"Capital planning for climate change

Ensure major infrastructure investment builds for future climate conditions, including heat, flooding, drought, and sea-level rise. By prioritizing resilient infrastructure and proactive upgrades, Vancouver can reduce long-term costs while protecting residents and services."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 14, Accessed 2026-09-29

"Building for climate change

Restore interdepartmental sustainability work to ensure new and retrofit construction are built cleaner and greener, prioritizing resident health and comfort against changing climate."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 6, Accessed 2026-09-29

"Building for climate change

Restore interdepartmental sustainability work to ensure new and retrofit construction are built cleaner and greener, prioritizing resident health and comfort against changing climate."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 6, Accessed 2026-09-29

"Solar ready, plug-in solar ready

Expand access to clean, affordable energy. Streamline permitting, modernize regulations, and cut red tape for rooftop and new technology direct-to-consumer plug-in solar."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 11, Accessed 2026-09-29

"Decarbonizing new builds

Re-establish policies to ban fossil gas heating for heat and hot water in new construction types and return standard emission reporting and targeting."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 11, Accessed 2026-09-29

"Green retrofits: the greenest buildings are the ones already built

Encourage partnerships through the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and BC Retrofit Accelerator to support funding for climate smart retrofits. Simplify conditions around green retrofits by reducing triggers for extraneous upgrades"

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 6, Accessed 2026-09-29

"District Energy

Continued investment in shared energy infrastructure to heat and cool multiple buildings, reduce emissions, lower long-term energy costs, and improve resilience."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 23, Accessed 2026-09-29

"EV charging island modernized curbside infrastructure

Prioritize emerging opportunities for partnership with curbside lamppost and utilitypole charging as part of Vancouver street infrastructure everywhere, in particular where older street lighting systems are replaced with LED and result in surplus electric capacity."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 11, Accessed 2026-09-29

"Car light, car right

Right-size neighbourhood parking by planning for actual demand, permitting access for residents, businesses and visitors, making sure valuable public space is used efficiently and fairly. Decouple parking from cost of housing and demand on-street use allowing paid off-street parkades for residents where appropriate. Reduce parking requirements near high-frequency transit and replace some parking with public plazas, cycling infrastructure, and green space."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 9, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Return a standalone Sustainability and Climate Office to City Hall

Focused city leadership on climate action, clean energy, resilience, and environmental stewardship while improving accountability and coordination across departments."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 11, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Climate planning includes lifecycle emissions in reporting

Expand emissions reporting to include embodied and lifecycle emissions, helping the City make more informed decisions about long-term climate impacts."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 11, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Right to cool and clean air

Access to cool, clean air, protecting tenants from extreme heat and wildfire smoke at home by expanding cooling, shade, and clean-air infrastructure throughout Vancouver."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 11, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Climate resilient infrastructure

Invest in resilience to climate change with cooling, warming, and air-quality enhancements for public facilities, rain and storm surge management, blueways, greenways, bioswales, sewer separation, and eliminating raw sewage outflows."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 14, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Climate justice and equity

Ensure every neighbourhood and resident has access to climate-safe public spaces and buildings during extreme heat, smoke, flooding, and other climate emergencies, while investing in cooling, shade, and community resilience for those most at risk."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 29, Accessed 2026-09-29

"Green roofs

Mandate green roofs by-law on larger new and existing buildings to reduce urban heat, manage stormwater, improve biodiversity, and create a greener, more resilient city"

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 11, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Trees for a Healthier City

Greens are committed to grow a larger, healthier canopy to provide more shade, cooler streets, cleaner air, and healthier neighbourhoods city-wide.

Protect and expand our urban forest by strengthening tree protection bylaws and preserving mature trees.

Reward tree retention with incentives for developments that protect significant trees on private property.

Plant more climate-resilient trees by committing dedicated funding to expand the city's canopy with species suited to a changing climate.

Reform technical tree removal rules by tightening standards for removals justified by construction logistics while creating clear, practical pathways to accommodate legitimate construction and crane access needs.

Replace more trees than we remove by requiring stronger mitigation, replacement planting, and canopy restoration when mature trees are lost to development.

Protect trees for the long term by making occupancy permits conditional on post-construction tree health reviews and remediation where construction impacts have damaged protected trees.

Create a municipal arborist office with in-house certified arborists to independently review tree assessments, improve transparency, and ensure public confidence in development-related tree decisions.

Maintain and strengthen Vancouver’s Bird Friendly City certification.

Support a Youth Climate Corps for Urban Forestry with matching funding opportunities to plant and maintain tree canopy expansion with living wage climate work for youth."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 12, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Expand multi modal share parking and docking spaces

Expand shared mobility infrastructure including public bike share to provide more affordable and sustainable transportation choices. Ensure new facilities are thoughtfully integrated into communities, mitigating any negative impacts, and support last mile for frequent transit areas."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 9, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Eastside Arts District

Strengthen the Eastside’s identity as a neighbourhood that nurtures arts, culture, and creativity. Preserve affordable creative space, support artists and cultural organizations through zoning and land use conditions and incentives."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 36, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Restore City arts funding and a new strategy

Restore and expand arts and culture staffing and grants cut by ABC, and implement a new city-wide strategy to support arts economic development and employment"

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 36, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Making it easier for creative-use spaces and venues to operate

Reduce red tape around event licensing and occupancy requirements while maintaining safety standards. Create a new licensing category for qualified venues and, in the interim, raise thresholds to allow up to eight events per month and occupancy of up to 60 people."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 36, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Making space for arts

Protect and create affordable studios, live-work spaces, workshops, and cultural venues through adaptive reuse, flexible land-use policies, and creative building conversions."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 36, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Commercial rent protection advocacy and local retention strategies

Many independent businesses, social enterprises, and arts and cultural organizations are being displaced by rising rents and redevelopment pressures. Greens will advocate to the province for commercial tenant protections. Using tax incentives, land-use policies, transition supports, and targeted financial assistance, preserve affordable commercial space for local businesses."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 36, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Protect local businesses from displacement

'No net loss' policy for affordable commercial space in major redevelopments. Require major redevelopment projects to replace affordable commercial space that would otherwise be lost. Vancouver's independent businesses, cultural organizations, and community-serving retailers deserve a place in the city's future."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 36, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Cultural Land Trusts

Support Cultural Land Trusts to acquire and preserve creative spaces, cultural venues, artist studios, and live-work buildings as non-profit community assets."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 36, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Better roads, safer streets

[...]Deliver curb-cuts and accessibility with all new and renewed infrastructure."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 8, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Transparent and Accountable Budgets

Make City spending easier to understand with greater budget transparency through clear, accessible line-item budgets that allow residents to see how public funds are allocated and spent. Better visibility into spending promotes accountability, strengthens public trust, and helps ensure taxpayer dollars are directed to community priorities. Under Ken Sim, formerly detailed budget documents in the hundreds of pages have been reduced to two dozen."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 46, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"FIFA cost accountability

Unlike Toronto, Vancouver has not released the detailed spending categories for FIFA. Greens will push to reveal final costs and revenues upon assuming office."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 46, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Participatory budgeting for community priorities

Give residents a direct role in deciding how a portion of City funding is invested in neighbourhood projects, community amenities, and local improvements."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 46, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Value nature as infrastructure

Treat trees, wetlands, waterways, and green spaces as critical infrastructure assets by incorporating Natural Asset Accounting into City decision-making and budgets."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 13, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Ranked ballots for Mayoral elections

Vancouver voters deserve a meaningful choice without worrying about vote-splitting. Greens will work with our partners to bring ranked ballots to future Mayoral elections, so results reflect what voters actually want rather than the limitations of first-past-the-post. This builds on best practices elsewhere and our shared commitment to a more democratic, representative City Hall."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 44, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"City services as customer service

The government isn’t a business, but can still deliver good customer service. We will make City Hall more transparent, responsive, and user-friendly, with clearer processes, better communication, and a culture focused on helping people solve problems. Your local government shouldn't be intimidating, confusing, or frustrating."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 43, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Integrity and Transparency

Pete Fry opposed ABC's attempts to suspend and undermine Vancouver's Integrity Commissioner and has consistently defended independent accountability at City Hall. Greens will support stronger provincial integrity legislation, safeguard the independence of ethics oversight, and ensure elected officials remain accountable to the public they serve with transparency and beyond ethical reproach."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 43, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Independent civil service

A strong city depends on a professional public service that can provide independent advice and administer programs fairly. Greens will champion transparent, meritbased public administration, and clear separation between political direction and professional decision-making to ensure City Hall works for residents, not partisan interests."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 44, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Lobbyist registry

Residents deserve to know who is influencing public decisions and what issues are being discussed. In the absence of provincial legislation, the Greens support a voluntary lobbyist registry, building on Pete Fry's work to improve transparency at City Hall."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 44, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Open government by default

Closed meetings should be the exception, not the rule. Greens will strengthen transparency around in-camera discussions, improve public reporting, and support the timely disclosure of decisions and records once confidentiality is no longer necessary. This builds on best practices elsewhere, and Pete Fry's work to make City Hall more open, accountable, and accessible."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 44, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Restore access at city hall

Despite expanded opportunities to engage with City Hall, ABC limited access, creating procedural barriers and limits. Greens will ensure members of the public have more, not less, access and Council has the opportunity to ask follow up questions of speakers."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 45, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Public performance dashboards

Expand the use of public performance dashboards so residents can track progress on major initiatives, monitor service standards, and hold City Hall accountable for delivering results. What gets measured gets managed, and what gets reported builds public trust."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 45, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Protect the autonomy of Vancouver's elected Park Board

Maintain an independent, elected Park Board with clear authority over parks, beaches, recreation, urban forestry, and community facilities. Ensure major governance changes are subject to public consultation and transparent decisionmaking that respects Vancouver voters' choice of an elected board.

Work with Vancouver School Board in planning

Proactive and integrated board to board planning to align Council land use decisions and urban development with school needs and projections.

Police Board accountability

Under ABC, the board has operated less like an independent civilian check on police power and more like an extension of the mayor’s public-safety agenda. Concerns about political interference, transparency, and procedural fairness have been amplified by the Board’s handling of complaints and high-profile resignations in protest of political interference. We will work to restore confidence in transparent and accountable board operations."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 47, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Buy local, build local

Prioritize local businesses, social enterprises, and community-benefit organizations in City procurement to keep public dollars circulating in the local economy."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 41, accessed 2026-10-16

"Healthy city, healthy communities

Align to UN Sustainable Development Goals to improve wellbeing, reduce poverty, strengthen food security, build climate resilience, and create healthier communities, so Vancouver can attract funding opportunities while delivering better outcomes for residents."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 29, Accessed 2026-10-16

"Strong Communities Action Plan

Create an Office of Strong Communities to serve as the City's neighbourhood engagement hub, working directly with residents, community organizations, BIAs, and neighbourhood groups to identify local priorities, coordinate responses to emerging issues, and ensure community voices inform cross-departmental City planning and decisions. From the River District and South Vancouver to Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside, our Vancouver neighbourhoods are unique, and local communities are best positioned to describe gaps in community services and amenities and opportunities to support residents, small businesses, and public realm improvements."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 5, accessed 2026-09-29

"Restore access at city hall

Despite expanded opportunities to engage with City Hall, ABC limited access, creating procedural barriers and limits. Greens will ensure members of the public have more, not less, access and Council has the opportunity to ask follow up questions of speakers."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 45, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Remove barriers so every student can fully participate and thrive. Review school-related fees and costs that shut students out, expand inclusiveeducation supports, food security programs, and mental/physical health resources, and give students a real, structured voice in decisions that affect them. Pause AI Chatbots in schools to undertake a review."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 29, Retrieved 2026-10-16

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"Intimate partner violence prevention strategy

Create a comprehensive municipal strategy and task force to prevent intimate partner violence by coordinating services, expanding support for survivors, improving data and prevention education, and ensuring accountable leadership."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 25, 2026-10-16

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"Support improved educational outcomes for Indigenous students. VSB's FESL data shows a declining five-year Indigenous graduation rate (~49%), which is now below the provincial average and diverging from improving trends in other BC districts"

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, pg 52, Accessed 2026-10-16

"Request a pause on the use of AI Chatbots in schools to ensure proper consultation with students, parents and educators, and conduct a full review of policy and procedures, including consideration of ethics and cognitive impacts"

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, pg 63, Accessed 2026-10-16

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"Childcare everywhere

Make it faster and easier to create childcare spaces in every community, allowing childcare wherever appropriate and streamlining approvals. Make it easier and more affordable to open childcare centres, allowing families to find quality childcare close to where they live, work, and learn, and during the times of day and night that they are needed."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, pg 21, Accessed 2026-10-15

"Reduce childcare costs by cutting red tape

Reduce permit fees, streamline approvals, and remove unnecessary regulatory barriers for licensed childcare providers, lowering the cost of opening and expanding childcare."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, pg 21, Accessed 2026-10-15

"Childcare in City-owned facilities

Lease or support suitable City-owned spaces at below-market rates to licensed childcare providers. Work with Park Board to expand childcare in community centres across Vancouver."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, pg 21, Accessed 2026-10-15

"Turn schools into community resilience hubs. Expand childcare, afterschool care and shared community use of school spaces, improve safe routes to school, and deepen partnerships with the City, Park Board, and local organizations."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, pg 52, Accessed 2026-10-15

"Support improved educational outcomes for Indigenous students. VSB's FESL data shows a declining five-year Indigenous graduation rate (~49%), which is now below the provincial average and diverging from improving trends in other BC districts"

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 57, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Remove barriers so every student can fully participate and thrive. Review school-related fees and costs that shut students out, expand inclusiveeducation supports, food security programs, and mental/physical health resources, and give students a real, structured voice in decisions that affect them. Pause AI Chatbots in schools to undertake a review."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 29, Retrieved 2026-10-16

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"Advocate for increased funding for students with diverse learning needs. The current Ministry allocation, which is supplemented by the VSB, is inadequate"

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 54, Retrieved 2026-10-16

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"Make schools safe, healthy and climate-resilient. Keep seismic safety at the top of capital priorities, improve air quality and indoor comfort, and prepare every school for extreme heat, wildfire smoke and other climate impacts while pursuing provincial capital funding."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 52, Retrieved 2026-10-16

"Keep seismic safety at the top of Vancouver's capital priorities. 43 of 106 VSB buildings remain seismically high-risk, at an estimated $1.63 billion"

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 61, Retrieved 2026-10-16

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"Coordinate capital planning with expected neighbourhood growth and enrolment changes. Prioritizing King George Secondary, which is at 166% capacity and Carr Elementary which is over capacity and using portables"

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 61, Retrieved 2026-10-16

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"Sustainable school food funding

No child should go hungry at school. Advocate for a universal, senior governmentfunded school food program and ensure Vancouver fills funding gaps when provincial and federal funding falls short, building on Pete Fry's successful efforts to restore support for VSB school meal programs."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 29, Retrieved 2026-10-16

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"Add more safe routes to schools and school streets

[...]Support and expand School Streets, car-free zones adjacent to schools safe for active transportation, play, and connections before and after school."

— Vancouver Green Party Platform, page 8, Retrieved 2026-09-30

"Community equipment libraries

Support equipment lending libraries that give residents affordable access to tools, sports equipment, recreational gear, gardening supplies, repair equipment, and other shared resources, to reduce household costs and build community connections."

— Vancouver Green Party Full Platform, page 21, Accessed 2026-10-15