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People who have been making these decisions for years offered new solutions. Residents have every right to ask what was done while they already had the authority to act.
Small Housing BC, a registered non-profit society, has published a plain-language guide to gentle density for local politicians ahead of the 2026 election. Max is passing it on.
From the District’s own financial plans: tax increases averaged 2.75% a year from 2019 to 2022 and 5.32% from 2023 to 2026. This year’s 3.53% came with service reductions the plan expects every year for five years.
The District spent $2,533 for every resident in 2024, more than Burnaby, Surrey and eleven other municipalities. Here is how the region’s own numbers line up.
The Province prices the same representative house in every municipality each year. In 2026 the District’s bill is $9,793. Burnaby’s is $8,472. Most of the gap is fees, not tax.
The Province set the District a two-year target of 1,021 net new homes. It delivered 832. Five of the ten municipalities in the same group did better, and the District demolished more homes for every one it finished than almost any of them.
What could North Vancouver have achieved? If the wastewater plant had been delivered close to its original budget, billions of dollars in public resources could have been protected.
The wastewater plant is not simply a construction failure. It is a failure of management, governance, oversight and political accountability, and our own representatives must answer for their part in it.
Everything a District of North Vancouver voter needs for general voting day, in one place — and the two official sources that are the final word.
The District's own 2026 tax newsletter says about 45 cents of every dollar on the bill is collected for other agencies. The other 55 is the part a mayor and council decide.
In 2023 the Province ordered the District of North Vancouver to complete at least 2,838 net new homes in five years. Here is what that order does and does not decide.
You do not have to wait for Saturday, October 17, 2026. The District has published three advance voting days.
Half of what residents raise at the door is not the District's alone to fix. Here is who holds which decision, so you can judge any candidate's promises against it.
An independent candidate, 38 years in North Vancouver, and a plan that starts with accountability for the wastewater plant.
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Thirty-eight years in North Vancouver, and what that has to do with how a District gets run.
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