During a celebration of Great Outdoors Month, speakers highlighted the importance of equitable access to local parks, trails, and green spaces to support physical and mental well-being. Additionally, the city's updated comprehensive plan establishes a 27% citywide tree canopy goal, prioritizing new investments in urban forestry and green infrastructure for neighborhoods that currently lack canopy coverage and face the highest climate risks.
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Vancouver City Council · Jun 01, 2026 · 57:37–57:50 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: trails urban forest forestry tree canopy open space Parks parks
What was said
56:36 which is a manufactured home park in unincorporated Clark County. So my colleague who just came up, Sharon Peavey, and also a resident of our park, we have been working with the Clark County Council to save our manufactured home parks. And the reason that I'm here to try to say something is because they have informed us that at some point, we will be annexed into the city of Vancouver. So what my concern is is when, like Sharon said, we came together tonight and we were trying to figure out what this ordinance was, and I agree. I think you need to take more time and we want to know that we are going to preserve the houses and the manufactured home parks that we have. That is what the Clark County Council is trying to do,
57:33 but the concern that I have is that if you annex us, all of the parks, we've got about 35 or 36 in unincorporated Clark County, and then we have about, what is that, 2,000 units with many more people, we can easily lose our homes. And so I would, the Clark County Council is about to implement and start working on their 20-year plan. And as far as we know, we are still protected to be and maintain our manufactured home parks. Some of them, they're gonna make changes and they're gonna have some interesting things to help the people that are in parks that are like super rundown, like the one on 99 that's the evergreen habitat for humanity is going to try to make homes.
58:32 But we need, we're just, we're elderly people, we live in a 55 and older community and we need to preserve our homes. And so I'm not sure, I don't know a lot about the plan, but I think that these gentlemen are right.
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direct keyword 57:37–57:50 trails, urban forest, forestry, tree canopy, open space, Parks, parks
need to take more time and we want to know that we are going to preserve the houses and the manufactured home parks that we have. That is what the Clark County Council is trying to do, but the concern that I have is that if you annex us, all of the parks, we've got about 35 or 36 in unincorporated Clark County, and then we have about, what is that, 2,000 units with many more people, we can easily lose our homes. And so I would, the Clark County Council is about to implement and start working on