Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Bring together a housing roundtable with developers, community services, and housing advocates to inform policy decisions and help design livable communities.

Record: The city's Housing Affordability Summit put the focus where it belonged, on getting families into homes, not on paperwork. That meant cutting permit times by 73% so homes get built faster, and expanding rental and low-income housing options so more homes get built and families get keys faster, not developers sitting on paperwork longer.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Work with federal and provincial governments and community stakeholders to ensure a continuum of affordable housing options including rental units.

Record: Families waiting on an affordable place to live don't have years to spare. We secured $16.6M in federal funding to fast-track housing, expanded rental and low-income options, and built a concierge program, so projects with a real impact move through approvals faster, not slower, because someone's waiting on the other end.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Prioritize approvals of apartment and townhouse developments within a 15-minute walk of Haney instead of at the city limits.

Record: Locked in growth around the Haney core through an updated Town Centre Area Plan that adds greater density near the Haney Transit Exchange and Port Haney Station, plus a new Lougheed Transit Corridor plan doing the same along Lougheed Highway. Growth that pays for the services it uses, not sprawl that costs taxpayers more.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Continue development of Maple Ridge's Strategic Transportation Plan with a focus on safe commuting for school-aged children.

Record: Endorsed a new 30-year Strategic Transportation Plan, replacing a version that hadn't been touched since 2014, and put the school-safety piece into action right away: 80+ light-controlled crosswalks installed in 2025 alone, upgrades to known trouble spots like Kanaka Way, and speed bumps on McClure so kids can get to school safely, without a 45-minute wait in the drop-off line.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Make land-use decisions that allow residents to enjoy complete communities with services closer to home, reducing the need to drive long distances for daily needs.

Record: Directed growth toward the Haney core and transit corridors through an updated Town Centre Area Plan and a new Lougheed Transit Corridor plan, putting more homes within walking distance of shops, transit, and everyday services. Fewer long drives for groceries, appointments, or the bus, because the things residents need are closer to where they live.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Support smart development that includes safe active transportation routes, to support the growing use of bikes.

Record: Completed the widened and upgraded Abernethy Way with new active transportation features, built a new multi-use path on 123rd Street, and updated the city's parking bylaw to require more long-term bike parking in new developments. Work continues on key routes like Thorne Avenue to connect more of the city safely by bike.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Address traffic congestion by exploring arterial routes, traffic calming measures, and working with the provincial government to alleviate traffic flow on Lougheed Highway.

Record: Advanced Abernethy Way to connect 232nd to 240th, easing pressure on residential streets and opening the door to future growth in the North 256th industrial lands. Secured funding to expand Golden Ears Way between the Ridge and 210th. Congestion doesn't get solved overnight, but the roads that will fix it are moving.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Advocate with TransLink for Maple Ridge to be included as a pilot city for the 2050 Bus Rapid Transit program, and for expansion and funding of bus service.

Record: Secured Maple Ridge's spot in the first wave of Bus Rapid Transit construction, with the Lougheed Transit Corridor now formally tied to TransLink's planned route and station locations. Added a summer bus route between Haney Place Mall and Golden Ears Park in the meantime; real transit is coming, and we're not waiting around for it.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: New ways to recruit and retain staff to operate our aquatic centres, facilities, and community programming.

Record: Brought fitness services and ACT programming in-house, hired more lifeguards, and added new swim lessons. The results speak for themselves, Maple Ridge has been named a BC Top Employer three years running.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Build a new accessible recreation and aquatic facility to accommodate our growing population.

Record: For more than a decade, Maple Ridge talked about the need for a new aquatic and recreation facility. This term, we moved beyond discussion and into actual planning. We also advanced the expansion of the Albion arena by completing a key regulatory step that had not previously been submitted.

Residents now have actual projects, locations, plans and costs in front of them as part of the Recreation Ready referendum this October. After years of talking about the need for new recreation facilities, we have brought the community to a decision and that decision belongs to residents.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Eliminate pay parking on weekends and bring back one-hour free parking at all City facilities, including City Hall, the library, and the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre.

Record: A Better Maple Ridge pushed to bring back free weekend parking downtown, and free parking is now back at the Business Centre lot, serving the Leisure Centre, library, and ACT, every weekend through the busy season.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Revitalize the downtown core to make the area more inviting for recreation, families, and businesses.

Record: Renewed support for the Downtown Business Improvement Association through 2032 and signed the city's first-ever Chamber of Commerce operating agreement, giving downtown businesses a real partner at city hall. Backed it up with an expanded patio program, new food truck Fridays at Albion Community Centre, and the Be Downtown initiative, nine events engaging nearly 600 residents alongside the RCMP, the BIA, and local businesses. Add in free weekend parking and pedestrian-only Social Saturdays, and downtown has become the place people actually want to be.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Invest in infrastructure to enhance and expand Sport and Culture Tourism.

Record: Maple Ridge isn't just a place people pass through anymore; it's a place they choose. Direct film revenue is up 18%, generating $9.4M in economic impact in 2025. Visitors are up, drawn by a rebrand and a downtown people actually want to spend time in. We built the calendar to match the ambition: launched Run the Ridge, sold out two Bites and Bikes events, and grew Canada Day from 300 people in 2022 to 10,000 last year.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Fully participate in and support the post-secondary review, and implement any recommendations.

Record: Stayed at the table through a multi-year process with Pitt Meadows, the school district, and four post-secondary institutions to bring higher education closer to home. The province's answer in February 2026 was disappointing, no campus for now, based on economic feasibility rather than local need. That's not the end of the fight. Maple Ridge families deserve local options, and we're not backing off this one just because Victoria said not yet.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Work with the provincial government to create more child care spaces.

Record: Maple Ridge families have more child care options now, 110 new spaces at Under the Tree, plus $10-a-day spaces at Albion Community Center, secured with the help of Bob D'Eith, then the local MLA and now part of our own council team. Progress families can see, with more still needed.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Promote and invest in Maple Ridge agriculture and agri-tourism.

Record: Made agri-tourism one of three pillars of the city's tourism brand, and put real money and spotlight behind it: Sunflower Cafe took home the city's Innovation Challenge for its farm-to-table model, and the new Fields of Flavours festival brought visitors straight to local farms and food producers. 

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Expand city-supported festivals, Pride, music festivals, and community-based festivals such as Albion, Haney, and Hammond.

Record: Turned Maple Ridge into a city that celebrates together. Canada Day grew from 3,000 people in 2022 to 10,000 in 2026. Updated the Pride crosswalk, designed by local youth. Launched brand new events from scratch: Rock the Blocks, Our Neck of the Woods, PlayFest, Run the Ridge, two sold-out Bites and Bikes rides, food truck Fridays at Albion Community Centre, and 45 funded block parties in a single year. Today, 70% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a free festival. This isn't a handful of events, it's a city that shows up for its neighbourhoods, all of them.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Review City of Maple Ridge committees to ensure citizens have opportunities to participate in a meaningful way and council is using the advisory committees in a way that actually informs decisions.

Record: Completed a full review of the city's advisory committees and consolidated eight into four, each aligned with council's real priorities. Bigger memberships for more diverse voices, lower quorum requirements so meetings actually happen, and terms that line up with the election cycle. Advisory committees that actually inform decisions, not just meet for the sake of meeting.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Review public input and engagement opportunities and explore new opportunities for citizens to engage with council and city staff.

Record: Built a new Community Engagement Framework to make public input consistent and transparent, not an afterthought. It's working: nearly 7,000 survey responses across 21 engagement opportunities in 2025 alone, real-time snow removal tracking so residents can see the city at work, and a 102% jump in volunteers for city-run events in a single year. Maple Ridge residents are showing up, because the city is finally listening.

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.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Maintain an open and collaborative approach to projects.

Record: This isn't a project with an end date, it's how this council does business. Built the Community Engagement Framework so public input shapes decisions, not just comments on them after the fact. Renewed the Downtown Business Improvement Association through 2032, signed the city's first-ever Chamber of Commerce agreement, and kept showing up: Be Downtown, farmers markets, budget consultations. Open and collaborative isn't a box we checked, it's a standard we keep meeting.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Create a four-year strategic plan and include public review and input opportunities.

Record: Adopted the 2023–2026 Council Strategic Plan and kept it in the open, with quarterly public updates, a live community dashboard, and real accountability for results. By the end of 2025, 60% of the plan's key results were already complete. A plan the public can actually see and track, not one that disappears into a filing cabinet.

Status: 🟢 Delivered

Commitment: Add land acknowledgements to the beginning of official meetings.

Record: Brought land acknowledgements back to the start of every council meeting. A small practice with real meaning, naming the Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations who have called this place home since long before Maple Ridge existed, at the start of every decision this council makes. Respect starts with remembering whose land we're standing on.

Status: 🟡 Underway

Commitment: Seek opportunities to work together and create a stronger relationship with Katzie First Nation, Kwantlen First Nation, Golden Ears Métis Society, Fraser River Indigenous Society, and other Indigenous groups.

Record: Built real partnerships with Katzie and Kwantlen First Nations, not just words. Worked together on the Bring to Market Industrial Land Study to bring jobs and investment to Albion, and co-designed the city's 150th anniversary banners with Kwantlen artists, formally approved by both nations' leadership before a single one went up. Because good neighbours keep showing up, and this council isn't stopping.