Priorities
Continuity with 2022 is intentional: attainable housing, public safety, the environment, social issues, and infrastructure for what is coming. The slate’s full platform is linked, not copied.
01
Growth is coming with the Langley City Centre station. Servicing, safety, and parking have to keep up.
I have spent a career on pipes, roads, land use, and how a street actually works once people move in. The station will bring homes, riders, and pressure on the blocks around it. We should meet that with fire and police capacity, a downtown people can still park and walk in, and infrastructure that was built for the population we are about to be — not the one we were.
02
Fill the gaps in the continuum. Protect renters. Build for families and for seniors.
Workforce housing near transit and below-market rental near SkyTrain are already on the books. The next gaps are co-ops, a Standard of Maintenance bylaw, a real aging-in-place strategy, and family housing that is not an afterthought. A right to return matters when a building comes down. Faster approvals should come from a clear design catalogue, not from waving the rules through.
03
Police and fire capacity, plus prevention. Not a slogan on a sign.
This council moved the fire service from one crew around the clock to two, added police and bylaw officers, opened a Community Safety Department, and stood up an emergency program. That is the unglamorous part, and it is the part that works. Next is presence: safety ambassadors downtown and in the parks, washrooms that are cleaned, and partnerships on the messy corners. People should feel all right walking home.
04
Everything you need, close by. Still a place, not a pass-through.
I have lived here 36 years because Langley City has the amenities and still feels like a town. That is what I say at the door, because it is what is true. Trails, the pool, neighbourhood events, a downtown on Douglas Crescent that belongs to the people who live here. Growth can pay for those things. It should not erase them.
05
Teamwork. Respectful debate. Votes based on the record in front of us.
I was a coach before I was a councillor. You do not win a hockey season by performing for one shift. Same job here: read the briefing, hear the residents, argue it straight, and vote. The commitments I ran on in 2022 are still the work — attainable housing, public safety, the environment, social issues, and infrastructure sized for what is coming.
Social pieces that sit with the slate — a neighbourhood house model, walkable official community plan work, and partnerships with the province on homelessness, mental health, and addictions — are on the Langley City First platform. Paul votes them as part of the team. See what is already done.