William Cooley

The document outlines the City of Vancouver's updated comprehensive plan and development code, designed to guide growth and development over the next 20 years. It addresses challenges such as rising housing costs, climate change, and significant population growth, planning for an additional 81,000 people, 38,000 housing units, and 43,000 jobs. Key strategic areas include fostering an inclusive community experience, ensuring equitable access to essential services, promoting efficient land use and sustainable development, increasing housing production across all types and price points, supporting diverse economic opportunities, enhancing climate resilience, and ensuring robust public facilities and services.

This report outlines final recommendations for the Northeast 112th Avenue Safety and Mobility Project, aiming to enhance travel safety and comfort for all users along the NE 112th Avenue corridor. Key areas of focus include implementing near-term improvements aligned with scheduled repaving (2026-2028), and identifying long-term investments to expand and separate infrastructure for pedestrians, cyclists, and small mobility users. The plan prioritizes improving road surfaces, managing traffic speeds, addressing facility gaps for non-vehicular modes, and enhancing overall corridor safety, guided by community input and an equitable outcomes framework.

The City of Vancouver's comprehensive plan is a state-mandated update designed to guide the city's growth and development over a 20-year horizon. It focuses on several key areas: increasing housing production across all types and income levels, fostering economic opportunities through talent investment and sustainable industries, enhancing community experience and equitable access to services, promoting climate resilience and environmental health, expanding parks and cultural services, and ensuring an integrated and safe transportation system. The plan aims to build an equitable and prosperous community with affordable housing, vibrant neighborhoods, and broad access to jobs and opportunities, while addressing climate change.

The Local Road Safety Plan 2026 for the City of Vancouver is an update that evaluates crash data from 2020-2024, focusing on fatalities and severe injuries on city-controlled streets. The plan identifies high-crash intersection and segment locations and proposes infrastructure-based countermeasures using a Safe System Approach. It aims to reduce fatal and severe crashes, improve safety, and ensure accessible transportation by integrating with existing city policies and plans, and through continuous public involvement.

The City of Vancouver's 2023-2029 Strategic Plan outlines the City's direction for the next six years, aiming to reshape the community to be more equitable, safe, and climate-friendly while preserving its unique traits. It is guided by core values including livability, equity and inclusion, innovation, sustainability and resiliency, and community trust and relationships. The plan focuses on eight key areas: transportation and mobility, economic opportunity, housing and human needs, vibrant and distinct neighborhoods, culture and heritage, safe and prepared community, climate and natural systems, and high performing government.