1. Enhance transit.

2. Protect green space, farmland, industrial lands.

3. Link land use/transportation planning.

1. Mixed use zoning.

2. Improve transportation alternatives.

3. Encourage incentives for alternate transportation technologies.

1. "Super board" on critical regional issues.

2. Funding for alternative modes.

1. Build a sustainable economy.

2. Promote/enhance tourism.

3. Fund infrastructure (passenger/goods and services).

1. Protect existing economic base.

2. Review accreditation for immigrants.

3. Build knowledge-based economy; promote local agriculture.

1. Encourage entrepreneurship.

2. Intensify and diversify use and protection of transportation corridors.

3. Agriculture and industrial land reserves.

1. Increase municipal tax share.

2. User fees as disincentives to waste

3. Increase tolerance and cooperation across all three levels of government.

1. Regulate funding facilitating municipal initiatives.

2. Legislate change enabling regional zoning.

3. Federal government funding for regional initiatives.

1. Extend Metro Vancouver jurisdiction through to Fraser Basin.

2. More First Nations involvement.

3. Performance and values based reporting.

1. Neighbourhood youth training programs: apprenticeships with local business; work skills; life skills.

2. Neighbourhood beautification programs.

3. Regional vision for drug treatment processes to be developed that are in neighbourhoods and remain in neighbourhoodswith a continuum of support.

1. Engage the community; empower and cultivate leadership potential. Involve citizens within communities to take ownership and find solutions.

2. Build social sustainability actions into community policy and development.

3. Invest in infrastructure and programs that support healthy communities.

1. Joint use agreements (parks and recreation, schools, and municipalities).

2. A cultural campaign like "ParticipAction".

3. Building broad partnerships with: businesses at existing events, government, local artists, schools, etc.

1. Develop and invest (finance) programs and initiatives that support experiential learning.

2. Ensure accessibility and availability of information in a variety of languages and cultures.

3. Promote and foster diverse community and culture by investing in local celebration.

1. Education campaign via creative community workshops to educate populace re: notions of "village" planning around transportation nodes and creative use of living space.

2. Remove the barriers to low- cost housing and implement incentives and strategies, such as tax structures, building and zoning restrictions.

3. Region-wide design competition to develop new forms of affordable and sustainable housing to foster innovation, leadership and creativity.

4. Use existing successful models of sustainable neighbourhoods (e.g.: leasing the land)

1. Implement existing regional strategies (regional affordable housing strategy, homeless strategy (3 ways to home).

2. Identify strategies that reflect local needs of each community.

3. Ensure commitment, investment, leadership from all stakeholders/parties.

4. Integrate and coordinate public education on housing challenges, shared responsibilities, and how to respond to changing housing needs.

1. Reality-based legislation.

2. Share a creative vision and educate.

3. Hard targets with measurements.

1. Raise public awareness/ consciousness and educate people on less consumption

2. Demand the Federal government create nation-wide standards for cradle-to-grave treatment of products.

3. Use the waste stream as an economic resource while being mindful of long-term environmental considerations.

1. Collect organic waste from all households.

2. Work with provincial government on EPR action to minimize designated items disposal at landfill or waste stream.

3. Develop a comprehensive water reduction strategy to reduce wastewater

1. Keep waste local.

2. Simplify waste recovery systems.

3. Manage construction waste.

1. Set hard targets for sustainable energy use. 40%GHG by 2020.

2. Legislation/penalties for enforcement.

3. Focus on building local communities.

1. Implement more affordable, efficient transit options.

2. Establish building regulations that ensure solar hot water heat, geo-exchange andgreywater systems.

3. Develop complete communities.

1. Set GHG targets and strategies-measure.

2. Road and distance pricing based on energy consumption, proceeds to finance travel alternatives.

3. Legislation to mandate "Smart Growth" - complete communities.

1. Implement renewal options.

2. Amend building code to allow higher standards.

3. Set targets quotas.

4. Appropriate pricing of energy.

1. Increase bio-diversity and natural habitat.

2. Revisit OCPs to incorporate smart growth and development standards.

3. Redefine growth as bio-diversity, bio-mass and happiness.

1. Localization of food, recreation, travel, manufacturing (500 mile rule)

2. Stop greenfield development and encourage brownfield development.

3. No net reduction inALR.

1. Reduce habitat loss by protecting the green zone; maintainALR; Smart Growth.

2. Reduce pollution by accelerating secondary treatm

3. Reduce environmental contamination by increasing organic farming, banning pesticides and limiting use of harmful chemicals.

1. Prioritize areas for development (zoning).

2. Enforceable regional planning - reintroduce.

3. Increase transportation options.

4. Establish community gardens – increase amount of urban forestry.