Metro Vancouver commissioner Johnny Carline will look into the region's distant future during this month's NAIOP Vancouver breakfast meeting.
Carline will provide an overview of the Metro Vancouver Regional Growth Strategy during the NAIOP event May 26 at the Hyatt Regency.
A draft of the plan, entitled Metro Vancouver 2040: Shaping Our Future, has been out since last November and is now undergoing reviews by various stakeholders and other groups.
The draft says Metro Vancouver's vision for the future will be achieved "by embracing and applying the principles of sustainability, not least of which is an unshakeable commitment to the well-being of current and future generations and the health of our planet, in everything we do."
Carline, also the region's chief administrative officer, has strived to be a strong voice in the sustainability movement. Since taking up his post in 1997, he has launched the award-winning Sustainable Region Initiative (2001), which NAIOP's e-mail blast on the breakfast notes, made the sustainability movement "a political fact of life" in Greater Vancouver.
Metro Vancouver is the regional governing body for the local metropolitan area and its two million inhabitants. The group's responsibilities include water, sewer, drainage and solid waste management systems as well as regional growth management, air quality, regional parks and affordable housing.
Here's a link to the planning document: http://ow.ly/1MPqM.
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