Rebecca Bligh
Rebecca Bligh is running for Mayor of Vancouver with Vote Vancouver. Their Vote Vancouver website presents a campaign focused on Housing. The published positions supports simplify and speed up approvals for new housing; opposes New housing should only be approved where it fits the existing scale and character of the neighbourhood.
Verified positions
Positions supported by public campaign material or another attributable source. These enter the questionnaire comparison without an inference label.
Supports simplifying and speeding up the development process.
New projects will include a mix of towers, mid-rise and low-rise buildings, townhomes, and prefabricated modular housing, depending on the neighbourhood and the site.
Qualification: Form determined by neighbourhood and site.
Supports ending the pause on new supportive housing.
End the 0% property tax freeze and replace it with predictable, sustainable property tax increases based on responsible long-term financial planning.
Supports keeping property-tax increases in line with inflation.
Prioritizing prevention, education, and support over criminalization.
Supports extending SkyTrain to UBC.
We are in favour of making parking cheaper and easier for drivers by reducing prices at public locations.
Maintaining Vancouver's 30% tree-canopy target while separately measuring mature canopy and newly planted trees.
Supports simpler processes and better technology to reduce permitting delays.
We strongly agree with this, and it remains a part of our platform.
Deliver a 50-metre pool. Committing to pools at Sunset and Marpole Community Centres. ... Restoring full practical public access to Kitsilano Pool.
Building more public washrooms in and near: commercial districts, parks, the Downtown Eastside, community centres, pedestrian plazas, and other highuse public areas.
We commit to a public review of city funding allocated to Indigenous organizations within the first year of the term, measured against the Vancouver Test, with results reported back to MVAEC member agencies directly.
Qualification: Measured against the party's Vancouver Test; results reported to MVAEC member agencies.
Both developments reflect the kind of partnership we want to build on.