Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Create a Climate Action Advisory Committee to oversee the creation of an overarching Climate Action Plan, with specific goals and targets, developed through consultation with the community and carried out in an integrated manner by every city department.

Record: Formed a Mayor's Taskforce on Climate Action to guide the city's climate work, and delivered results: Resilient Future 2050, Maple Ridge's first-ever Climate Action Plan, built through community consultation, with 58 concrete actions, real emissions targets, and every city department carrying out its part. Maple Ridge never had a climate plan before this council. Now it has one other municipalities are being measured against.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Expand infrastructure for active transportation, including sidewalks, streetlights, and safe road infrastructure for people who walk and bike.

Record: A city built for people, not just cars. Laid 880 metres of new sidewalk and replaced hundreds more, so families can walk to school, to the park, to downtown, without dodging traffic on the shoulder. We lit the way home with new solar-powered LED pedestrian lighting, like the new crossing at 224th and 122nd, which not only makes our streets safer but also saves us thousands in annual energy costs. New pathways and crossings along Abernethy Way and 123rd Avenue mean getting around Maple Ridge on foot or by bike isn't an afterthought anymore, it's how this city is being built.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Introduce an Urban Forestry Strategy to increase tree cover and reduce the urban-heat-island effect in Maple Ridge.

Record: Adopted an Urban Forest Management Plan and backed it with 1,500 new trees in the ground. Maple Ridge is now the only city in the region to grow its tree canopy since 2014, while others shrink theirs. Updated the tree bylaw so large-scale clearing comes with real replacement, not a fee that lets the canopy disappear for good. A shrinking canopy costs everyone in flooding, heat, and lost green space. This work protects the trees that keep Maple Ridge livable for the long run.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Require all new buildings to provide electric charging infrastructure that is plug-in ready.

Record: Every new building in Maple Ridge now has to be ready for the electric future. New homes get an EV-ready space per unit, new apartments and seniors housing come fully EV-ready, and new commercial developments must have at least 10% of parking EV-ready. No more retrofitting later, it's built in from day one.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Adopt the BC Energy Step Code.

Record: Passed the Level 3 Zero Carbon Step Code, setting a real standard for how new buildings in Maple Ridge are built. It's not just good for the climate; it's good for your wallet. Homes built to this standard cost less to heat and cool, year after year, for as long as you live there.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Expand infrastructure for cyclists, including secure parking and electric charging.

Record: Rewrote the rules for how Maple Ridge gets built, from the ground up. Long-term bike parking requirements quadrupled, from a quarter space per unit to a full space per unit, and now apply city-wide, not just downtown. Paired it with EV charging built into every new home, apartment, and business. This is what it looks like when a council doesn't just plant trees and call it a day, it writes the rules so every new building in Maple Ridge is built for how people actually want to get around, on foot, by bike, or behind the wheel.