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Adrian Crook

Independent for Vancouver Council
We need a Vancouver that serves all our different communities.

I will work to get rid of speculation, build abundant homes, and make our city safe for everyone. We must increase transportation accessibility and restore vitality to our neighbourhoods and businesses.

Misc. topics

Accessibility

Create an Office of Accessibility to advocate for not just standards, but innovation and collaboration toward reducing barriers for disabled persons in Vancouver.

Affordable Housing

- Fast track construction of housing with “community benefit,” like purpose built rental, co-ops & co-housing, seniors and social housing, and more. - Reduce speculation by allowing existing property owners to redevelop new forms of housing on their lots, no assembly required.

Community-Building

4 Floors and Corner Stores: Foster diversity and walkability by adding more local services and Missing Middle housing to our neighbourhoods. Live/work units, corner stores, mid-block storefronts or offices, or childcare amidst low-rise apartment buildings, 4-plexes and more.

Diversity

Create more shared spaces, rental opportunity, mobility options and tenancy protection for groups with acute accessibility, affordability, or discrimination issues. This includes mobility-restricted persons and those experiencing poverty or homelessness.

Drug Use

Adopt a harm reduction approach to the opioid crisis: - Increased support for grassroots organizations like OPS - Ending prohibitionist policies regarding drug use - Working with prov govt to create no barrier housing - Ensure treatment programs available to those who want one

Good Governance

- Launch the Affordable Housing Accountability dashboard to report to Vancouver residents how the City is improving key measures of livability: rental vacancy rate, empty homes, evictions, demolition replacement ratio, median rent, population forecasts, housing creation rate, etc

Pedestrian Safety

- Formally adopt the guidelines of the 8-80 Cities movement, so our city is as safe and enjoyable to get around for an 8 year old as it is for an 80 year old. - Undertake a review of the City’s progress toward their Vision Zero (zero traffic fatalities) commitments.

Public Engagement

Revise our public engagement process to balance the needs of underrepresented groups and culturally sensitive neighbourhoods with new development proposals.

Public Transit

- Broadway subway to UBC – do it right, the first time. - Free transit for kids under 18 – intentionally create a new generation of transit riders. I support #AllonBoard. - Support high speed rail to Seattle and Portland – open up new jobs and job markets.

Small Business

Appoint a Small Business Retention & Advocacy Group to investigate everything from rebalancing property taxes to alleviate pressure on businesses to permit expediting, zoning changes and more.

Traffic

Link transit investment to housing commitments – more transit for more people. Let us live closer to where we work and study.

Youth

Convene a Young Vancouver Advocacy Group focused on recommending policies designed to help people under age 35 come to or stay in Vancouver. This would include childcare, tax equity, education, housing affordability, employment and more.

Biography

submitted by the candidate or their team
I'm a single father of 5 young kids, living in downtown Vancouver.

I founded two non-profits: Abundant Housing Vancouver and Abundant Transit BC, to advocate for more choices in how we live and get around.

I blog at 5 Kids 1 Condo, where I write on urban family life.

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