This is a reminder to vote tomorrow Oct. 20, 2018

Voting locations here. 8:00 am - 8:00 pm

The following slate for the civic election is intended to guide those who care about saving character houses and the neighbourhoods throughout the city. Below is a basic slate for consideration with rationale.

MAYOR:    SIM, Ken  (NPA)  

COUNCIL (10):

• CARR, Adriane (Green)
  FRY, Pete (Green)
  WIEBE, Michael  (Green)
  WONG, David  (Green)
  HARDWICK, Colleen  (NPA)
   NOBLE, Penny (Independent)

PARK BOARD (7):

• MACKINNON, Stuart (Green)
  DEMERS, Dave (Green)
  DUMONT, Camil (Green)

SCHOOL BOARD (9):

• FRASER, Janet   (Green)
  GONZALEZ, Estrellita (Green)
  CHAN-PEDLEY, Lois (Green)

 Rationale:

Current city councillor Adriane Carr (Green) has been an early and consistent supporter of character house retention. Greens recognize that the greenest policies are those that allow for adaptive reuse of existing character buildings, including for more affordable suites, strata and infill. Because of this record, we support the whole Green slate. 

The Vision dominated council has had a decade to stop the demolitions, but instead has just made it much worse. And recent rezonings without any community consultations show this would continue.  The two "independent " mayoral candidates, Kennedy Stewart and Shauna Sylvester, are both related to Vision and their policies reflect more of the same, so not viable options. One City is also the same.

The other front running mayoral candidate is Ken Sim (NPA). He has confirmed that he supports policies that meaningfully retain character houses.  He would revise zoning and building bylaws to make it easier to retain character houses or renovate, and that the recent rezonings would be reconsidered with character retention as part of community consultation and planning.

Colleen Hardwick (NPA) is strongly committed to character house retention as part of planning for growth within a sustainable city, supported by a more affordable surface electric transit network than the unsustainable subway and towers.

Penny Noble (Independent) has been part of the Character House Network and is committed to the cause.

Slate Options:

The above is a small base slate so that those who want to can either vote just for these candidates or there is room to add more from the NPA, other parties, or independents. Lots to choose from. Be mindful of vote splitting. At minimum, please vote for all the Greens.

But mainly it is important to vote.

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