Carey Herd

The Advisory Planning Committee (APC) meeting agenda included the adoption of the agenda and the minutes from the January 14, 2025 meeting. The primary new business item involved reviewing and providing a recommendation to Council concerning Development Variance Permit Application DVP00671 for a proposed commercial shopping centre at 1501 Highway 6, which sought to increase vehicle parking spaces from 222 to 371. An information item consisted of a verbal update from the Staff Liaison regarding APC-related items discussed at the last Council meeting.

This document, the City of Vernon's Financial Plan for 2026-2030, serves as a roadmap for enhancing local government accountability and service delivery. It outlines proposed expenditures, funding sources, and transfers, guided by Council's strategic priorities. Key focus areas include ensuring housing diversity and development, enhancing community safety, promoting proactive planning, fostering liveability vibrancy through a vibrant downtown, arts, culture, and economic prosperity, ensuring robust recreation, parks, and natural areas, demonstrating environmental leadership through asset management and climate action, and upholding governance and organizational excellence.

The 2017-2021 Financial Plan for the City of Vernon outlines a balanced approach to fiscal management, service delivery, and infrastructure investment. It is driven by Council's Strategic Plan and focuses on maintaining operating costs within a 1.68% municipal tax rate increase, while committing a cumulative 1.9% tax rate increase to infrastructure recapitalization. Key priorities include enhancing public safety, investing in municipal infrastructure (roads, storm, buildings, airport, parks, and sanitary systems), and supporting community events and economic development initiatives.

The Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan for the City of Vernon assesses wildfire threat and outlines actions and recommendations to enhance local priorities and provincial mitigation goals. Key focus areas include developing community education strategies, implementing wildfire risk reduction actions through planning and bylaws, fostering interagency cooperation, conducting cross-training, improving emergency planning, and executing vegetation management activities. The overall objective is to increase the city's wildfire resiliency and minimize devastating losses.

This Transportation Plan for the City of Vernon outlines a vision for a safe, accessible, sustainable, and connected multimodal transportation system. It aims to achieve this by establishing a strong foundation for road safety, enhancing transit, walking, biking, and rolling options, preparing for future challenges like climate change and new technologies, and optimizing curbside spaces. The plan guides decisions, investments, and improvements over a 20-year horizon to prioritize people, expand travel choices, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and integrate transportation with land use.