Smart growth around the downtown area. This will bring more customers and foot traffic into the area, which will stimulate reinvestment in the Town Centre. 
The fasttracking of greenways in East Cloverdale, around West Cloverdale, in Clayton, and a connector to Fleetwood. 
Complete the Fairgrounds Redevelopment plan, ensuring the community will reap benefits from it’s implementation (i.e. [...]

I recently wrote a letter to the Editors of both of the Surrey Leader and The Now about the City’s Newton Plan. Apparently both Laila Yuile and I agree that plants and banners don’t help get to the core of the problems in this community. You can view pictures of the beautification efforts below. 
I recently [...]

In a bid to protect its trees from developers who consider them nuisances, this city is assigning a monetary value to every tree in its 100,000-plus urban forest. The value is how much people will have to pay if they yield to the urge to play lumberjack. Bringing down one wide and towering American elm [...]

The provincial government has legislated that all public sector organizations, including government ministries, school districts, health authorities, post-secondary institutions and Crown corporations achieve carbon neutrality by 2010! Of course, with such a short in which to develop and implement plans to become carbon neutral, this is putting huge strain on our public institutions. 
While municipalities aren’t [...]