City officials presented community focus group findings for the upcoming budget, revealing that residents broadly define infrastructure to include roads, sidewalks, bike lanes, and overall housing and business development. Participants emphasized the critical need for affordable housing and expressed concern that new luxury developments are displacing affordable grocery stores as the city grows. While residents prioritized funding for physical infrastructure maintenance and homelessness prevention, they ranked zoning and land use planning as the lowest priorities for city funding.
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Vancouver City Council · Aug 24, 2026 · 1:10:02–1:10:10 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: infrastructure traffic impact density affordable housing zoning comprehensive plan Zoning
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1:09:00 they either don't find a direct connection to personally, or they don't feel is necessary right now or that it could wait a little bit. And so we saw property maintenance and enforcement come up, zoning and lane use and climate action were ones that kind of bubbled up. But I will say that respondents had a really hard time picking any service to cut. They really didn't want to have an answer there. They wanted to keep everything. So it really was a bit of just really kind of pushing them to name a service they would be willing to part with. You can go to the next one. Sure. - Ty Stover, wanna make sure 'cause you said something and what is written is different. Zoning and land use? - Lane use. What does lane use mean?
1:09:57 - No, that might have been an error. It might be zoning and land use. I think that when the team was putting it together, they were thinking about the different, 'cause you'll see later in the report, there's a lot of talk about bike lanes, bus lanes and things like that. And so I think when we were coding it, that's how it got coded. But that's generally what we were thinking of. - Okay, land use. Okay, thank you. - Thank you. - Please continue. - Thank you. And so we wanted to say, when we're thinking about what they would be willing to cut, they really, again, were focused on kind of having that firsthand experience. So again, they all had experience with police, fire, affordable housing, things like that. So that was really kind of driving things forward. And then what they did see as a priority, but not the top priority was viewed a little bit less urgently.
1:10:56 And again, when we were kind of looking at code enforcement, zoning, arts and cultures, it wasn't things that people really wanted to part with, it was just things that they didn't see as urgently. You can go to the next one. And we did talk to individuals, again,
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direct keyword 1:10:02–1:10:10 infrastructure, traffic impact, density, affordable housing, zoning, comprehensive plan, Zoning
lling to part with. You can go to the next one. Sure. - Ty Stover, wanna make sure 'cause you said something and what is written is different. Zoning and land use? - Lane use. What does lane use mean? - No, that might have been an error. It might be zoning and land use. I think that when the team was putting it together, they were thinking about the different, 'cause you'll see later in the report, there's a lot of talk about bike lanes, bus lanes and things like that. And so I think when we wer