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'To describe the Beauty of this region will, on some occasion, be a very grateful task to the pen..."- Captain George Vancouver, 1792.

"The site [New Westminster] is not only convenient in every respect but it is agreeable & striking inaspect. Viewed from the Gulf of Georgia across the meadows on entering the Fraser, the far distant giantmountains forming a dark background --- the City would appear throned Queen-like & shining in the gloryof the midday sun."

— Col. R.C. Moody, February 1st, 1859.

" ... from the natural advantages of its position and location sooner or later Langley must become thesite of a flourishing town."

- Bishop George Hills, 1861.

"The history of Port Moody, as yet, is mainly of its future; and that, we have the best of reasons foranticipating will be great and brilliant. ... We see the city upon its shores in the future --and not remotefuture-- the first, the grandest, and the most populous and thriving city upon the Pacific slope of theAmerican continent."

- Port Moody Gazette, December 22nd, 1883.

" It is only once in a lifetime that the public have such a chance as at present, and we would recommendthose who have money to invest to investigate the merits of Vancouver on Coal Harbour."

- The West Shore; Portland, Oregon; 1884.

"...in a short time we trust that this Surrey of ours will have made such rapid advances that its internaldevelopment will be the means of inducing many more to come and cast their lot with us. There are severalpoints in the district where manufacturing establishments could be carried on profitably, and the council areprepared to assist in establishing such schemes within the corporation."

-Edward Mallandaine, British Columbia Directory, 1887.

'The sea-port of the twentieth century! the Constantinople of the West! are the names which suggestthemselves to me the moment I set eyes on Vancouver. ... Commerce! At present we talk of the sceneryof Vancouver, but in a few years all the world will be talking of its commerce."

— Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, May 1890.

"Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia. It is but 16 years old and has a population of 30,000inhabitants.. It has excellent hotel accommodations at reasonable rates. It rejoices in an ideal summerclimate; malaria, black flies and mosquitos being unknown. The evenings are always cool, and the air pure,refreshing and bracing. Stanley Park (one of the largest and most beautiful natural parksin the world) [offers] sea-bathing at English Bay."

— Vancouver, A Few Facts, 1902.

'This last winter here has been equal to an Eastern month of May, and all that could be called real winterwas inside of ten days, and all the snow fall not over six inches, while the flowers never quite gave up. ...The schools are in every sense first class. Churches of all denominations. The water supply from highCapilano Canyon is simply perfect and plenty."

— Vancouver: the Mecca of the Tourist., 1903.

" ...by the time Vancouver has developed into a wharf, blacksmith shop, boarding house, and a fewwhiskey mills and perhaps a car repairing shop, giving about as much employment as one of our loggingcamps, the city of New Westminster with its great resources and commanding position will havedoubled its present enterprising and energetic population."

- Victoria Colonist, January 29th, 1885.

" Prosperity bathes the town like sunlight — progress continuous. Watch North Vancouver's advance.it will be the kinetiscope of the Coast."

— The North Vancouver Express, August 25th, 1905.

Greater Vancouver Regional District4330 Kingsway, Bumaby, British Columbia, Canada V5H 4G8

Office of the Chairman

Telephone (604) 432-6213

September, 1990

To: Members of CouncilMember MunicipalitiesGreater Vancouver Regional District

Greater Vancouver has always been an attractive place to live. Today, our expandingrange of economic activity and our increasing cultural strength has made us Canada'smost popular region.

The Choosing Our Future Program was a regional search for new answers to create a morelivable and healthier region. Over the last few months over 4,000 residents of this regionhave helped to create an agenda for action that will meet that goal.

We have caught ourselves in contradictions and we have faced them squarely. We wantcleaner air and more public transit, but we own more automobiles and we drive themeverywhere; we oppose urban sprawl but resist higher densities; we want regionally-coordinated action, but we demand local autonomy.

The Greater Vancouver Regional District Board knows it is more and more difficult totravel around our region but we believe that we can work toward a solution together byputting jobs closer to where people live, by emphasizing walking and transit and goodsmovement over the automobile. If we work together, we believe we can protect wilder-ness, park and agricultural land, and we can create more affordable housing. We knowsocial changes—more elderly, more working women, smaller families and more ethnicdiversity—are changing service demands and we believe that acting in concert we canmeet those changing needs.

We believe that "made in Greater Vancouver solutions" will reinforce our values andmake change work for us and for our future.

This report sets out the regional actions adopted by the GVRD Board on July 25, 1990.They form the framework for a regional agenda of joint action. It also suggests municipalactions that will reinforce this regional agenda. Finally it outlines briefly the individualactions that the people who live here can take to create a more livable region for us all.

The choices that we confronted during the Choosing Our Future Program were difficultones. We look forward to discussing them with you and your municipality in the monthsahead. We have chosen a path that demands that each of us make changes to the way welive.

We look forward to Creating Our Future together.

Yours truly,

,69,efe.„G.J. Blair Gordon CampbellChairperson ChairpersonGVRD Board of Directors GVRD Development Services Committee

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Contents

Changes and choices 9Maintaining a healthy environment 11Conserving our land resource 15Serving a changing population 22Maintaining the region's economic health 25Managing our region 26Creating our future 27Participants 29

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Acknowledgements

The "Choosing Our Future" process which lead tothe preparation of this document, is the result of theefforts of many. Those who participated in the "ChoosingOur Future" program are listed on pages 28 through 33.

The regional actions contained in this document and inthe Technical Report, were adopted by the Board ofDirectors of the Greater Vancouver Regional District on25 July 1990.

The cover image was derived from a photographsupplied by the Vancouver Port Corporation.

Design: David Clifford Design

Printed in Canada by Hemlock Printers Ltd.

This is recycled paper

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Greater Vancouver can become the firsturban region in the world to combine inone place the things to which humanityaspires on a global basis: a place wherehuman activities enhance rather thandegrade the natural environment, wherethe quality of the built environmentapproaches that of the natural setting,where the diversity of origins and religionsis a source of social strength rather thanstrife, where people control the destiny oftheir community, and where the basics offood, clothing, shelter, security and usefulactivity are accessible to all.

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CHANGES AND CHOICES

Fifteen years ago, the GVRD Board and its member communities made some clearchoices. The public were concerned about issues such as centralized growth, trafficcongestion and the loss of regional open space. The remedies contained in the LivableRegion Strategy - regional town centres, rapid transit and regional parks - have madea real contribution to the livability of this region because they were part of an action planwhich every one could understand and support.

Choosing Our Future has shown that today we are even more concerned aboutmaintaining Greater Vancouver's livability. We are proud of our spectacular setting,our unique and envied lifestyle, our thriving economic and cultural life. But we aremore aware of the fragility of these assets and the need to work hard to protect themif our children and grandchildren are to live as well here as we do. As our region growstowards two million people, the GVRD and its 18 member municipalities face thechallenge of making history by avoiding the degradation which plagues so many largecities in the world.

Meeting that challenge will require bold action not only by the GVRD and its membercouncils but also by other government agencies, community groups, private businessand individuals. The choices and actions resulting from Choosing Our Future will bea map guiding us into the 21st Century, an agenda of things we must do now to sustainqualities of life that we value.

Out of the hundreds of ideas and concerns put forward by the thousands of people whoparticipated in Choosing Our Future, there are five critical priorities which requireimmediate attention by the Greater Vancouver municipal federation:

1. Maintaining a healthy environment;2. Conserving our land resource;3. Serving a changing population;4. Maintaining the region's economic health; and5. Managing our region.

Choosing Our Future is about making difficult choices - choices that lead to concertedaction. This report sets the actions resulting from Choosing Our Future in the contextof regional priorities. It identifies actions to be taken at the regional level, the local leveland at the level of individual residents of the region.

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"The shape of the future is in our hands. It is our responsibility for it can be no one else's. The world won'tbe destroyed tomorrow, but it can be made better today."

— Jeffrey Hollender; How to Make the World a Better Place; 1990

'e must be willing to erase local boundaries to successfully deal with regional issues, such as theenvironment, housing, transportation, regional safety and social issue?.

— Mayor Marilyn Baker, District of North Vancouver, Deputy Chairperson, GVRD Board

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"The prosperity of a region is rooted in the health of the ecosystems that support it - the land, the air and the water."

—Green Cities Program.

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Regional Actions1. Continue to prohibit transportation,

recreation and any other activities inthe watersheds, which would jeop-ardize water quality.

2. Continue to develop and implement theDrinking Water Quality ImprovementProgram.

3. Establish Community Water Taste Panelscomposed of representatives fromacross the region to monitor watertaste and clarity.

4. Together with municipalities, developa water conservation strategy that couldinclude public education, plumbingequipment standards for new construc-tion, metering, and changes to waterpricing.

5. Expedite and fast-track the Liquid WasteManagement Plan's capital projects.

6. Contribute to implementation of theBurrard Inlet Environmental Improve-ments Action Plan.

7. Increase participation and support forthe Fraser River Estuary ManagementProgram.

8. Participate actively in the Fraser CitiesCoalition.

9. Support efforts to restore the environ-mental quality of Howe Sound.

10. Develop an index incorporating air andwater quality measures to provide abenchmark against which to evaluatethe effectiveness of actions with 1January 1991 as the benchmark.

1 . MAINTAINING A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT

The people of the Vancouver region are justly proud of the quality of their environment. Ourinsistence on maintaining the quality of life represents a basic rejection of unlimited growth. TheGVRD and its member municipalities have contributed significantly to the maintenance ofenvironmental quality through their responsibilities for water supply and waste management.People are hard on the environment and Greater Vancouver is growing. We want to correct theenvironmental degradation which has occured and restore our natural heritage whereverpossible.

The Best Drinking Water in the WorldGreater Vancouver has the best drinking water in the world and we aim to keep it that way byjealously guarding our three watersheds and taking steps to ensure that the quality is maintainedor improved. It is time to encourage a greater emphasis on water conservation in order topostpone the day when new supply sources will be needed and to reduce the volume ofwastewater requiring treatment at our sewage treatment plants.

Receiving WatersOur receiving waters - the rivers, streams and ocean - are a key resource. Swimming, boating andfishing are a treasured part of our lifestyle and we need clean water to support our commercialfishing industry which is a source of jobs and food. We will fast-track the necessary capitalprojects to begin early implementation of the Liquid Waste Management Plan.

Local Actions• Require the use of water conserving plumbing in all new development.

• Require buffer strips adjacent to water bodies.

• Encourage low water use plant material in public and private landscaping plans.

• Establish municipal hazardous waste disposal programs by the end of 1991.

Individual Actions• Install water conservation devices in the family home.

• Dispose of hazardous materials properly, not through the sewage or solid waste collection systems.

• Help to restore a fish-bearing stream.

"When natural bodies of water occur near human settlements, treat them with your respect. Alwayspreserve a belt of common land, immediately beside the water."

— Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language 1977

"Our region contains unique species and communities of wildlife and fishes, of which populations of manyare declining due to habitat loss."

—Edith Benison, Boundary Bay Conservation Committee

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Solid Waste - Waste Reduction is the PriorityGreater Vancouver is known for its mountains; we do not want be to known for the mountainsof garbage which are a by-product of our modern lifestyle. With its highly valued environmentand limited land base, Greater Vancouver finds continued reliance upon the traditional landfillsolutions unacceptable. The GVRD and its member municipalities are committed to a solid wastemanagement plan which emphasizes the "Three Rs" - reduce, recycle and re-use, and they areapplying this philosophy in their own operations. Our objective is to reduce signficantly theamount of trash going to landfills. The strong public support for recycling shows that we arewilling to change the way we live to achieve a cleaner environment. By the end of 1990, allmunicipalities in the GVRD will have curb-side recycling programs.

We need a similar effort on hazardous waste. Hazardous materials such as batteries leach outof landfills and find their way into receiving waters. Each municipality should establish ahazardous waste collection or dropoff program by the end of 1991.

Local Actions• Give preference in purchasing to products which come without wasteful packaging.

• Accelerate the conversion from paper to electronic means for storage and retrieval of municipal

records.

Regional Actions11. Continue to implement the Solid Waste

Management Plan which gives priorityto waste reduction and recycling toreduce the need for disposal by incin-eration and landfill.

12. Adopt the proposed and Statement ofPolicy re: Procurement of Recycledand/or Environmentally FriendlyProducts and Services and encourageall member municipalities to do like-wise.

13. Convene, by the spring of 1991, aroundtable of government, industry andlabour to find ways of reducing waste.

Individual Actions• Avoid products which are overpackaged.

• Attempt to find alternate uses or users for things before throwing them away.

"For some people driving to work is a matter of necessity - as, for example, in the case of the parent whomust drop off a child at the daycare center on the way to work."

—Ken Orski, Choosing Our Future Challenge Seminar, 1989

"A fast growing tree recycles 48 pounds of carbon dioxide each year, so tree planting is one of the mostcost effective, immediate and gratifying steps you can take..."

— Steger and Bowermaster; Saving the Earth; 1990

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Regional Actions14. Continue to develop and implement the

Greater Vancouver Air ManagementPlan with the objective of reducing by50 percent total emissions of sulphurand nitrogen oxides, particulates, car-bon monoxide and volatile organiccompounds by the year 2000.

15. Initiate discussions with other regionaldistricts and the provincial Minister ofthe Environment on how best to put intoplace a single structure (possibly anAirshed Authority) to manage air qualityin the Lower Mainland airshed by 1992.Work towards the involvement ofWhatcom County.

16. Develop a regional air quality andtransportation strategy that identifiespriority actions. Reverse transporta-tion priorities so decisions are made tofavour walking, cycling, public transit,goods movement and then the auto-mobile. Reduce single-occupant com-muting through encouraging carpoolsand providing high-occupancy vehiclelanes. Encourage the increase of com-muter parking rates in downtownVancouver to equal transient rates.

17. Double the number of bicycle commut-ers by 1995 through promoting a re-gional cycling network in cooperationwith municipalities, preparing a region-al map of commuter and recreationalcycling routes, working with B.C. Transitto facilitate multi-modal travel, andencouraging municipalities to adoptdevelopment standards that acc-ommodate the needs of cyclists.

18. Establish a public information programon regional air quality issues and howindividuals can contribute to improvingthe atmosphere.

19. Reduce the impact of GVRD services onair quality through such measures asthe conversion of vehicles to cleanerfuels and purchasing practices. En-courage municipalities to adopt cleanerfuel strategies and work with the pro-vincial government to develop incen-tives for individuals to convert to smallervehicles with cleaner fuels.

20. Encourage B.C. Transit and other majorvehicle fleet owners to adopt cleanerfuel strategies.

21. Work with B.C. Transit, business andlabour on incentives to encourage transituse. Advocate changes to income taxlaws to permit employer-providedtransit assistance to be exempt fromtaxation. Initiate a transit usage policyfor all GVRD employees.

22. Work with B.C. Transit, municipalitiesand the development industry in effortsto ensure new development carries afair share of the new transit costs itgenerates.

23. Encourage municipalities to incorpo-rate urban forestry in their communityplans. Establish a target of two treesplanted for every tree cut.

24. Encourage municipalities to eliminateoutdoor burning in urban and industrialareas by 1992.

The Invisible Air StrategyOur region is a sensual delight, with mountain views, seascapes and cityscapes that uplift thespirit in a way which is unique to this region. Part of that quality is fresh, clean air. But themountains also define our airshed - a confined area in which the air's capacity to clean itself islimited during certain weather conditions. Increasingly, we notice a brown pall of photochemicalsmog produced by the effect of sunlight on motor vehicle emissions. It's not healthy, and ourneighbours in the Fraser Valley and northern Washington are complaining that we are foulingtheir air too.

In 1988, the GVRD started Canada's first Air Management Plan. The first phase provided somestartling information: more than 80 percent of the air pollution in the region comes from motorvehicles, mostly private automobiles and light trucks. Cleaning up the air will require everyindividual, private firm and municipality to make significant changes in the way they conducttheir daily affairs.

Local Actions• Convert municipal vehicle fleets to cleaner fuels.

• Encourage employees to use transit and carpool for travel to work.

Individual Actions• Set personal goals to reduce use of the private automobile and convert to smaller, cleaner vehicles.

• Note and report sources of air pollution to the GVRD.

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" Perhaps people in cars stalled in traffic jams would start to wonder if the luxury of driving is worth itwhen bus loads of commuters go rolling loy them [in a high occupancy vehicle lane]."

— Jon Harris, Coquitlam resident

"The bicycle is a super-efficient, human powered, non-polluting mode of transportation which shares withthe automobile the benefit of a user-determined path. Bicycling plays an increasingly important role inthe urban transportation system."

— Bicycling Association of British Columbia

"My wish is that Vancouver will change the trend seen in North American cities and become ecologically-oriented, favouring public transit, pedestrians and bicycles over cars."

—Henry Einarson, Vancouver Resident

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2. CONSERVING OUR LAND RESOURCE

Conservation of all the region's resources - physical and human - is a theme which has runthrough the entire Choosing Our Future process. Of all these resources, only land is non-renewable and irreplaceable.

Greater Vancouver is a land-short region. Hemmed in by the mountains, the sea and the U.S.border, the region has a limited amount of land available for urban growth. Through the regionpass the Fraser River and the Pacific Flyway, two globally important environmental assets, andwe are blessed with the best combination of land and climate in Canada for farming.

The Green ZoneThe sense of harmony with nature and a proximity to the wilderness are unique features whichGreater Vancouver residents cherish and are determined to protect. If we are to be successful inthis, we must secure the green areas in perpetuity and we must use more carefully the land wehave left for cities and towns.

The GVRD and its member communities must establish a Green Zone and an Urban Contain-ment Policy which will establish the solid Green Line which separates areas which are or will bedeveloped from those which will be permanently reserved as wilderness, parks, wildlife habitatand farmland.

Local Actions• Ensure that the development industry and community groups understand and accept the Green

Line.

• Provide the GVRD with information on municipal parks and open space plans and help establish

urban containment and green zones based upon local policy.

• Work with food producers to minimize conflicts between farming and urban development.

Individual Actions• Volunteer to assist with salmonid enhancement, trail maintenance and rescue services in Green

Zone areas.

• Give preference to local food products in family shopping.

Regional Actions25. Establish with municipalities an Urban

Containment Policy that identifiesGreater Vancouver's "Green Line" be-yond which urban development willnot be allowed and that defines theregion's "Green Zone". Hold a regionalconference on protection and mainte-nance of the "Green Zone" in the springof 1991.

26. Support the preservation of farming asa regional objective. Hold a regionalconference in the winter of 1991 todiscuss ways of assuring the future ofagriculture in Greater Vancouver. Theconference should select initiatives forthe long term protection of GreaterVancouver's agricultural community,including: coordination among munici-palities on agricultural issues, researchon concerns such as golf course devel-opment, the development of local andexport markets for locally grownproducts, monitoring land use change,and the transfer of the Roberts Bankbackup lands to the GVRD, or an ap-propriate agricultural agency, for farmuse.

27. Develop and implement a RegionalOpen Space Planning and Nature Con-servancy Program including wildlifesanctuaries in conjunction with munici-palities and the Province.

28. Develop a cooperative plan for wetlandspreservation and restoration in con-junction with municipal governmentsand Greater Vancouver's ports andharbour commissions.

29. Protect strategic areas in the Pacific fly-way.

30. Examine the feasibility of establishinga Greater Vancouver Land ConservationTrust Fund to enable contributions oflands and funds to acquire importantareas within the "Green Zone".

31. Encourage municipalities to ensure thatopen space, wilderness, wetlands andrural planning for the agricultural com-munity are integrated parts of OfficialCommunity Plans.

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"Putting urbanism and nature together provides us with an opportunity to create cities that are healthy,civilizing, and enriching places in which to live."

—Michael Hough; Green Cities: Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space; 1990

"The greatest challenge facing the GVRD today will be its ability, or failure, to establish and maintain anecessary balance between urban and rural activities, between more buildings and open spaces, betweenpreserving some very valuable non-renewable assets, such as prime farmland, or destroying themforever."

—John Massot, Richmond resident

"We need to make better use of our ravines for pathways and bicycle paths"

— Elizabeth Thundstrom, Wildlife Rescue Association of B.C.

'We are not isolated from the problem of urban sprawl. Coercion is needed to curb this growth."

— Harold Funk, Delta Wilderness Society

" As the population density of the Lower Mainland increases, the importance of preserving large greenareas also increases."

— Burnaby Mountain Preservation Society

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— Karen Morcke,Inter-Municipal Planningand Conservation Team

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Our Communities:Places We Can Live in, Work in and EnjoyWe can no longer afford to pursue the 1960s concept of a single business core surrounded bypredominantly residential suburbs all served primarily by the private automobile. This conceptleads to fragmentation of community life, excessive dependence on the automobile and the wasteof valuable land.

Our objective is to develop cities and towns which are self-sufficient in many respects and wellconnected to other parts of the region through excellent forms of transportation and communi-cations other than the private automobile.

We must pursue ways of taming the private automobile and reducing its negative impacts ontransportation planning, urban design and environmental quality both in the air and in polluted

runoff from roads.

Local Actions• Invite the development industry to conduct a pilot project to plan and develop a pedestrian-oriented

community in a suburban setting.

• Review subdivision and parking standards to encourage transit and cycling in new developments.

Individual Actions• Set personal goals to reduce the use of the private automobile.

• Examine ways of reducing the distance between home and work.

• Support local festivals and artistic celebrations.

Regional Actions32. Establish with municipalities a renewed

concept of regional town centres andregional cities. Identify the regionalroles of the centres and evaluate theconcept of a region with two high-density cores. Review design guidelinesand development strategies for theregional centres.

33. Pursue an improved jobs and labourforce balance throughout the regionthrough encouraging the City of Van-couver to further heighten emphasis onresidential development and reducecommercial development and throughmarketing appropriate employmentlocations such as regional town centres.

34. Sustain and develop a cooperativetransportation planning process withthe provincial government and itsagencies based upon the GVRD Board'sapproved policies to:

Make the best use of existing transpor-tation investment.

Support improvements to the publictransit system and programs.

Improve the capacity of the roadwaysystem giving appropriate weight tothe following factors: use by transit,goods movement, continuity, safety,community and environmental effects,high-occupancy private vehicles.

Manage demands on the transporta-tion system through acting as a catalystfor carpooling and encouraging peopleto work close to where they live andlive close to where they work.

Pursue funding, policy and institutional

arrangements that support coordinatedplanning, development and improve-ment of the region's transportationsystem.

Pursue development of bicycle and pe-destrian networks as part of the re-gion's transportation system.

35. Advocate an increase in the motive fueltax to pay for transit initiatives, capitalimprovements for cyclists, and carpooling.

36. Request that the Province write off theSkyTrain debt to restore the financialresources available to the Greater Van-couver Transit System.

37. Work with municipalities and the de-velopment industry to create new formsof development that combine a mix-ture of residential and commercial uses,provide a variety of housing types,tenures and costs, and place greaterreliance on walking, cycling and publictransit.

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REGIONAL TOWN CENTRESa key component of the Livable Region Strategy

In the Livable Region Strategy 1976-1986, the sharing of jobs and housing throughout the regionwas given particular emphasis in the Plan's proposals for Regional Town Centres. The six RegionalTown Centres are Burnaby Metrotown, Downtown New Westminster, Whalley, CoquitlamCentre, Lonsdale and Richmond Centre. The concept involved creating "business centres" insuburban communities, thereby enhancing the distribution of jobs as well as the accessibility of"downtown" amenities in the growing suburbs. And the transit-oriented transportation policiesof the Livable Region Plan would be reinforced by concentrating development at regional centres.

Conclusions from the Choosing Our Future background study, Town Centres and the LivableRegion:

• The Town Centres Policy has been prominent in shaping the metropolitan Vancouver region,with a broad consensus forming on the main public purposes of the policy. By 1990, the policycould be considered a moderate success.

• The relative proportion of development in the Regional Town Centres and the downtown corecontinues to be similar to the pattern throughout the mid-1980s. Vancouver's downtown corecontinues to play the predominant role in the distribution and catchment of commercialfloorspace in the Lower Mainland. Regional Town Centres have provided focal points for firmsand functions seeking suburban locations with excellent connections to all parts of the region.

• Commercial and residential land use trends in the Regional Town Centres indicate that they haveperformed well in terms of floorspace accretion, and that they have achieved measurable successin meeting projected targets.

• While considerable progress has been made in the ability of Regional Town Centres to sustaincommercial and residential growth, they could benefit from increased provision of publicamenities, community facilities, educational institutions, and cultural facilities.

"An environment that cannot be changed invites its own destruction. We prefer a world that can bemodified progressively against a background of valued remains, a world in which one can have personalmarks along side the marks of history."

— Kevin Lynch; What Time is this Place; 1972

"Character comes from people, from the past, from the interplay of human forces and emotions in theprocess of daily life."

— Ian Menzies; "Pushcarts belong in the City"; Boston Globe; March 24,1976

"... try to develop a more comprehensive public view of 'livability' than maintaining all single-familyresidential zoning."

— Prof. John Munro, Simon Fraser University Department of Economics

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3. SERVING A CHANGING POPULATION

Choosing Our Future left no doubt that social issues will be a predominant concern of the comingdecade. In social terms, Greater Vancouver is a very different region from 15 years ago: moreof us are elderly, fewer of us are living in traditional family households and nearly a third of uswere born in another country. These changes, which will continue through the turn of thecentury, will have a fundamental effect on our approaches to virtually every social issue, fromaffordable housing to health care to policing to transportation to family policy.

Health and social policy are relatively new areas of involvement for local government, the resultof a realization that the community level provides the best context for effective and economicservice delivery.

Housing is a cornerstone of a healthy social policy, particularly in a region where housingaffordability faces the challenge of a limited supply of urban land. The Mayors' Agenda forHousing Action has met with early success in achieving legislative amendments in the rentalsector to eliminate discrimination against children, extend notice provisions to tenants andprovide for relocation costs in the event of demolition. Much more needs to be done in concertwith senior governments, the development industry and community groups.

Our future as a regional community depends upon our success in ensuring that our children andtheir grandparents can play their roles in establishing and maintaining its livability. Our childrenare facing unprecedented change: many live in blended families, most receive supplementaryadult care, they generally spend more time alone and are more aware of the problems facing theworld. They have to deal with issues such as sexuality, substance abuse and race relations at avery tender age. We need to ensure that our communities, our education systems and our familyservices are equipped to help our children deal with their world.

We aspire to be the healthiest region in the world. Achieving that goal will require us to recognizenot only the medical side of health care but the ability of the community to provide a healthyenvironment and promote healthy lifestyles.

We wish to be known as a region which welcomes newcomers and incorporates theircontributions to our society. To meet that goal, our rules have to be fair to both resident andnewcomer. The GVRD Labour Relations Bureau is already pursuing pay equity and equalemployment opportunity programs with our unions and member municipalities.

Local Actions• Participate in regional forums on rental housing and affordable home ownership.

• Create local social planning networks.

• Use zoning incentives to encourage rental housing.

• Establish development standards for seniors housing which are suitable to their lifestyles.

Individual Actions• Set high personal standards at a family level for physical fitness and healthy living.

• Respect the needs and limitations of older people and children in daily life.

"GVRD must take the lead to enable people to live with pride and dignity. People must be ensured theywill be protected [against growing racism]"

— Charon Gill, Progressive Indo-Canadian Society

"With an estimated 17 percent of the general population having some disability, governments and otherpublic service providers should be aware of providing amenities to overcome handicaps."

— Stan Fisher Network of Burnaby Seniors

"A truly livable region strategy should ensure a wholesome mix of people of all age and income levels."

— Citizens' Action Group of Lower Lonsdale

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Regional Actions38. Increase the GVRD's ability to under-

take regional social policy research,intermunicipal policy coordination andadvocacy with senior levels of govern-ment in such areas as affordable hous-ing, race relations, poverty, familyservices, disability issues and servicesfor the aging.

39. Establish a Regional Social Issues Sec-retariat composed of local governmentand social agency representatives tofacilitate coordinated action on socialissues.

40. Organize, by the fall of 1991, a "GreaterVancouver Social Futures Conference"involving municipalities, social agen-cies and the provincial government toaddress issues of mutual concern thatwould benefit from a coordinated,focussed regional response.

41. Establish a special experimental pro-gram that brings together municipali-ties in the development of a child careinitiative. The region will invite eachmunicipality to dedicate staff time towork jointly on this project with clear,tight terms of reference and reportingtime lines. The results are to be re-ported to the Greater Vancouver SocialFutures Conference in the fall of 1991.Request that the federal and provincialgovernments participate both in policy

invention and funding for this experi-ment in cross jurisdictional response.

42. Strengthen and pursue the RegionalHealth Planning Program in conjunc-tion with the provincial government,health agencies and community inter-est groups.

43. Work with municipalities and the pro-vincial government to ensure an equi-table distribution of services through-out Greater Vancouver.

44. Continue efforts to improve police serv-ices throughout the region as a meansof securing the safety of residents.

45. Work with municipalities, the provin-cial government and the private sectorto address housing affordability issuesthat can best be addressed regionally.Strengthen advocacy with the seniorgovernments for improved affordablehousing programs that meet GreaterVancouver's needs. Work with munici-palities to share information and coor-dinate policies on secondary suites.

46. Encourage municipalities to support thedevelopment of affordable andlocationally balanced housing throughensuring an adequate land supply,planning for a mix of income ranges,secondary suites and new housingforms and supporting the delivery ofsocial housing.

"It is no more likely that women will move out of the work force and back to the home, than that men willmove out of the cities and back to the farm."

— Mayor Gordon Campbell

"Too often physical solutions compound instead of solve social problems."— Roberta Brandes Gratz; The Living City; 1989

"Stereotypes can thus be overcome by increasing the availability of information about other groups, byfostering associations between members of those groups, and by stimulating cooperation among them."

—Ornstein & Ehrlich; New World, New Mind; 1989

"If we as a society are serious about economic equity for women, about stemming the feminization ofpoverty, about giving every child a fair chance educationally, emotionally and economically, one of our firstpriorities must be affordable, accessible, high quality day care."

— Ruth Sidel; Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America; 1986

'When it is demanded of them, people grow accustomed to other people, grow to like their holidays andeat their food. When it is not demanded, people shrink back into suspicion and provincialism."

— Bonnie Menes Kahn; Cosmopolitan Culture; Choosing Our Future Challenge Seminar, 1990

"There is little call in just brawn when any job that can be done by an illiterate can be done better and cheaperby a machine."

— Lisbeth Schorr; Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage; 1988

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4. MAINTAINING THE REGION'S ECONOMIC HEALTH

Livability includes the availability of environmentally sound employment and enterprise whichsuit the evolving needs and talents of our people.

The recession of the early 1980s demonstrated that economic growth cannot be taken for grantedin Greater Vancouver. Since then, the region and its communities have worked hard on majorinitiatives such as the Kaon factory and Design Vancouver to promote economic activities whichcreate highly skilled and well-paid jobs and reinforce Greater Vancouver's most importanteconomic asset–its livability.

In 1989, the GVRD and its member municipalities drafted an economic strategy to ensure that theregion can foster the quality and distribution of economic development needed to achieve theeconomic dimension of livability. It places strong emphasis on the development of human capitaland on taking advantage of our potential for clean, high-value activities in fields such as trade,tourism, technology-intensive manufacturing and international consulting.

Local Actions• Participate through local economic development offices in the preparation of the regional economic

action program.

• Meet with local school boards to develop an appropriate fit between school curricula and local and

regional labour force skills which will be required to implement local and regional economic

strategies.

• Encourage employees to improve their technological skills and those of their families.

Individual Actions• Set goals at a family level to increase technological knowledge and awareness through the use of

home computers and related devices.

• Make suggestions to reduce waste in the home and workplace.

Regional Actions47. Help to create a supportive climate for

economic change and growth with par-ticular attention to transportation,tourism, and export-oriented businessservices and technology-based manu-factured products. Review and reviseby the end of 1990 the regional eco-nomic vision and strategy prepared in1989 and develop an action programfor its implementation.

48. Encourage a distribution of economicgrowth that supports Livable Regionobjectives.

49. Initiate a dialogue with the provincialgovernment on ways of sharing growthwith other parts of British Columbia.

50. Meet with the presidents of the region'scommunity colleges to identify ways ofimproving literacy in the region's ex-isting and potential workforce.

" We question this idea [that growth is unlimited and a positive benefit] and recognize it as one of the mostchallenging thoughts for this process as we look at the livability of the Lower Mainland."

— Wendy Turner, Community Forum on Airport Development

"The Vancouver Board of Trade agrees with those who say we must learn to do it 'better rather than bigger,and softer rather than harder'. We believe friendlier, better informed and better organized cooperation willbe essential for success. "

— Larry Bell, Vancouver Board of Trade

"But there is another way to understand talent, as the product of education. Where mediocre spirits can beencouraged to better themselves, there is a value on talent. The truly gifted person will be recognized. Therewill be audiences, classrooms full of aspiring students, in short, the setting that creates genius."

— Bonnie Menes Kahn; Cosmopolitan Culture Choosing Our Future Challenge Seminar, 1990

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5. MANAGING OUR REGION

The actions resulting from Choosing Our Future are urgent and important because they arerooted in the traditions and beliefs of the people who live here. Those people expect theirgovernments at all levels to work cooperatively to implement these actions, and they areprepared to do their part in creating the future they have chosen.

As with the original Livable Region Strategy, some of the actions go beyond the formaljurisdictional mandates of the GVRD and its member councils, but they lie well within the scopeof community leadership which is a longstanding tradition of Greater Vancouver's municipali-ties. That is how we have always developed "made in Greater Vancouver solutions" whichresolve problems by empowering people and their governments to act. If the implementation ofthose solutions requires changes in formal mandates, we should seek those with confidence,determination and the knowledge that they are necessary to the creation of our future.

The region's financial resources are limited. People need to know what trade-offs are requiredand how they can help reduce the need for new facilities and programs. Local Government needsto adopt a formal policy on capital expenditure to ensure the maximum return for the availabledollars.

Local Actions• Review the results of Choosing Our Future in relation to local plans and policies.

• Encourage public discussion of these ideas by community groups.

Individual Actions• Provide local government representatives with feedback on the proposals resulting from Choosing

Our Future.

• Organize activities at a neighbourhood level to improve environmental quality and social support

systems.

Regional Actions51. Communicate the results of "Choosing

Our Future" to other Lower Mainlandregional districts and invite their sup-port.

52. Undertake, in consultation with mu-nicipalities and the provincial govern-ment, a review of the need for renewedGVRD regional land use, transporta-tion and social development mandates.

53. Develop and implement a comprehen-sive public communications program toprovide information on regional changeand choices and on how individualscan contribute to achieving Livable Re-gion objectives through such actions ascontrolling solid waste, water conser-vation and protection, and transporta-tion choice.

54. Develop and implement a capital ex-penditure and debt management planwhich provides a framework for in-vestment to respond to the region'senvironmental, social and physicalneeds, to maintain the fiscal integrityof the region's communities and tosecure equitable cost-sharing arrange-ments with other levels of government.

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CREATING OUR FUTURE

Choosing Our Future has provided us with a road map with signposts and warning signals. If wenavigate successfully through the next decade, what will we have achieved? Every city has, atsome stage, a chance to establish its place in the history of human progress, to be what Vienna isto music or Athens to democracy. Greater Vancouver has a chance to set a new benchmark in urbanquality. It can become the first urban region in the world to combine in one place the things to whichhumanity aspires on a global basis: a place where human activities enhance rather than degradethe natural environment, where the quality of the built environment approaches that of the naturalsetting, where the diversity of origins and religions is a source of social strength rather than strife,where people control the destiny of their community, and where the basics of food, clothing,shelter, security and useful activity are accessible to all.

That is an ambitious vision, but one which fits our natural endowments, the achievements of thosewho came before us, the aspirations of the people who live here now and the needs of those to come.

"Civics as an art has to do not with imagining an impossible no-place where all is well, but makingthe most and the best of each and every place, especially the city in which we live."

— Patrick Geddes; Cities in Evolution; 1915

'e have the freedom and the luxury to take action on the issues that concern us. We also have anoverriding responsibility to make time for activism and to exercise our democratic privileges."

— Jeffrey Hollender; How to Make the World a Better Place; 1990

" The problems ahead are many, and the challenges are great, but with public involvement andawareness, future growth should occur with a degree of purpose and direction."

— Enid Kirby, North Delta resident

"Our hope for the future rests with the GVRD. This body is of paramount importance in maintaining ourarea as a desirable place in which to live. The GVRD requires and deserves the support of all residents."

— R.E. Hawkes, Vancouver resident

"Communities that meet the needs of people are livable communities. The GVRD can play a leadershiprole."

—Marva Blackmore, Richmond Community Services Advisory Committee

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CHOOSING OUR FUTURE PARTICIPANTS :Regional Challenge Seminars, December 1989 through March 1990;Regional Challenge Forum, March 1990; and Community Public Meetings, March and April 1990

Madge Aalto, Director, Vancouver Public LibraryRick Adams, Kelbaugh, Culthorpe & AssociatesKurt Alberts, Community Development Director, Township of LangleyMary Algar, BC HydroToivo Allas, GVRDJack Altman, Unit Director, Health Dept., City of VancouverGillian Anderson, The Tsawwassen Nature Park SocietyLuciano Anjos, Weldwood of CanadaEd Apps, President, COSCOJosephine Arline, B.C. Old Age Pensioners OrganizationProf. Alan Artibise, Director, School of Planning, UBCMarion Ashton, Special Wastes (Toxic & Hazardous)Shashi Assanand, Family & Crisis Worker, 0.A.S.I.S.Neil Atchison, District of SurreyBarbara AtkinsMr. J. AtkinsonJanna Atkinson, Advisory Planning Commission, BelcarraMichael Audain, Polygon Group Ltd., Urban Development InstituteCam Avery, Director Corp. Communications, BC GasAndy BaakJohn BakerMayor Marilyn Baker, District of North VancouverWayne Baldwin, Chief Administrative Officer, City of White RockCarl BannisterJulie Barber, Concerned Families for a Clean EnvironmentHerb Barbiolet, B.C. Association for Regenrative AgricultureGreg Barker, Planning Department, District of SurreyJeannie BatesJohn BattershillLillian Bayne, Greater Vancouver Regional Hospital DistrictDorothy BeachRussell BeachValarie BeamishPat BeanD. Beattie, Surrey Now NewspaperLynn Beattie, Department of Medicine, University HospitalPat Beaucamp, Burnaby Citizens for Environmental ProtectionGazela Behn, Geoneau Canadian Cultural SocietyRon Bell, Ministry of Regional & Economic DevelopmentLarry Bell, CEO, B.C. Hydro & Vancouver Board of TradeRoss Belyea, Delta Chamber of CommerceEllla Benndorf, IMPACTDr. Bernardo Berdichewsky, Capilano CollegeP.A. BerryMr. Steve BestMargaret Betz, Township of RichmondP. BeynonIan Beveridge, Building Owners and Managers AssociationJune Binkert, Southlands Citizens Planning Committee

Doreen Blackburn, West Vancouver Advisory Planning CommissionAlderman Pam Blackman, Village of AnmoreMarva Blackmore, Richmond Community Services Advisory CouncilNorm Blain, BC TelAllan BlairMayor Gil Blair, Township of Richmond, Chairman, GVRDBill BlakelyJane BlakelyDr. John Blatherwick, Medical Officer of Health, City of VancouverBen Boer, MacQuarrie University Sydney, AustraliaFloyd BoltonFredrica BoltonAlderman Patricia Boname, District of West VancouverMichael BonkoffBrian BonnerCarol Boothroyd, Burnaby Citizens for Environmental ProtectionMayor Bob Bose, District of SurreyA. BossertBob Bossin, Call For InquiryW.A. Bourke, R.P.A., Montreal Trust CentreBill BouykLois BoyceRon BoydStewart BradyAlexis Brawn, MacKenzie InstituteJohn Bremner, Director of Engineering, District of North VancouverDr. Bert Brink, BC Federation of NaturalisitsAl Brotherston, Senior Environmental Coordinator, BC HydroA.W. Brown, Vancouver Board of TradeMr. & Mrs. R. BrownAda Brown, Consumers' Association of Canada (BC)Pearl Bruckshaw, Little Mountain Senior Live WiresPolly BruelsSandra Bruneau, UBC Faculty of EducationDon Buchanan, Director of Planning, District of CoquitlamAlderman Rick Buchols, District of North VancouverB.BuermannPaul Bunt, Principal Associate, B-A Consulting Group Ltd.Louise Burns, Student, Point GreyMichelle Burns, Student, Point GreyAlderman Jim Burnside, City of Port MoodyBob Burrows, BC Conference, United Church of CanadaDavid Cadman, Information Officer, Information Services, GVRDDouglas CaldowR. CaldwellKen Cameron, Manager, Development Services, GVRDPeter Cameron, Executive Director, Health Science CentreMayor Gordon Campbell, City of VancouverBrian Canfield, President & CEO, B.C. Tel

Bob CareyCathy CarlyleJohn Can, Vancouver Board of TradeGayle Carter, BC TelDr. Lynn Carter, Social Service Worker Program, V.C.C.Wendy Carter, Regional Director, Secretary of StateDon CartwrightPeter Carver, BC Coalition of the DisabledJohn Cashore, MLA, Coquitlam-MaillardvilleMarion Cashton, Study Group, Bruntland ReportJoyce Catliff, Vancouver City Planning CommissionAlex Caudiro, School of Community & Regional Planning, UBCDavid Cawood, Mackenzie InstituteLynda ChallisTung Chan, Vancouver City Planning CommissionMrs. & Ms. Jim ChappellDoug CharlesJ. ChaseAlma ChangAlderman Kathy Cherris, City of New WestminsterCarol Cheung, StudentJim Chim, Development Services Department, GVRDDan Chow, Planning Department, District of Surrey,Rita Chudnovsky, Children's Advocate, City of VancouverAlderman Ann Claggett, Corporation of DeltaMichael Clague, Social Planning & Research CouncilFrances Clark, Richmond Committee on Disability, FIDOFred ClarkGordon Clark, Burnaby Now NewspaperMelissa Clark, Langley SecondaryCorporal Bruce Clarke, Vancouver Police DepartmentReg Clarkson, Poverty Education ServiceJack Clerkson, Urban Development InstituteDr. Bob Collier, Municipal Administrator, Corporation of DeltaJohn Collins, Faculty of Education, UBCDiana Colnett, School of Community & Regional Planning, UBCRick ComptonIan Connell, MD, Tsawwassen Homeowners AssociationPeggy Connor, Chairperson, Sunshine Coast Regional DistrictBrian ConroyTom ConstableWilliam CookeJeff Coombs, University Hospital, Shaughnessy SitePeter Cooper, Manager, Traffic Safety Research, ICBCMayor Bill Copeland, District of BurnabyBarbara Copping, Chairperson, School District # 43Marlene CoramLina CorderoAlderman Mike Cotton, Village of Belcarra

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Norm Coutte, Richmond Planning CommissionArt Cowie, Chairman, Vancouver Parks BoardErnie Crey, United Native NationsMartin Crilly, Vice-President, R&D, Johnston Terminals Ltd.Alderman Ernie Crist, District of North VancouverCharlotte CrowleyBrian CullingworthDon Cummings, Save Richmond Farmland SocietyBill Curtis, City Engineer, City of VancouverJim CuthbertJeremy Dalton, West Vancouver Capilano Liberal AssociationRobert DalzielPhyllis DaphneJim DartnellChuck Dary, Ministry of Regional & Economic DevelopmentSonia Daudet, Richmond Multicultural Concern SocietyHenry Davies, Richmond, Advisory Planning CommissionN. DaviesDr. Chad Day, Natural Resources Management , S.F.U.Elsie Dean, Burnaby Environmental Protection SocietyElsie Deky, Burnaby Citizens for Environmental ProtectionM. DemorestE. DempsterDr. Ken Denike, Geography Department, UBCMichael DesrochersPamela DicerMike Dickinson, District of SurreyWayne Dickinson, Director of Planning, Corporation of DeltaMyrian DinimDenis Doll, First National Properties Group, Director, BOMAJudy DonagheyNoreen Donnelly, Richmond Community Service Advisory CouncilDr. Tony Dorcey, Director, Westwater Research Centre, UBCGordon Dowding, Recycling Council of B.C.Rupert Downing, Social Planner, District of North VancouverDr. Glen Drover, School of Social Work, UBCAlderman Doug Drummond, District of BurnabyFrank Ducote, City of North VancouverDaryl DuluxVerna DyckCraig East, Surrey Chamber of CommerceMargaret EberleBarbara Anne EddyE. EdgarMr. & Mrs. C. EdwardsC. Bruce Edwards, Consulting EngineerJack Edwards, BC HydroHank Einarson, Grandview-Woodlands Advisory CouncilP. Ekman

Elinor Ellis, Minoru Seniors SocietyAl Engler, Cdn Brotherhood of Railway, Transportation WorkersIsabel EnnisHuo Enquan, Visiting UBCLillian Ewen, B.C. Horses AssociationTony FabianDr. Arthur Fallick, Fallick ConsultingSid Fancy, Economic Development, Manager, City of VancouverGerard Farry, N.D. Lea Consultants Ltd.Graham Farstad, Director of Planning, City of New WestminsterCindi Fausel, Call for InquiryMaurie FeldbergCarlos Felip, Director of Planning, City of Port CoquitlamEvelyn Feller, Fraser River CoalitionMaisie FishEdie Fisher, Burnaby Seniors' Housing Information CentreK.J. FisherStan FisherPam FitzpatrickJohn Foster, Social Planner, District of BurnabyE. FowlerAlbert Fraser, Burnaby Multicultural SocietyW. FraserLarry FrenchSusan French, Mount St. Joseph HospitalGus FroeseHarold Funk, Delta Wilderness SocietyHedy Fry, President Elect, B.C. Medical AssociationPeter Galbraith, Reid Crowther and PartnersW. GaletzkaDr. Paul Gallagher, Vancouver Community CollegeGrant GardinerBradley Garner, Vancouver Community CollegeLes Garrison, Coquitlam Chamber of CommerceJoan Garitty, Para-Med Health ServicesChris GarsideWolfgang GeasonMichael Geller, President, Urban Development InstituteKen Georgetti, President, B.C. Federation of LabourRob GereinDr. E. Gibson, Simon Fraser UniversityBev Gidora, Committee for Progressive Electors SurreyJim Godfrey, Administrator, Township of LangleyDr. Michael Goldberg, Chairman, B.C. Real Estate FoundationArt GordonM. GordonKevin Graeme, BC HydroPamela Graham, Society Promoting Environmental ConservationMargo Gram

Nancy Grant, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, GVRDTina GrantC. GaryCharan Gill, Progressive Indo-Canadian SocietyDr. David Gray, Northwest Market Economy AssociatesKeith Gray, Vice President, B.C. Business CouncilSally GreenwoodAllan Gregg, Chairman, Decima ResearchMike Griffin, Burke Mountain Naturalists SocietyG. GrosjeanSarah Groves, Planning Department, District of BurnabyD.W. GudlaugsonGail GuiseDr. Ian Gummeson, Chairman, Environment Committee, BCMAPhilip Haddock, Professor Emeritus (Forestry), UBCAnita Hagen, MLA, New WestminsterBlair Haghull, Concord PacificJulie Halfnights, Thomson Community AssociationG.D. HallDr. Nancy Hall, Community Health Director, North ShoreAlderman Greg Halsey-Brandt, RichmondGerry Hamblin, Planning Department, District of SurreyTony HambrookDixie HamiltonSue Hammett, District of SurreyRick Hankin, Manager, GVRD ParksDiane Hansen, Burnaby Citizens for Environmental ProtectionJohn Hansen, Chief Economist, Vancouver Board of TradeGary HardingDr. David Hardwick, Head of Pathology, Children's HospitalT. Hardwick, Tillicum Non-Profit Co-op HousingDr. Walter Hardwick, Geography Department, UBCLes Harrington, Municipal Administrator, City of Port MoodyJohn HarrisMartin HarrisDon Harrison, Cougar Creek Salmon Enhancement SocietyDr. Danny Harvey, University of TorontoLing Hathorn, BC HydroR.E. HawkesJ. HeagleDr. Trevor Heaver, Director, Centre for Transportation Studies, UBCDon Helm, Regional Director, Ministry of EnvironmentSally Hemming, District of BurnabyR. HennessyLenore Herb, Citizens Action NetworkPhil HerringStuart Hertzog, Citizens Action NetworkAnn Hewett, Lawyers for Social ResponsibilityMary Hill, National Advisory Committee on Aging

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Barry Hinder, Vancouver Taxi Owners AssociationM.I. HirschVanessa Ho, Student, Point GreyDr. Gerald Hodge, Gerontology Research Centre, SFU, Harbour Cen.Mayor Gordon Hogg, City of White RockLois Hollstedt, Executive Director, YWCAMavis HolmLeigh HolmesDennis Hon, Richmond, Advisory Planning CommissionPage Hope-Smith, Director Richmond Art Gallery/Rich Leisure Ser.Len Horvath, Building Owners and Managers AssociationAlderman Donald Hoskins, Village of BelcarraA.J.R. HossayNorm Hotson, ArchitectTim Hovis, B.C. TelGordon How„ B.C. Conference, United Church of CanadaGraham HowZhang Hu, Political Science Department, UBCMarilyn HubbardDavid Alan Hughes, Concerned Citizen and EnvironmentalistAlderman Ann Hulbert, City of Port MoodyP. HulbertMayor Doug Husband, Corporation of DeltaTom Hutton, Economic Development, City of VancouverOlga Ilich, Urban Development InstituteRandal Iredale, Senior Partner, Iredale PartnershipAnne Ironside, UBCEmma Isaac, Philippine CommunityKenji Ito, District of BurnabyAlderman Lois Jackson, Corporation of DeltaStephen JacksonM. JamesonDan Janczewski, Zocalo Consultants Ltd.Pauline Jang, City of North VancouverNick JanowAlderman Wes Janzen, City of New WestminsterT.R. JohnsonTom Johnson, Western Delta Property Corp., B.C. PropertiesMr. & Mrs. JohnstonGeraldine JohnstonJ. Crosby JohnstonRobin Johnston, Branch Manager, DelcanKirk Johnstone, Chief, Scientific Services, Environment CanadaKen JonesLenna Jones, District of SurreySheila Jones, North Shore Seniors Health Planning ProjectSusan JonesAngela Julien, SPARC and Public Service Commission of CanadaNadir Kahn, Seniors Bureau, New WestminsterTony KanjerEffie Karanasos, Hellenic Community of VancouverTom Karanasos, Hellenic Community of VancouverErik Karlsen, Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Recreation & Culture

Corro KaweskiTom KeallProf. Doug Kelbaugh, University of WashingtonHugh Kellas, Administrator, Development Services, GVRDJoan KellinghusenColin Kelly, Independent Canadian Transit UnionJoyce KelsallHarley Kelsey, Discovery FoundationRoger Kemble, ArchitectRuth Kendall, Semiahmoo Fish & Game ClubA. KennedyGerry Kennedy, Downtown Vancouver AssociationLynne KennedyMr. & Mrs. A. KennyLynne Kent, Co-chair Asian Youth Task ForceJudy Kilcup, United WaySherry Killam, First Shaughnessy Design PanelCharles KingColin KingDiane KingAlderman Jon Kingsbury, District of CoquitlamB.KirbyEnid KirbyBryan Kirk, City Manager, City of Port CoquitlamIan Klassen, Office of the Honourable John FraserChristine Kline, Ministry of HealthMr. & Mrs. Bob KohnJoachim Knauf, Canada Employment and ImmigrationDr. Roslyn Kunin, Canada Employment and ImmigrationWalden Kunz, Software Association of BCZoltan Kuun, Zoltan Kuun AssociatesJoyce Kyi, Immigrant Services Society of B.C.R.W. KyleWayne Kyle, Municipal Engineer, District of SurreyMuriel Labine, Boundary Bay Conservation CommitteePeter Ladner, Publisher, Business in VancouverDelia Laglagaron, Development Services, GVRDAlderman George Laking, City of Port CoquitlamDean Lamond, Burnaby Mountain Preservation SocietyMr. & Mrs. R. LandaleBrent Larsen, BC HydroGlen Laubenstein, Administrator, Township of RichmondScott Lawrance, Windermere Secondary SchoolErnie Lawson, Ministry of EnvironmentBarry Leach, Kwantlen CollegeMike LeeJim LeMaistre, Corporation of DeltaAlexander B. Leman, Leman Group Inc., TorontoGenevieve Lemarchand, Genevieve Lemarchand & AssociatesGisella Levitt, Jewish Community CentreDirector Bill Lewis, Electoral Area B, GVRDGloria Lifton, Home Support Association of BCChris Linsdell

Joe LiotinoGus Long, Federated Anti-Poverty GroupsSarah LoveFay Low, BC Telephone Co.Dr. Peter Lomas, Open UniversityMayor Joe Lopushinsky, City of LangleyMayor Jack Loucks, City of North VancouverChris Lovelace, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of HealthAlderman Margaret Lower, City of White RockBasil Luksun, Corporation of BurnabyChris Lundberg, Westcoast Environmental LawTami Lundy, Social Development Council, CoquitlamTerry Lyster, District of SurreyMargaret MacAdam, Bigel Institute for Health Policy, Brancheis Univ.Val MacDonald, Western Society Seniors BureauSandy Macdougall, Tri-City NewsMr. & Mrs. MacKayCharles MacLeanJulia MacWilliamsDr. Ann McAfee, Associate Director of Planning, City of VancouverPeggy McBrideJeremey Mc CallR. McCartneyBetty McClurg, Executive Director, Langley Family ServicesHew McConnell, Water Quality/Liquid Waste, GVRDR.W. McCormackDonna McCririck, British Columbia Housing Management CommissionJune McCuaigGlen McDonald, Ministry of Transportation and HighwaysArmida McDougallGraham McGarva, Baker McGarva HartMr. & Mrs. Brian McGavinArlene McLaren, Social Policy Unit, Simon Fraser UniversityCharles McLean, Friends of the Fraser ValleyElaine McLeod, Vancouver Neurological CentrePhil McLeodJoy McPhail, B.C. Federation of LabourDick Mann, Vancouver Board of TradeDirector Iva Maim, Electoral Area A, GVRDJohn MansonDr. Sharon Manson-Willms, School of Social Work, UBCJon Markoulis, Concord Pacific Development Ltd.Marnie Marley, YWCABen Man, Regional Manager, GVRDJohn MassotPeter MatherMr. MayencourtDr. Bonnie Menes Kahn, Sociologist/Writer, San Francisco, CaliforniaMorris Mennell, Pollution Control, GVRDBetty-Ann Metcalfe, Community Health Nurse BurnabyIrene MillerKirk Miller, Agricultural Land CommissionDonald Mills, Acres International Limited

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John Mills, BC TransitFred Milowsky, Ministry of Social Services and HousingCheryl MiltonB. Minlos, City of VancouverEve MitchellMargaret Mitchell, Vancouver Public Housing Tenants AssociationIan MoffatSandra MoiseyLaura MokrowAndy MolloyHugh Monroe, Vancouver Board of Parks and RecreationKaren Lynn Monsarratt, Real Estate Board of Greater VancouverClayton MooreDavid Moore, RichmondKaren MordeRichard MoreauPaul Moritz, Director of Planning, District of MatsquiDonna Moroz, Impact ResourcesDavid MorrisJim MorrisKen MorrisCarolyn Morrison, Township of RichmondDr. Ian Morrison, Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, CaliforniaJohn Morse, Manager, Water Engineering, GVRDBruce Moynan, Chilliwack Environmental PanelGunnider Mumick, Multicultural Educator, City of VancouverJean MundaySheila Munnalal, OASISProf. John Munro, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser UniversityGraham Murchie, Director of Planning, District of SurreyDerek Murphy, Coquitlam Social Development CouncilKeith MurrayEddie MyersKen MyrtleBirte NachtigahlBhim Sen NairBev Nann, Laurier InstituteDr. Frank Navin, Engineering Department, UBCBert NeumanRobyn NewtonCarolina Ng, Student, Gladstone Secondary SchoolAlderman Egon Nikolai, District of BurnabyMr. & Mrs. R. NobleAnthony NorfolkPhyllis NorrisMadeline NorvalRay NothsteinSteve NovichNeil Nyberg, Municipal Engineer, District of CoquitlamWilliam O'BrienDr. Brian O'Connor, Medical Health Officer, North Shore HealthMike O'Connor, President and Chief Operating Officer, BC TransitAlderman Walter Ohirko, District of Coquitlam

Tim Oke, Dept. of Geography, UBCMichelle Okoth, Lord Byng SecondaryCathy OlsonEliza Olson, Burns Bog Conservation SocietyErnie Olson, Municipal Manager, District of BurnabyFrank O'Neill, General Vancouver, Vancouver International AirportSimon OosterhuisKen Orski, Urban Mobility Corporation, Washington, DCLiz Osborn, Outdoor Recreation Council of B.C.Sylvia OsborneSherri PaiementJoe PalAlan ParkerAlderman Eunice Parker, District of CoquitlamTony Parker, School of Community & Regional Planning, UBCDwight ParksTony Parr, Director of Planning , District of BurnabyGordon ParrisGordon Partovi, Richmond Multi-Cultural Concern SocietyJuliana PaskoBarbara PatonBoris Pavlov, Regional Director, Transport CanadaBob Peart, Executive Director, Outdoor Recreation CouncilAlderman Corisande Percival-Smith, Township of RichmondR. PerkinsJames Pernn, Student, UBCDr. Tom Perry, MLA, Vancouver-Point GreyDoug Peterson, Administrator, Development Services, GVRDTai Pham, Student, Point GreyCarole Pharey, Housing Department, GVRDJan PierceNorm PierceR. PhillipsTom PhippsZhou Ping, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser UniversitySheri PlewesJim Plotnikoff, Director of Planning, Agricultural Land CommissionMarilyn Pollard, Bicycling AssociationH. PoppleDoug PorterRay Pradinuk, The Hulbert GroupGeraldine Pratt, Geography Department, UBCJoyce Preston, Director Social Planning, City of VancouverAlderman Gordon Price, City of VancouverMichael Prout, BCEPPaul J. PullenBonnie Pyplacz, North Shore Economic Development CommissionDr. Moira Quayle, Landscape Architecture Program, UBCJ. RaberVera Radio, MOSAICJim RamsayRuth RamsayTed Rashleigh

Patrick Raynard, North Shore NewsJoe Redmond, President, International Care CorporationProf. Bill Rees, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBCDoug ReichertSuperintendent Don Render, Surrey RCMP DetachmentAlderman Carol Ann Reynolds, District of West VancouverHonourable John Reynolds, Minister of EnvironmentChristopher Richardson, Vancouver Board of Parks & RecreationAlan Riches, B.C. Chamber of CommerceBernice RichmondJanice Richmond, Corporation of DeltaCatherine RickardMr. & Mrs. J. RidoutDan RiebWalter RiemannRichard RobicheauIrene RobinsonMuriel RobinsonClive Rock, Planning Department, BC TransitW. RoffJohn Rogers, President, Downtown Vancouver AssociationMark Roseland, UBC Centre for Human SettlementsGavin Ross, Vancouver GreensKeith Ross, Planning Department, District of BurnabyGeoff Rowlands, Health Department, City of VancouverMr. & Mrs. A. RoyJ.S. Rubarth,Gary Runka, Land Sense Ltd.Beryl RutherfordDon Rutherford, North Shore Neighbourhood HouseCalvin Sandborn, West Coast Environmental Law AssociationPhil Sanderson, District of BurnabyIan Sandulak, Century 21, Atkinson & Terry Real Estate Ltd.Keith Sashaw, CHBABBCAlderman Joan Sawicki, District of BurnabyT. SawkinsChristine SchneiderJack SchrivenerJohn Schreiner, Financial PostA. Schward, Sierra ClubOlga Schwartzkopf, Society Promoting Environmental ConservationL. Scotson, North Vancouver District LibraryDuff Scott, Mount Pleasant Community CentreBob ScraggDr. Michael Seelig, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBCMary Segal, Coordinator, North Shore Seniors Health Planning ProjectNan Selkirk, Ministry of HealthArchie SempleDave Semple, Leisure Services, Township of RichmondGeorge Sexsmith, Urban Development InstituteNavnit Shah, Fraser Valley Real Estate BoardCliff SharpePeter Shecker, Student

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Alderman Dave White, District of CoquitlamE.A. WhiteRichard White, City Planner, City of North VancouverJim WhiteheadGwen Wick, StudentStan Wilbee, MP, DeltaFranklin Wiles, District of SurreyMr. & Mrs. A. WilksAlderman Sandra Wilking, City of VancouverJudy Williams, Wreck Beach Preservation SocietyRon Willems, Ministry of Social Services & HousingBeryl WilsonCarol WilsonCarolyn WilsonDon WilsonEileen WilsonS. Wilson, Ministry of Regional & Economic DevelopmentV. WilsonAntoinette Winkelman, Port CoquitlamKen Winslade, Parks & Recreation, City of New WestminsterJohn Winsor, Planning Department, City of VancouverJay Wollenberg, Coriolis Consulting Corp.Denis WonderlichMike Wong, Ministry of EnvironmentEdward WoodBill Woodall, Regional District of Fraser-CheamRev. Ray Woodard, Capilano Southern Baptist AssociationD. WoznorLoretta WrenKen Wright, Engineer, District of CoquitlamAlderman Michael Wright, City of Port CoquitlamJim Yates, ConsultantMichael Young, Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp.Gary Youngman, Aboriginal Peoples Business AssociationMonica Yu, Student, RichmondStephen Yu, Student, RichmondSunee Yuuho, Sierra ClubElizabeth Zaborowski, Business Information CentreMark Ziegler, Transport CanadaP. Zysman, Little Mountain Neighbourhood House

David Shih, Corporation of DeltaDong-Ho Shin, UBC StudentTom Shortridge, Assistant Port Manager, Port of VancouverBrian Shpak, Downtown Vancouver AssociationSurjeet Sidhu, Law Courts Education SocietyKamal SikelinLode SilverJ. Jay Simons, Simons Planning & Development Inc.Shane SimpsonBill Sinclair, Environment CanadaLino Siracusa, Township of RichmondDr. William Slauson, Dept. of Geophysics & Astronomy, UBCDr. Olaf Slaymaker, Dept. of Geography, UBCE. SmetanaJoan Smallwood, MLA, Surrey-Guildford-WhalleyDennis Smit, Citizens Action Group Lower LonsdaleColin SmithMarion SmithWayne Smithies, Building Owners and Managers AssociationDoug Soo, Executive Director, Britannia Community Services CentreSabina Soo, Student, Point GreyRosalie SoregaroliMichael Sorochan, Health Department, City of VancouverNina Sou, Student, Point GreyBrian SouterDouglas Spaeth, Director, Oracle CommunicationsAlderman Helen Sparkes, City of New WestminsterD. SpenceHarold Spence-SalesDick Stace-Smith, Fraser River CoalitionGraham Stallard, Planning Dept. District of West VancouverV. StandbergPeter Stary, Vice President, Bicycle Association of BCLeslie Stern, School of Community & Regional Planning, UBCRita Stern, Ministry of Health PromotionJanet StethernBarry Stevenson, Surrey Memorial HospitalAlderman Bill Stewart, City of Port CoquitlamDana StewartAlderman William Stewart, City of Port CoquitlamDr. Douw Steyn, Department of Geography, UBCPeter Stobie, Acting Director, B.C. Housing CommissionJoe Stott, Senior Planner, Development Services, GVRDMichale Strachan, B.C. TelCoro Strandberg, Western Society Seniors BureauByran StromeMr. & Mrs. David StubbsCynthia StylesBrian SuterShirley SymonsLinda Swaine, Township of LangleyJean Swanson, End Legislated PovertyJohn Tabak, Sierra Club

Brian Talbot, Manager, Engineering, GVRDTeas Tanner, Director of Planning, City of LangleyRichard TarnoffDirector Gail Taylor, Electoral Area C, GVRDLorraine TaylorAgnes Thompson, Richmond Community Services CommitteeSteve ThompsonThom Thompson, Vice President, BC HydroJohn ThomsonAlderman Terry Thorne, Township of LangleyLynda ThorntonDiane ThorpElizabeth ThundstromEric Tiessen, Acting Director of Planning, District of CoquitlamTom TimmLilian To, Executive Director, S.U.C.C.E.S.S.Linda TomHarry Toor, Real Estate Board of Greater VancouverMayor Betty Toporowski, City of New WestminsterUlf TopfCheri TrewinPeter TrotzkiBill TsakumisRuth TubbesingMr. & Mrs. Bill TullyMr. & Mrs. TurnbullPaul TurnerWendy TurnerHeather Urquhart, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBCLouis van Blankenstein, IPCLDr. G.C. Van Kooten, Department of Agricultural Economics, UBCGeorge yarnai, Canada Employment & ImmigrationTony VeschiniAlderman Judy Villeneuve, District of SurreyDoug Vincent, Executive Director, B.C. Chamber of CommerceBryan Vogler, Lower Mainland Commuter Rail ConsortiumJ. Voigt, Surrey Community CentrePatricia Wadmore, Corporation of DeltaAl Waisman, Waisman Dewar Grout Carter Inc.Frank Walden, The Serpentine Enhancement SocietyDave Walker, New Westminster Chamber of CommerceMike Walker, Mgr Properties, Housing & Hospital Planning, GVRDFrank WardChristine Wardle, Point Grey Homeowners' AssociationMr. WarmanEarl Warnock, Ministry of EnvironmentChristine Warren, Senior Social Planner, City of VancouverDouglas WattsCurt WeantThelma WeinreichGlenna WestbrookRob Weston, Manager, BC Trucking AssociationHugh Whitcutt, Vancouver Port Corporation

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"Vancouver,'the Liverpool of the Pacific', is a solid, well built town, much superior in architecturaldisplay and appearance generally, to any of the new cities on the American side I have seen."

— Wm. E. Curtis, Chicago Record-Herald, October 3rd, 1905.

"Vancouver will be New York's greatest rival for supremacy of any city on this continent. ... Thebeauty of its situation far and away, excels that of Naples, Venice or New York ... It has a populationof 100,000 (1909); in 60 years it will outstrip Paris and Berlin."

— P.A. O'Farrell, U.S. Pure Food Commissioner in New York World, 1909.

" ... West Vancouver is the loveliest suburb of Vancouver, is close -in, easily accessible, has the balmyclimate of the southern slope, and is a district of present and future lovely homes."

— The Walch Land Co. advertisement, The Vancouver World, May 18th, 1912.

" Dignified and aggressive, the municipality of Burnaby is performing a great proportion of the tasksincident to the development of the Fraser Valley, and it plays a part that is stamped by individuality."

— The Fraser Valley, November 27th, 1912.

" Within a few years it is safe to predict that our waterfront will be filled with wharves, docks, warehousesand manufacturies, all teaming with life and pouring their stores into the ships that will line the wharves.... Who that has seen our magnificent sheltered harbour, offering the safest of anchorage in the worstweather, can doubt that all this and more is coming to North Vancouver, whose ideal townsite offers

far finer facilities for all the above industries than ever the south shore can hope to do."

— The North Vancouver Express, Easter edition 1911.

"Mr. Ladner pointed out that the land would produce three and a half tons of hay to the acre. Oats wentas high as one and three-quarter tons to the acre and weighed from 40 to 50 pounds to the bushel. Wheatran as high as one and a half to two tons to the acre and the wheat grown in the Delta district hadcaptured the first prize at the World's Fair, and the standing of the Delta potatoes was too wellknown to need comment."

— Delta Times, March 19th, 1912.

"...Coquitlam, in whose splendid scenery of snow-sprinkled mountain crest and wooded slope loomingthrough the sapphire mist, youth finds exultation and age finds solace; in whose rivers the fish flash andsparkle and in whose forests the sunlight shoots and gleams on green and gold, will go on its way ofdevelopment like its own river the Fraser, with as sure, steady and unswerving flow. ... In the future liegigantic strides of progress, such as nothing short of a world-wide cataclysm can turn aside, and as surelywill the rural municipality of Coquitlam grow into a great sub-city of commerce. "

— Coquitlam Star, May 8th, 1912.

" Of all the cities on the coast which are looking forward to the opening of the Panama Canal, [Port]Coquitlam, as part of Greater Vancouver, is justified in being the most optimistic."

— The Weekly Globe and Canadian Farmer, April 1913.

" Notwithstanding, comparisons are odious and illustrations somewhat unkind, yet, peradventure, a singleexample will be condoned. In Richmond four tons of hay to the acre is common and five occasional. Heremen have but to tickle the soil and it laughs forth a harvest."

— The Point Grey Gazette, June 14th 1913.

"White Rock, British Columbia, Canada, ... situated on the shores of Semiahmoo Bay, oftenfavorably compared with the famous Bay of Naples, and far noted for its magnificent sweep of ten milesof sandy bathing beaches. "

— Charles E. Sands; White Rock, circa 1923.

'There can only be more Vancouverites in the sixties, telling more and more Canadians and Torontoniansthat this is Canada's city of the future."

— The Vancouver Daily Province, January 2nd, 1960.

"In the chronicle of human endeavor there is no story more inspiring, no hie more romantic, than that of the resourceful,courageous people whose initiative and energy, peacefully, and in the briefest period of time, created out of the silent emptiness

of dark primeval forest, a monumental city of beauty and of culture, an achievement in world history which must forever interestthe peoples of all nations."

— Major J.S. Matthews, Early Vancouver, 1932.

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