Vision Vancouver

We'll bring in investment to develop our local businesses - and we'll also help those entrepreneurs find opportunities in overseas markets. Our city is a model for the world on sustainable urban development. We need to not only showcase that global leadership, but put it to work to strengthen our local economy. Our vision also includes the safe, li... veable neighbourhoods that we all love so deeply. Over the next 3 years, we will make this city friendlier to Vancouver's families- from securing at least 500 new child care spaces for our youngest residents, to providing new facilities and staff training to support our eldest. We will start by enabling selective free programming at community centres, so your family's financial means don't stand in the way of enjoying the health and recreational opportunities that Vancouver offers. Our vision includes making Vancouver the world's greenest city by 2020. During the last Council's term, the people of Vancouver came together in historic numbers to help chart a collaborative strategy, the Greenest City Action Plan. Over the next 3 years, we will implement that plan, with a scope that includes 85 separate initiatives . . . and ranges from new green spaces . . . to local food . . . to creating green jobs . . . to better clean transportation options. And we start by working with TransLink to secure the improved late-night bus and train service that our whole region needs urgently. And continuing to push for rapid transit along the Broadway corridor. An agenda this ambitious can't be the work of Council alone. We will draw on the strength of our community organizations, of business and labour and social profits, and the ingenuity and direct involvement of the people of Vancouver. We do that by finding new opportunities and venues for citizens to participate, new ways for the city to listen, new forums for conversation. We do that by opening our doors, both physical and virtual. One way we've started is by opening up Vancouver's data and new technology. Right now you can see ...Read More