighbourhoods and near shopping streets, including low-rise apartments of 4 to 6 storeys in wood frame, Single Egress Staircase (SES) buildings, which have one exit stair, and rowhomes, townhomes and infill. They would permit faster, cheaper construction methods, including prefab, modular and wood frame.","Council sets zoning and Vancouver's own building bylaw, which decide what kinds of homes can be built and how.",{"title":3383,"detail":3384,"page":412,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3385},"Moratorium on micro-units","The party would reverse the recent council policy that allows micro-suites as small as 250 sq ft, kitchen and bathroom included. The platform compares these homes to the size of a parking stall and calls them an inappropriate housing solution.","The platform describes this as a council policy, so a new Council can reverse it.",{"title":3387,"detail":3388,"page":412,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3389},"Simple Homes, Pre-Approved","The Greens would offer Pre-Approved Housing Designs (PAHD), city-approved plans for homes and rental buildings that move through permits quickly, and explore a \"Vancouver Special 2.0\" of modular or prefab kit designs. They would seek targeted investment through the federal Build Canada Homes, with zoning and permit rules that favour these designs.","Council controls the city's permits and zoning, while Build Canada Homes is a federal housing agency that the city can only apply to.",{"title":3391,"detail":3392,"page":412,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3393},"Vancouver's Building By-law working for you","The party would reduce the complexity of the Vancouver Building By-law (VBBL), in particular for larger multi-unit residential buildings, and says it would keep the bylaw, which it says the current ABC council has considered eliminating. It would use the city's own legal powers to try new rules on mass timber, decarbonization, exit stairs and elevators, patios, and FSR exemptions. FSR, or floor space ratio, is the total floor area a building may have compared with the size of its lot, and an exemption leaves some floor space out of that count.","Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can change building rules that other BC cities cannot.",{"title":3395,"detail":3396,"page":412,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3397},"Streamlining permit approvals","The platform proposes to fix the separation between city departments that it says adds time and cost to building approvals, and to make construction approvals more efficient.","Council controls the city's own permit process and the staff who run it.",{"title":3399,"detail":3400,"page":412,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3401},"Building Canada Strong","The Greens would support \"build Canadian\" purchasing policies. They would encourage mass timber, wood-frame mid-rise buildings and public infrastructure that use Canadian forestry products where possible.","Council sets the purchasing rules for the city's own projects and can encourage building methods through zoning and the building bylaw.",{"title":3403,"detail":3404,"page":412,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3405},"Co-Op Housing","The party would speed up planning and lease renewals for co-ops on city-owned land such as South False Creek, with the aim of keeping the community mix, long-term affordability and livability. It would limit the capital expenditure cost formulas that it says make lease renewal unaffordable.","The platform describes these co-ops as sitting on city-owned land, so the city is the landlord and Council sets the lease terms.",[3407,3410,3413,3416,3419,3422,3425],{"question":3408,"answer":3409},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to ban micro-suites?","The Green Party of Vancouver proposes a moratorium, a pause, on micro-units. It would reverse the recent council policy that the party says allows micro-suites as small as 250 sq ft, kitchen and bathroom included (platform, page 7).",{"question":3411,"answer":3412},"What would Vancouver's Greens do with city-owned land?","The Greens say taxpayer-owned city land should be used for affordable housing, co-ops and community land trusts. The platform says the goal for city land would be the best long-term public value, which it ranks above the highest financial return (platform, page 6).",{"question":3414,"answer":3415},"What are pre-approved housing designs in the Vancouver Green platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver would offer Pre-Approved Housing Designs (PAHD): plans for homes and rental buildings that the city approves in advance so projects get permits faster. It would also explore modular or prefab kit homes, which it calls Vancouver Special 2.0, and seek funding from the federal Build Canada Homes (platform, page 7).",{"question":3417,"answer":3418},"Does the Vancouver Green Party support six-storey apartments in every neighbourhood?","The platform supports low-rise apartments of 4 to 6 storeys built with wood frames, along with rowhomes, townhomes and infill, in all neighbourhoods and near shopping streets. It also supports single egress staircase buildings, which have one exit stair (platform, page 6).",{"question":3420,"answer":3421},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver get rid of the Vancouver Building Bylaw?","No. The Greens say they would keep the Vancouver Building By-law and reduce its complexity, in particular for larger apartment buildings. The platform says the current ABC council has considered eliminating it (platform, page 7).",{"question":3423,"answer":3424},"What do the Vancouver Greens promise housing co-ops?","The Green Party of Vancouver would speed up planning and lease renewals for co-ops on city-owned land such as South False Creek. It would limit the capital expenditure cost formulas that it says make renewals unaffordable (platform, page 7).",{"question":3426,"answer":3427},"Can Vancouver City Council deliver the Green Party's housing plan by itself?","Council controls zoning, permits, city-owned land and Vancouver's own building bylaw, so it can act alone on most of the chapter. The Greens' plans for co-op, social and supportive housing depend on non-profits and on provincial and federal money, such as Build Canada Homes (platform, pages 6 to 7).","housing-growth","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--housing-growth","The Green Party of Vancouver would use city-owned land for affordable housing, co-ops and land trusts, and pause micro-suites as small as 250 sq ft. Its platform also proposes pre-approved home designs, 4 to 6 storey wood-frame apartments in every neighbourhood and faster co-op lease renewals.","8ux8iuKam5bUVJhtDKvK15dgt2p5dtQmjbL3jNDF2nc",{"id":3433,"title":3434,"checkedAt":402,"context":3435,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":3447,"headline":3448,"issues":3449,"meta":3450,"order":1200,"pages":3451,"paragraphs":3454,"party":354,"pillar":426,"proposals":3458,"questions":3499,"slug":3518,"source":13,"stem":3519,"summary":3520,"__hash__":3521},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--infrastructure-and-resilience.json","Infrastructure and Resilience",[3436,3440,3443,3444],{"label":3437,"url":3438,"publisher":3439,"checkedAt":402},"The 2025 Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District environmental management and quality control annual report","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrovancouver.org\u002Fservices\u002Fliquid-waste\u002FDocuments\u002Fgvsdd-environmental-management-quality-control-annual-report-2025.pdf","Metro Vancouver",{"label":3441,"url":3442,"publisher":3439,"checkedAt":402},"About sewer overflows","https:\u002F\u002Fmetrovancouver.org\u002Fservices\u002Fliquid-waste\u002Fwhat-are-sewer-overflows",{"label":465,"url":466,"publisher":467,"checkedAt":402},{"label":3445,"url":3446,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},"False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility (NEU)","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fhome-property-development\u002Fsoutheast-false-creek-neighbourhood-energy-utility.aspx",[],"Vancouver Greens on infrastructure: repair backlog, sewer overflows, seawalls, quakes",[244,257,164],{},{"from":3452,"to":3453},14,15,[3455,3456,3457],"The Green Party of Vancouver says the city's streets, sidewalks, sewers, buildings and green spaces have suffered decades of neglect. The first commitment in this chapter is to fund their renewal on best-practice schedules. The platform ties this to planning for future heat, flooding, drought and sea-level rise, and it says that building for those conditions early can lower long-term costs while protecting residents and city services.","Several items deal with water. The Greens would separate sewers, so rain and sewage flow in different pipes, and end raw sewage outflows into local waters. They would also speed up work on seawalls, flood defences, drainage and shoreline restoration. Other items cover earthquake upgrades, curb cuts, longer crossing times and accessible bus stops, and repair methods that the party says disturb roads and the public less.","Most of this work is paid for through the city's capital plan, which Council approves. Two items reach beyond the city. Sewage treatment in the region is shared with Metro Vancouver, and the electrical grid is run by BC Hydro, a provincial Crown corporation, so the party can only work with those bodies. District energy, a shared system that heats and cools many buildings from one plant, is a place where the city already owns a utility.",[3459,3463,3467,3471,3475,3479,3483,3487,3491,3495],{"title":3460,"detail":3461,"page":3452,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3462},"Infrastructure maintenance","The party would fund best-practice renewal schedules for streets, sidewalks, sewers, buildings and green spaces, which the platform says would make up for decades of neglect.","Council approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for city infrastructure.",{"title":3464,"detail":3465,"page":3452,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3466},"Climate resilient infrastructure","The Greens would add cooling, warming and air-quality improvements to public facilities, and invest in rain and storm surge management, blueways, greenways, bioswales (planted ditches that soak up rainwater), sewer separation, and ending raw sewage outflows.","The city has its own municipal sewers and public buildings, but ending sewage overflows also depends on Metro Vancouver, the regional body that runs the large trunk sewers and treatment plants.",{"title":3468,"detail":3469,"page":3452,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3470},"Pedestrian and active transportation infrastructure","The party would improve walking, cycling and rolling routes city-wide, with investment based on equity, safety and comfort. This includes repairing bike routes, improving sidewalks, and adding bulges and curb cuts.","The city owns and designs its streets, sidewalks and bike lanes.",{"title":3472,"detail":3473,"page":3452,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3474},"Accessible infrastructure","The Greens would give priority to accessible sidewalks, curb cuts, crosswalks, longer crossing times, transit connections, bus shelters, lighting and public spaces so everyone can move through the city safely and independently.","Sidewalks, crosswalks and signal timing are on city streets, which Council funds and controls.",{"title":3476,"detail":3477,"page":3452,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3478},"Smart infrastructure","The party would build low-cost smart information and communication technology into all renewals of traffic and safety systems. It would coordinate project timing and use less disruptive repair methods, naming cast-in-place pipes as an example, to reduce disruption to the public and to roads.","The city runs its own traffic systems and decides how and when its street repairs are done.",{"title":3480,"detail":3481,"page":3452,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3482},"Capital planning for climate change","The Greens would make sure major infrastructure is built for future heat, flooding, drought and sea-level rise. The platform says resilient infrastructure and early upgrades can reduce long-term costs while protecting residents and services.","Council approves the capital plan and can set the climate standards city projects must meet.",{"title":3484,"detail":3485,"page":3453,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3486},"Seismic safety and resilience","The party would speed up seismic upgrades, make sure new infrastructure and development meet modern earthquake standards, and give priority to investments that protect residents, essential services, heritage and community resilience.","Council controls Vancouver's own building bylaw and the capital plan for city buildings.",{"title":3488,"detail":3489,"page":3453,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3490},"Sea level rise and flood protection","The Greens would speed up investment in seawalls, flood defences, drainage systems and shoreline restoration to protect neighbourhoods, infrastructure and the economy from rising seas and extreme weather, and to reduce long-term costs.","Council approves the capital plan that would pay for flood protection work on city land.",{"title":3492,"detail":3493,"page":3453,"authority":966,"authorityNote":3494},"Electrical grid resiliency","The party would work with BC Hydro and regional partners on grid modernization, energy storage, solar power and renewable energy to make Vancouver's electrical system more secure and reliable as demand for electricity grows.","BC Hydro is a Crown corporation owned by the Province, so the city can only work with it.",{"title":3496,"detail":3497,"page":3453,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3498},"District Energy","The Greens would keep investing in shared energy systems that heat and cool several buildings, to reduce emissions, lower long-term energy costs and improve resilience.","The city owns and runs the False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility, so Council decides how much to invest in it.",[3500,3503,3506,3509,3512,3515],{"question":3501,"answer":3502},"What would the Green Party of Vancouver do about raw sewage overflows?","The Green Party of Vancouver would invest in sewer separation, so rain and sewage run in separate pipes, and end raw sewage outflows. The platform lists this among its climate-resilient infrastructure commitments (platform, page 14).",{"question":3504,"answer":3505},"Does the Vancouver Green Party have a plan for earthquakes?","Yes. The Greens would speed up seismic upgrades and make sure new infrastructure and development meet modern earthquake standards. They would give priority to protecting residents, essential services, heritage and community resilience (platform, page 15).",{"question":3507,"answer":3508},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver prepare for sea level rise?","The party would speed up investment in seawalls, flood defences, drainage systems and shoreline restoration. It says this would protect neighbourhoods and reduce long-term costs (platform, page 15).",{"question":3510,"answer":3511},"What do Vancouver's Greens say about fixing roads, sewers and sidewalks?","The Green Party of Vancouver would fund best-practice renewal schedules for streets, sidewalks, sewers, buildings and green spaces. The platform says this would make up for decades of neglect (platform, page 14).",{"question":3513,"answer":3514},"Can Vancouver City Council strengthen the power grid, as the Greens propose?","Only with others. The Greens say they would work with BC Hydro and regional partners on grid modernization, storage and solar. BC Hydro is owned by the Province, so the city cannot direct it (platform, page 15).",{"question":3516,"answer":3517},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver support district energy?","Yes. The Greens would keep investing in shared energy systems that heat and cool several buildings, which the party says reduce emissions and lower long-term energy costs (platform, page 15).","infrastructure-and-resilience","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--infrastructure-and-resilience","The Green Party of Vancouver would fund regular renewal of streets, sewers and buildings, end raw sewage outflows through sewer separation, and speed up seismic upgrades and flood defences. Its platform also backs district energy and work with BC Hydro on a stronger electrical grid.","1DcKxRFpC5GeTlD_EXszzuBiwL_33AHRQHgQOgTsElo",{"id":3523,"title":3524,"checkedAt":402,"context":3525,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":3533,"headline":3548,"issues":3549,"meta":3550,"order":784,"pages":3551,"paragraphs":3552,"party":354,"pillar":426,"proposals":3556,"questions":3618,"slug":3640,"source":13,"stem":3641,"summary":3642,"__hash__":3643},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--transportation.json","Transportation",[3526,3529,3532],{"label":3527,"url":3528,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},"30 km\u002Fh speed limits coming to local streets (Street and Traffic By-law)","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002F30-kmh-speed-limits-coming-to-local-streets-july-2025.aspx",{"label":3530,"url":3531,"publisher":463,"checkedAt":402},"Broadway Subway Project: delivered by the Province with TransLink and the City","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.translink.ca\u002Fplans-and-projects\u002Fprojects\u002Frapid-transit-projects\u002Fbroadway-subway-project",{"label":461,"url":462,"publisher":463,"checkedAt":402},[3534,3538,3541,3544],{"value":3535,"label":3536,"page":3537},"2018","Year since which, the party says, slower residential streets have been a signature Green initiative",8,{"value":3539,"label":3540,"page":3537},"nearly eight years","Time the party says it took before Slower, Safer Streets was approved city-wide",{"value":3542,"label":3543,"page":3537},"30 km\u002Fh","Speed limit the party would expand on residential streets and select arterials",{"value":3545,"label":3546,"page":3547},"11%","Minimum share of Vancouver streets the party would convert from car use to community use",10,"Vancouver Greens on transport: 30 km\u002Fh streets, Broadway bikeway, 11% road reclamation",[164],{},{"from":3537,"to":3547},[3553,3554,3555],"Street safety comes first in the transport chapter of the Green Party of Vancouver platform. The party says lower speed limits on residential streets have been one of its main causes since 2018, and it would extend 30 km\u002Fh limits to more residential streets and some arterial roads, in particular near parks and schools. It would also end the time and day limits on school zones, support School Streets, which are car-free areas beside schools, and add signals that give people walking a head start at crossings.","The Greens want a connected cycling network. The platform names the Major Bikeway Network and the gaps in South and East Vancouver, and it asks for bike lanes on Broadway while the new subway is still being built there. It would reduce parking requirements near frequent transit and turn some parking into plazas, bike lanes and green space. The largest single target is \"11% Road Reclamation\": the party would convert at least 11% of Vancouver's streets from car use to community use, such as trees, parklets, dog parks, food gardens and green space.","The city owns and designs its streets, so Council can change speed limits, crossings, bike lanes, curb space and parking rules on its own. Buses and SkyTrain belong to TransLink, a regional body the city does not control. The Greens' plans for faster buses, late bus service, cheaper fares for low-income riders and a SkyTrain line to UBC therefore depend on working with TransLink and other governments.",[3557,3561,3565,3569,3573,3577,3582,3586,3590,3594,3598,3602,3606,3610,3614],{"title":3558,"detail":3559,"page":3537,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3560},"Slower Safer Streets","The platform says reducing speed limits on residential streets has been a signature Green Party initiative since 2018, and that the city-wide bylaw was approved nearly eight years later after work with Council and the provincial government. The Greens would expand 30 km\u002Fh limits on residential streets and select arterials, in particular near parks and schools, and continue education and enforcement.","Council sets speed limits on city streets through its Street and Traffic By-law, while enforcement is done by the police.",{"title":3562,"detail":3563,"page":3537,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3564},"Pedestrian-first priorities","The party would set targets and funding for safer pedestrian crossings. It would add new and retrofitted Leading Pedestrian Intervals, a signal that lets people walking start crossing before cars get a green light, and audible crossings, and review crosswalks and intersections without traffic signals in an ongoing pedestrian safety audit.","The city owns its streets and traffic signals, so Council funds and approves crossing upgrades.",{"title":3566,"detail":3567,"page":3537,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3568},"Permanent pedestrian zone infrastructure","The Greens would give stable funding and equipment, such as retractable bollards and placemaking, to seasonal and year-round pedestrian zones. These would run in partnership with local residents and business improvement areas (BIAs), which are local business groups.","Council funds street equipment and decides when a city street closes to cars.",{"title":3570,"detail":3571,"page":3537,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3572},"Add more safe routes to schools and school streets","The party would remove time and day restrictions on school zones and give priority to safe routes to and from schools. It would support and expand School Streets, car-free zones next to schools for walking, cycling and play before and after school.","The city owns and designs the streets around schools and sets their traffic rules.",{"title":3574,"detail":3575,"page":3537,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3576},"Complete active transportation infrastructure","The platform would connect safe cycling and rolling routes into a network of AAA bike routes, meaning routes safe for riders of all ages and abilities, and slowed streets. It focuses on completing the Major Bikeway Network and the incomplete and under-connected parts of South and East Vancouver.","The city owns and designs its streets and bike lanes, so Council approves and funds the network.",{"title":3578,"detail":3579,"page":3580,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3581},"Broadway Bikeway","The Greens would add active transportation lanes to Broadway for shoppers, couriers and commuters while the corridor is still under construction for the new subway. The platform says the subway will reduce road traffic and that without these lanes Broadway will be a mediocre street at best.",9,"Broadway is a city street, but the subway under it is being delivered by the Province with TransLink and the City, so the timing would need their cooperation.",{"title":3583,"detail":3584,"page":3580,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3585},"Open streets as a celebration and connection","The party would hold special events on calmed streets and active transportation routes to connect neighbourhoods and use public space. It names South American Ciclovía events and Portland's Sunday Parkways as its models.","The city issues street event permits and decides when its streets close to traffic.",{"title":3587,"detail":3588,"page":3580,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3589},"Car light, car right","The Greens would plan neighbourhood parking for actual demand, give access to residents, businesses and visitors, and separate the cost of parking from the cost of housing, allowing paid off-street parkades for residents where appropriate. They would reduce parking requirements near high-frequency transit and replace some parking with public plazas, cycling infrastructure and green space.","The city sets its own parking rules and the parking that new buildings must include.",{"title":3591,"detail":3592,"page":3580,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3593},"Expand multi modal share parking and docking spaces","The party would expand shared mobility, including public bike share, as a cheaper and lower-emission choice. It says new facilities would be fitted into communities with care, limiting any negative effects, and would serve the last part of trips in frequent transit areas.","The city controls street space and parking, so Council decides where shared bikes and their docks go.",{"title":3595,"detail":3596,"page":3580,"authority":749,"authorityNote":3597},"UBC subway expansion","The Greens would work with partners to set a binding timeline for a rapid transit extension to UBC.","TransLink, a regional body the city does not control, plans the SkyTrain extension to UBC, so the city can only press for a timeline.",{"title":3599,"detail":3600,"page":3580,"authority":749,"authorityNote":3601},"Better transit","In partnership with TransLink, the party would put bus reliability, speed and connections first through transit-priority measures such as bulges, bump-outs and bus priority lanes. It would expand late bus service and low-income transit discounts.","The city can build bus lanes on its streets, but TransLink, a regional body, runs the buses and sets service hours and fares.",{"title":3603,"detail":3604,"page":3547,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3605},"Commercial curb access program","The platform proposes a program to manage curbside space and demand for commercial access, and refers readers to its Economic Development section for the details.","The city sets the rules for loading and parking at the curb of its streets.",{"title":3607,"detail":3608,"page":3547,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3609},"Manage congestion with smarter intersection management","The Greens would add protected left-turn signals at selected intersections, queue-jump lanes that let buses move ahead of traffic, and smart traffic systems with signal timing that adjusts to traffic.","The city owns and runs the traffic signals on its streets.",{"title":3611,"detail":3612,"page":3547,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3613},"Better roads, safer streets","The party would target upgrades to aging road surfaces, potholes and pavement markings. It would build curb cuts and accessibility into all new and renewed infrastructure.","Council approves the capital plan that pays for street repairs.",{"title":3615,"detail":3616,"page":3547,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3617},"11% Road Reclamation","The Greens would convert at least 11% of Vancouver streets from car use to community use. The platform lists more tree canopy, parklets, dog parks, active transportation, places to grow food, and green spaces for children, families and seniors.","The city owns and designs its streets, so Council can decide to use street space for other purposes.",[3619,3622,3625,3628,3631,3634,3637],{"question":3620,"answer":3621},"What would Vancouver's Greens do about the Broadway bikeway?","The Green Party of Vancouver would add active transportation lanes on Broadway for shoppers, couriers and commuters while the street is still under construction for the new subway. The platform says that without them Broadway will be a mediocre street at best (platform, page 9).",{"question":3623,"answer":3624},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's 11% road reclamation plan?","The Greens would convert at least 11% of Vancouver's streets from car use to community use. The platform lists tree canopy, parklets, dog parks, active transportation, places to grow food and green space for children, families and seniors (platform, page 10).",{"question":3626,"answer":3627},"Does the Vancouver Green Party want 30 km\u002Fh speed limits?","Yes. The Green Party of Vancouver would expand 30 km\u002Fh limits on residential streets and select arterial roads, in particular near parks and schools. The platform calls slower streets a signature Green initiative since 2018 (platform, page 8).",{"question":3629,"answer":3630},"Would the Green Party of Vancouver cut parking?","The Greens would plan neighbourhood parking for actual demand and separate the cost of parking from the cost of housing. The platform would reduce parking requirements near high-frequency transit and replace some parking with plazas, bike lanes and green space (platform, page 9).",{"question":3632,"answer":3633},"What do Vancouver's Greens promise on SkyTrain to UBC?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would work with partners to set a binding timeline for a rapid transit extension to UBC. TransLink, a regional body, plans that line, so the city can press for it but cannot build it alone (platform, page 9).",{"question":3635,"answer":3636},"Can Vancouver City Council improve bus service as the Greens propose?","Only in part. The Greens say they would work with TransLink on bus lanes, bulges and bump-outs, late bus service and low-income transit discounts. The city can build bus lanes on its own streets, but TransLink runs the buses and sets service and fares (platform, page 9).",{"question":3638,"answer":3639},"What does the Green Party of Vancouver propose for school zones?","The party would remove the time and day restrictions on school zones and give priority to safe routes to schools. It would also support and expand School Streets, which are car-free zones next to schools (platform, page 8).","transportation","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--transportation","The Green Party of Vancouver would expand 30 km\u002Fh streets near parks and schools, add bike lanes to Broadway during subway construction and convert at least 11% of city streets from car use to community use. It would also push for a binding timeline for rapid transit to UBC and work with TransLink on faster buses.","_391tctm6oYooyFE3PXVXuNUI9tGuIEO-EJbQN67Q64",{"id":3645,"title":3646,"checkedAt":402,"context":3647,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":3650,"headline":3656,"issues":3657,"meta":3658,"order":914,"pages":3659,"paragraphs":3660,"party":354,"pillar":426,"proposals":3665,"questions":3702,"slug":3724,"source":13,"stem":3725,"summary":3726,"__hash__":3727},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--urban-planning.json","Urban Planning",[3648],{"label":3649,"url":899,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},"Vacancy Tax By-law No. 11674",[3651,3654],{"value":3652,"label":3653,"page":431},"2023","Year of the provincially-imposed housing targets that the party says are impossible to meet",{"value":3652,"label":3655,"page":582},"Year of the provincial legislation that, according to the platform, prohibits formal public hearings on rezonings","Vancouver Greens on planning: dynamic zoning, benefit deals, speculation limits",[66,1472],{},{"from":431,"to":582},[3661,3662,3663,3664],"The Green Party of Vancouver opens its 2026 platform with city planning. The party says that when a neighbourhood gets more homes, it should also get the amenities and services that people need within a short walk, bike ride or transit trip from home. The platform says the cost of those amenities should be shared between developers, government partners and taxpayers.","Two ideas carry most of the chapter. The first is \"dynamic zoning\": the city would agree in advance on standard rezonings for areas near transit and services, so more homes could be added in a predictable way, while height, setbacks and trees would still fit each street. The second is a group of rules aimed at speculation, meaning buying or holding land mainly to profit from a rising price. It lists time limits between a rezoning approval and the start of construction, enforcement against empty buildings, and fees on vacant land that owners turn into informal parks to lower their taxes.","The party also says it would bring back community benefit agreements, which it says were removed by Mayor Ken Sim and ABC. These are conditions that ask a major development to support the local economy, hire locally and buy Canadian. The Greens would let people speak at some rezoning meetings, within the 2023 provincial law that the platform says bans formal public hearings.","Most of these steps are City Council decisions, because Council controls zoning, rezonings, city bylaws and the city's own meeting rules. It can also create a new city office through the budget. The housing targets that the platform wants changed were set by the Province, according to the platform, so on that point the city can only negotiate with the provincial government.",[3666,3670,3674,3678,3682,3686,3690,3694,3698],{"title":3667,"detail":3668,"page":431,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3669},"Complete communities: amenities and services to meet growth and public needs","The platform says that as density is added, communities would get the amenities they need within a short walk, bike ride or transit trip. The party says it would balance the cost between developer, government partner and taxpayer contributions.","Council approves rezonings and development permits, so it decides what amenities a new development must provide or pay for.",{"title":3671,"detail":3672,"page":431,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3673},"Dynamic Zoning and Community Context Planning","The party would plan growth with each community, reflecting its cultural, architectural, environmental and geographic features. It proposes dynamic zoning: pre-agreed, standardized rezonings applied case by case, to add homes near transit and services while using flexible design for height, setbacks, trees and building form.","Council sets zoning and approves rezonings, so it can create a standard rezoning process on its own.",{"title":3675,"detail":3676,"page":431,"authority":966,"authorityNote":3677},"Resolve provincial housing targets, limits on amenities, and good planning","The Greens would work with the Province on Vancouver's housing targets, which the platform says are failing to deliver amenities such as promised schools for growing families. The platform says slower construction starts and changed migration patterns make the provincially-imposed 2023 housing targets impossible to meet.","The platform says the Province imposed the targets, so the city can only ask the Province to change them.",{"title":3679,"detail":3680,"page":582,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3681},"Community Benefit Agreements","The party would restore policies that it says Mayor Ken Sim and ABC removed. These would make local economic support, buy-Canadian purchasing and employment a condition of major developments.","Council approves major developments and sets the conditions attached to them.",{"title":3683,"detail":3684,"page":582,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3685},"Public access on re-zonings","The Greens would amend the city's procedure bylaw so Council hears speakers on extraordinary zoning amendments. The platform says this would respect the 2023 provincial legislation that prohibits formal public hearings.","Council writes its own procedure bylaw, which sets how its meetings run and who may speak.",{"title":3687,"detail":3688,"page":582,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3689},"Tools to manage speculation","The platform proposes \"pace of change\" measures to protect existing affordable housing and tenants, bylaw enforcement and tax levies to prevent empty buildings, and a time limit between a rezoning's enactment and the start of construction.","Council sets zoning conditions, enforces city bylaws, and already charges a tax on empty homes under the Vancouver Charter, the provincial law that gives the city its powers.",{"title":3691,"detail":3692,"page":582,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3693},"Control tax-sheltered land banks","The party says developers who lower the tax on vacant land by setting up informal park-like uses would need permits. They would also have to meet clear public benefit standards and pay fees for privately owned land used as a tax-advantaged park or garden while it waits for redevelopment.","Permits and permit fees on private land in Vancouver are set by city bylaw, which Council passes.",{"title":3695,"detail":3696,"page":582,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3697},"Green infrastructure urbanism","The platform would score and build expanded tree canopies, rain gardens, urban forests, permeable surfaces that let rain soak into the ground, and cooling strategies into new growth.","Council sets the planning and design rules that new development must meet.",{"title":3699,"detail":3700,"page":582,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3701},"Strong Communities Action Plan","The Greens would create an Office of Strong Communities as the city's neighbourhood engagement hub, working with residents, community organizations, business improvement areas and neighbourhood groups to set local priorities and feed them into city planning. The platform names the River District, South Vancouver, Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside as examples of neighbourhoods with their own needs.","Council approves the city budget and can create a new city office with it.",[3703,3706,3709,3712,3715,3718,3721],{"question":3704,"answer":3705},"What is dynamic zoning in the Vancouver Green Party platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver describes dynamic zoning as a set of pre-agreed, standard rezonings that the city applies case by case. The party says this would let more homes be added near transit and services in a predictable way, while height, setbacks, trees and building form still fit each neighbourhood (platform, page 4).",{"question":3707,"answer":3708},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want to change the provincial housing targets?","Yes. The Greens say they would work with the Province on Vancouver's housing targets. The platform says the 2023 targets are impossible to meet because construction starts have slowed and migration has changed, and that they are failing to deliver amenities such as promised schools (platform, page 4).",{"question":3710,"answer":3711},"Would Vancouver's Greens bring back public hearings on rezonings?","The Green Party of Vancouver would change the city's procedure bylaw so Council can hear speakers on extraordinary zoning amendments. The platform says it would do this while respecting the 2023 provincial legislation that prohibits formal public hearings (platform, page 5).",{"question":3713,"answer":3714},"How would the Green Party of Vancouver fight land speculation?","The platform lists pace of change measures to protect tenants and existing affordable housing, bylaw enforcement and tax levies against empty buildings, and a time limit between a rezoning's approval and the start of construction. It would also require permits and fees for vacant land that owners use as informal parks to lower their taxes (platform, page 5).",{"question":3716,"answer":3717},"What are community benefit agreements in the Vancouver Green platform?","The Green Party of Vancouver says it would restore community benefit agreements that it says Ken Sim and ABC removed. Under them, major developments would have to support the local economy, buy Canadian and provide jobs (platform, page 5).",{"question":3719,"answer":3720},"What is the Office of Strong Communities proposed by the Vancouver Greens?","The Greens propose an Office of Strong Communities at City Hall to act as a neighbourhood engagement hub. The party says it would work with residents, community groups, business improvement areas and neighbourhood groups to name local priorities and bring them into city planning (platform, page 5).",{"question":3722,"answer":3723},"Who has the power to carry out the Green Party of Vancouver's planning ideas?","Most of the chapter is in City Council's hands, because Council sets zoning, approves rezonings and writes its own meeting rules. The housing targets are the exception: the platform says the Province imposed them, so the Greens can only ask the Province to change them (platform, pages 4 to 5).","urban-planning","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--urban-planning","The Green Party of Vancouver says new density must come with nearby amenities. Its platform proposes dynamic zoning, community benefit agreements, speakers at some rezoning meetings, time limits on approved rezonings, fees on vacant land used as tax-sheltered parks and a new Office of Strong Communities.","cIuQg5T6K26nNfksaiUjLOILORVlEB7kN4Kq0FFOqFI",{"id":3729,"title":3730,"checkedAt":402,"context":3731,"document":717,"extension":12,"figures":3735,"headline":3736,"issues":3737,"meta":3738,"order":1087,"pages":3739,"paragraphs":3740,"party":354,"pillar":426,"proposals":3744,"questions":3765,"slug":3781,"source":13,"stem":3782,"summary":3783,"__hash__":3784},"platformChapters\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--zero-waste.json","Zero Waste",[3732],{"label":3733,"url":3734,"publisher":376,"checkedAt":402},"Vancouver South Transfer Station, 377 West Kent Avenue North","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fhome-property-development\u002Ftransfer-station.aspx",[],"Vancouver Greens on waste: drop-off centres, Kent Avenue hub, pet waste diversion",[257],{},{"from":432,"to":432},[3741,3742,3743],"The Green Party of Vancouver closes its Sustainable Growth pillar with a short chapter on garbage and recycling. The party wants sorting waste to be easier in every part of the city. It would add more public recycling and organics bins, and a network of smaller Zero-Waste drop-off centres, supported by two industrial hubs at False Creek Flats and on Kent Avenue.","The Kent Avenue Transfer Station, where trucks and residents bring garbage and some recyclables, would be modernized as a \"circular economy hub\" for recovering waste and resources, as part of planned long-range capital upgrades. The Greens would also strengthen local composting, keep pet waste out of the landfill through its own collection and treatment, and support reusable containers in restaurants and public venues.","The city owns and runs the transfer station on Kent Avenue, and Council approves both the budget for waste services and the capital plan that would pay for the upgrade. New drop-off centres, organics processing and pet waste collection would come through the same budget. The platform places deposits and refunds on single-use items with the Province, and says the Greens would advocate for that change.",[3745,3749,3753,3757,3761],{"title":3746,"detail":3747,"page":432,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3748},"Improve access to recycling and public facilities","The party would expand public recycling, organics and waste-separation infrastructure across the city. It would add more satellite Zero-Waste drop-off centres, spread city-wide, supported by industrial hubs at False Creek Flats and on Kent Avenue.","Council funds the city's own waste services and facilities through the budget and the capital plan.",{"title":3750,"detail":3751,"page":432,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3752},"Kent Avenue Circular Economy Hub","The Greens would modernize the Kent Avenue Transfer Station, as part of planned long-range capital upgrades, to support waste and resource recovery.","The transfer station on Kent Avenue is owned and run by the city, and Council approves the capital plan that would pay for the upgrade.",{"title":3754,"detail":3755,"page":432,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3756},"Improved and expanded organics processing","The party would strengthen local composting and organics recovery to make service more reliable, cut emissions and advance the city's zero-waste goals.","Council sets the budget for the city's organics collection and its zero-waste goals.",{"title":3758,"detail":3759,"page":432,"authority":754,"authorityNote":3760},"Divert pet waste","The Greens would keep pet waste out of the landfill through dedicated collection, treatment and recovery systems.","Council would have to fund a new collection service through the city budget.",{"title":3762,"detail":3763,"page":432,"authority":744,"authorityNote":3764},"Reuse before waste","The party would support reusable foodware, takeout containers and packaging in restaurants and public venues to reduce single-use waste. It would advocate for the Province to expand extended producer responsibility, where the makers of a product pay for its recycling, to common single-use items by adding deposits and refunds.","The city can support reuse in local businesses and venues, but the platform says the deposit and refund change is for the Province to make.",[3766,3769,3772,3775,3778],{"question":3767,"answer":3768},"What is the Green Party of Vancouver's plan for recycling drop-off centres?","The Green Party of Vancouver would add more satellite Zero-Waste drop-off centres across the city. They would be supported by industrial hubs at False Creek Flats and on Kent Avenue (platform, page 16).",{"question":3770,"answer":3771},"What would the Vancouver Greens do with the Kent Avenue transfer station?","The Greens would modernize the Kent Avenue Transfer Station into a circular economy hub for waste and resource recovery. The platform says this would be part of planned long-range capital upgrades (platform, page 16).",{"question":3773,"answer":3774},"Does the Green Party of Vancouver want a separate collection for dog waste?","Yes. The party would divert pet waste from the landfill through dedicated collection, treatment and recovery systems (platform, page 16).",{"question":3776,"answer":3777},"Would the Vancouver Greens put deposits on takeout containers?","The Green Party of Vancouver would support reusable foodware and takeout containers in restaurants and public venues. For deposits and refunds on common single-use items, it says it would advocate to the Province, which would have to make that change (platform, page 16).",{"question":3779,"answer":3780},"Who would carry out the Green Party of Vancouver's zero waste plans?","City Council funds the city's waste services, and the city owns and runs the transfer station on Kent Avenue, so most of the chapter is Council's decision. The platform leaves the deposit and refund change to the Province (platform, page 16).","zero-waste","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fplatform-chapters\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver\u002Fsustainable-growth--zero-waste","The Green Party of Vancouver would add satellite Zero-Waste drop-off centres across the city, modernize the Kent Avenue Transfer Station into a circular economy hub, expand organics processing and collect pet waste separately. 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Arasi","152","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 152.",{"name":3854,"url":3855},{"slug":4312,"name":4313,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4314,"currentRole":13,"headline":4315,"sample":17,"party":4316},"moira-stilwell","Moira Stilwell","139","Vancouver Liberals candidate for city council, ballot number 139.",{"name":372,"url":371},{"slug":4318,"name":4319,"office":3838,"ballotNumber":4320,"currentRole":4321,"headline":4322,"sample":17,"party":4323},"muhammad-ahmad","Muhammad Ahmad","53","Communications professional and community advocate","Communications professional and community advocate running for mayor.",{"name":3854,"url":3855},{"slug":4325,"name":4326,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4327,"currentRole":13,"headline":4328,"sample":17,"party":4329},"naomi-chocyk","Naomi Chocyk","154","TrueBlue Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 154.",{"name":3892,"url":3893},{"slug":4331,"name":4332,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4333,"currentRole":13,"headline":4334,"sample":17,"party":4335},"niknaz-alemi","Niknaz Alemi","231","Independent Parks Party candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 231.",{"name":3912,"url":3913},{"slug":4337,"name":4338,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4339,"currentRole":13,"headline":4340,"sample":17,"party":13},"noi-soudarack","Noi Soudarack","153","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 153.",{"slug":4342,"name":4343,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4344,"currentRole":13,"headline":4345,"sample":17,"party":4346},"noosha-mehdian","Noosha Mehdian","313","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the School Board, ballot number 313.",{"name":372,"url":371},{"slug":4348,"name":4349,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4350,"currentRole":13,"headline":4351,"sample":17,"party":13},"parris-j-williams","Parris J. Williams","143","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 143.",{"slug":4353,"name":4354,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4355,"currentRole":13,"headline":4356,"sample":17,"party":4357},"patrick-sauriol","Patrick Sauriol","142","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 142.",{"name":3792,"url":3793},{"slug":4359,"name":28,"office":3838,"ballotNumber":4360,"currentRole":4215,"headline":4361,"sample":17,"party":4362},"pete-fry","51","Vancouver city councillor running for mayor.",{"name":47,"url":358},{"slug":4364,"name":4365,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4366,"currentRole":4215,"headline":4216,"sample":17,"party":4367},"peter-meiszner","Peter Meiszner","109",{"name":3801,"url":3802},{"slug":4369,"name":4370,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4371,"currentRole":3798,"headline":3799,"sample":17,"party":4372},"preeti-faridkot","Preeti Faridkot","320",{"name":3801,"url":3802},{"slug":4374,"name":4375,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4376,"currentRole":13,"headline":4377,"sample":17,"party":4378},"raj-mundra","Raj Mundra","130","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 130.",{"name":3792,"url":3793},{"slug":4380,"name":4381,"office":3838,"ballotNumber":4382,"currentRole":4215,"headline":4361,"sample":17,"party":4383},"rebecca-bligh","Rebecca Bligh","52",{"name":3833,"url":3834},{"slug":4385,"name":4386,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4387,"currentRole":13,"headline":4388,"sample":17,"party":4389},"rebecca-hasdell","Rebecca Hasdell","114","Vote Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 114.",{"name":3833,"url":3834},{"slug":4391,"name":4392,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4393,"currentRole":13,"headline":4394,"sample":17,"party":4395},"rob-nijjar","Rob Nijjar","316","ABC Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 316.",{"name":3801,"url":3802},{"slug":4397,"name":4398,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4399,"currentRole":13,"headline":4400,"sample":17,"party":13},"rollergirl","ROLLERGIRL","133","Independent candidate for city council, ballot number 133.",{"slug":4402,"name":4403,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4404,"currentRole":13,"headline":4405,"sample":17,"party":4406},"rory-brown","Rory Brown","302","OneCity candidate for the School Board, ballot number 302.",{"name":3920,"url":3921},{"slug":4408,"name":4409,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4410,"currentRole":13,"headline":4411,"sample":17,"party":4412},"sacia-burton","Sacia Burton","215","COPE candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 215.",{"name":3952,"url":3953},{"slug":4414,"name":4415,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4416,"currentRole":4215,"headline":4216,"sample":17,"party":4417},"sarah-kirby-yung","Sarah Kirby-Yung","135",{"name":3801,"url":3802},{"slug":4419,"name":4420,"office":3838,"ballotNumber":4421,"currentRole":3840,"headline":4422,"sample":17,"party":13},"scott-gilbert","Scott Gilbert","57","Independent candidate for mayor, ballot number 57.",{"slug":4424,"name":4425,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4426,"currentRole":4089,"headline":4090,"sample":17,"party":4427},"scott-jensen","Scott Jensen","220",{"name":372,"url":371},{"slug":4429,"name":4430,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4431,"currentRole":4215,"headline":4216,"sample":17,"party":4432},"sean-orr","Sean Orr","111",{"name":3952,"url":3953},{"slug":4434,"name":4435,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4436,"currentRole":13,"headline":4437,"sample":17,"party":4438},"shayla-bird","Shayla Bird","211","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 211.",{"name":372,"url":371},{"slug":4440,"name":4441,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4442,"currentRole":13,"headline":4443,"sample":17,"party":4444},"sherry-breshears","Sherry Breshears","321","OneCity candidate for the School Board, ballot number 321.",{"name":3920,"url":3921},{"slug":4446,"name":4447,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4448,"currentRole":13,"headline":4449,"sample":17,"party":4450},"shirley-sio","Shirley Sio (邵己凌)","310","ABC Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 310.",{"name":3801,"url":3802},{"slug":4452,"name":4453,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4454,"currentRole":13,"headline":4455,"sample":17,"party":4456},"solomon-yi-kieran","Solomon Yi-Kieran","155","COPE candidate for city council, ballot number 155.",{"name":3952,"url":3953},{"slug":4458,"name":4459,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4460,"currentRole":13,"headline":4461,"sample":17,"party":4462},"spencer-van-vloten","Spencer van Vloten","212","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 212.",{"name":47,"url":358},{"slug":4464,"name":4465,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4466,"currentRole":13,"headline":4467,"sample":17,"party":4468},"stephanie-smith","Stephanie Smith","147","Green Party of Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 147.",{"name":47,"url":358},{"slug":4470,"name":4471,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4472,"currentRole":13,"headline":4473,"sample":17,"party":4474},"stephen-menon","Stephen Menon","200","Vote Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 200.",{"name":3833,"url":3834},{"slug":4476,"name":4477,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4478,"currentRole":13,"headline":4479,"sample":17,"party":4480},"stephen-molnar","Stephen Molnar","207","ABC Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 207.",{"name":3801,"url":3802},{"slug":4482,"name":4483,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4484,"currentRole":13,"headline":4485,"sample":17,"party":4486},"steve-cardwell","Steve Cardwell","328","OneCity candidate for the School Board, ballot number 328.",{"name":3920,"url":3921},{"slug":4488,"name":4489,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4490,"currentRole":13,"headline":4491,"sample":17,"party":4492},"steve-jedreicich","Steve Jedreicich","112","Vote Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 112.",{"name":3833,"url":3834},{"slug":4494,"name":4495,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4496,"currentRole":13,"headline":4497,"sample":17,"party":4498},"summit-wannamaker","Summit Wannamaker","210","Vote Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 210.",{"name":3833,"url":3834},{"slug":4500,"name":4501,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4502,"currentRole":3798,"headline":3799,"sample":17,"party":4503},"suzie-mah","Suzie Mah","304",{"name":3952,"url":3953},{"slug":4505,"name":4506,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4507,"currentRole":13,"headline":4508,"sample":17,"party":4509},"t-uy-t-tanat-cease-wyss","T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss","203","COPE candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 203.",{"name":3952,"url":3953},{"slug":4511,"name":4512,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4513,"currentRole":13,"headline":4514,"sample":17,"party":4515},"tamiko-suzuki","Tamiko Suzuki","206","COPE candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 206.",{"name":3952,"url":3953},{"slug":4517,"name":4518,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4519,"currentRole":13,"headline":4520,"sample":17,"party":4521},"tasha-doucas","Tasha Doucas","306","Vote Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 306.",{"name":3833,"url":3834},{"slug":4523,"name":4524,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4525,"currentRole":4089,"headline":4090,"sample":17,"party":4526},"tom-digby","Tom Digby","222",{"name":47,"url":358},{"slug":4528,"name":4529,"office":664,"ballotNumber":4530,"currentRole":13,"headline":4531,"sample":17,"party":4532},"travers-fenton","Travers Fenton","307","TrueBlue Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 307.",{"name":3892,"url":3893},{"slug":4534,"name":4535,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4536,"currentRole":13,"headline":4537,"sample":17,"party":4538},"tricia-barker","Tricia Barker","229","Vancouver Liberals candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 229.",{"name":372,"url":371},{"slug":4540,"name":4541,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4542,"currentRole":13,"headline":4543,"sample":17,"party":4544},"tyler-petersen","Tyler Petersen","214","OneCity candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 214.",{"name":3920,"url":3921},{"slug":4546,"name":4547,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4548,"currentRole":3798,"headline":4549,"sample":17,"party":4550},"victoria-jung","Victoria Jung","107","Vancouver School Board trustee running for city council.",{"name":372,"url":371},{"slug":4552,"name":4553,"office":623,"ballotNumber":4554,"currentRole":13,"headline":4555,"sample":17,"party":4556},"wah-gee","Wah Gee","233","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver candidate for the Park Board, ballot number 233.",{"name":3792,"url":3793},{"slug":4558,"name":4559,"office":428,"ballotNumber":4560,"currentRole":13,"headline":4561,"sample":17,"party":4562},"yadwinder-mangat","Yadwinder Mangat","116","Bright Future Vancouver candidate for city council, ballot number 116.",{"name":3854,"url":3855},[4564,4993,5138,5362,5704,5884,6136,6450,7008,7263,7554],{"id":4565,"aliases":4566,"checkedAt":18,"declaredColour":4567,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":4572,"history":4573,"leadership":4577,"logo":13,"meta":4581,"money":4582,"name":3801,"news":4587,"overview":4591,"palette":4595,"platform":4598,"questions":4867,"record":4904,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":3801,"slug":4951,"sources":4952,"stem":4990,"summary":4991,"website":3802,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":4992},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fabc-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":4568,"note":4569,"cites":4570},"#0D6068","Assigned by voche.me. No brand colour could be read from the party site.",[4571],"abc-home","The governing party, running the mayor and 23 more candidates",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4574,"gaps":4575,"entries":4576},[20,21],[23],[],[4578],{"role":4579,"name":4200,"cites":4580},"Mayor and mayoral candidate",[4571,30],{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4583,"gaps":4584,"searchUrl":39,"filings":4585,"notes":4586},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4588,"gaps":4589,"entries":4590},[50],[52],[],[4592,4593,4594],"ABC Vancouver goes into the October 17, 2026 election as the governing party. Ken Sim has been mayor since 2022 and is running again at ballot number 54.","ABC is running 24 candidates, more than any other party: the mayor, 9 for City Council, 7 for Park Board and 7 for School Board. It is one of only two parties running a full or near-full slate in all four races.","Its published platform is organised into five headings: public safety and street disorder, affordability and accountability at City Hall, jobs and economy, restoring Vancouver, and raising Vancouver. Several of its commitments carry a number attached, which is unusual on this ballot and makes them easier to check later.",{"accent":4568,"onAccent":61,"tint":4596,"ink":4597},"#E3F5F7","#1F727A",[4599,4622,4644,4689,4708,4752,4774,4815,4824,4843],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":4600,"proposals":4604,"questions":4611,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4612,"gaps":4616,"headline":4620,"summary":4621},[4601,4602,4603],"Housing does not have its own heading in ABC’s published platform. The one commitment that bears on it directly is a promise to make permitting faster and easier, which sits under \"Restoring Vancouver\".","We looked for a housing target, an affordable housing commitment and a rental protection policy on the party website on September 22, 2026 and found none published.","This is a finding about the published platform on that date, and it is not a statement about what ABC would do in office.",[4605],{"title":4606,"detail":4607,"cites":4608,"authority":4610},"Make City Hall permitting faster and easier","The platform commits to making permitting faster and easier and to continuing to streamline City Hall operations.",[4609],"abc-platform","Council and city staff control the permit process.",[],[4613,4614,4615],"The ABC Vancouver platform page","The ABC Vancouver home page","A web search for ABC Vancouver housing policy, September 2026",[4617,4618,4619],"No housing supply target is published.","No affordable or non-market housing commitment is published.","No rental or tenant protection policy is published.","Faster permits, and no published housing target","ABC’s published platform commits to making City Hall permitting faster and easier. It does not publish a housing supply target, an affordability target or a rental policy.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":4623,"proposals":4626,"questions":4636,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4637,"gaps":4638,"headline":4642,"summary":4643},[4624,4625],"ABC does not publish a separate homelessness section. Its commitments that touch the subject are the same ones that appear under public safety: more than 100 involuntary care beds, moving drug consumption sites away from schools and parks, and good neighbour agreements for public housing where there is street disorder.","We found no published commitment on shelter spaces, encampments or supportive housing supply on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[4627,4632],{"title":4628,"detail":4629,"cites":4630,"authority":4631},"Fight for 100 plus involuntary care beds","The same commitment that appears under public safety. ABC would press the province to fund more than 100 involuntary care beds.",[4609,4571],"Provincial.",{"title":4633,"detail":4634,"cites":4635},"Non-profit oversight for public housing with street disorder","ABC would add non-profit oversight and a good neighbour agreement for all public housing where street disorder is an issue.",[4609],[],[4613,4614],[4639,4640,4641],"No shelter space commitment is published.","No supportive housing supply commitment is published.","No encampment policy is published.","Treatment beds and drug sites, handled as a safety question","ABC addresses homelessness and drugs inside its public safety heading, through involuntary care beds, drug site locations and oversight of public housing.",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":4645,"proposals":4649,"questions":4675,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4684,"gaps":4686,"headline":4687,"summary":4688},[4646,4647,4648],"Public safety is the first heading on ABC’s published platform, and it is the area where the party has put the most specific commitments in writing.","Two of these reach beyond what a city council can do on its own. Involuntary care beds and drug consumption site rules are provincial decisions. ABC’s own wording is that it will \"fight for\" the beds, which is a request to the province rather than a promise the city can keep by itself.","ABC also placed two questions on the October 17 ballot alongside the candidate races. One asks whether the city should strengthen its laws against open-air hard drug use. The other asks whether the city should formally request that the province convert part of the old St Paul’s Hospital, or a similar site, into a secure facility with voluntary and involuntary care beds.",[4650,4656,4661,4666,4671],{"title":4651,"detail":4652,"cites":4653,"authority":4655},"Ban open-air hard drug use in public spaces","ABC would change city bylaws to forbid using hard drugs in public. A plebiscite question on the same subject appears on the October 17 ballot.",[4609,4654],"plebiscite","City Council sets bylaws. Drug possession law is federal and provincial.",{"title":4657,"detail":4658,"cites":4659,"authority":4660},"Give police a streamlined tool to seize hard drugs","The platform commits to \"give police a streamlined tool to seize hard drugs\". The wording of the tool is not published.",[4609],"The Vancouver Police Board directs the police department. Council approves its budget.",{"title":4662,"detail":4663,"cites":4664,"cost":132,"authority":4665},"Fight for 100 plus involuntary care beds in Vancouver","ABC would press the province to fund more than 100 involuntary care beds for people with severe substance use and mental health disorders.",[4609,4571],"Health care, including involuntary care, is a provincial responsibility.",{"title":4667,"detail":4668,"cites":4669,"authority":4670},"Move drug consumption sites away from schools and parks","The platform commits to \"mandate provincial drug consumption sites away from schools & parks\".",[4609],"These sites are approved and funded provincially.",{"title":4672,"detail":4673,"cites":4674},"Good neighbour agreements for public housing with street disorder","ABC would add non-profit oversight and require a good neighbour agreement for all public housing where street disorder is an issue.",[4609],[4676,4680],{"question":4677,"answer":4678,"cites":4679},"Can a city council ban drug use in public by itself?","A council can pass a bylaw about behaviour in public space, and it can direct city staff to enforce it. It cannot change the criminal law, and it cannot order the police, because the Vancouver Police Board directs the department. ABC also put the question to voters as a plebiscite on October 17, which does not by itself change any law.",[4609,4654],{"question":4681,"answer":4682,"cites":4683},"What are involuntary care beds?","These are hospital or facility beds where a person can be kept and treated without agreeing to it, under provincial mental health law. Vancouver city council does not run them, fund them or decide who goes into one. A city can ask the province for more of them, which is what ABC has committed to do.",[4609],[4613,4614,4685],"The City of Vancouver notice on the plebiscite questions",[],"Ban open-air hard drug use and give police a seizure tool","ABC would ban hard drug use in public spaces, push the province for more than 100 involuntary care beds, and move drug consumption sites away from schools and parks.",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":4690,"proposals":4692,"questions":4701,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4702,"gaps":4703,"headline":4706,"summary":4707},[4691],"ABC’s published transport commitments come from the affordability and infrastructure parts of its platform rather than a transport section.",[4693,4697],{"title":4694,"detail":4695,"cites":4696},"Prioritise road and sidewalk repair","The platform commits to prioritising investments in roads and sidewalk repairs and renewal.",[4609],{"title":4698,"detail":4699,"cites":4700},"A city-wide universal parking app","ABC would mandate a single city-wide parking app alongside removing pay parking at beaches and community centres.",[4609],[],[4613],[4704,4705],"No transit commitment is published.","No cycling or road safety commitment is published.","Parking fees removed, roads and sidewalks repaired","ABC’s transport commitments are about parking and road repair. It publishes no transit, cycling or road safety commitment.",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":4709,"proposals":4713,"questions":4737,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4747,"gaps":4749,"headline":4750,"summary":4751},[4710,4711,4712],"ABC’s parks and recreation commitments sit under two platform headings, \"Jobs & Economy\" and \"Restoring Vancouver\", rather than under a parks heading.","This is the largest dollar figure any party has attached to a single commitment on this ballot. The platform does not say which five community centres, or over how many years the $400 million would be spent.","ABC also asked the province to abolish the elected Park Board during the last term. The mayor has since said he will not try to eliminate the board if re-elected. Seven Park Board seats are being filled on October 17 and ABC is running seven candidates for them.",[4714,4720,4725,4729,4733],{"title":4715,"detail":4716,"cites":4717,"cost":4718,"authority":4719},"Rebuild or revamp 5 community centres","The platform commits to rebuilding or revamping five community centres for $400 million, and to starting a second phase of another five in the next capital plan.",[4609],"$400 million","Capital spending is approved by Council through the capital plan.",{"title":4721,"detail":4722,"cites":4723,"cost":4724},"Rebuild the Vancouver Aquatic Centre with a 50 metre pool","The commitment is worded \"Rebuild the Vancouver Aquatic Centre with a 50M pool, at cost\".",[4609],"Stated as \"at cost\"",{"title":4726,"detail":4727,"cites":4728},"Deliver the River District Community Centre","The platform commits to delivering the River District Community Centre.",[4609],{"title":4730,"detail":4731,"cites":4732,"cost":132},"Create a playground improvement fund","ABC would create a fund for playground improvements. No amount is published.",[4609],{"title":4734,"detail":4735,"cites":4736},"More pools, rinks and ice time","The platform commits to revamping and investing in recreational facilities, naming more pools, rinks and ice time.",[4609],[4738,4742],{"question":4739,"answer":4740,"cites":4741},"Which five community centres would be rebuilt?","The platform does not name them. It commits $400 million to five, and a second group of five in the next capital plan. We checked the platform page on September 22, 2026 and no list was published.",[4609],{"question":4743,"answer":4744,"cites":4745},"Does ABC still want to abolish the Park Board?","ABC-led council asked the province to change the Vancouver Charter to remove the elected Park Board during the last term. Mayor Ken Sim has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected. The board still exists and seven commissioners are being elected on October 17.",[4746],"cbc-parkboard",[4613,4748],"News coverage of the Park Board governance question",[],"$400 million to rebuild five community centres","ABC commits $400 million to rebuild or revamp five community centres, with another five in the next capital plan, plus a rebuilt Aquatic Centre with a 50 metre pool.",{"issue":214,"paragraphs":4753,"proposals":4756,"questions":4770,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4771,"gaps":4772,"headline":4758,"summary":4773},[4754,4755],"ABC is running seven School Board candidates. Its school commitments appear under the \"Restoring Vancouver\" and \"Raising Vancouver\" headings of its platform rather than a schools heading.","The school tax commitment is a request to the province. School tax is collected on Vancouver properties and goes into provincial general revenue. A school board can ask for that to change; it cannot change it.",[4757,4762,4766],{"title":4758,"detail":4759,"cites":4760,"authority":4761},"Keep Vancouver school tax in Vancouver","The platform commits to \"fight to ensure provincial school tax collected in Vancouver goes to Vancouver schools\".",[4609],"School tax and the funding formula are set by the province.",{"title":4763,"detail":4764,"cites":4765,"cost":132},"Increase teaching assistance in classrooms","ABC commits to \"increase teaching assistance by investing in our classrooms\".",[4609],{"title":4767,"detail":4768,"cites":4769},"A performance based action committee for families","The platform commits to creating \"a strict performance based action committee to set better metrics for families\".",[4609],[],[4613],[],"ABC would fight to keep provincial school tax collected in Vancouver in Vancouver schools, increase classroom teaching assistance, and bring swimming lessons into the school day.",{"issue":244,"paragraphs":4775,"proposals":4779,"questions":4802,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4811,"gaps":4812,"headline":4813,"summary":4814},[4776,4777,4778],"ABC has published a number here rather than a direction, which makes it one of the few commitments on this ballot that can be checked against a council vote later.","The two pages do not agree on the year. The platform page says \"0% property tax increase in 2027 for buyers & renters\". The party home page describes the same commitment as applying to 2026. We have recorded the platform page wording, checked on September 22, 2026.","A property tax freeze holds the rate, not the bill. A household’s bill can still move if the assessed value of its property changes relative to other properties in the city.",[4780,4786,4790,4794,4798],{"title":4781,"detail":4782,"cites":4783,"cost":132,"authority":4784,"deadline":4785},"0% property tax increase in 2027","The platform commits to a zero percent property tax increase in 2027 for buyers and renters.",[4609],"Council sets the property tax rate each year.","2027 budget",{"title":4787,"detail":4788,"cites":4789},"Remove pay parking at beaches and community centres","ABC would end pay parking at beaches and community centres and require a single city-wide parking app.",[4609],{"title":4791,"detail":4792,"cites":4793},"End residential parking permit fees","The platform commits to ending the fee for a residential parking permit.",[4609],{"title":4795,"detail":4796,"cites":4797},"Expand VANSTAT to weekly check-ins","ABC would expand its department head meetings, which it calls VANSTAT, to a weekly check-in.",[4609],{"title":4799,"detail":4800,"cites":4801},"Spend only on municipal responsibilities","The platform commits to ensuring \"taxpayer dollars only go to municipal responsibilities\".",[4609],[4803,4807],{"question":4804,"answer":4805,"cites":4806},"Does a tax freeze mean my bill will not go up?","No. A freeze holds the overall rate the city collects. Your own bill depends on how your property is assessed compared with everyone else’s. If your assessment rises faster than the city average, your bill can rise in a year when the rate is frozen.",[4609],{"question":4808,"answer":4809,"cites":4810},"Which year does the freeze apply to?","ABC’s platform page says 2027. Its home page describes the same commitment as 2026. Both were checked on September 22, 2026. We have not asked the party which is correct.",[4609,4571],[4613,4614],[],"A zero percent property tax increase, and parking fees removed","ABC’s published platform commits to a 0% property tax increase in 2027, removing pay parking at beaches and community centres, and ending residential parking permit fees.",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":4816,"proposals":4817,"questions":4818,"state":4819,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4820,"gaps":4822},[],[],[],"none-published",[4613,4614,4821],"A web search for ABC Vancouver climate policy, September 2026",[4823],"No climate or building emissions commitment appears in the published platform.",{"issue":284,"paragraphs":4825,"proposals":4827,"questions":4836,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4837,"gaps":4838,"headline":4841,"summary":4842},[4826],"ABC’s culture commitments sit under its \"Jobs & Economy\" heading and are framed around the street and the events calendar rather than around artists or venues.",[4828,4832],{"title":4829,"detail":4830,"cites":4831},"Revitalise Granville Street and its pedestrian zone","The platform commits to revitalising Granville Street and its pedestrian zone.",[4609],{"title":4833,"detail":4834,"cites":4835,"cost":132},"A new funding model for major events","ABC commits to \"a new era of cooperation between the City & major events, along with a new funding model\".",[4609],[],[4613],[4839,4840],"No commitment on affordable artist or rehearsal space is published.","No arts grant commitment is published.","Revitalise Granville Street and back major events","ABC commits to revitalising Granville Street and its pedestrian zone, and to a new funding model for major events.",{"issue":297,"paragraphs":4844,"proposals":4848,"questions":4863,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":4864,"gaps":4865,"headline":4850,"summary":4866},[4845,4846,4847],"The platform wording is \"Doubling down on childcare (double our 2000 new spaces)\". Read plainly that is a commitment to a further 2,000 spaces.","The claim that 2,000 spaces were created in the last term is ABC’s own account of its record. We have not checked it against city records.","A city creates child care spaces through zoning, city-owned buildings and money collected from developers. Licensing, subsidies and operating funding come from the province, so a city can build a room but cannot on its own decide what a parent pays.",[4849,4854,4858],{"title":4850,"detail":4851,"cites":4852,"cost":132,"authority":4853},"Double the 2,000 new child care spaces","The platform commits to doubling what it describes as 2,000 new spaces created in the last term.",[4609],"The city creates spaces. The province licenses them and sets funding.",{"title":4855,"detail":4856,"cites":4857},"Expand after-school programming","ABC commits to expanding after-school programming and keeping extracurricular activities in Vancouver.",[4609],{"title":4859,"detail":4860,"cites":4861,"authority":4862},"Bring swimming lessons into the school day","The platform commits to bringing swimming lessons into the school day.",[4609],"Delivered with the Board of Education and the Park Board.",[],[4613],[],"ABC commits to \"doubling down on childcare\", which its platform defines as doubling the 2,000 new spaces it says it created.",[4868,4872,4876,4880,4884,4888,4892,4896,4900],{"question":4869,"answer":4870,"cites":4871},"Who leads ABC Vancouver?","Ken Sim is the mayor of Vancouver and ABC’s mayoral candidate. He appears at ballot number 54. Whether he is also the registered leader of the elector organisation is a separate question we have not checked.",[4571,30],{"question":4873,"answer":4874,"cites":4875},"How many candidates is ABC running?","24, the largest slate on the ballot: the mayor, 9 for City Council, 7 for Park Board and 7 for School Board.",[30],{"question":4877,"answer":4878,"cites":4879},"What is ABC’s biggest single spending commitment?","$400 million to rebuild or revamp five community centres, with a second group of five in the next capital plan. The platform does not name the five centres or give a timeline.",[4609],{"question":4881,"answer":4882,"cites":4883},"Does ABC promise to freeze property taxes?","Its platform page commits to a 0% property tax increase in 2027. Its home page describes the same commitment as applying to 2026. We recorded the platform page wording on September 22, 2026.",[4609,4571],{"question":4885,"answer":4886,"cites":4887},"What does ABC say about drugs in public?","It would ban open-air hard drug use in public spaces, give police a tool to seize hard drugs, and move provincial drug consumption sites away from schools and parks. A plebiscite question on the same subject is on the October 17 ballot.",[4609,4654],{"question":4889,"answer":4890,"cites":4891},"Does ABC have a published housing plan?","Not as a section of its platform. The one published commitment that bears on housing is to make permitting faster and easier. We found no supply target, affordability target or rental policy on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[4609],{"question":4893,"answer":4894,"cites":4895},"Does ABC have a published climate policy?","We found none on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[4571,4609],{"question":4897,"answer":4898,"cites":4899},"Is ABC still trying to abolish the Park Board?","ABC-led council asked the province to remove the elected Park Board during the last term. Mayor Ken Sim has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected. Seven commissioners are being elected on October 17 and ABC is running seven candidates.",[4746],{"question":4901,"answer":4902,"cites":4903},"Where can I see ABC’s campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is not due until about mid-January 2027, so what is on the record now is the yearly reports and the 2022 election filings.",[345,346],{"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":4905,"searched":4906,"gaps":4910,"entries":4913},"2026-09-23",[4907,4908,4909],"The party website and platform pages","City of Vancouver council decision and budget-approval records","Independent news coverage of council votes (CBC, Daily Hive)",[4911,4912],"Police-hiring and mental-health-worker hiring figures were checked against multiple sources that disagreed on the exact current count; they are not included here until a single primary source (VPD Board or Vancouver Coastal Health reporting) can be confirmed directly.","Co-op housing and childcare-space completion figures from third-party coverage were not independently confirmed against a City or BC Housing primary source and are not included here.",[4914,4920,4926,4932,4938,4945],{"date":4915,"title":4916,"body":4917,"cites":4918},"2023-03-01","2023 property tax increase: 10.7%, the largest in over a decade","ABC Vancouver's council majority approved a 10.7% property tax increase for 2023, up from the 9.7% in the original draft budget after an amendment moved by Mayor Ken Sim. It was the largest single-year increase in more than ten years, following a mayoral campaign that had not proposed a tax increase of this size.",[4919],"cov-2023-budget",{"date":4921,"title":4922,"body":4923,"cites":4924},"2023-12-14","2024 property tax increase: 7.5%, passed 8 to 3","Council approved a 7.5% property tax increase for the 2024 operating budget, made up of 1% for infrastructure renewal, 3% for Vancouver Police Department funding and 3.5% for general City services. The budget motion passed 8 to 3, with Mayor Ken Sim and the ABC Vancouver council majority voting in favour.",[4925],"cov-2024-budget",{"date":4927,"title":4928,"body":4929,"cites":4930},"2024-12-10","2025 property tax increase: 3.9%","Council approved a 3.9% property tax increase for the 2025 budget, a smaller increase than either of the two prior years, made up of 2.9% for City services and 1% for infrastructure renewal.",[4931],"cov-2025-budget",{"date":4933,"title":4934,"body":4935,"cites":4936},"2025-11-25","2026 property tax increase: 0%, after three straight increases","Council approved a 0% property tax increase for 2026, following Mayor Ken Sim's 'zero means zero' motion passed in October 2025. The vote on the final budget was 7 to 4, with councillors Rebecca Bligh, Pete Fry, Sean Orr and Lucy Maloney voting against. Over the full term, the combined increase across 2023 through 2025 was 10.7%, 7.5% and 3.9%, before the 2026 freeze.",[4937],"cov-2026-budget",{"date":4939,"title":4940,"body":4941,"cites":4942},"2025-02-10","Permit processing times improved but most targets remain unmet","The council-adopted 3-3-3-1 permitting targets set goals of 3 days for simple renovation permits, 3 weeks for single-family and townhouse permits, 3 months for mid-rise buildings on land already zoned, and 1 year for high-rises. By 2025, the City reported 92% of simple renovation permits issued within 3 days, meeting that target. Single-family home permits improved from 250 days in 2022 to 160 days in 2025, a 36% reduction, but remained well above the 21-day (3-week) target.",[4943,4944],"cov-permit-update","dh-93-promises",{"date":4946,"title":4947,"body":4948,"cites":4949},"2026-06-01","Multiplex permit approvals reported 50% faster","The City reported that multiplex permit approval times had improved by 50% as of June 2026, part of the same permitting-speed push behind the 3-3-3-1 targets adopted under the ABC-majority council.",[4950],"cov-multiplex-permits","abc-vancouver",[4953,4955,4958,4961,4965,4966,4967,4968,4969,4972,4975,4978,4981,4984,4987],{"id":4571,"label":4954,"url":3802,"publisher":3801,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"ABC Vancouver home page",{"id":4609,"label":4956,"url":4957,"publisher":3801,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"ABC Vancouver platform","https:\u002F\u002Fabcvancouver.ca\u002Fplatform",{"id":4654,"label":4959,"url":4960,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},"Council adds plebiscite question to Vancouver election ballot","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-adds-plebiscite-question-to-vancouver-election-ballot-august-2026.aspx",{"id":4746,"label":4962,"url":4963,"publisher":4964,"kind":367,"checkedAt":18},"Vancouver mayor says he will not try to eliminate the park board if re-elected","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fken-sim-park-board-stays-9.7268871","CBC News",{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":4919,"label":4970,"url":4971,"publisher":4964,"kind":367,"publishedAt":4915,"checkedAt":4905},"Vancouver passes new budget with 10.7% property tax increase","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fvancouver-budget-property-tax-increase-1.6763926",{"id":4925,"label":4973,"url":4974,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"publishedAt":4921,"checkedAt":4905},"Vancouver City Council approves 2024 Operating Budget","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-approves-2024-operating-budget-dec-2023.aspx",{"id":4931,"label":4976,"url":4977,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"publishedAt":4927,"checkedAt":4905},"Vancouver City Council approves 2025 operating and capital budget with 3.9% property tax increase","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-approves-2025-operating-and-capital-budget-dec-2024.aspx",{"id":4937,"label":4979,"url":4980,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"publishedAt":4933,"checkedAt":4905},"Vancouver City Council approves 2026 Budget with 0% property tax increase","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-approves-0-property-tax-nov-2025.aspx",{"id":4943,"label":4982,"url":4983,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"publishedAt":4939,"checkedAt":4905},"3-3-3-1 permitting program update, council memo","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Ffiles\u002Fcov\u002F2025-02-10-council-memo-3-3-3-1-permitting-program-update.pdf",{"id":4944,"label":4985,"url":4986,"publisher":366,"kind":367,"checkedAt":4905},"Ken Sim made 93 campaign promises in 2022. How did he do?","https:\u002F\u002Fdailyhive.com\u002Fvancouver\u002Fken-sim-2022-campaign-promises",{"id":4950,"label":4988,"url":4989,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"publishedAt":4946,"checkedAt":4905},"Permitting is getting easier in Vancouver with multiplex approvals now 50% faster","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fpermitting-easier-multiplex-approvals-faster-june-2026.aspx","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fabc-vancouver","ABC Vancouver holds the mayor’s chair and is running 24 candidates in 2026, the largest slate on the ballot. Its published platform leads with a property tax freeze, a ban on open-air hard drug use, and $400 million for community centres.","e2_gb8RavKbZYTZ7c-cYUTGATk2dB7AENvR_ZN4syGc",{"id":4994,"aliases":4995,"checkedAt":18,"declaredColour":4996,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":5000,"history":5001,"leadership":5005,"logo":13,"meta":5006,"money":5007,"name":4024,"news":5012,"overview":5016,"palette":5020,"platform":5024,"questions":5091,"record":5123,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":4024,"slug":5127,"sources":5128,"stem":5135,"summary":5136,"website":4025,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":5137},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Faffordable-housing.json",[],{"hex":4997,"note":9,"cites":4998},"#3361a1",[4999],"ah-home","One candidate, for City Council",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5002,"gaps":5003,"entries":5004},[20,21],[23],[],[],{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5008,"gaps":5009,"searchUrl":39,"filings":5010,"notes":5011},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5013,"gaps":5014,"entries":5015},[50],[52],[],[5017,5018,5019],"The Affordable Housing party is running one candidate, for City Council. It is the smallest party on this ballot.","We checked the party website on September 22, 2026. The page held a heading and no policy content. The name of the party is the clearest statement of its subject.","Every issue page for this party records what we searched and when. None of them asserts a position, because none has been published.",{"accent":5021,"onAccent":61,"tint":5022,"ink":5023},"#3361A1","#E4ECF6","#254674",[5025,5034,5043,5049,5055,5061,5067,5073,5079,5085],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":5026,"proposals":5027,"questions":5028,"state":4819,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5029,"gaps":5032},[],[],[],[5030,5031],"The party website at affordablehousingvancouver.ca","A web search for the party name with Vancouver housing policy, September 2026",[5033],"No housing policy is published on the party website, which is the subject the party is named after.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":5035,"proposals":5036,"questions":5037,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5038,"gaps":5041},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.affordablehousingvancouver.ca\u002F","A web search for the party name with the issue name, September 2026",[5042],"This issue has not yet been researched for this party.",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":5044,"proposals":5045,"questions":5046,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5047,"gaps":5048},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":164,"paragraphs":5050,"proposals":5051,"questions":5052,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5053,"gaps":5054},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":184,"paragraphs":5056,"proposals":5057,"questions":5058,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5059,"gaps":5060},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":214,"paragraphs":5062,"proposals":5063,"questions":5064,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5065,"gaps":5066},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":244,"paragraphs":5068,"proposals":5069,"questions":5070,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5071,"gaps":5072},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":257,"paragraphs":5074,"proposals":5075,"questions":5076,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5077,"gaps":5078},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":284,"paragraphs":5080,"proposals":5081,"questions":5082,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5083,"gaps":5084},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":297,"paragraphs":5086,"proposals":5087,"questions":5088,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5089,"gaps":5090},[],[],[],[5039,159,5040],[5042],[5092,5096,5100,5104,5108,5112,5116,5119],{"question":5093,"answer":5094,"cites":5095},"How many candidates does this party have?","One, for City Council. It is the smallest party on the 2026 Vancouver ballot.",[30],{"question":5097,"answer":5098,"cites":5099},"What is its platform?","We found none published. We checked the party website on September 22, 2026 and the page held a heading with no policy content.",[4999],{"question":5101,"answer":5102,"cites":5103},"Does the party name tell me its position?","It tells you the subject, not the policy. A party named Affordable Housing has said what it cares about. What it would actually do about it has not been published.",[4999],{"question":5105,"answer":5106,"cites":5107},"Who leads the party?","No leader is named on the website, checked September 22, 2026.",[4999],{"question":5109,"answer":5110,"cites":5111},"Can one councillor change anything?","Council has ten councillors and a mayor, and decisions need six votes. One councillor can put motions forward, speak in debates and vote, but cannot pass anything alone.",[30],{"question":5113,"answer":5114,"cites":5115},"Why does this party have the same pages as ABC?","Every party on this site gets the same page structure, so the shape of a page never suggests that one party matters more. What differs is how much each party has published. Pages with nothing sourced on them are kept out of search results.",[4999],{"question":5117,"answer":343,"cites":5118},"Where can I see its campaign finances?",[345,346],{"question":5120,"answer":5121,"cites":5122},"How do I find out more before voting?","Read the candidate profile linked from this page, and check the party website for a platform closer to October 17. Advance voting runs October 3, 7, 10 and 13.",[4999,30],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5124,"gaps":5125,"entries":5126},[20,349],[351],[],"affordable-housing",[5129,5131,5132,5133,5134],{"id":4999,"label":5130,"url":4025,"publisher":4024,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"Affordable Housing party website",{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Faffordable-housing","The Affordable Housing party is running one candidate for City Council. It is the smallest party on the 2026 ballot. We found no published platform on its website.","BsoEy_-nId6kt0MWiTUydQQHTtBi7RuMgf1CqC8VSBc",{"id":5139,"aliases":5140,"checkedAt":18,"declaredColour":5141,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":5145,"history":5146,"leadership":5150,"logo":13,"meta":5153,"money":5154,"name":3854,"news":5159,"overview":5163,"palette":5168,"platform":5172,"questions":5308,"record":5343,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":3854,"slug":5347,"sources":5348,"stem":5359,"summary":5360,"website":3855,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":5361},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fbright-future-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":5142,"note":9,"cites":5143},"#12a5db",[5144],"bf-home","Free transit, 24 hour child care and a 21 day permit rule",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5147,"gaps":5148,"entries":5149},[20,21],[23],[],[5151],{"role":27,"name":4319,"cites":5152},[5144,30],{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5155,"gaps":5156,"searchUrl":39,"filings":5157,"notes":5158},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5160,"gaps":5161,"entries":5162},[50],[52],[],[5164,5165,5166,5167],"Bright Future Vancouver is running 7 candidates: Muhammad Ahmad for mayor at ballot number 53, and 6 for City Council. It is not contesting Park Board or School Board.","It is one of only two parties on this ballot running for mayor and council but neither of the two boards.","Its published commitments are unusually specific for a smaller party. Several carry a number: 20% rent-to-own equity, 100% free resident transit, a 24 hour child care vision, a 21 day permit rule and a 2% fair share surcharge.","The party calls its platform the Blueprint.",{"accent":5169,"onAccent":61,"tint":5170,"ink":5171},"#0E7EA7","#E3F2F7","#1F627A",[5173,5192,5206,5213,5237,5243,5249,5273,5286,5292],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":5174,"proposals":5177,"questions":5186,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5187,"gaps":5189,"headline":5179,"summary":5191},[5175,5176],"Rent-to-own means part of what a tenant pays in rent builds up as a stake in the home, so that renting moves someone toward owning rather than only covering a landlord’s costs.","The party publishes the figure 20% but has not published how the scheme would be funded, who would run it or which homes it would apply to.",[5178,5182],{"title":5179,"detail":5180,"cites":5181,"cost":132},"20% rent-to-own equity","The party commits to rent-to-own equity of 20%.",[5144],{"title":5183,"detail":5184,"cites":5185},"Secure affordable rentals and local-first housing protections","The party commits to secured affordable rentals and local-first housing protections.",[5144],[],[5188],"The Bright Future Vancouver home page",[5190],"No detail is published on how rent-to-own would be funded or administered.","Bright Future commits to rent-to-own equity of 20%, secured affordable rentals and local-first housing protections.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":5193,"proposals":5195,"questions":5201,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5202,"gaps":5203,"headline":5197,"summary":5205},[5194],"The party publishes the phrase \"treatment-first crisis response\" without further detail. Treatment services are provincial, so a city would be pressing the province rather than delivering this itself.",[5196],{"title":5197,"detail":5198,"cites":5199,"authority":5200},"Treatment-first crisis response","The party commits to a treatment-first crisis response.",[5144],"Treatment services are provincial.",[],[5188],[5204],"No detail is published on what a treatment-first response would involve.","Bright Future commits to a treatment-first crisis response.",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":5207,"proposals":5208,"questions":5209,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5210,"gaps":5212},[],[],[],[5211,159,5040],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.brightfuturevancouver.ca\u002F",[5042],{"issue":164,"paragraphs":5214,"proposals":5218,"questions":5229,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5234,"gaps":5235,"headline":5220,"summary":5236},[5215,5216,5217],"Free transit for every resident is the largest transport commitment published by any party in this election. COPE goes as far as free transit for under-18s; Bright Future publishes 100%.","Fares are set by TransLink, a regional body that Vancouver does not control. A city can contribute money toward a fare programme and can advocate through the Mayors’ Council, but it cannot make transit free by a council vote.","The party has not published what free transit would cost or who would pay for it.",[5219,5224],{"title":5220,"detail":5221,"cites":5222,"cost":132,"authority":5223},"100% free transit for residents","The party commits to free transit for Vancouver residents, alongside fare relief, safer stations and faster buses.",[5144],"TransLink sets fares. The city can contribute funding and advocate through the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":5225,"detail":5226,"cites":5227,"authority":5228},"A ready path for SkyTrain to UBC","The party commits to a ready path for the SkyTrain extension to UBC.",[5144],"TransLink and the province decide on rapid transit expansion.",[5230],{"question":5231,"answer":5232,"cites":5233},"Can a city make transit free?","Not on its own. TransLink sets fares across the region and Vancouver is one voice on its Mayors’ Council. A city can put its own money toward covering fares, which is how free-transit programmes usually work. Bright Future has not published a cost or a funding source.",[5144],[5188],[],"Bright Future commits to free transit for residents, safer stations, faster buses and a path for SkyTrain to UBC.",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":5238,"proposals":5239,"questions":5240,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5241,"gaps":5242},[],[],[],[5211,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":214,"paragraphs":5244,"proposals":5245,"questions":5246,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5247,"gaps":5248},[],[],[],[5211,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":244,"paragraphs":5250,"proposals":5253,"questions":5268,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5269,"gaps":5270,"headline":5271,"summary":5272},[5251,5252],"Bright Future is one of the few parties that names both a spending programme and a tax to pay for it. The surcharge is published as 2%, though the party has not published what it applies to.","The 21 day permit rule is a deadline commitment: a decision within 21 days. It is the only published permit deadline on this ballot. Other parties commit to faster permitting without saying how fast.",[5254,5259,5264],{"title":5255,"detail":5256,"cites":5257,"cost":5258},"A 2% fair share surcharge","The party commits to a \"fair share tax to fund the future\", published as a 2% fair share surcharge. What it applies to is not published.",[5144],"2%",{"title":5260,"detail":5261,"cites":5262,"authority":4610,"deadline":5263},"A 21 day permit rule","The party commits to a 21 day permit rule.",[5144],"21 days",{"title":5265,"detail":5266,"cites":5267},"Faster permits and lower building costs","Alongside the 21 day rule the party commits to affordable food access and modern worker training.",[5144],[],[5188],[],"A 2% fair share surcharge and a 21 day permit rule","Bright Future commits to a 2% fair share surcharge to fund its programme, and a 21 day deadline for permits.",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":5274,"proposals":5276,"questions":5281,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5282,"gaps":5283,"headline":5278,"summary":5285},[5275],"The party’s published environment commitment is clean water and lead-free schools. It is not contesting the School Board race.",[5277],{"title":5278,"detail":5279,"cites":5280,"cost":132},"Clean water and lead-free schools","The party commits to clean water and lead free schools.",[5144],[],[5188],[5284],"No emissions or building energy commitment is published.","Bright Future commits to clean water and lead-free schools under its environment heading.",{"issue":284,"paragraphs":5287,"proposals":5288,"questions":5289,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5290,"gaps":5291},[],[],[],[5211,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":297,"paragraphs":5293,"proposals":5297,"questions":5303,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5304,"gaps":5305,"headline":5306,"summary":5307},[5294,5295,5296],"No other party on this ballot has published a commitment on child care outside standard daytime hours.","It matters for shift workers: nurses, transit operators, hospitality and warehouse staff, who cannot use care that closes at six.","Licensing and operating funding for child care are provincial. A city can create the space and press for the licence.",[5298],{"title":5299,"detail":5300,"cites":5301,"cost":132,"authority":5302},"24 hour child care including night shifts","The party commits to night-shift child care and accessible care services, described as a 24 hour child care vision.",[5144],"The city creates spaces. Licensing and funding are provincial.",[],[5188],[],"A 24 hour child care vision, including night shifts","Bright Future commits to night-shift child care and a 24 hour child care vision.",[5309,5313,5317,5321,5325,5329,5333,5337,5341],{"question":5310,"answer":5311,"cites":5312},"Who leads Bright Future Vancouver?","Muhammad Ahmad is the mayoral candidate, at ballot number 53.",[5144,30],{"question":5314,"answer":5315,"cites":5316},"How many candidates is it running?","7: Muhammad Ahmad for mayor and 6 for City Council. It is not contesting Park Board or School Board.",[30],{"question":5318,"answer":5319,"cites":5320},"What is the 21 day permit rule?","A commitment that a permit decision comes within 21 days. It is the only published permit deadline on this ballot. Other parties promise faster permitting without saying how fast.",[5144],{"question":5322,"answer":5323,"cites":5324},"Would transit really be free?","The party commits to 100% free resident transit. Fares are set by TransLink, not the city, so a council would have to fund it and negotiate rather than vote it in. No cost or funding source is published.",[5144],{"question":5326,"answer":5327,"cites":5328},"What is 20% rent-to-own equity?","Part of what a tenant pays in rent builds up as a stake in the home. The party publishes the figure 20% but not how the scheme would be funded or who would run it.",[5144],{"question":5330,"answer":5331,"cites":5332},"What is the 2% fair share surcharge?","A tax the party describes as a \"fair share tax to fund the future\", published as 2%. What it applies to is not published.",[5144],{"question":5334,"answer":5335,"cites":5336},"What is the 24 hour child care vision?","Child care available outside standard daytime hours, including night shifts. No other party on this ballot has published a commitment on care outside daytime hours.",[5144],{"question":5338,"answer":5339,"cites":5340},"Why does it publish nothing on parks or schools?","It is not running candidates for Park Board or School Board. Its slate covers mayor and council only.",[30],{"question":5117,"answer":343,"cites":5342},[345,346],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5344,"gaps":5345,"entries":5346},[20,349],[351],[],"bright-future-vancouver",[5349,5351,5355,5356,5357,5358],{"id":5144,"label":5350,"url":3855,"publisher":3854,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"Bright Future Vancouver home page",{"id":5352,"label":5353,"url":5354,"publisher":3854,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"bf-blueprint","Bright Future Vancouver Blueprint","https:\u002F\u002Fbrightfuturevancouver.ca\u002Fblueprint",{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fbright-future-vancouver","Bright Future Vancouver is running 7 candidates behind mayoral candidate Muhammad Ahmad, all for mayor and council. Its published commitments include free transit for residents, 24 hour child care and a 21 day permit deadline.","Gs_MTO5N4kOCAnoVj44tof6Gd4ircGm7TpZLQzG9o6I",{"id":5363,"aliases":5364,"checkedAt":18,"declaredColour":5365,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":5370,"history":5371,"leadership":5375,"logo":13,"meta":5376,"money":5377,"name":3952,"news":5382,"overview":5386,"palette":5391,"platform":5395,"questions":5644,"record":5680,"registeredName":5684,"rosterLabel":3952,"slug":5685,"sources":5686,"stem":5701,"summary":5702,"website":3953,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":5703},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fcope.json",[],{"hex":5366,"note":5367,"cites":5368},"#f23d3d","Read from the party stylesheet on September 22, 2026.",[5369],"cope-home","The left slate, running no mayoral candidate",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5372,"gaps":5373,"entries":5374},[20,21],[23],[],[],{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5378,"gaps":5379,"searchUrl":39,"filings":5380,"notes":5381},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5383,"gaps":5384,"entries":5385},[50],[52],[],[5387,5388,5389,5390],"COPE stands for the Coalition of Progressive Electors. It is running 12 candidates: 4 for City Council, 4 for Park Board and 4 for School Board. It is not running a mayoral candidate.","It is one of two parties on this ballot contesting three races but not the mayoralty; OneCity is the other.","The platform published on the party website on September 22, 2026 is its April 2025 by-election platform, not a 2026 platform. We have recorded it as such throughout, with its date attached, because the commitments in it were written for a different election.","COPE states that it rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and says it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022.",{"accent":5392,"onAccent":61,"tint":5393,"ink":5394},"#E71010","#F7E3E3","#7A1F1F",[5396,5451,5474,5497,5521,5542,5560,5586,5622,5629],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":5397,"proposals":5402,"questions":5436,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5445,"gaps":5448,"headline":5449,"summary":5450},[5398,5399,5400,5401],"These commitments come from COPE’s April 2025 by-election platform, which was still the platform published on its website on September 22, 2026.","The mansion tax is the most specific number on it: 1% on property values above $5 million, to pay for ending homelessness.","COPE would also have the city buy existing apartment buildings and convert them to permanently affordable public housing and co-ops, naming Montreal as the model.","The vacancy loophole it names is the rule that lets a landlord raise rent without limit between tenants. Rent control between tenancies is provincial law, so a city cannot close that gap on its own.",[5403,5410,5414,5419,5423,5428,5432],{"title":5404,"detail":5405,"cites":5406,"cost":5408,"authority":5409},"A 1% tax on property values above $5 million","COPE would end homelessness with a tax on what it calls the mansions of the super-rich: a progressive property tax of 1% on values exceeding $5 million.",[5407],"cope-platform","1% above $5 million","Council sets property tax. A new tax class may need provincial approval.",{"title":5411,"detail":5412,"cites":5413},"Buy apartments and convert them to public housing","The city would buy apartment buildings and turn them into permanently affordable public housing and co-ops, following Montreal’s municipal approach.",[5407],{"title":5415,"detail":5416,"cites":5417,"authority":5418},"Close the vacancy loophole","COPE would close the loophole that lets landlords raise rents without limit between tenants.",[5407],"Rent control between tenancies is set by provincial tenancy law.",{"title":5420,"detail":5421,"cites":5422},"Stop demovictions","COPE would stop demovictions and address city-owned vacant land and what it calls exclusionary mansion districts.",[5407],{"title":5424,"detail":5425,"cites":5426,"authority":5427},"Increase and tighten the Empty Homes Tax","COPE would keep increasing the tax, apply a partial vacancy tax to exempt new builds, increase enforcement and close loopholes.",[5407],"The Empty Homes Tax is a City of Vancouver tax.",{"title":5429,"detail":5430,"cites":5431},"Create a landlord registry","A registry would track rents and allow enforcement against landlords with patterns of violations.",[5407],{"title":5433,"detail":5434,"cites":5435},"Bring back the renters office with enforcement powers","COPE would restore the renters office and give it new enforcement powers.",[5407],[5437,5441],{"question":5438,"answer":5439,"cites":5440},"Is this COPE’s 2026 platform?","No. The platform published on the party website on September 22, 2026 is its April 2025 by-election platform. We have kept its date attached to every commitment because it was written for a different election.",[5407],{"question":5442,"answer":5443,"cites":5444},"Can the city close the vacancy loophole?","No. The rule that lets a landlord raise the rent without limit when one tenant leaves and another arrives is provincial tenancy law. A city can ask the province to change it, and can act on the taxes and registries it does control.",[5407],[5446,5447],"The COPE platform page","The COPE home page",[],"A 1% tax on homes worth more than $5 million","COPE’s published platform would tax properties above $5 million at 1% to fund ending homelessness, buy apartments as permanent public housing, close the vacancy loophole and stop demovictions.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":5452,"proposals":5455,"questions":5469,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5470,"gaps":5471,"headline":5472,"summary":5473},[5453,5454],"COPE is the only party on this ballot that names both an end to homelessness and the tax that would pay for it in the same commitment.","On the drug crisis, COPE maintains support for safe supply and harm reduction, which is the opposite position to ABC’s ban on open-air use and TrueBlue’s recovery-first framing.",[5456,5460,5465],{"title":5457,"detail":5458,"cites":5459,"cost":5408},"End homelessness, paid for by a mansion tax","A 1% property tax on values above $5 million would fund ending homelessness.",[5407],{"title":5461,"detail":5462,"cites":5463,"authority":5464},"Maintain safe supply and harm reduction","COPE commits to maintaining support for safe supply and harm reduction programs.",[5407],"These are provincial and federal health programmes.",{"title":5466,"detail":5467,"cites":5468},"Buy apartments as permanent public housing","The city would buy apartment buildings and convert them to permanently affordable public housing and co-ops.",[5407],[],[5446],[],"End homelessness, funded by the mansion tax","COPE ties its homelessness commitment directly to a funding source: a 1% tax on property values above $5 million.",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":5475,"proposals":5479,"questions":5492,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5493,"gaps":5494,"headline":5495,"summary":5496},[5476,5477,5478],"COPE is the clearest counter-position to ABC and TEAM on this issue. Where they commit to more police tools and enforcement, COPE commits to funding other services instead.","Its platform states the Vancouver police budget increased by about $100 million under the current administration. That is COPE’s own figure and we have not checked it against city budget documents.","Peer-assisted care teams, which COPE calls PACTs, send trained peers rather than police to a mental health crisis.",[5480,5485,5489],{"title":5481,"detail":5482,"cites":5483,"authority":5484},"Fund public services rather than policing","COPE would prioritise pools, recreation facilities and social infrastructure over policing.",[5407],"Council approves the police budget but the Police Board directs the department.",{"title":5486,"detail":5487,"cites":5488},"Support peer-assisted care teams","COPE would support peer-assisted care teams to respond to mental health crises without involving police.",[5407],{"title":5461,"detail":5462,"cites":5490,"authority":5491},[5407],"Safe supply is a provincial and federal health programme.",[],[5446],[],"Fund peer crisis teams rather than police","COPE would prioritise pools, recreation and social infrastructure over policing, and support peer-assisted care teams that respond to mental health crises without police.",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":5498,"proposals":5500,"questions":5516,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5517,"gaps":5518,"headline":5519,"summary":5520},[5499],"COPE publishes its transport commitments inside its climate section rather than separately.",[5501,5506,5511],{"title":5502,"detail":5503,"cites":5504,"authority":5505},"Work toward free public transit","COPE would expand free transit to under-18s and work toward a fully funded, free-to-ride system.",[5407],"TransLink sets fares.",{"title":5507,"detail":5508,"cites":5509,"authority":5510},"Restore bus routes 17 and 25","COPE would restore both routes and reduce bunching and overcrowding.",[5407],"TransLink runs bus routes.",{"title":5512,"detail":5513,"cites":5514,"authority":5515},"Support protected bike lanes","COPE would support protected bike lanes and cycling safety initiatives.",[5407],"The city designs its own streets.",[],[5446],[],"Free transit, restored bus routes and protected bike lanes","COPE would work toward fully funded free public transit, restore bus routes 17 and 25, and support protected bike lanes.",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":5522,"proposals":5524,"questions":5537,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5538,"gaps":5539,"headline":5540,"summary":5541},[5523],"COPE and TEAM both commit to keeping and strengthening the elected Park Board, and both would make temporary parks permanent. COPE publishes a number: more than 100.",[5525,5529,5533],{"title":5526,"detail":5527,"cites":5528},"Strengthen the elected Park Board","COPE would strengthen the independence of the elected park board.",[5407],{"title":5530,"detail":5531,"cites":5532},"Make 100-plus temporary parks permanent","COPE would make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent parks.",[5407],{"title":5534,"detail":5535,"cites":5536},"Expand community gardens and food growing","COPE would expand community gardens, seed sharing and community kitchens and establish food sovereignty networks.",[5407],[],[5446],[],"Make the 100-plus temporary parks permanent","COPE would strengthen the independence of the elected Park Board and make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent ones.",{"issue":214,"paragraphs":5543,"proposals":5545,"questions":5554,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5555,"gaps":5556,"headline":5558,"summary":5559},[5544],"COPE’s published platform addresses public education in general terms and does not set out school-specific commitments. Its related commitments are on libraries and food security.",[5546,5550],{"title":5547,"detail":5548,"cites":5549},"Increase library funding, hours and wages","COPE would increase funding, hours and wages and add worker representation to the Vancouver Public Library board.",[5407],{"title":5551,"detail":5552,"cites":5553},"Defend public education","COPE campaigns on fighting for public education.",[5369],[],[5446,5447],[5557],"No school capacity, catchment or budget commitment is published.","Public education, libraries and food programmes","COPE is running four School Board candidates and campaigns on defending public education, with library funding and food programmes alongside.",{"issue":244,"paragraphs":5561,"proposals":5564,"questions":5581,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5582,"gaps":5583,"headline":5584,"summary":5585},[5562,5563],"COPE and TEAM both commit to a lobbyist registry, from opposite ends of the political range. That makes it one of the few commitments with support across this ballot.","COPE’s donation position is a claim about its own conduct: it says it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. That is the party’s own account. Elections BC filings are the place to check it.",[5565,5569,5573,5577],{"title":5566,"detail":5567,"cites":5568},"Establish a lobbyist registry","COPE would establish a lobbyist registry and push fossil fuel and big business lobbyists out.",[5407],{"title":5570,"detail":5571,"cites":5572},"Defend the Integrity Commissioner","COPE would defend and restore the independence and authority of the Integrity Commissioner.",[5407],{"title":5574,"detail":5575,"cites":5576},"Refuse developer and big business donations","COPE states it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. This is the party’s own account of its conduct.",[5407],{"title":5578,"detail":5579,"cites":5580},"Expand public participation at council","COPE would increase council comment time and follow-up questions and hold town halls throughout the city.",[5407],[],[5446],[],"A lobbyist registry, and no developer donations","COPE would establish a lobbyist registry, defend the Integrity Commissioner’s independence, and states it rejects donations from developers and big business.",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":5587,"proposals":5591,"questions":5617,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5618,"gaps":5619,"headline":5620,"summary":5621},[5588,5589,5590],"COPE’s climate section is the longest part of its published platform and folds transport into it.","It refers to the 2021 heat dome, stating 99 people died in Vancouver, and frames its climate adaptation commitments around protecting people from extreme weather.","Rejoining the Sue Big Oil lawsuit would have the city join other local governments suing fossil fuel companies for climate costs.",[5592,5597,5601,5604,5609,5613],{"title":5593,"detail":5594,"cites":5595,"authority":5596},"Free transit for everyone under 18","COPE would expand free public transit to youth under the age of 18, working toward fully funded free-to-ride public transit.",[5407],"TransLink sets fares. A city can advocate and can contribute funding.",{"title":5598,"detail":5599,"cites":5600},"Rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit","The city would rejoin the lawsuit requiring polluters to fund climate crisis remediation.",[5407],{"title":5507,"detail":5602,"cites":5603,"authority":5510},"COPE would restore the two routes and reduce bunching and overcrowding.",[5407],{"title":5605,"detail":5606,"cites":5607,"authority":5608},"Block gas in new buildings","COPE would block what it describes as the next attempt to enable burning methane gas in new builds, and support electric heat pump retrofitting.",[5407],"Vancouver sets its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":5610,"detail":5611,"cites":5612},"Exceed IPCC emissions targets","COPE commits to exceeding IPCC greenhouse gas reduction targets and timelines.",[5407],{"title":5614,"detail":5615,"cites":5616},"A climate defence strategy for extreme weather","COPE would develop adaptation infrastructure for extreme weather, citing the 99 deaths in Vancouver during the 2021 heat dome.",[5407],[],[5446],[],"Free transit for under-18s and rejoining the Sue Big Oil lawsuit","COPE’s published platform would expand free transit to everyone under 18, rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit, restore bus routes 17 and 25, and exceed IPCC emissions targets.",{"issue":284,"paragraphs":5623,"proposals":5624,"questions":5625,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5626,"gaps":5628},[],[],[],[5627,159,5040],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002F",[5042],{"issue":297,"paragraphs":5630,"proposals":5632,"questions":5639,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5640,"gaps":5641,"headline":5642,"summary":5643},[5631],"The $10 a day programme is a provincial scheme. A city can create the rooms and press for more spaces to be funded, but it does not set the fee.",[5633],{"title":5634,"detail":5635,"cites":5636,"cost":5637,"authority":5638},"Expand $10 a day child care spaces in Vancouver","COPE would expand affordable child care, specifically $10 a day spaces.",[5407],"$10 per day per space","The $10 a day programme is funded and set by the province.",[],[5446],[],"Expand $10-a-day child care spaces","COPE would expand affordable child care in Vancouver, specifically $10 a day spaces.",[5645,5649,5653,5657,5661,5665,5669,5673,5677],{"question":5646,"answer":5647,"cites":5648},"Is COPE running a candidate for mayor?","No. COPE is running 12 candidates for City Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor.",[30],{"question":5650,"answer":5651,"cites":5652},"What does COPE stand for?","The Coalition of Progressive Electors.",[5369],{"question":5654,"answer":5655,"cites":5656},"Is the platform on COPE’s website its 2026 platform?","No. On September 22, 2026 the platform page held its April 2025 by-election platform. We have kept that date attached to every commitment taken from it.",[5407],{"question":5658,"answer":5659,"cites":5660},"What is COPE’s mansion tax?","A property tax of 1% on the value of a home above $5 million, which COPE says would fund ending homelessness. A home assessed at $6 million would be taxed 1% on the $1 million above the threshold.",[5407],{"question":5662,"answer":5663,"cites":5664},"Where does COPE stand on policing?","It would prioritise pools, recreation and social infrastructure over policing, and fund peer-assisted care teams that respond to mental health crises without police.",[5407],{"question":5666,"answer":5667,"cites":5668},"Does COPE take developer donations?","It states that it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. That is the party’s own account. Elections BC filings are where to check it.",[5407,345],{"question":5670,"answer":5671,"cites":5672},"What does COPE say about the Park Board?","It would strengthen the independence of the elected board and make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent parks.",[5407],{"question":5674,"answer":5675,"cites":5676},"Does COPE support free transit?","Yes. It would expand free transit to everyone under 18 and work toward a fully funded, free-to-ride system. 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candidates, all for Park Board, running on one 33-point platform",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5893,"gaps":5894,"entries":5895},[20,21],[23],[],[],{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5899,"gaps":5900,"searchUrl":39,"filings":5901,"notes":5902},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5904,"gaps":5905,"entries":5906},[50],[52],[],[5908,5909,5910,5911],"The Independent Parks Party is running 5 candidates, all for the Board of Parks and Recreation. It is not contesting mayor, council or school board.","It is the only party on this ballot focused on one race. Seven Park Board seats are being filled on October 17, so a full slate of five means the party could take a majority of the board if all five won.","Its website identifies a parent organisation, the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, described as a British Columbia non-profit.","The party's home page carries no policy content, only navigation and a login prompt. A platform page at a direct address, not linked from the home page, lists 33 numbered positions. voche.me found this page on September 26, 2026 and reads it below.",{"accent":5913,"onAccent":61,"tint":5914,"ink":5915},"#0B6A0B","#E3F7E3","#1F7A1F",[5917,5924,5930,5946,5962,6008,6014,6040,6077,6083],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":5918,"proposals":5919,"questions":5920,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5921,"gaps":5923},[],[],[],[5922,159,5040],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002F",[5042],{"issue":123,"paragraphs":5925,"proposals":5926,"questions":5927,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":5928,"gaps":5929},[],[],[],[5922,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":140,"paragraphs":5931,"proposals":5933,"questions":5940,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":5941,"gaps":5943,"headline":5945},[5932],"The platform's one position that fits this office's public-safety power, rather than its parks power more broadly, is a noise bylaw.",[5934],{"title":5935,"detail":5936,"cites":5937,"authority":5939},"Restrict late-night noise near Jericho Beach and other parks","The party would move to prohibit excessive late-night noise that it says affects residents near Jericho Beach and other parks.",[5938],"ipp-platform","The Park Board makes bylaws for parks and beaches.",[],[5922,5942,159],"The party's platform page at https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002FPlatform, not linked from the home page but reachable directly",[5944],"The platform names no individual candidate as its author, so no page below credits one of the five personally.","One bylaw position, on late-night noise near parks",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":5947,"proposals":5949,"questions":5958,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":5959,"gaps":5960,"headline":5961},[5948],"The platform's transport positions are both about Stanley Park Drive, a road the Park Board controls.",[5950,5954],{"title":5951,"detail":5952,"cites":5953,"authority":174},"Reinstate a protected lane on Stanley Park Drive","The party would reinstate a protected lane for active transportation and recreation along Stanley Park Drive, and carry out a transportation safety review of other parks.",[5938],{"title":5955,"detail":5956,"cites":5957},"Commit to car-free days in Stanley Park","The party commits to holding car-free days in Stanley Park.",[5938],[],[5922,5942,159],[5944],"A protected lane on Stanley Park Drive and car-free days",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":5963,"proposals":5967,"questions":6004,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":6005,"gaps":6006,"headline":6007},[5964,5965,5966],"The platform's largest group of positions concerns who runs parks and how. It opposes selling park names or transferring parks to the private sector, and it would reverse the outsourcing of park maintenance.","Several positions ask for a pause: on the Vancouver Aquatic Centre renovation, on Britannia Pool renovations, and on new commercial development inside parks, each until a review is done.","The platform names no cost or completion date for any of these.",[5968,5972,5976,5980,5984,5988,5992,5996,6000],{"title":5969,"detail":5970,"cites":5971},"Keep parks in public ownership","Parks would remain fully in the public domain, not transferred in whole or part to the private sector, and their names would not be sold to private corporations.",[5938],{"title":5973,"detail":5974,"cites":5975},"Reverse outsourcing of park maintenance","Park maintenance now outsourced to private companies would be brought back in-house.",[5938],{"title":5977,"detail":5978,"cites":5979},"Make temporary parks permanent","Every park now classified as temporary would be reclassified as permanent.",[5938],{"title":5981,"detail":5982,"cites":5983},"Freeze the Vancouver Aquatic Centre renovation pending a 50-metre pool review","Work on the Aquatic Centre renovation would stop until a full analysis of ways to keep the 50-metre pool is done.",[5938],{"title":5985,"detail":5986,"cites":5987},"Hold Britannia Pool renovations while the Aquatic Centre is out of service","Britannia Pool renovations would be paused while the Vancouver Aquatic Centre is unavailable, so the city keeps a working pool.",[5938],{"title":5989,"detail":5990,"cites":5991},"Decline new commercial development inside parks","The party would not approve new commercial developments in Stanley Park or other parks that reduce green space, encroach on forest, or degrade the visitor experience.",[5938],{"title":5993,"detail":5994,"cites":5995},"Overhaul Kitsilano Pool's booking system and hold a town hall on its future","Booking restrictions at Kitsilano Pool would be removed so the pool can be used at its historical capacity, with a town hall before any renovation or replacement.",[5938],{"title":5997,"detail":5998,"cites":5999},"Repair the David Lam Park playground and fix its reseeding downtime","The party would address underfunding at the David Lam Park playground and convene an expert panel on its long seasonal closures for grass reseeding.",[5938],{"title":6001,"detail":6002,"cites":6003},"Assess restoring the Stanley Park miniature train","An expert panel would advise on recovering from logging damage near the Stanley Park train, aiming to restore it.",[5938],[],[5922,5942,159],[5944],"Keep parks public, reverse outsourcing, and hold off major projects pending 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Hillcrest Community Centre.",[5938],{"title":6024,"detail":6025,"cites":6026,"authority":6027},"Repeal the increase in delegated outsourcing authority","The party would repeal a Park Board Procurement Policy amendment that it says raised the threshold for staff to approve outsourcing contracts without a Board vote from $750,000 to $2 million.",[5938],"This is the Board's own procurement policy, which the Board can amend by its own vote.",{"title":6029,"detail":6030,"cites":6031},"Rescind the \"Think Big Revenue Strategy\"","The party would rescind a named revenue strategy that it says has resulted in inappropriate commercialization of parks.",[5938],{"title":6033,"detail":6034,"cites":6035},"Reduce fees for farmers markets on Park Board land","Fees on farmers and shoppers who park at farmers markets on Park Board land, including Riley Park, would be reduced or removed.",[5938],[],[5922,5942,159],[5944],"Roll back a fee increase and a delegated spending authority, and drop a 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for removals is done.",[5938],{"title":6050,"detail":6051,"cites":6052},"Ban glyphosate and similar herbicides and pesticides","Glyphosate and other herbicides and pesticides judged environmentally hazardous would be banned on Park Board land, alongside a scientific inquiry into other ways to manage invasive species.",[5938],{"title":6054,"detail":6055,"cites":6056},"Halt replanting in Stanley Park pending a scientific inquiry","The party would stop replanting farmed, selectively bred trees in Stanley Park until an inquiry assesses the consequences.",[5938],{"title":6058,"detail":6059,"cites":6060},"Follow the Stanley Park federal lease and historic-site terms on the native forest","The party says the Stanley Park lease with the federal government, and the park's Commemorative Integrity Statement as a National Historic Site, both require preserving the native coastal western hemlock forest rather than replanting it as a different mix of 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It is running 5 candidates for the Board of Parks and Recreation and none for mayor, council or school board.",[30],{"question":6095,"answer":6096,"cites":6097},"Could it win control of the Park Board?","Seven commissioners are elected on October 17. The party is running five candidates, so if all five won it would hold a majority of the board.",[30],{"question":5097,"answer":6099,"cites":6100},"We found none published. We checked the party website on September 22, 2026 and the page held navigation and a login prompt with no policy positions.",[5890],{"question":6102,"answer":6103,"cites":6104},"Who runs the party?","No leader is named on the website. The site identifies a parent organisation, the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, described as a British Columbia non-profit. We have not checked that organisation’s registration.",[5890],{"question":6106,"answer":6107,"cites":6108},"Why does this page have so little on it?","Because the party has published little. We record what we searched and when, rather than filling the space. If the party publishes a platform we will add it with its date.",[5890],{"question":6110,"answer":6111,"cites":6112},"What does the Park Board actually control?","Parks, community centres, pools, rinks and beaches. Vancouver is the only major city in Canada with a separately elected park board, and it has seven commissioners.",[30],{"question":5117,"answer":343,"cites":6114},[345,346],{"question":5120,"answer":6116,"cites":6117},"Read the five candidate profiles linked from this page, and check the party website for a platform closer to October 17. 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It is the only party on this ballot contesting a single race. Its home page shows no policy content, but a platform page reachable at a direct address, not linked from the home page, lists 33 numbered positions, all about parks.","xjDKcn2RXTa9jFOnwx-wi-mEN-23tpyXhgMwc7o4TeU",{"id":6137,"aliases":6138,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":6139,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":6143,"history":6144,"leadership":6148,"logo":13,"meta":6149,"money":6150,"name":3920,"news":6155,"overview":6159,"palette":6163,"platform":6167,"questions":6365,"record":6397,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":3920,"slug":6401,"sources":6402,"stem":6447,"summary":6448,"website":3921,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":6449},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fonecity.json",[],{"hex":6140,"note":9,"cites":6141},"#e24853",[6142],"onecity-home","4,000 homes on city land, and no mayoral candidate",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6145,"gaps":6146,"entries":6147},[20,21],[23],[],[],{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6151,"gaps":6152,"searchUrl":39,"filings":6153,"notes":6154},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6156,"gaps":6157,"entries":6158},[50],[52],[],[6160,6161,6162],"OneCity is running 13 candidates: 5 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. Like COPE, it is not running a mayoral candidate.","Its website said \"Full Platform coming soon\" when we checked on September 22, 2026, so what is recorded here comes from the commitments published on its home page.","The party publishes two figures about its own funding that are unusual to disclose: 7,534 donors at an average gift of $46.31, and more than 4,800 members. These are the party’s own figures.",{"accent":6164,"onAccent":61,"tint":6165,"ink":6166},"#DE2E3A","#F7E3E5","#7A1F25",[6168,6197,6227,6275,6294,6306,6313,6340,6346,6352],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":6169,"proposals":6173,"questions":6183,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6188,"gaps":6191,"headline":6195,"summary":6196},[6170,6171,6172],"This is the largest published housing number on the 2026 ballot. OneCity commits to 4,000 affordable homes built on land the city already owns.","Building on city land is the lever a council actually controls directly, because the city does not have to buy the land first.","OneCity’s site said a full platform was coming when we checked on September 22, 2026, so no timeline, cost or site list has been published alongside the 4,000 figure.",[6174,6179],{"title":6175,"detail":6176,"cites":6177,"cost":132,"authority":6178},"Build 4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land","OneCity commits to building 4,000 affordable homes on land the city already owns.",[6142],"The city owns the land and can direct its use.",{"title":6180,"detail":6181,"cites":6182},"Strengthen protections for low-income seniors and renters","OneCity commits to strengthening protections for low-income seniors and renters.",[6142],[6184],{"question":6185,"answer":6186,"cites":6187},"Is 4,000 homes a lot?","It is the largest housing number published by any party in this election. OneCity has not published a timeline, a cost or a list of sites alongside it, so there is no way yet to check whether it is achievable in one four-year term.",[6142],[6189,6190],"The OneCity home page","A web search for the OneCity 2026 platform, September 2026",[6192,6193,6194],"No timeline is published for the 4,000 homes.","No cost is published.","No list of city-owned sites is published.","4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land","OneCity commits to building 4,000 affordable homes on land the city already owns, and to strengthening protections for low-income seniors and renters.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":6198,"proposals":6201,"questions":6220,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":6221,"gaps":6224,"headline":6226},[6199,6200],"The party's housing release, The Way Home & Housing for All, includes a section on homelessness and supportive housing alongside its wider housing plan.","It pairs ending a City ban on new supportive housing with a new public engagement process and a standard for city-funded shelters.",[6202,6208,6212,6216],{"title":6203,"detail":6204,"cites":6205,"authority":6207},"End the ban on new supportive housing","The party would end what it calls ABC's ban on net-new supportive housing.",[6206],"onecity-housingforall","Approving supportive housing is a City land use and permitting decision.",{"title":6209,"detail":6210,"cites":6211},"A new public engagement process for supportive housing projects","A new Office of Community Engagement would run public engagement on supportive housing proposals, aimed at helping more of them succeed.",[6206],{"title":6213,"detail":6214,"cites":6215},"A Vancouver Shelter Standard","The party would create a standard for every city-funded shelter, so they are safe and welcoming.",[6206],{"title":6217,"detail":6218,"cites":6219},"A Community Land Trust Support Strategy","Non-profits would get the first right to buy affordable buildings and land when they come up for sale.",[6206],[],[6222,6223,159],"The party's News page at https:\u002F\u002Fonecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews","The party website home page",[6225],"No cost or date is published for the shelter standard or the community land trust strategy.","End the ban on new supportive housing, and add a shelter standard",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":6228,"proposals":6231,"questions":6270,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":6271,"gaps":6272,"headline":6274},[6229,6230],"OneCity published a 10-point plan on September 25, 2026, grouped under three headings: a coordinated crisis response that does not always involve police, safer physical spaces, and public accountability for the Vancouver Police Department.","The plan quotes Councillor Lucy Maloney and Council candidates Caitlin Stockwell and Iona Bonamis, each also quoted on their own candidate records where they restate these points in their own words.",[6232,6237,6241,6245,6249,6253,6257,6261,6265],{"title":6233,"detail":6234,"cites":6235},"A coordinated crisis response, so police are not the only response","Trained mental health professionals and peer responders would take calls that do not need police, freeing police for organized and major crime and first responders for fire and medical emergencies.",[6236],"onecity-safety",{"title":6238,"detail":6239,"cites":6240},"Community violence intervention","Trusted community messengers, similar to Community Response and Crisis teams, would step in before conflict escalates.",[6236],{"title":6242,"detail":6243,"cites":6244},"Expand restorative justice","The party would build on the Downtown Community Court and Indigenous-led community safety models to reduce repeat offending.",[6236],{"title":6246,"detail":6247,"cites":6248},"A Survivor Safety Fund and a Community Safety Table","Fast, low-barrier emergency money for survivors of domestic and intimate partner violence, delivered by frontline organizations, alongside a table to coordinate neighbourhood response.",[6236],{"title":6250,"detail":6251,"cites":6252},"ReLight Vancouver","Better-lit streets, parks, pathways and bus stops in every neighbourhood, and a ban on hostile architecture (design meant to stop people using it, such as spiked benches) on city-owned benches and shelters.",[6236],{"title":6254,"detail":6255,"cites":6256},"Restore public garbage bins and expand recycling","The party would restore reliable public garbage bins, expand recycling beyond downtown, and publish a public map of bin locations.",[6236],{"title":6258,"detail":6259,"cites":6260},"Ban wearable recording devices in city facilities","Devices such as smart glasses that can record video would be banned in city-run change rooms, washrooms and other municipal spaces.",[6236],{"title":6262,"detail":6263,"cites":6264},"Regulate e-bike and e-scooter batteries","The city would regulate businesses selling unsafe e-bikes and batteries, work with the province on a battery trade-in program, and set safe operating standards for e-bikes and e-scooters.",[6236],{"title":6266,"detail":6267,"cites":6268,"authority":6269},"An independent, published review of the Vancouver Police Department","A public organizational review of the VPD, on the same standard as other public services, to find where to invest, find efficiencies, and identify calls other responders could handle.",[6236],"Council approves the police budget and can direct such a review.",[],[6222,6223,159],[6273],"Most items name no dollar figure or completion date. The plan does not say how many crisis-response workers would be hired or what the review would cost.","A 10-point plan built around non-police crisis response and public accountability for the VPD",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":6276,"proposals":6279,"questions":6289,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6290,"gaps":6291,"headline":6292,"summary":6293},[6277,6278],"Transit signal priority means traffic lights hold green or turn green early for an approaching bus. The city owns and controls its traffic signals, so this is squarely within council’s power even though TransLink runs the buses.","OneCity publishes a target of about a 20% reduction in travel times. It is one of the few measurable transport targets on this ballot.",[6280,6285],{"title":6281,"detail":6282,"cites":6283,"cost":132,"authority":6284},"City-wide transit signal priority","OneCity would adopt city-wide transit signal priority and modernise traffic signals, targeting around a 20% reduction in travel times.",[6142],"The city owns and controls its traffic signals.",{"title":6286,"detail":6287,"cites":6288},"Reduce pedestrian and vehicle conflicts at crossings","OneCity commits to reducing pedestrian-vehicle conflicts at crossings.",[6142],[],[6189],[],"City-wide transit signal priority, targeting 20% faster trips","OneCity would adopt city-wide transit signal priority and modernise traffic signals, publishing a target of roughly 20% shorter travel times.",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":6295,"proposals":6297,"questions":6302,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6303,"gaps":6304,"headline":6299,"summary":6300},[6296],"OneCity is running three Park Board candidates. Its published parks commitment is to renew community centres, pools and ice rinks. No cost or list of facilities is published.",[6298],{"title":6299,"detail":6300,"cites":6301,"cost":132},"Renew community centres, pools and ice rinks","OneCity commits to renewing community centres, pools and ice rinks.",[6142],[],[6189],[6305,6193],"No list of facilities is published.",{"issue":214,"paragraphs":6307,"proposals":6308,"questions":6309,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6310,"gaps":6312},[],[],[],[6311,159,5040],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002F",[5042],{"issue":244,"paragraphs":6314,"proposals":6316,"questions":6334,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6335,"gaps":6336,"headline":6338,"summary":6339},[6315],"OneCity’s published economic commitments centre on small business and on what the city requires of the people it pays.",[6317,6322,6326,6330],{"title":6318,"detail":6319,"cites":6320,"authority":6321},"Ensure public dollars fund fair wages","OneCity commits to ensuring public dollars fund fair wages.",[6142],"Council sets its own procurement rules.",{"title":6323,"detail":6324,"cites":6325,"cost":132},"Launch an Entrepreneur Liaison Office","OneCity would launch an office to help entrepreneurs deal with the city.",[6142],{"title":6327,"detail":6328,"cites":6329,"cost":132},"Small-business micro-grants","OneCity commits to providing small-business micro-grants.",[6142],{"title":6331,"detail":6332,"cites":6333},"Modernise home-based business rules","OneCity would modernise the rules for running a business from home.",[6142],[],[6189],[6337],"No property tax commitment is published.","Fair wages on public contracts, and small business support","OneCity would ensure public dollars fund fair wages, modernise home-based business rules, launch an Entrepreneur Liaison Office and provide small-business micro-grants.",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":6341,"proposals":6342,"questions":6343,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6344,"gaps":6345},[],[],[],[6311,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":284,"paragraphs":6347,"proposals":6348,"questions":6349,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6350,"gaps":6351},[],[],[],[6311,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":297,"paragraphs":6353,"proposals":6355,"questions":6360,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6361,"gaps":6362,"headline":6357,"summary":6364},[6354],"OneCity names child care among its published commitments but has not published a number of spaces, a cost or a timeline.",[6356],{"title":6357,"detail":6358,"cites":6359,"cost":132},"Create child care spaces across the city","OneCity commits to creating child care spaces across the city.",[6142],[],[6189],[6363],"No number of spaces is published.","OneCity commits to creating child care spaces across the city. No number is published.",[6366,6370,6374,6378,6382,6386,6390,6394],{"question":6367,"answer":6368,"cites":6369},"Is OneCity running a candidate for mayor?","No. It is running 13 candidates for City Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor.",[30],{"question":6371,"answer":6372,"cites":6373},"What is OneCity’s main commitment?","4,000 affordable homes built on land the city already owns. It is the largest housing number published by any party in this election.",[6142],{"question":6375,"answer":6376,"cites":6377},"Has OneCity published a full platform?","Not when we checked on September 22, 2026. Its website said \"Full Platform coming soon\". Everything recorded here comes from commitments on its home page.",[6142],{"question":6379,"answer":6380,"cites":6381},"What is transit signal priority?","Traffic lights hold green, or turn green early, when a bus is coming. The city owns its traffic signals, so it can do this without TransLink. OneCity publishes a target of about 20% shorter travel times.",[6142],{"question":6383,"answer":6384,"cites":6385},"How is OneCity funded?","The party publishes its own figures: 7,534 donors at an average gift of $46.31, and more than 4,800 members. Those are the party’s own numbers. Elections BC filings are where to check them.",[6142,345],{"question":6387,"answer":6388,"cites":6389},"How many School Board candidates is OneCity running?","Five, tied with ABC for the largest school slate on this ballot.",[30],{"question":6391,"answer":6392,"cites":6393},"Does OneCity have a published climate policy?","We found none on its website on September 22, 2026. Its full platform had not been published.",[6142],{"question":6395,"answer":343,"cites":6396},"Where can I see OneCity’s campaign finances?",[345,346],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6398,"gaps":6399,"entries":6400},[20,349],[351],[],"onecity",[6403,6405,6406,6407,6408,6409,6413,6417,6421,6426,6431,6435,6439,6443],{"id":6142,"label":6404,"url":3921,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"OneCity home page",{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":6236,"label":6410,"url":6411,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"publishedAt":6412,"checkedAt":6},"OneCity's Progressive Public Safety Plan: Safe Streets & Public Spaces for All","https:\u002F\u002Fonecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fprogressivepublicsafety","2026-09-25",{"id":6206,"label":6414,"url":6415,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"publishedAt":6416,"checkedAt":6},"OneCity Announces their Plans to show Vancouverites the Way Home with Housing for All","https:\u002F\u002Fonecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fhousingforall","2026-09-24",{"id":6418,"label":6419,"url":6420,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"onecity-our-plans","Our Plans","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Four-plans",{"id":6422,"label":6423,"url":6424,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"publishedAt":6425,"checkedAt":402},"onecity-leap","OneCity Announces the second part of our Local Economic Action Plan","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fleap","2026-08-17",{"id":6427,"label":6428,"url":6429,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"publishedAt":6430,"checkedAt":402},"onecity-builttolast","OneCity Vancouver Announces Built to Last, a Climate Crisis Building, Adaptation, and Retrofit Plan","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fbuilttolast","2026-08-07",{"id":6432,"label":6433,"url":6434,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"publishedAt":401,"checkedAt":402},"onecity-hot-fun-cool","OneCity Announces its Plan for a Vibrant City That's Hot, Fun, & Cool","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fvibrant-city",{"id":6436,"label":6437,"url":6438,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"publishedAt":401,"checkedAt":402},"onecity-parks-pipes-pools","OneCity's Park Board Team Announces Parks, Pipes, & Pools: Three New Community Centres, More Lifeguards, and a Plan to Fund the Park Board","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fparks-pipes-pools",{"id":6440,"label":6441,"url":6442,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"publishedAt":401,"checkedAt":402},"onecity-better-schools","OneCity's School Board Team Announces Better Schools: A Plan to Harness the Power of the VSB to Build More Childcare, Community Centres, and Homes","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fbetter-schools",{"id":6444,"label":6445,"url":6446,"publisher":3920,"kind":359,"publishedAt":401,"checkedAt":402},"onecity-budget-and-ballot","OneCity Announces its Plan to Fix the Budget & Make Your Vote Matter","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fbudget-and-ballot","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fonecity","OneCity is running 13 candidates for Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor. Its headline commitment is 4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land.","fzkgCdmMl1ao0FNnqVlBAKob25ZtjqytsGzF8xYxnnQ",{"id":6451,"aliases":6452,"checkedAt":18,"declaredColour":6453,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":6457,"history":6458,"leadership":6462,"logo":13,"meta":6470,"money":6471,"name":3792,"news":6476,"overview":6480,"palette":6485,"platform":6489,"questions":6878,"record":6916,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":6920,"slug":6921,"sources":6922,"stem":7005,"summary":7006,"website":3793,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":7007},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fteam-for-a-livable-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":6454,"note":9,"cites":6455},"#162b6f",[6456],"team-home","The most detailed published platform on the 2026 ballot",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6459,"gaps":6460,"entries":6461},[20,21],[23],[],[6463,6465],{"role":27,"name":3978,"cites":6464},[6456,30],{"role":6466,"name":6467,"cites":6468},"Financial agent","Douglas Johnstone",[6469],"team-safety",{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6472,"gaps":6473,"searchUrl":39,"filings":6474,"notes":6475},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6477,"gaps":6478,"entries":6479},[50],[52],[],[6481,6482,6483,6484],"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver is running 14 candidates: Colleen Hardwick for mayor at ballot number 50, 7 for City Council, 5 for Park Board and 1 for School Board.","TEAM publishes more policy detail than any other party on this ballot. Its positions site is organised into ten areas, most with a separate long \"learn more\" page listing dozens of numbered action items.","The platform is built around a single argument: that the city has approved growth faster than the infrastructure and consultation processes can carry, and that recent provincial housing legislation has taken planning decisions away from neighbourhoods. Most of its commitments follow from that.","Its financial agent is listed as Douglas Johnstone, and its mailing address is published on the site.",{"accent":6486,"onAccent":61,"tint":6487,"ink":6488},"#162B6F","#E3E8F7","#1F347A",[6490,6552,6577,6604,6637,6695,6747,6779,6823,6859],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":6491,"proposals":6496,"questions":6537,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6546,"gaps":6549,"headline":6550,"summary":6551},[6492,6493,6494,6495],"This is the longest single policy document any party has published in this election, and housing is where most of it sits.","TEAM’s starting argument is that supply alone has not produced affordability. Its page states that since the 1970s the city has tripled its number of housing units, more than any other centre city in North America, and still has the most expensive housing. We have not checked that claim against census data; it is the party’s own reading.","The most consequential commitment is repealing the Official Development Plan. TEAM notes that eliminating public hearings for rezonings consistent with an Official Development Plan removes a step where the public can speak, and that repealing it is what would stop the Villages plan coming back after the election.","TEAM also commits to reconsidering the city’s support for the UBC SkyTrain extension and the related development planning around it.",[6497,6503,6507,6512,6516,6520,6524,6528,6532],{"title":6498,"detail":6499,"cites":6500,"authority":6502},"Repeal the Official Development Plan","TEAM would repeal the Official Development Plan, including the related plans for Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew, and Villages, so that neighbourhood-based participatory planning can replace it.",[6501],"team-planning","Council adopts and can repeal an Official Development Plan.",{"title":6504,"detail":6505,"cites":6506},"Restore neighbourhood-based participatory planning","New development would be planned with local residents and businesses, within the scale and context of each neighbourhood, alongside the infrastructure and amenities needed to support it.",[6501],{"title":6508,"detail":6509,"cites":6510,"authority":6511},"Challenge provincial housing legislation","TEAM would work with other municipalities to change what it calls provincial overreach into municipal planning, naming BC zoning Bills 44, 46 and 47 of 2023, Bill 18 of 2024 and M216 of 2025.",[6501],"These are provincial statutes. A city can lobby but cannot repeal them.",{"title":6513,"detail":6514,"cites":6515},"Stop demovictions and protect older rental buildings","TEAM would protect older rental buildings from demolition, improve renter supports and protections, and retain and increase co-op housing.",[6501],{"title":6517,"detail":6518,"cites":6519},"Withdraw rental programs that do not create real affordability","TEAM would withdraw the Moderate Income Rental Pilot Program and the Secured Rental Policy, arguing they do not create meaningful affordability and inflate surrounding land values.",[6501],{"title":6521,"detail":6522,"cites":6523},"Reinstate third-party appeals to the Board of Variance","TEAM would restore third-party appeals it says were in place for 50 years, as a check on the discretionary powers of the Director of Planning.",[6501],{"title":6525,"detail":6526,"cites":6527},"Re-establish the One Stop Renovation Centre","TEAM would restore a single service for approving small construction projects, to make laneway housing, secondary suites, duplexes and small infill easier to build.",[6501],{"title":6529,"detail":6530,"cites":6531},"Protect and reinstate public view cones","TEAM would protect all public view cone corridors and reinstate the view cones amended or eliminated over the last term.",[6501],{"title":6533,"detail":6534,"cites":6535},"Retain on-site parking minimums","TEAM would keep minimum on-site parking requirements in the Parking Bylaw for new construction, arguing this is needed for future electric vehicle charging.",[6501,6536],"team-environment",[6538,6542],{"question":6539,"answer":6540,"cites":6541},"What is an Official Development Plan, and why does repealing it matter?","It is a city-wide plan that sets in advance what can be built where. Once it is adopted, a rezoning that matches it can be approved without a public hearing. TEAM would repeal it, which would bring back the hearing step and, TEAM says, stop the Villages plan returning after the election.",[6501],{"question":6543,"answer":6544,"cites":6545},"Can a city undo the provincial housing bills?","No. Bills 44, 46, 47, 18 and M216 are provincial law and only the province can change them. TEAM commits to working with other municipalities to push for changes, which is lobbying rather than a power the city holds.",[6501],[6547,6548],"The TEAM positions site","The TEAM planning learn-more page",[],"Repeal the Official Development Plan and restore neighbourhood planning","TEAM would repeal the Official Development Plan including the Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew and Villages plans, restore neighbourhood-based participatory planning, and challenge provincial housing legislation.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":6553,"proposals":6556,"questions":6570,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6571,"gaps":6573,"headline":6575,"summary":6576},[6554,6555],"TEAM does not publish a standalone homelessness plan. Its argument connects homelessness to demolition of older affordable rental buildings, which its planning page says displaces residents and forces some into homelessness.","On the street-level response, its safety page commits to working with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds and transition services.",[6557,6561,6566],{"title":6558,"detail":6559,"cites":6560},"Stop demolition of older affordable rental buildings","TEAM argues demolition of cheaper older stock displaces residents into homelessness, and would reverse policies that target those buildings for redevelopment.",[6501],{"title":6562,"detail":6563,"cites":6564,"authority":6565},"Work with senior governments on non-market and supportive housing","TEAM would work with provincial and federal housing agencies so they provide the non-market, supportive and social housing and services the city needs.",[6501],"Supportive housing is funded provincially and federally.",{"title":6567,"detail":6568,"cites":6569},"A Downtown Eastside audit","The same audit commitment that appears under public safety.",[6469],[],[6548,6572],"The TEAM safety for all page",[6574,4641],"No shelter space target is published.","Handled through planning and safety, not a separate plan","TEAM addresses homelessness inside its planning and safety pages: protecting older rental stock from demolition, and working with the province on care beds and complex needs.",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":6578,"proposals":6582,"questions":6599,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6600,"gaps":6601,"headline":6602,"summary":6603},[6579,6580,6581],"TEAM’s safety page is shorter than its planning and parks pages and does not carry a separate long \"learn more\" version.","The Downtown Eastside audit is its most specific commitment: a review to check that resources reach the people who need them.","Like ABC, TEAM commits to working with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds. That is a request to another level of government rather than something a council decides.",[6583,6586,6590,6594],{"title":6567,"detail":6584,"cites":6585},"TEAM would establish an audit to ensure the social issues affecting the community are addressed and resources reach those who need them.",[6469],{"title":6587,"detail":6588,"cites":6589},"Enforce bylaws against public disorder","TEAM would enforce bylaws to crack down on public disorder and keep parks accessible and family-friendly.",[6469],{"title":6591,"detail":6592,"cites":6593,"cost":132},"Support community policing such as Block Watch","TEAM would increase support for community policing initiatives, naming Block Watch.",[6469],{"title":6595,"detail":6596,"cites":6597,"authority":6598},"Work with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds","TEAM would work with the province so people with complex needs get care, including voluntary and involuntary beds, transition services and long-term support.",[6469],"Health care is provincial.",[],[6572],[],"Restoring Order to Our City, with a Downtown Eastside audit","TEAM’s public safety plan is called Restoring Order to Our City. It would enforce bylaws against public disorder, establish a Downtown Eastside audit, and back a recovery-oriented approach to addiction.",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":6605,"proposals":6608,"questions":6631,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6632,"gaps":6634,"headline":6635,"summary":6636},[6606,6607],"TEAM argues that Vancouver’s transport infrastructure has not kept pace with population growth and that successive councils have treated personal vehicles as a problem while much of the city is hard to reach by transit.","It is one of the few parties publishing a clear position against road pricing and city-wide parking permits.",[6609,6614,6619,6623,6627],{"title":6610,"detail":6611,"cites":6612},"An all-of-the-above transportation strategy","TEAM would invest in road network improvement and maintenance so people can get around by car, transit, bicycle or on foot.",[6613],"team-transport",{"title":6615,"detail":6616,"cites":6617,"authority":6618},"Expand bus service and add stops in under-served neighbourhoods","TEAM would expand the bus service and add new stops to build a citywide network, and stop the elimination of bus stops.",[6613],"TransLink runs bus service. The city can advocate through the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":6620,"detail":6621,"cites":6622},"Restore off-street parking minimums","TEAM would reverse council’s decision and restore off-street parking minimums for all new construction.",[6613],{"title":6624,"detail":6625,"cites":6626},"Oppose road pricing","TEAM states it will not adopt punitive city-wide parking permits as previously proposed by council.",[6613],{"title":6628,"detail":6629,"cites":6630},"Repair sidewalks and improve pedestrian lighting","TEAM would repair broken or lifted sidewalk sections, add sidewalks in underserved areas, and upgrade street and pedestrian lighting.",[6613],[],[6633],"The TEAM transportation page",[],"An all-of-the-above strategy, with parking minimums restored","TEAM would invest in road maintenance, expand bus service and stops, restore off-street parking minimums for new construction, and oppose road pricing.",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":6638,"proposals":6642,"questions":6680,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6690,"gaps":6692,"headline":6693,"summary":6694},[6639,6640,6641],"TEAM publishes more on parks than any other party, and it is the clearest dividing line between TEAM and the governing party.","The current council asked the province to amend the Vancouver Charter to eliminate the elected Park Board. TEAM commits to withdrawing that request and to transferring finance, operations and facilities back under Park Board control from the city’s planning, real estate and facilities departments.","TEAM publishes a measurable target, which is rare: a ratio of 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people, which it describes as consistent with previous City and Park Board policy.",[6643,6649,6653,6657,6661,6664,6668,6672,6676],{"title":6644,"detail":6645,"cites":6646,"authority":6648},"Withdraw the request to abolish the elected Park Board","TEAM would withdraw the city’s request to the province to change the Vancouver Charter to eliminate the elected Park Board.",[6647],"team-parks","Only the province can amend the Vancouver Charter. The city can withdraw its request.",{"title":6650,"detail":6651,"cites":6652},"Restore Park Board control of its own budget and operations","Finance, operations and facilities would move back under Park Board jurisdiction from the city’s planning, real estate and facilities departments, with line-by-line budget oversight.",[6647],{"title":6654,"detail":6655,"cites":6656,"cost":132},"Target 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people","TEAM would advocate and plan for new parks and recreation facilities as population grows, striving for a ratio of 1.1 hectares per 1,000 people.",[6647],{"title":6658,"detail":6659,"cites":6660},"Halt Stanley Park logging pending independent review","TEAM would halt current logging operations until a full scientific review and independent risk assessments are done, with only trees judged imminently dangerous by a certified assessor felled.",[6647],{"title":5977,"detail":6662,"cites":6663},"Existing temporary and de-facto parks would be designated as permanent parks.",[6647],{"title":6665,"detail":6666,"cites":6667},"Secure ongoing Park Board funding from the tax base","TEAM would advocate for ongoing funding for the Park Board as a specified portion of the City of Vancouver tax base.",[6647],{"title":6669,"detail":6670,"cites":6671},"Restore pre-COVID access to Stanley Park and Beach Avenue","Access would be restored while providing new separate infrastructure for cycling and walking.",[6647],{"title":6673,"detail":6674,"cites":6675},"No selling of park naming rights","TEAM states that public park land should not be used as a revenue stream such as selling naming rights.",[6647],{"title":6677,"detail":6678,"cites":6679,"cost":132},"More park rangers and lifeguards","TEAM would expand maintenance and garbage pickup, actively enforce bylaws, and increase the number of park rangers and lifeguards.",[6647],[6681,6686],{"question":6682,"answer":6683,"cites":6684},"Is the Park Board being abolished?","No. Seven commissioners are being elected on October 17, 2026. The current council asked the province to amend the Vancouver Charter to remove the board. TEAM would withdraw that request, and the mayor has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected.",[6647,6685],"cbc-parkboard-team",{"question":6687,"answer":6688,"cites":6689},"What does 1.1 hectares per 1,000 people mean?","It is a target for how much park land the city should have compared with how many people live here. One hectare is about the size of a rugby pitch and a half. TEAM says the figure matches earlier City and Park Board policy.",[6647],[6691],"The TEAM parks and recreation learn-more page",[],"Keep the elected Park Board and halt Stanley Park logging","TEAM would withdraw the request to abolish the elected Park Board, restore its control over its own budget and operations, halt current Stanley Park logging pending independent review, and target 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people.",{"issue":214,"paragraphs":6696,"proposals":6701,"questions":6741,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6742,"gaps":6744,"headline":6745,"summary":6746},[6697,6698,6699,6700],"TEAM is running one School Board candidate, the smallest school slate of the parties contesting that race, but it publishes a detailed schools platform.","Its argument is that schools are not being planned where students actually live, and that the board should stop selling land it will need when those neighbourhoods fill up.","TEAM publishes a specific and checkable claim about swimming: that 50% of Vancouver children cannot swim, and that it would provide training so all of them can. We have not checked that figure.","It also names buildings: reversing the proposed sale of the Queen Elizabeth Annex, the leasing of Fleming’s field, and the closure of Carleton.",[6702,6707,6711,6715,6719,6723,6727,6732,6737],{"title":6703,"detail":6704,"cites":6705},"End school enrolment lotteries","Long-range planning with the city would put schools where students need them, when they need them.",[6706],"team-schools",{"title":6708,"detail":6709,"cites":6710},"Stop disposing of school land","TEAM commits to retaining ownership of school buildings and property, and using space in underused buildings for child care, seniors care or community programs.",[6706],{"title":6712,"detail":6713,"cites":6714},"Reverse the Queen Elizabeth Annex sale, Fleming’s field lease and Carleton closure","TEAM would take action by any means possible to reverse all three.",[6706],{"title":6716,"detail":6717,"cites":6718},"Pause the Microsoft Copilot rollout in secondary schools","The rollout of Microsoft Copilot 13+ would pause until research shows the benefits outweigh the risks and students, families and educators have been consulted.",[6706],{"title":6720,"detail":6721,"cites":6722,"cost":132},"Bring back elementary band and strings","Music programming would be included at every elementary school, restoring the Elementary Band and Strings programs.",[6706],{"title":6724,"detail":6725,"cites":6726},"Swimming training so every child can swim","TEAM states 50% of Vancouver children cannot swim and commits to an integrated swimming and lifeguard training program so 100% can.",[6706],{"title":6728,"detail":6729,"cites":6730,"authority":6731},"Keep more Vancouver school tax in Vancouver","TEAM would negotiate with the province to keep more of the school tax collected in Vancouver for local schools.",[6706],"The school tax formula is provincial.",{"title":6733,"detail":6734,"cites":6735,"authority":6736},"Protect schools at seismic risk","TEAM would demand the province protect the four annexes, twenty-eight elementary schools and eleven secondary schools it says remain at high risk in an earthquake.",[6706],"Seismic upgrade funding is provincial.",{"title":6738,"detail":6739,"cites":6740},"Child care on school sites","Child care would be built into school sites, with a long-range view toward an early education preschool program for all 3 and 4 year olds.",[6706],[],[6743],"The TEAM schools learn-more page",[],"End enrolment lotteries and stop selling school land","TEAM would end school enrolment lotteries through long-range planning with the city, stop disposing of school land, pause the Microsoft Copilot rollout in secondary schools, and bring back elementary band and strings.",{"issue":244,"paragraphs":6748,"proposals":6752,"questions":6773,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6774,"gaps":6776,"headline":6777,"summary":6778},[6749,6750,6751],"TEAM’s finance argument is that the city has taken on work outside its core mandate and funded it through property tax and fee increases.","Its page states that over the last decade the city has almost doubled its operating budget, with new spending funded through property tax increases beyond promised inflationary levels. This is TEAM’s own reading of the budget and we have not checked it against city financial statements.","The proposed budget review would sort services into essential and supplementary, develop benchmarks for each, and give council and the public the ability to review and approve departmental budgets and service plans.",[6753,6758,6762,6765,6769],{"title":6754,"detail":6755,"cites":6756},"Limit tax increases to what core services need","TEAM would limit tax increases to what is necessary to maintain municipal services at levels agreed with the community.",[6757],"team-finance",{"title":6759,"detail":6760,"cites":6761},"Review the operating and capital budgets service by service","The review would document where costs rose over the last decade and why, sort services into essential and supplementary, and build benchmarks to measure cost and value.",[6757],{"title":5566,"detail":6763,"cites":6764},"A registry consistent with federal and provincial ones would let residents see who is trying to influence city decisions.",[6757],{"title":6766,"detail":6767,"cites":6768},"Stop spending city money on provincial and federal responsibilities","TEAM would stop spending city funds on what it considers clearly provincial or federal responsibilities while holding senior governments to account for funding them.",[6757],{"title":6770,"detail":6771,"cites":6772},"Departmental service plans with performance benchmarks","Departments would develop annual service plans with benchmarks, and management would be held accountable for meeting them.",[6757],[],[6775],"The TEAM finance and administration learn-more page",[],"Limit tax rises to core services and establish a lobbyist registry","TEAM would limit tax increases to what is needed for municipal services, review the operating and capital budgets service by service, and set up a lobbyist registry.",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":6780,"proposals":6785,"questions":6817,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6818,"gaps":6820,"headline":6821,"summary":6822},[6781,6782,6783,6784],"TEAM frames climate policy around what it calls practical, measurable local outcomes, and says it will avoid what it calls green-washing.","The clearest split with other parties is on how building emissions rules should work. TEAM would incentivise voluntary upgrades to existing buildings rather than requiring them, arguing mandatory rules may be beyond people’s means.","TEAM is the only party we found publishing a position on AI data centres: a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting them until local rules exist to handle their water and power use.","It also argues the greenest building is the one that already exists, and would prioritise reusing and renovating buildings over demolition.",[6786,6791,6795,6799,6803,6807,6812],{"title":6787,"detail":6788,"cites":6789,"authority":6790},"Moratorium on AI data centre approvals","TEAM would enact a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting AI data centres while local planning and regulatory frameworks are developed.",[6536],"The city controls permitting and land use.",{"title":6792,"detail":6793,"cites":6794},"Incentives rather than mandates for building retrofits","TEAM would incentivise voluntary upgrades of existing buildings to improve energy efficiency and move to zero emissions, rather than the mandatory regulation it says is currently proposed.",[6536],{"title":6796,"detail":6797,"cites":6798},"No road pricing and no city-wide parking permits","TEAM states it will not implement road pricing, which it says unfairly affects affordability and tracks people’s movements, and will not adopt city-wide parking permits.",[6536,6613],{"title":6800,"detail":6801,"cites":6802},"Prioritise adaptive reuse over demolition","TEAM would prioritise retaining and renovating existing buildings rather than what it calls a wasteful bias toward demolition and new construction.",[6536],{"title":6804,"detail":6805,"cites":6806},"Expand tree planting and protect mature trees","TEAM would expand tree planting, protect mature trees, retain and enhance green space, and consider heat island effects when planning growth.",[6536],{"title":6808,"detail":6809,"cites":6810,"authority":6811},"Electrify the bus fleet with TransLink","TEAM would work with TransLink to convert the existing bus system to an electric fleet and expand frequent service on all arterials.",[6536],"TransLink runs the buses. The city sits on the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":6813,"detail":6814,"cites":6815,"authority":6816},"Work with BC Hydro on step energy rates","TEAM would work with BC Hydro to adjust step energy charges so electricity use is encouraged rather than penalised, noting rates increase by 50% from Step 1 to Step 2.",[6536],"BC Hydro rates are provincially regulated.",[],[6819],"The TEAM environment learn-more page",[],"Incentives instead of mandates, and a moratorium on AI data centres","TEAM would use incentives rather than mandatory rules for building retrofits, enact a moratorium on AI data centre approvals, and rejects road pricing and city-wide parking permits.",{"issue":284,"paragraphs":6824,"proposals":6827,"questions":6853,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6854,"gaps":6856,"headline":6857,"summary":6858},[6825,6826],"TEAM’s argument is that artists have left the city because affordable studio space and public venues, mostly in older buildings, have been lost.","Two of its commitments are unusually concrete for an arts platform: a one-for-one replacement and retention policy for city-owned creative space, and publishing an inventory of arts spaces on vancouver.ca.",[6828,6833,6837,6841,6845,6849],{"title":6829,"detail":6830,"cites":6831},"One-for-one replacement of city-owned creative space","TEAM would pursue a one-for-one replacement and retention policy for city-owned creative space, and repurpose unused or underused properties including Park Board and School Board facilities.",[6832],"team-arts",{"title":6834,"detail":6835,"cites":6836},"Publish an inventory of arts spaces","TEAM would create and publish an inventory of arts spaces on vancouver.ca, and build an arts and culture page there listing all events.",[6832],{"title":6838,"detail":6839,"cites":6840},"Incentives to retain creative space","TEAM would provide incentives for retaining and upgrading creative spaces and disincentives for demolishing them.",[6832],{"title":6842,"detail":6843,"cites":6844},"Support street festivals","TEAM would encourage and facilitate street festivals, naming Greek Day, Powell Street, Italian Day and Khatsalano.",[6832],{"title":6846,"detail":6847,"cites":6848},"Keep community centres affordable for the arts community","Community centres and other Park Board facilities would be kept affordable for arts use.",[6832],{"title":6850,"detail":6851,"cites":6852},"Review the civic theatres","TEAM would examine how Vancouver’s civic theatres could be made more suitable and affordable for the local arts community.",[6832],[],[6855],"The TEAM arts and culture learn-more page",[],"Protect affordable artist space and publish an inventory of it","TEAM would protect and expand affordable rehearsal and performance space, require one-for-one replacement of city-owned creative space, and publish an inventory of arts spaces on the city website.",{"issue":297,"paragraphs":6860,"proposals":6862,"questions":6871,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6872,"gaps":6873,"headline":6876,"summary":6877},[6861],"TEAM does not publish a separate child care section. Its commitments appear inside the schools and planning pages.",[6863,6867],{"title":6738,"detail":6864,"cites":6865,"authority":6866},"TEAM would incorporate child care into school sites, with a long-range view toward an early education preschool program for all 3 and 4 year olds, in keeping with Ministry of Education plans.",[6706],"Licensing and operating funding are provincial.",{"title":6868,"detail":6869,"cites":6870},"Use underused school buildings for child care","Space in underused school buildings would be used for child care, seniors care or community programs.",[6706],[],[6743,6548],[6874,6875],"No number of new child care spaces is published.","No position on child care fees is published.","Child care built into school sites and new housing","TEAM would incorporate child care into school sites, aiming toward preschool for all 3 and 4 year olds, and include child care in new housing developments.",[6879,6883,6887,6891,6895,6899,6903,6907,6912],{"question":6880,"answer":6881,"cites":6882},"Who leads TEAM for a Livable Vancouver?","Colleen Hardwick is its mayoral candidate, at ballot number 50. She is a former Vancouver city councillor. Whether she is also the registered leader of the elector organisation is a separate question we have not checked.",[6456,30],{"question":6884,"answer":6885,"cites":6886},"How many candidates is TEAM running?","14: Colleen Hardwick for mayor, 7 for City Council, 5 for Park Board and 1 for School Board.",[30],{"question":6888,"answer":6889,"cites":6890},"What is the single biggest thing TEAM would change?","Repeal the Official Development Plan, including the Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew, and Villages plans. That would bring back public hearings for rezonings those plans currently allow without one.",[6501],{"question":6892,"answer":6893,"cites":6894},"Where does TEAM stand on the Park Board?","It would withdraw the city’s request to the province to abolish the elected board, and move finance, operations and facilities back under Park Board control from city departments.",[6647],{"question":6896,"answer":6897,"cites":6898},"Does TEAM support the UBC SkyTrain extension?","Its planning page commits to reconsidering the city’s support for it, and to ensuring the business case for its viability and for alternatives includes all the facts.",[6501],{"question":6900,"answer":6901,"cites":6902},"What does TEAM say about climate rules for buildings?","It would use incentives for voluntary upgrades rather than mandatory rules, arguing mandatory retrofits may be beyond people’s resources. It also argues the greenest building is the one that already exists.",[6536],{"question":6904,"answer":6905,"cites":6906},"Does TEAM have a position on AI data centres?","Yes. It is the only party we found with one. TEAM would enact a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting AI data centres until local rules exist to handle their water and power use.",[6536],{"question":6908,"answer":6909,"cites":6910},"How much detail does TEAM publish compared with other parties?","More than any other party on this ballot. Its positions site has ten areas, and most carry a separate long page of numbered action items. We counted 13,801 words across the eight pages we archived on September 22, 2026.",[6911],"team-positions",{"question":6913,"answer":6914,"cites":6915},"Where can I see TEAM’s campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is due by about mid-January 2027, so what is on the record now is the yearly reports and the 2022 election filings.",[345,346],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":6917,"gaps":6918,"entries":6919},[20,349],[351],[],"TEAM","team-for-a-livable-vancouver",[6923,6925,6928,6931,6934,6937,6940,6943,6946,6949,6952,6953,6954,6955,6956,6957,6961,6965,6969,6973,6977,6981,6985,6989,6993,6997,7001],{"id":6456,"label":6924,"url":3793,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver home page",{"id":6911,"label":6926,"url":6927,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM our positions","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026",{"id":6501,"label":6929,"url":6930,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM planning for livability and affordability, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fplanning-for-livability-and-affordability\u002Fplanning-learn-more",{"id":6647,"label":6932,"url":6933,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM parks and recreation, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fparks-and-recreation-2026\u002Fparks-learn-more",{"id":6706,"label":6935,"url":6936,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM schools, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fschools-2026\u002Fschools-learn-more",{"id":6757,"label":6938,"url":6939,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM finance and administration, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ffinance-and-administration-2026\u002Ffinance-learn-more",{"id":6536,"label":6941,"url":6942,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM our environment, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Four-environment-2026\u002Fenvironment-learn-more",{"id":6832,"label":6944,"url":6945,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM arts and culture, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Farts-and-culture-2026\u002Farts-learn-more",{"id":6469,"label":6947,"url":6948,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM safety for all","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fsafety-for-all-2026",{"id":6613,"label":6950,"url":6951,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TEAM transportation","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ftransportation-2026",{"id":6685,"label":4962,"url":4963,"publisher":4964,"kind":367,"checkedAt":18},{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":6958,"label":6959,"url":6960,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-community-page","TEAM community representation","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fcommunity-representation-2026",{"id":6962,"label":6963,"url":6964,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-community","TEAM community representation, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fcommunity-representation-2026\u002Fcommunity-learn-more",{"id":6966,"label":6967,"url":6968,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-planning-page","TEAM planning for livability and affordability","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fplanning-for-livability-and-affordability",{"id":6970,"label":6971,"url":6972,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-environment-page","TEAM our environment","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Four-environment-2026",{"id":6974,"label":6975,"url":6976,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-finance-page","TEAM finance and administration","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ffinance-and-administration-2026",{"id":6978,"label":6979,"url":6980,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-safety-more","TEAM safety for all, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fsafety-for-all-2026\u002Fsafety-learn-more",{"id":6982,"label":6983,"url":6984,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-transport-more","TEAM transportation, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ftransportation-2026\u002Ftransportation-learn-more",{"id":6986,"label":6987,"url":6988,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-economy-page","TEAM economic development","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Feconomic-development-2026",{"id":6990,"label":6991,"url":6992,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-economy","TEAM economic development, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Feconomic-development-2026\u002Flearn-more",{"id":6994,"label":6995,"url":6996,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-arts-page","TEAM arts and culture","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Farts-and-culture-2026",{"id":6998,"label":6999,"url":7000,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-parks-page","TEAM parks and recreation","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fparks-and-recreation-2026",{"id":7002,"label":7003,"url":7004,"publisher":3792,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"team-schools-page","TEAM schools","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fschools-2026","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fteam-for-a-livable-vancouver","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver is running 14 candidates behind mayoral candidate Colleen Hardwick. It publishes the longest and most detailed platform of any party in this election, organised into ten policy areas.","dHhspTfFv81Tmq5jCqhTBoIdnIynv8L-WkTnXKXRFYM",{"id":7009,"aliases":7010,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":7011,"extension":12,"founded":7015,"headline":7019,"history":7020,"leadership":7024,"logo":13,"meta":7025,"money":7026,"name":3892,"news":7031,"overview":7035,"palette":7040,"platform":7043,"questions":7209,"record":7240,"registeredName":7244,"rosterLabel":3892,"slug":7245,"sources":7246,"stem":7260,"summary":7261,"website":3893,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":7262},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Ftrueblue-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":7012,"note":9,"cites":7013},"#1d4ed8",[7014],"tb-home",{"year":7016,"note":7017,"cites":7018},2023,"Stated on the party website. We have not checked this against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[7014],"A small conservative slate, mostly contesting the School Board",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7021,"gaps":7022,"entries":7023},[20,21],[23],[],[],{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7027,"gaps":7028,"searchUrl":39,"filings":7029,"notes":7030},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7032,"gaps":7033,"entries":7034},[50],[52],[],[7036,7037,7038,7039],"TrueBlue Vancouver is running 3 people across 4 ballot entries: 1 for City Council and 3 for School Board. Naomi Chocyk appears on the ballot twice, for City Council at number 154 and for School Board at number 318.","It is the only party on this ballot with a candidate standing for two different offices.","The party site gives its founding year as 2023 and describes it as contesting mayor, council and school board. The official candidate list shows no TrueBlue mayoral candidate, so we have recorded the official list.","Its published platform is broad and mostly without numbers. It sets a direction on ten subjects rather than making costed commitments.",{"accent":7041,"onAccent":61,"tint":6487,"ink":7042},"#1D4ED8","#1F377A",[7044,7059,7077,7091,7117,7130,7146,7164,7197,7203],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":7045,"proposals":7047,"questions":7052,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7053,"gaps":7055,"headline":7057,"summary":7058},[7046],"The party publishes a direction with no supply target, cost or timeline attached.",[7048],{"title":7049,"detail":7050,"cites":7051,"cost":132},"Make housing easier and less expensive to build","The party would reduce fees, red tape and permit delays while protecting neighbourhood character.",[7014],[],[7054],"The TrueBlue Vancouver home page and platform page",[4617,7056],"No affordability commitment is published.","Cheaper to build, with neighbourhood character protected","TrueBlue would make housing easier and less expensive to build by reducing fees, red tape and permit delays, while protecting neighbourhood character.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":7060,"proposals":7063,"questions":7073,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7074,"gaps":7075,"headline":7065,"summary":7076},[7061,7062],"This is the recovery-first end of the ballot. TrueBlue’s framing is the opposite of COPE’s safe supply and harm reduction position.","Detox and treatment services are provincial, so a city taking this direction would be pressing the province rather than delivering it.",[7064,7069],{"title":7065,"detail":7066,"cites":7067,"authority":7068},"Prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery","The party would focus on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use.",[7014],"Detox and treatment services are provincial.",{"title":7070,"detail":7071,"cites":7072},"Address encampments","The party would address encampments and maintain parks and sidewalks.",[7014],[],[7054],[],"TrueBlue focuses on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use.",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":7078,"proposals":7080,"questions":7086,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7087,"gaps":7088,"headline":7089,"summary":7090},[7079],"TrueBlue’s safety position sits with ABC and against COPE on the ballot’s clearest divide: whether to fund policing more or to fund other services instead. No budget figure is published.",[7081],{"title":7082,"detail":7083,"cites":7084,"cost":132,"authority":7085},"Properly funded police","The party supports properly funded police and addressing repeat crime and public disorder. No budget figure is published.",[7014],"Council approves the police budget. The Police Board directs the department.",[],[7054],[],"Properly funded police and action on repeat crime","TrueBlue supports properly funded police and would address repeat crime and public disorder.",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":7092,"proposals":7094,"questions":7112,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7113,"gaps":7114,"headline":7115,"summary":7116},[7093],"TrueBlue and TEAM are the two parties publishing a position against road pricing. TrueBlue adds a bike lane audit, which no other party publishes.",[7095,7099,7103,7108],{"title":7096,"detail":7097,"cites":7098},"Oppose congestion pricing","The party opposes congestion pricing.",[7014],{"title":7100,"detail":7101,"cites":7102},"Audit bike lanes","The party would audit bike lanes.",[7014],{"title":7104,"detail":7105,"cites":7106,"authority":7107},"Support transit based on ridership and need","The party would support transit based on ridership and need.",[7014],"TransLink runs transit service.",{"title":7109,"detail":7110,"cites":7111},"Protect commercial parking access","The party would cut red tape and protect commercial parking access.",[7014],[],[7054],[],"Oppose congestion pricing and audit bike lanes","TrueBlue opposes congestion pricing, would audit bike lanes, and would support transit based on ridership and need.",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":7118,"proposals":7120,"questions":7124,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7125,"gaps":7126,"headline":7128,"summary":7129},[7119],"The party is not contesting the Park Board race. Its published commitment touching parks is about maintenance and encampments and would be carried out through council.",[7121],{"title":7122,"detail":7071,"cites":7123},"Maintain parks and sidewalks",[7014],[],[7054],[7127],"No position on the future of the elected Park Board is published.","Maintain parks and sidewalks, address encampments","TrueBlue would address encampments and maintain parks and sidewalks. It is not running Park Board candidates.",{"issue":214,"paragraphs":7131,"proposals":7134,"questions":7139,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7140,"gaps":7141,"headline":7144,"summary":7145},[7132,7133],"The School Board is where TrueBlue is concentrating. Three of its four ballot entries are school trustee candidacies, which is the largest share of any party’s slate going to one race.","Its published school position is a direction rather than a set of commitments: safe schools, parental involvement and critical thinking. No measurable outcome is published.",[7135],{"title":7136,"detail":7137,"cites":7138},"Safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking","The party commits to promoting safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking. No measurable outcome is published.",[7014],[],[7054],[7142,7143],"No measurable school outcome is published.","No position on school capacity, catchments or the budget is published.","Safe schools, parental involvement and critical thinking","TrueBlue promotes safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking. Three of its four ballot entries are for School Board.",{"issue":244,"paragraphs":7147,"proposals":7149,"questions":7158,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7159,"gaps":7160,"headline":7162,"summary":7163},[7148],"The party publishes a direction rather than a number. It would control property tax increases and audit spending, but no percentage target or timeline is published.",[7150,7154],{"title":7151,"detail":7152,"cites":7153,"cost":132},"Control property tax increases","The party commits to controlling property tax increases and auditing spending to focus on essential services. No percentage target is published.",[7014],{"title":7155,"detail":7156,"cites":7157},"Publish spending information","The party commits to publishing spending information and holding officials accountable.",[7014],[],[7054],[7161],"No property tax percentage target is published.","Control property tax increases and audit spending","TrueBlue would control property tax increases, audit spending to focus on essential services, and publish spending information.",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":7165,"proposals":7168,"questions":7190,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7191,"gaps":7194,"headline":7196},[7166,7167],"The party's climate chapter opposes existing City climate rules on buildings, and reframes flooding and heat as maintenance and infrastructure issues rather than emissions issues.","It also ties park cleanliness and encampment removal to its \"Green Space\" policy, and opposes road-pricing and paid-parking expansion under \"Private Vehicles and Parking.\"",[7169,7174,7178,7182,7186],{"title":7170,"detail":7171,"cites":7172},"Repeal green building mandates and retrofit rules","The party would repeal what it calls costly municipal green building mandates, complex retrofits and gas-stove bans, and streamline the Vancouver Building By-law so builders and homeowners can choose their own heating, cooling and energy sources.",[7173],"tb-platform-pdf",{"title":7175,"detail":7176,"cites":7177},"Direct spending to drainage, dikes and seawalls","The party would focus tax dollars on drainage, dike maintenance and seawall repairs, upgrading storm sewers and coastal defences, rather than what it calls activist environmental projects.",[7173],{"title":7179,"detail":7180,"cites":7181},"Maintain tree canopy and green space, tied to park cleanliness","The party would maintain park tree canopies and green spaces for recreation, while enforcing public space bylaws and clearing encampments it says make parks unsafe.",[7173],{"title":7183,"detail":7184,"cites":7185},"Maintain cooling infrastructure without new heat regulations","The party would keep community centre cooling, pools and ice rinks running through summer heat waves, without new heat-related regulations or taxes on private property owners.",[7173],{"title":7187,"detail":7188,"cites":7189},"Oppose road pricing and paid-parking expansion","The party would oppose mobility pricing and congestion taxes, and end paid parking expansion in residential neighbourhoods.",[7173],[],[7192,7193,159],"The party's 2026 Full Election Platform (PDF)","The party website at https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002F",[7195],"The platform states no dollar figure or date for any of these commitments.","Repeal green building rules, and focus climate spending on drainage and cooling infrastructure",{"issue":284,"paragraphs":7198,"proposals":7199,"questions":7200,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7201,"gaps":7202},[],[],[],[7193,159,5040],[5042],{"issue":297,"paragraphs":7204,"proposals":7205,"questions":7206,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7207,"gaps":7208},[],[],[],[7193,159,5040],[5042],[7210,7214,7218,7222,7226,7230,7234,7238],{"question":7211,"answer":7212,"cites":7213},"How many candidates is TrueBlue running?","Three people across four ballot entries: 1 for City Council and 3 for School Board. Naomi Chocyk appears twice, for City Council at number 154 and School Board at number 318.",[30],{"question":7215,"answer":7216,"cites":7217},"Can a candidate run for two offices at once?","Naomi Chocyk is on the 2026 Vancouver ballot for both City Council and School Board. That is what the official candidate list shows, and she is the only person on this ballot in that position.",[30],{"question":7219,"answer":7220,"cites":7221},"Is TrueBlue running a mayoral candidate?","No. Its own site describes it as contesting mayor, council and school board, but the official candidate list shows no TrueBlue mayoral candidate. We have recorded the official list.",[30,7014],{"question":7223,"answer":7224,"cites":7225},"When was TrueBlue founded?","Its website states 2023. We have not checked that against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[7014],{"question":7227,"answer":7228,"cites":7229},"Where does TrueBlue stand on drugs?","It focuses on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use. That is the opposite framing to COPE’s safe supply and harm reduction position.",[7014],{"question":7231,"answer":7232,"cites":7233},"Does TrueBlue publish any numbers?","No. Its platform sets a direction on about ten subjects without dollar figures, percentage targets or deadlines attached, checked September 22, 2026.",[7014],{"question":7235,"answer":7236,"cites":7237},"What does TrueBlue say about bike lanes?","It would audit them. It is the only party on this ballot publishing that commitment. It also opposes congestion pricing, which TEAM does too.",[7014],{"question":5117,"answer":343,"cites":7239},[345,346],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7241,"gaps":7242,"entries":7243},[20,349],[351],[],"True Blue Vancouver","trueblue-vancouver",[7247,7249,7250,7251,7252,7253,7256],{"id":7014,"label":7248,"url":3893,"publisher":3892,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"TrueBlue Vancouver home page and platform",{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":7173,"label":7254,"url":7255,"publisher":3892,"kind":359,"checkedAt":6},"TrueBlue Vancouver 2026 Full Election Platform (PDF)","https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002Fplatform",{"id":7257,"label":7258,"url":7259,"publisher":3892,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"tb-platform-2026","TrueBlue Vancouver 2026 Full Election Platform, 49-page PDF","https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002Fdownloads\u002Ftrueblue-vancouver-2026-full-platform.pdf","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Ftrueblue-vancouver","TrueBlue Vancouver is running 3 candidates: one for City Council and three for School Board, with one person on the ballot twice. Its published platform is built around lower taxes, funded police and recovery-focused drug policy.","odDz0QpNRH95psX90cqatAcQ3ljzSPIwNK0hPZF3ayg",{"id":7264,"aliases":7265,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":7266,"extension":12,"founded":7269,"headline":7272,"history":7273,"leadership":7277,"logo":13,"meta":7280,"money":7281,"name":372,"news":7286,"overview":7290,"palette":7295,"platform":7299,"questions":7492,"record":7528,"registeredName":7532,"rosterLabel":372,"slug":7533,"sources":7534,"stem":7551,"summary":7552,"website":371,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":7553},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fvancouver-liberals.json",[],{"hex":7267,"note":9,"cites":7268},"#d53f31",[110],{"year":7270,"note":7017,"cites":7271},2025,[110],"A party founded in 2025, running the second-largest slate",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7274,"gaps":7275,"entries":7276},[20,21],[23],[],[7278],{"role":27,"name":4176,"cites":7279},[110,30],{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7282,"gaps":7283,"searchUrl":39,"filings":7284,"notes":7285},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7287,"gaps":7288,"entries":7289},[50],[52],[],[7291,7292,7293,7294],"The Vancouver Liberals are running 19 candidates: Kareem Allam for mayor at ballot number 56, 7 for City Council, 6 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. Only ABC is running more.","The party site gives its registered name as the Vancouver Liberal Electors Association and its founding year as 2025, which makes it the newest party running a large slate.","Kareem Allam is described in our candidate records as a political strategist and former mayoral chief of staff.","Its most distinctive commitment is abolishing the Vancouver Building Code and adopting the provincial one instead, which is the opposite of the Green Party position.",{"accent":7296,"onAccent":61,"tint":7297,"ink":7298},"#D43B2D","#F7E5E3","#7A261F",[7300,7323,7344,7363,7375,7418,7433,7454,7466,7485],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":7301,"proposals":7305,"questions":7311,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7317,"gaps":7319,"headline":7321,"summary":7322},[7302,7303,7304],"This is one of the sharpest single splits on the 2026 ballot, and it turns on a power only Vancouver has.","Under the Vancouver Charter, Vancouver writes its own building rules. Every other municipality in British Columbia follows the provincial code. The Liberals would give that power up.","The argument for giving it up is that one code across the province is simpler and cheaper for builders. The argument against, which the Green Party makes, is that the local code is what lets Vancouver set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings.",[7306],{"title":7307,"detail":7308,"cites":7309,"authority":7310},"Eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and adopt the BC Building Code","The party commits to \"eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and just adopt the BC Building Code\".",[110],"Council holds this power under the Vancouver Charter and can choose to align with the provincial code.",[7312],{"question":7313,"answer":7314,"cites":7315},"What would change if Vancouver dropped its own building code?","Builders would follow the same rules here as in the rest of British Columbia, which is simpler for anyone building in more than one city. Vancouver would also lose the power to set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings, because that power comes from having its own code.",[110,7316],"green-housing-x",[7318],"The Vancouver Liberals home page",[4617,7320],"No affordable or rental housing commitment is published.","Abolish the Vancouver Building Code","The Vancouver Liberals would eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and adopt the BC Building Code instead.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":7324,"proposals":7327,"questions":7337,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7338,"gaps":7341,"headline":7343},[7325,7326],"The party's homelessness position mirrors a citywide ban it opposes: it would reverse the prohibition on new supportive housing construction.","It ties this to a second, more specific commitment: requiring 24-hour public washrooms and showers in every new supportive housing project.",[7328,7333],{"title":7329,"detail":7330,"cites":7331,"authority":6207},"Reverse the ban on new supportive housing","On its first day, the party would reverse what it calls a ban on all new supportive housing construction in the city, to serve seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.",[7332],"vl-issues",{"title":7334,"detail":7335,"cites":7336},"Require public washrooms and showers in new supportive housing","Every new supportive housing project in the city would be required to include 24-hour public washrooms and showers for people who are unhoused.",[7332],[],[7339,7340,6223,159],"The party's Issues page at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002Fissues","The party's dedicated Parks and Recreation plan PDF, linked from that page",[7342],"No cost or date is given for either commitment beyond \"day one\" for the ban reversal.","Reverse the ban on new supportive housing, and require public washrooms in it",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":7345,"proposals":7348,"questions":7358,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7359,"gaps":7360,"headline":7361,"summary":7362},[7346,7347],"The Liberals are the only party on this ballot publishing a commitment on money laundering and Bitcoin ATMs.","They would also create a Firefighter Safety and Deployment Board, which is a new body rather than a change to an existing one.",[7349,7354],{"title":7350,"detail":7351,"cites":7352,"authority":7353},"Crack down on Bitcoin ATMs and money laundering","The party commits to \"crack down on Bitcoin ATMs, money laundering, and other root causes of crime\".",[110],"Money laundering enforcement is largely federal and provincial. The city licenses businesses.",{"title":7355,"detail":7356,"cites":7357,"cost":132},"Increase long-term firefighter funding","The party would increase long-term funding for firefighters and create a Firefighter Safety and Deployment Board.",[110],[],[7318],[],"Crack down on money laundering and Bitcoin ATMs","The Vancouver Liberals would target Bitcoin ATMs, money laundering and what they call the root causes of crime, and increase long-term funding for firefighters.",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":7364,"proposals":7366,"questions":7371,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7372,"gaps":7373,"headline":7368,"summary":7374},[7365],"The party has published no transit, cycling or street design commitment. Road maintenance appears only inside the front-line hiring commitment.",[7367],{"title":7368,"detail":7369,"cites":7370},"Road maintenance through new front-line staff","Road maintenance is named as one of the services the 400 new front-line unionized staff would improve.",[110],[],[7318],[4704,4705],"Road maintenance appears as one of the services the Vancouver Liberals’ 400 new front-line staff would improve. No transit or cycling commitment is published.",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":7376,"proposals":7379,"questions":7412,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7413,"gaps":7414,"headline":7416,"summary":7417},[7377,7378],"The party publishes a dedicated Parks and Recreation plan, separate from its main issues page, that commits to keeping the Park Board elected and independent and gives it a bigger, steadier share of the City budget.","It also promises a $1.35 billion investment across parks, recreation and pools, and specific facility positions: 50-metre pools at the Aquatic Centre, removing parking meters at beaches and community centres, and an auditor general review of the PNE.",[7380,7386,7391,7395,7400,7404,7408],{"title":7381,"detail":7382,"cites":7383,"authority":7385},"Keep the Park Board elected and reverse the move to abolish it","The party would fight efforts to remove the elected Park Board and repeal Council's motion calling for its abolition.",[7384],"vl-parkplan","Only the province can abolish the Park Board by amending the Vancouver Charter. Council can withdraw its own request to the province.",{"title":7387,"detail":7388,"cites":7389,"cost":7390},"Create a Joint Budget Advisory Committee and restore funding to 9% of the city budget","A committee of Park Board commissioners, city councillors and both bodies' senior finance staff would guide the annual budget cycle, aiming to restore Park Board funding from 7.9% to 9% of the total city budget within four years, with a three-year rolling budget framework.",[7384],"A four-year path from 7.9% to 9% of the city's total budget",{"title":7392,"detail":7393,"cites":7394},"Return facility management authority to the Park Board","The party would repeal the centralized facilities-management structure it says excludes the Park Board, restoring the Board's direct control of maintenance and capital planning for its own facilities.",[7384],{"title":7396,"detail":7397,"cites":7398,"cost":7399},"A capital renewal plan for community centres","Each capital cycle would aim to build one new community centre and renew three more, following the existing Community Centre Strategy, with a $1.35 billion investment across parks, recreation and pools.",[7332],"$1.35 billion",{"title":7401,"detail":7402,"cites":7403},"50-metre pools at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre","The party opposes replacing the Aquatic Centre's 50-metre pool with a 25-metre pool.",[7332],{"title":7405,"detail":7406,"cites":7407},"Remove parking meters at beaches and community centres","The party would remove parking meters recently added at beaches and community centres.",[7332],{"title":7409,"detail":7410,"cites":7411},"An auditor general investigation into the PNE","The party calls for an investigation into cost overruns and operating deficits at the Pacific National Exhibition.",[7332],[],[7339,7340,6223,159],[7415],"Most items name no specific dollar figure beyond the $1.35 billion total and the 7.9 to 9 percent target, and no completion date beyond the four-year budget goal.","Keep the elected Park Board, a Joint Budget Committee, and a capital renewal plan","Parks appear in the Vancouver Liberals’ published commitments as one of the services the 400 new front-line staff would improve.",{"issue":214,"paragraphs":7419,"proposals":7422,"questions":7428,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7429,"gaps":7430,"headline":7431,"summary":7432},[7420,7421],"The School Liaison Officer programme places police officers in schools. It has been ended and restarted in Vancouver in recent years and is one of the clearest dividing lines in the School Board race.","The party is running five School Board candidates.",[7423],{"title":7424,"detail":7425,"cites":7426,"authority":7427},"Continue and evolve the School Liaison Officer programme","The party commits to supporting \"the continuance and evolution of the School Liaison Officer program\".",[110],"The Board of Education decides whether the programme runs in Vancouver schools.",[],[7318],[],"Keep the School Liaison Officer programme","The Vancouver Liberals support continuing and evolving the School Liaison Officer programme, which places police officers in schools.",{"issue":244,"paragraphs":7434,"proposals":7438,"questions":7449,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7450,"gaps":7451,"headline":7452,"summary":7453},[7435,7436,7437],"These two commitments sit together because one is a saving and the other is a cost, and the party has published a figure for the saving but not for the hiring.","The 400 staff would work on garbage pickup, road maintenance and parks and recreation facilities. The party has not published what they would cost.","The $800 million figure and the name \"Second City Hall\" are the party’s own description of the project. We have not checked it against the city capital plan.",[7439,7445],{"title":7440,"detail":7441,"cites":7442,"cost":7443,"authority":7444},"Cancel the $800 million second city hall","The party commits to cancelling what it calls the \"$800-Million Second City Hall\" project.",[110],"$800 million, as described by the party","Council approves capital projects.",{"title":7446,"detail":7447,"cites":7448,"cost":132},"Hire 400 new front-line unionized staff","The 400 staff would improve garbage pickup, road maintenance and parks and recreation facilities.",[110],[],[7318],[],"Cancel the $800 million second city hall and hire 400 staff","The Vancouver Liberals would cancel an $800 million project they call the \"Second City Hall\" and hire 400 new front-line unionized staff.",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":7455,"proposals":7457,"questions":7462,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7463,"gaps":7464,"headline":7459},[7456],"The party's one climate-specific position is about the shrinking tree canopy, stated as a problem with no measure yet attached.",[7458],{"title":7459,"detail":7460,"cites":7461},"A tree canopy strategy","The party says Vancouver's tree canopy is shrinking, driving up electricity use and worsening air quality and livability, and commits to a tree canopy strategy, without stating a canopy target or a date.",[7332],[],[7339,7340,6223,159],[7465],"No target percentage, cost or date is given for the strategy.",{"issue":284,"paragraphs":7467,"proposals":7470,"questions":7480,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7481,"gaps":7482,"headline":7484},[7468,7469],"The party's clearest culture commitment is a reserved-land program for artists, cutting their property taxes in half.","It also promises to lower festival organizers' policing fees, tying this to affordability for community events.",[7471,7476],{"title":7472,"detail":7473,"cites":7474,"cost":7475},"An Artist Land Reserve in four locations","The party would establish an Artist Land Reserve in four locations across the city, providing studio space and cutting property taxes in half for artists and creatives there.",[7332],"Property tax cut in half for participating artists; no total program cost published",{"title":7477,"detail":7478,"cites":7479},"Lower policing fees for festivals","The party would find a way to make policing more affordable for community events and festivals, after what it says have been rising fees under the current Council.",[7332],[],[7339,7340,6223,159],[7483],"No dollar figure is given for the tax cut's cost to the city, and no date is set for either commitment.","An Artist Land Reserve, and cheaper festival policing fees",{"issue":297,"paragraphs":7486,"proposals":7487,"questions":7488,"state":4819,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7489,"gaps":7490},[],[],[],[7339,7340,6223,159],[7491],"No child care commitment appears anywhere on the party's issues page or its linked plan documents.",[7493,7497,7501,7505,7509,7513,7517,7521,7525],{"question":7494,"answer":7495,"cites":7496},"Who leads the Vancouver Liberals?","Kareem Allam is the mayoral candidate, at ballot number 56. Our candidate records describe him as a political strategist and former mayoral chief of staff.",[110,30],{"question":7498,"answer":7499,"cites":7500},"How many candidates are they running?","19: Kareem Allam for mayor, 7 for City Council, 6 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. That is the second-largest slate on the ballot after ABC.",[30],{"question":7502,"answer":7503,"cites":7504},"When was the party founded?","Its website states 2025. We have not checked that against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[110],{"question":7506,"answer":7507,"cites":7508},"What is their most distinctive commitment?","Eliminating the Vancouver Building Code and adopting the provincial one instead. Vancouver is the only BC city with its own building code, and the Green Party would keep it. This is one of the sharpest splits on the ballot.",[110,7316],{"question":7510,"answer":7511,"cites":7512},"What would the 400 new staff do?","Garbage pickup, road maintenance, and parks and recreation facilities. They would be unionized front-line staff. The party has not published what they would cost.",[110],{"question":7514,"answer":7515,"cites":7516},"What is the \"Second City Hall\" they would cancel?","The party describes an $800 million project by that name and commits to cancelling it. The name and the figure are the party’s own description, and we have not checked them against the city capital plan.",[110],{"question":7518,"answer":7519,"cites":7520},"Where do they stand on police in schools?","They support continuing and evolving the School Liaison Officer programme, which places police officers in schools. The Board of Education decides whether it runs.",[110],{"question":7522,"answer":7523,"cites":7524},"Do they have a published housing supply plan?","No. The one published commitment touching housing is abolishing the Vancouver Building Code. We found no supply target, affordability commitment or rental policy on September 22, 2026.",[110],{"question":7526,"answer":343,"cites":7527},"Where can I see their campaign finances?",[345,346],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7529,"gaps":7530,"entries":7531},[20,349],[351],[],"Vancouver Liberal Electors Association","vancouver-liberals",[7535,7536,7537,7538,7539,7540,7541,7544,7547],{"id":110,"label":370,"url":371,"publisher":372,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},{"id":7316,"label":364,"url":365,"publisher":366,"kind":367,"publishedAt":368,"checkedAt":18},{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":7332,"label":7542,"url":7543,"publisher":372,"kind":359,"checkedAt":6},"Kareem's Plan for a Better Vancouver (Issues page)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002Fissues",{"id":7384,"label":7545,"url":7546,"publisher":372,"kind":359,"checkedAt":6},"Vancouver Liberals: Our Plan for Parks and Recreation Facilities (PDF)","https:\u002F\u002Fassets.nationbuilder.com\u002Fvancouverliberals\u002Fpages\u002F233\u002Fattachments\u002Foriginal\u002F1787255366\u002FVancouver_Liberals_Park_Plan.pdf?1787255366",{"id":7548,"label":7549,"url":7550,"publisher":372,"kind":359,"checkedAt":402},"vl-ipv-policy","Vancouver Liberals: Intimate Partner Violence Policy (PDF)","https:\u002F\u002Fassets.nationbuilder.com\u002Fvancouverliberals\u002Fpages\u002F233\u002Fattachments\u002Foriginal\u002F1789599508\u002FVancouver_Liberals_IPV_Policy.pdf?1789599508","elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fvancouver-liberals","The Vancouver Liberals are running 19 candidates behind mayoral candidate Kareem Allam, the second-largest slate on the ballot. Their commitments include hiring 400 front-line staff and cancelling an $800 million city hall project.","LoE0qDMondKgLHT6NEJ0H2OwzNMRTCFMOYkf5qAkMts",{"id":7555,"aliases":7556,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":7557,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":7561,"history":7562,"leadership":7566,"logo":13,"meta":7571,"money":7572,"name":3833,"news":7577,"overview":7581,"palette":7586,"platform":7589,"questions":7827,"record":7863,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":3833,"slug":7867,"sources":7868,"stem":7878,"summary":7879,"website":3834,"wordmark":13,"__hash__":7880},"parties\u002Felections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fvote-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":7558,"note":4569,"cites":7559},"#7A3D9E",[7560],"vv-home","A centrist party built around Rebecca Bligh, with a 40-page policy document",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7563,"gaps":7564,"entries":7565},[20,21],[23],[],[7567],{"role":7568,"name":4381,"cites":7569},"Mayoral candidate and founder",[7570,30],"vv-policy",{},{"state":33,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7573,"gaps":7574,"searchUrl":39,"filings":7575,"notes":7576},[35,36],[38],[],[42,43,44,45,46],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7578,"gaps":7579,"entries":7580},[50],[52],[],[7582,7583,7584,7585],"Vote Vancouver is running 12 candidates: Rebecca Bligh for mayor at ballot number 52, 6 for City Council, 2 for Park Board and 3 for School Board.","Rebecca Bligh is a sitting Vancouver city councillor and a former president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. The party site describes her as having created Vote Vancouver.","The party describes itself as \"proudly centrist and pragmatic\" and says it does not believe City Hall should be driven by left or right ideology.","Its published Policy Priorities document runs to roughly 6,400 words and is organised into four sections: Housing and Belonging, Transportation Choice, Public Services and Economic Drivers.",{"accent":7558,"onAccent":61,"tint":7587,"ink":7588},"#EFE5F5","#552B6E",[7590,7647,7674,7699,7716,7730,7759,7775,7793,7814],{"issue":66,"paragraphs":7591,"proposals":7596,"questions":7634,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7643,"gaps":7645,"headline":7598,"summary":7646},[7592,7593,7594,7595],"This is the most time-bound commitment any party has published in this election. Five parcels of public land would be chosen, named and announced with a timeline within one month of entering City Hall.","The party also publishes an affordability definition rather than leaving the word undefined: new public housing would target no more than 30% of household income.","Its faith-based land policy is unusual. Vote Vancouver would introduce a right-of-first-refusal bylaw giving the city first opportunity to buy qualifying faith-based properties when they come to market, and would help faith organisations that want to redevelop rather than sell.","The party would also reverse what it describes as a ban on new supportive housing, arguing it blocks replacing single room occupancy hotels with better options.",[7597,7602,7606,7609,7614,7618,7622,7626,7630],{"title":7598,"detail":7599,"cites":7600,"authority":6178,"deadline":7601},"Name five parcels of public land within one month","Five parcels of city-owned land will be chosen, named and announced with an associated timeline within one month of entering City Hall.",[7570],"One month after taking office",{"title":7603,"detail":7604,"cites":7605},"Target rents at no more than 30% of household income","New public housing will target no more than 30% of household income.",[7570],{"title":7329,"detail":7607,"cites":7608},"Vote Vancouver would reverse the ban so single room occupancy hotels can be replaced with safe, dignified, affordable options.",[7570],{"title":7610,"detail":7611,"cites":7612,"authority":7613},"A right-of-first-refusal bylaw for faith-based land","The city would get the first opportunity to buy qualifying faith-based properties when they come to market, for housing, child care and community services.",[7570],"Council can pass such a bylaw under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":7615,"detail":7616,"cites":7617},"Use DASH to build faster","The city would use Digitally Accelerated Standardized Housing, pre-approved models and sustainable materials, especially for modular housing.",[7570],{"title":7619,"detail":7620,"cites":7621},"Non-profits run the developments","Non-profit or community organisations would run the new developments, to reduce strain on City Hall and keep them connected to their communities.",[7570],{"title":7623,"detail":7624,"cites":7625},"Replace SROs with self-contained housing","Existing single room occupancy hotels would be replaced with dignified, self-contained, purpose-built housing, while existing facilities keep operating until alternatives are available.",[7570],{"title":7627,"detail":7628,"cites":7629},"Hold landlords to maintenance standards","The city would enforce its maintenance standards and act where buildings fall into serious disrepair that threatens residents’ ability to stay housed.",[7570],{"title":7631,"detail":7632,"cites":7633},"Work with community land trusts","Vote Vancouver would work with community land trusts and community groups to keep public land in community ownership and build co-operative housing, naming the Downtown Eastside Community Land Trust, the SRO Collaborative, the False Creek South Community Housing Trust and Hogan’s Alley.",[7570],[7635,7639],{"question":7636,"answer":7637,"cites":7638},"What does \"30% of household income\" mean?","It is a definition of affordable. A household earning $60,000 a year would pay no more than $18,000 a year, or $1,500 a month, for a home built under this policy. Most parties use the word affordable without saying what it means; Vote Vancouver puts a number on it.",[7570],{"question":7640,"answer":7641,"cites":7642},"What is a right-of-first-refusal bylaw?","It means that when a church, temple or other faith organisation decides to sell its land, the city gets the first chance to buy it before private buyers. The organisation still chooses to sell; the city just gets first offer.",[7570],[7644],"The Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities document, dated in its filename September 15, 2026",[],"Vote Vancouver would name five parcels of city-owned land for affordable housing within one month of taking office, target rents at no more than 30% of household income, and reverse the ban on new supportive housing.",{"issue":123,"paragraphs":7648,"proposals":7651,"questions":7667,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7668,"gaps":7671,"headline":7673},[7649,7650],"The document's clearest homelessness position is reversing the City's ban on new supportive housing, which it credits to a motion by Rebecca Bligh.","Its addiction and mental health proposals include continuing to fund a specific existing program, St. Paul's Road to Recovery, and building new Recovery Community Centres.",[7652,7655,7659,7663],{"title":7329,"detail":7653,"cites":7654,"authority":6207},"The party would reverse a City ban on building new supportive housing, to allow replacing single-room-occupancy hotels with self-contained supportive homes connected to mental health, addiction, social work and job supports.",[7570],{"title":7656,"detail":7657,"cites":7658},"Support St. Paul's Road to Recovery program","The party would keep supporting the Road to Recovery program by building more supportive housing for people exiting it, and continuing to fund Vancouver Coastal Health.",[7570],{"title":7660,"detail":7661,"cites":7662},"Build more Recovery Community Centres","The party would build more Recovery Community Centres to connect people with peer support and wellness activities, bridging the gap to detox and treatment.",[7570],{"title":7664,"detail":7665,"cites":7666},"Better coordinate police, health and housing responses","The party would improve coordination between police, healthcare providers, housing providers and community organizations so police are not the only response to mental health and addiction crises.",[7570],[],[7669,7670,159],"The party's Policy Priorities PDF, already archived in research\u002Fvancouver-2026-09-22\u002Fparty-sources\u002F","The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votevancouver.ca\u002F",[7672],"Most items name no cost and no date. The document credits several of these to Rebecca Bligh personally, and those are also recorded on her own candidate record.","Reverse the supportive housing ban, and expand recovery programs",{"issue":140,"paragraphs":7675,"proposals":7678,"questions":7695,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7696,"gaps":7697,"headline":7698},[7676,7677],"The document sets out a multi-part public safety plan built around prevention and coordination rather than a police budget figure.","It also states a School Board position on School Liaison Officers, kept out of uniform and rebranded away from policing, which sits on the schools area of this page instead.",[7679,7683,7687,7691],{"title":7680,"detail":7681,"cites":7682},"A Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy","The party would develop this strategy with police, healthcare providers, non-profits, Indigenous organizations, businesses and community groups.",[7570],{"title":7684,"detail":7685,"cites":7686},"Rework Community Policing Centres into neighbourhood hubs","Community Policing Centres would become hubs for crime prevention, community referrals, youth mentorship and connecting residents to services, prioritizing prevention over criminalization.",[7570],{"title":7688,"detail":7689,"cites":7690},"Expand gender-based violence prevention work","The party would expand policies and working groups on gender-based violence, crediting a motion by Rebecca Bligh.",[7570],{"title":7692,"detail":7693,"cites":7694},"Become Canada's first Restorative City","The party would build a restorative justice system, training city staff with Peace of the Circle and applying what it calls the Vancouver Test to future policy decisions.",[7570],[],[7669,7670,159],[7672],"A Community Safety and Wellbeing Strategy, reworked policing centres, and a restorative justice system",{"issue":164,"paragraphs":7700,"proposals":7704,"questions":7709,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7710,"gaps":7712,"headline":7714,"summary":7715},[7701,7702,7703],"Transportation Choice is the second of four sections in the party’s Policy Priorities document, covering pages 13 to 19.","The section opens by describing Vancouver as a large city with a variety of transport options including walking and biking, framed around more choices and fewer barriers.","We archived the full document on September 22, 2026. The detailed commitments inside this section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.",[7705],{"title":7706,"detail":7707,"cites":7708},"Transportation Choice section of the Policy Priorities document","The party publishes a dedicated transport section under the heading \"More choices. Fewer barriers.\" The individual commitments in it are recorded in our archived copy and have not yet been transcribed here.",[7570],[],[7711],"The Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities document",[7713],"The individual commitments in the Transportation Choice section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.","Transportation Choice: one of four sections of the policy document","Vote Vancouver publishes a Transportation Choice section running from page 13 to page 19 of its Policy Priorities document.",{"issue":184,"paragraphs":7717,"proposals":7719,"questions":7724,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7725,"gaps":7726,"headline":7728,"summary":7729},[7718],"Parks and recreation appear in the party’s stated focus and in the Public Services section of its Policy Priorities document, which runs from page 20 to page 32. The individual commitments in that section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.",[7720],{"title":7721,"detail":7722,"cites":7723},"Improve access to parks, pools and recreation","The party names improving access to parks, pools and recreation among the issues it is focused on.",[7570],[],[7711],[7727],"The individual commitments in the Public Services section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.","Improving access to parks, pools and recreation","Vote Vancouver lists improving access to parks, pools and recreation among the issues it is focused on. Detailed commitments sit in the Public Services section of its policy document.",{"issue":214,"paragraphs":7731,"proposals":7734,"questions":7755,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7756,"gaps":7757,"headline":7758},[7732,7733],"The party's education proposals include a School Board position on School Liaison Officers distinct from its policing proposal: SLOs would stay but out of uniform, rebranded away from police, focused on early intervention.","It also lists school nutrition funding, technology and AI rules for classrooms, and a facilities-condition audit.",[7735,7739,7743,7747,7751],{"title":7736,"detail":7737,"cites":7738},"Establish School Liaison Officers as regular, rebranded support","SLOs would focus on early intervention and youth protection, work out of uniform and rebranded away from policing, and be paired with counsellors, youth workers and restorative justice programs, with regular independent equity-centred reviews.",[7570],{"title":7740,"detail":7741,"cites":7742},"Support student mental health and neurodivergence","The party would push for more school counsellors, faster neurodivergence assessments, and closing the gap between individual education plans and real classroom support.",[7570],{"title":7744,"detail":7745,"cites":7746},"Fund and expand school nutrition programs","Council would work with the school district to expand nutrition programs and reduce funding gaps between schools, developing a cost-sharing plan rather than relying on individual school budgets.",[7570],{"title":7748,"detail":7749,"cites":7750},"Set rules for AI tools and cellphones in classrooms","The party would require consultation with students, parents, teachers and staff before new AI tools, give teachers clear rules on acceptable AI use, and restrict cellphones in younger grades.",[7570],{"title":7752,"detail":7753,"cites":7754},"Audit and upgrade school facilities","The party would audit elementary school grounds, keep seismic renewal on pace for the district's high seismic risk, and evaluate the Olympic Village School's development and 3 versus 4 storey options.",[7570],[],[7669,7670,159],[7672],"Neurodivergence supports, a rebranded School Liaison Officer role, and facility upgrades",{"issue":244,"paragraphs":7760,"proposals":7764,"questions":7769,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7770,"gaps":7771,"headline":7773,"summary":7774},[7761,7762,7763],"Rather than publishing a tax number, Vote Vancouver publishes a test. It says that a policy that does not meet all four questions will not be prioritised.","The fourth question, whether residents can measure if it worked, is the one that matters most for holding a council to account, because it commits the party to publishing something measurable.","The party describes its approach as fiscally responsible while expanding public services. It does not publish a property tax rate commitment.",[7765],{"title":7766,"detail":7767,"cites":7768},"Apply the Vancouver Test to every policy","Four questions: does it improve service or meet an urgent need, does it strengthen Vancouver’s long-term future, does it build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked. A policy that fails the test will not be prioritised.",[7570],[],[7711],[7772],"No property tax rate commitment is published.","The Vancouver Test: four questions applied to every policy","Vote Vancouver publishes a decision test it says it applies to every policy: does it improve service, strengthen the long-term future, build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked.",{"issue":257,"paragraphs":7776,"proposals":7778,"questions":7789,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7790,"gaps":7791,"headline":7792},[7777],"The document's clearest climate positions are both about buildings: restarting a paused emissions-reporting program, and keeping an existing heating rule rather than loosening it.",[7779,7784],{"title":7780,"detail":7781,"cites":7782,"authority":7783},"Restart the Energize Vancouver emissions-reporting program","The party would unpause this City program so it can measure where building emissions come from and track progress.",[7570],"The City's own reporting program.",{"title":7785,"detail":7786,"cites":7787,"authority":7788},"Keep the electric heating requirement for new buildings","The party would maintain the existing requirement for electric space and hot water heating in new buildings, rather than allowing gas.",[7570],"Vancouver's own building bylaw.",[],[7669,7670,159],[7672],"Restart emissions reporting, and keep electric heating rules for new buildings",{"issue":284,"paragraphs":7794,"proposals":7796,"questions":7810,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":6,"searched":7811,"gaps":7812,"headline":7813},[7795],"The document gives arts and culture its most detailed proposal of any issue on this page: a two-step plan to move City arts funding to an independent council.",[7797,7801,7806],{"title":7798,"detail":7799,"cites":7800,"cost":132},"Create an Arts, Culture and Creative City Navigator within six months","This service would help artists and cultural non-profits navigate permitting, liquor licensing and special-event approvals, and coordinate marketing for Vancouver's arts and culture.",[7570],{"title":7802,"detail":7803,"cites":7804,"cost":7805},"Establish an Independent Arts Council to administer City arts grants","The Council would take over grant decisions from Council votes, administer a dedicated annual City allocation with at least 90 percent going directly to the arts and creative sector, and advocate for the sector.",[7570],"A dedicated annual allocation from the City; no figure published",{"title":7807,"detail":7808,"cites":7809},"Work toward a Vancouver Arts Foundation for private funding","The party would work with business, philanthropic and creative communities to create a permanent vehicle for private donations and sponsorships in the arts.",[7570],[],[7669,7670,159],[7672],"An Independent Arts Council and a City Navigator for permits",{"issue":297,"paragraphs":7815,"proposals":7817,"questions":7822,"state":33,"indexable":115,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7823,"gaps":7824,"headline":7825,"summary":7826},[7816],"Child care appears inside the housing section of the policy document rather than on its own. The commitment is that new public housing developments include access to child care, schools and public spaces.",[7818],{"title":7819,"detail":7820,"cites":7821},"Child care in every new public housing development","New public housing developments will include access to child care, schools and public spaces. The party calls this building complete communities, not just buildings.",[7570],[],[7711],[6874,6875],"Child care built into every new public housing development","Vote Vancouver would include child care, schools and public spaces in new public housing developments, describing this as building complete communities rather than buildings.",[7828,7832,7836,7840,7844,7848,7852,7856,7860],{"question":7829,"answer":7830,"cites":7831},"Who leads Vote Vancouver?","Rebecca Bligh, a sitting Vancouver city councillor, is its mayoral candidate at ballot number 52. The party’s own document says she created Vote Vancouver.",[7570,30],{"question":7833,"answer":7834,"cites":7835},"How many candidates is Vote Vancouver running?","12: Rebecca Bligh for mayor, 6 for City Council, 2 for Park Board and 3 for School Board.",[30],{"question":7837,"answer":7838,"cites":7839},"What is the Vancouver Test?","Four questions the party says it applies to every policy: does it improve service or meet an urgent need, does it strengthen the long-term future, does it build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked. A policy that fails is not prioritised.",[7570],{"question":7841,"answer":7842,"cites":7843},"What is Vote Vancouver’s fastest housing commitment?","Naming five parcels of city-owned land for affordable housing, with a timeline, within one month of taking office. That is the tightest deadline any party has published in this election.",[7570],{"question":7845,"answer":7846,"cites":7847},"What does the party mean by affordable?","No more than 30% of household income for new public housing built under its policy. Most parties do not put a number on the word.",[7570],{"question":7849,"answer":7850,"cites":7851},"Where does Vote Vancouver sit politically?","It describes itself as \"proudly centrist and pragmatic\" and says it does not believe City Hall should be driven by left or right ideology or by political polarization.",[7570],{"question":7853,"answer":7854,"cites":7855},"Does the party have a position on supportive housing?","Yes. It would reverse what it describes as a ban on building new supportive housing, arguing the ban stops single room occupancy hotels being replaced with better options.",[7570],{"question":7857,"answer":7858,"cites":7859},"Does it publish a property tax commitment?","No. It publishes the Vancouver Test and describes itself as fiscally responsible, but we found no property tax rate commitment in the document, checked September 22, 2026.",[7570],{"question":7861,"answer":343,"cites":7862},"Where can I see Vote Vancouver’s campaign finances?",[345,346],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":18,"searched":7864,"gaps":7865,"entries":7866},[20,349],[351],[],"vote-vancouver",[7869,7871,7874,7875,7876,7877],{"id":7560,"label":7870,"url":3834,"publisher":3833,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"Vote Vancouver home page",{"id":7570,"label":7872,"url":7873,"publisher":3833,"kind":359,"checkedAt":18},"Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fvotevancouver.ca\u002Fs\u002FVV-PolicyPriorities_260915.pdf",{"id":30,"label":374,"url":375,"publisher":376,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":345,"label":379,"url":39,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":346,"label":382,"url":383,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},{"id":385,"label":386,"url":387,"publisher":380,"kind":377,"checkedAt":18},"elections\u002Fbc-vancouver-2026\u002Fparties\u002Fvote-vancouver","Vote Vancouver is running 12 candidates behind mayoral candidate Rebecca Bligh, a sitting city councillor. 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