These are some of the actions I want to take on City Council. All decisions should use the best available evidence, and use and respect city staff expertise.

Affordable Housing: There is none in Campbell River, but there can be.

• Implement a secondary suite bylaw, like most municipalities in BC already have in place
• Create a bylaw to allow tiny homes and carriage houses
• Allow density bonusing, where developers are allowed to add more units at below market costs
• Support Habitat for Humanity and similar models
• Support BC Housing's subsidized rental units
• Facilitate Co-op housing; Courtenay has three projects in development.

Homelessness - everyone needs a home.

• Maintain focus on the common vision that I believe everyone can agree on: no one wants people living on the street in our downtown core or elsewhere.
• Develop an action plan to house the homeless. Moving them does not meet the common vision statement above.
• Implement Housing First Strategies that have been shown to work, like Q'waksem Place and BC Housing projects https://www.homelesshub.ca/about-homelessness/homelessness-101/housing-first ; https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/news/qwaxsem-place-one-year-later/

Climate Change

• Develop our local resources to reduce our impact on the planet, including:
• Support innovative use of wood in building (support forest industry)
• Develop our tidal power - Discovery Passage has 6 of the top 50 tidal sources in Canada
• Develop bylaws to incentive use of solar panels, heat pumps
• Recruit and support innovative businesses like Cubic Farms, which greatly improves efficiency of food production https://cubicfarms.com/farming-for-the-future/farmer-partners/
• Support local businesses to find their Circular Economy and reduce their costs: reuse materials that are waste of another, like Susgrainable, using spent brewery grains to make baked goods https://susgrainable.com/